Can you name the twenty countries with the highest point values in the game of Scrabble? by Xavier_III

Can you name the twenty countries with the highest point values in the game of Scrabble?

created by Xavier_III

Enter a country in the box below
Correctly named countries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
The name of the country is the conventional short form stated in "CIA World Factbook 2012," including "Federated States of Micronesia." All words are included except "the" WHEN IT BEGINS THE NAME.
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Rank	Country	Score
1		50
2		39
2		39
2		39
5		35
5		35
7		34
8		33
9		30
9		30
11		28
11		28
13		27
14		26
14		26

Rank	Country	Score
14		26
17		25
18		24
18		24
20		23
20		23
20		23
23		22
23		22
23		22
23		22
27		21
27		21
27		21
27		21

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Countries Worth the Most in Scrabble Quiz

by Xavier_III

Created Jan 6, 2012 in Geography
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	finnoztoffee:	Jan 6th, 2012 at 23:04 GMT	2 points
	D R C wouldn't even fit on a scrabble board (without being an acronym)

	finnoztoffee:	Jan 6th, 2012 at 23:24 GMT	2 points
	sao tome and Principe doesn't work on a standard english keyboard

	SomeoneRandom:	Jan 6th, 2012 at 23:29 GMT	2 points
	Sao Tome and Principe needs to be accepted without the accents.

	SomeoneRandom:	Jan 6th, 2012 at 23:30 GMT	2 points
	finnoztoffee: Nice job commenting at the same time about the same thing!

	Xavier_III:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 00:01 GMT	1 point
	Oh! Oh, no. A blatant error. I must accept variants such as that. finnoztoffee, good point -- many countries are too long to fit in the fifteen-space rows and columns of the board -- but the quiz is rather hypothetical: most countries are not valid words in Scrabble, anyway.

	Ulkomaalainen:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 00:30 GMT	1 point
	Also you could possibly argue about the lack of certain letters (don't know the English distribution, though)

	sammyhain:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 02:54 GMT	2 points
	Why wouldn't United States of America not be here?

	Xavier_III:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 03:06 GMT	1 point
	Jawohl, Ulkomaalainen. I think I know what you mean. Kazakhstan, for example, is impossible in Scrabble because there is only one K in the English version; es gibt wahrscheinlich mehr K's in Deutschen Scrabble.

	Xavier_III:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 03:10 GMT	1 point
	sammyhain, "United States of America" is, according to "The CIA World Factbook 2012," the conventional long form for the country. The conventional short form dictated in the same source is "United States"; and I use the latter form in conformity with the rule stated above the quiz's body. I hope that enlightens you.

	MisterF:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 17:43 GMT	1 point
	Xavier: Then there's the issue of the blank tiles (not sure if they have them in the German version). Of course, that opens up a new issue, since those tiles are worth 0 points... In related news, I recently saw a giant Scrabble set in a store with a larger board and twice as many tiles. That would allow more of these to be played, both by fitting them and by having more letters.

	Xavier_III:	Jan 7th, 2012 at 23:13 GMT	1 point
	I know what you're talking about, MisterF: Super Scrabble has two K's, twenty-four E's, four blanks, et cetera. I will not take into consideration blank tiles, as (I mentioned this above) the quiz is hypothetical; I add up the scores of all the individual letters. without including such variables as blanks, the exclusion of words from the Scrabble dictionary, premium spaces, and actually trying to fit the words on the board.