That better be play hangman in German. Because if it is try to understand nuclear theory in German we are going to have a disagreement. 
BOTH! 
I prefer Welsh scrabble... doesnt matter if you dont have any vowells and its your go!
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Gadge, the World Scrabble Champion is Pakorn Nemitrmansuk from Thailand. I saw a documentary about it... he doesn't speak very good english.
At that level apparently it has more to do with learning sequences of letters and being good at maths rather than ability with the language.
Does he play the game in English? I assume there are different language versions of the game?
Yes, that's the English language championship.
I was just about to ask if it was one of those clever maths things... Then I read the second paragraph you wrote. 
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Gadge, the World Scrabble Champion is Pakorn Nemitrmansuk from Thailand. I saw a documentary about it... he doesn't speak very good english.
At that level apparently it has more to do with learning sequences of letters and being good at maths rather than ability with the language.
Yup, it helps if you can memorise the two and three letter word lists and create grids where you're creating five or so words each time.
My ex girlfriends mum was phenominally good at scrabble, it was never particularly clever words more being able to lay word on top of another and in the process create four or five two letter words etc.
I used to play a lot an know the two letter word list to the point it *really* hacks people off when you can get 'QI' in as a valid two letter word (even better on a double or triple square) when they think you're lumped with an unusable 'q' as all the 'u's have gone.
"I think we are in rats' alley - Where the dead men lost their bones."
Yes, professional Scrabble players cheat by using the Scrabble Dictionary (as opposed to the English Dictionary), into which Scrabble players have managed to shoehorn loads of spurious two and three letter words which don't exist.
