Way to Score!

I grew up with a love for solving crosswords and playing Scrabble. As you may know, Scrabble is played by forming connected words, in crossword fashion, on a 15x15 board with 100 tiles: 98 are marked with a letter and assigned a point value; the other 2 are blank tiles, which can substitute for any letter but carry no scoring power. Each tile's point value is based on its frequency in English: A, E, I, O, U and the common letters L, N, R, S, T = 1 point; D, G = 2 points; B, C, M, P = 3 points; F, H, V, W, Y = 4 points; K = 5 points; J, X = 8 points; and Q, Z = 10 points.

In this puzzle, the highlighted letters represent all 100 tiles played. There are extra words surrounding these played tiles just to fill out the crossword grid, but all words displayed are valid Scrabble words from the official American English Scrabble Dictionary.

To start the game, draw 7 tiles from the bag and place them on your rack kept hidden from your opponent. The first word is played across the center of the board and is awarded a Double Word Score. If you use all 7 tiles from your rack in a single play, it is called a BINGO and scores a bonus 50 points. There are also special premium spaces that when a tile is placed there, you can score Double Letter, Triple Letter, Double Word, or Triple Word. These points are awarded only when newly placed tiles cover the space; subsequent words that cross or include these spaces only receive their face value.

Ready to play? The first word is at 33A. Then continue to place words that interconnect from there (i.e. the highlighted spaces) just as you would in a Scrabble game. Then, when all of the tiles are out of the bag, solve the meta to discover the word that set a Guinness World Record!