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Players Compete For Scrabble Crown In Orlando

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The Associated Press

Published: July 27, 2008

ORLANDO - The National Scrabble Championship continues in Orlando, where about 700 wordsmiths compete for the $25,000 top prize.

Getting a lot of attention this weekend was 11-year-old Bradley Robbins, the youngest of the competitors. The Windham, N.H, resident says his first computer came with a free Scrabble game on it and that's when he got hooked.

Scrabble veteran Mike Baron says the game is a metaphor for life: "You don't have control over everything you're dealt, but you do the best you can with what you've got."

Players at the championship compete in six divisions, based on their scores from qualifying tournaments, and hunker down for 28 games.

The four-day competition ends on Tuesday.

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