Can you name the cities out of the 100 most populous US cities that would score highest in Scrabble?

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US Cities Highest Scrabble Scores Quiz

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Created by: Unidentifiedkiwi -
Contributed: November 11th, 2009
Category: Geography
Plays: 1,048

Tags: City Quizzes, populous, highest, score, scrabble, 100

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	jonnyr12:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 21:52 GMT	1 point
	Love it... would love to see it expanded to include more cities too, maybe any over 100,000.

	MaxCanning:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 22:21 GMT	4 points
	Wouldn't two-word cities be impossible though?

	Unidentifiedkiwi:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 23:16 GMT	1 point
	We're talking hypothetically here. And jonnyr12, I actually did find the data for that, so maybe I'll use it in a sequel.

	elnok:	Nov 19th, 2009 at 21:04 GMT	2 points
	This quiz is freakin' hard, and awesome. Love it.

	hotrod14:	Nov 23rd, 2009 at 03:42 GMT	1 point
	great quiz! happy to get half

	thedpr:	Dec 18th, 2009 at 00:53 GMT	1 point
	Wouldn't Saint Petersburg get 20?

	Pistol:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 12:34 GMT	1 point
	Great quiz! I think Saint Petersburg could be a bonus answer, though the city itself spells its name as 'st' and not 'saint' so i think it's right to leave it out of the main answers.

	CrimsonTider:	Jan 14th, 2010 at 23:23 GMT	2 points
	I realize it's not the official name of the city, but by my count "New York City" would come in at 26...might want to consider it for a bonus answer as well

	golf04330:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 02:38 GMT	2 points
	You should explain that this doesn't conform to the rules of Scrabble. I wasted most of my time trying cities that had no more than 7 letters in them. None of the answers given would actually be possible in Scrabble.

	dsteele:	Jan 15th, 2010 at 04:09 GMT	3 points
	You can have words longer than 7 letters in Scrabble, as long as you're building on others. I caused a ragequit once by making a eight-letter word, bingo, with two triple-word scores, and the highest theoretical scrabble scoring word would be a 15 letter three-triple word score word along an edge of the board.

	megarockman:	Feb 9th, 2010 at 22:01 GMT	1 point
	What's the bonus low answer?

	WorldWhiz:	Feb 11th, 2010 at 23:11 GMT	2 points
	@megarockman: Reno, with four one-pointers.

	cuendillar:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 13:36 GMT	1 point
	It would be good with a Scrabble-scoring guide somewhere as different letters score differently depending on language. Figuring out which were high in English wasn't easy when I'm used to the Swedish version with ie C=8, Y=7, U=4, Q=W=0(they don't exist). This picture could maybe be included in the notes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Scrabble_tiles_en.jpg

	bizzlebiz13:	Mar 8th, 2010 at 01:45 GMT	2 points
	North Las Vegas? I tried Las Vegas but I would never think to put North with it.

	mellybmel:	Mar 21st, 2010 at 02:14 GMT	1 point
	Yes, they would be possible in Scrabble, but I was envisioning a 7-letter tray. I see I wasn't the only person who thought that way, so maybe a caveat would be a good idea.