There I was losing pretty badly at a Scrabble game, and with a last ditch gamble, I pulled it out on the last play of the game!

Click the image above to see the larger size of the game board at the end.

Here’s the post-mortem: 3 tiles left in the bag, I have [RUSHIS, blank] in my rack. Lots of words if I can turn that I into an E, and at least 1 place to play them. So I take a count of the Es on the board and decide to gamble.

I play the I in a 2-letter word, and pull. Got it! Got the E. My worthy opponent plays 3 tiles and empties the bag. I lay down ‘CRUSHES’ on the next turn. Game over right then and there. Yes, I intentionally chose ‘C’ for the blank tile. Hehe.

CRUSHES was worth 86 points, so you can see how far behind I was.