![]() The executive director of the Winter Antiques Show, Catherine Sweeney Singer, made a statement about the fair’s future at the gala preview on Thursday night with her choice of jewelry: a bendable metal necklace by Massimo and Lella Vignelli. RELATED: Photos from the Winter Antiques Show Gala Preview Judging from the Saturday tournament, however, it seems that 826NYC and Scrabble are inseparable.Īntiques Show May Tilt More Toward the Modern The Los Angeles chapter of 826 recently hosted a Mini Golf for Cheaters Cup. Several teams headed to Bonnie’s Grill afterward to celebrate their cheating ways.Ĩ26NYC’s director of development, Jennifer Snow, said the organization is planning to organize annual “cheater” events, but was unsure whether Scrabble will remain the sport. Play began at noon in the 826NYC Writing Center, located behind the Brooklyn Superhero Supply Co. “The competition was fierce,” team leader Emily Farris, author of a forthcoming cookbook about casseroles, said.Īlthough there were a few tense moments, on the whole, the atmosphere was convivial. The Prospering Cheaters team, dressed to cheat in T-shirts printed with two-letter words, were eliminated in the third round. Humorist and author John Hodgman, who personifies a PC in Apple’s “Get a Mac” advertising campaign, and is on the board of 826NYC, played in the tournament with John Oliver, a writer for “The Daily Show.” Their team, Hodgmoliver, was eliminated in the first round. “There was a lot of talk about making cheaters Scrabble a new sport.” “We talked a lot during the game about how hard it’s going to be to go back to regular Scrabble,” Ms. Placing second were the High Maintenance Shorties, consisting of a professor of preventive medicine, Lauren Hale, and a museum exhibit designer, Becca Widiss. The winning team was the Fightin’ Caziques, helmed by the deputy editor of Good Magazine, Morgan Clendaniel, and another preppily-clad wordsmith, Gideon Friedman. The latter resulted in gibberish words that spanned the width of the game board. In the weeks prior to the tournament, teams raised money online to pay for the ability to cheat: rejecting opposing teams’ words, buying vowels or the letters q, x, or z, or the most expensive cheat of all -for $500, the ability to make up a word. The nonprofit literary-education center 826NYC, which helps students between the ages of six and 18 with creative and expository writing skills, organized its first Scrabble for Cheaters tournament, a gambit that raised $50,000 for the three-year-old organization. ![]() RELATED: Photos from the Scrabble for Cheaters Tournamentĭays after Scrabble trademark holders Hasbro and Mattel asked Facebook to shut down Scrabulous, its online version of the word game, a Scrabble tournament on Saturday in Park Slope showed 20- and 30-somethings’ enthusiasm for the original version – with a few adjustments.
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