Robert Watson (Scrabble player)
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Robert Watson is the 1988 National Scrabble Championship champion, who subsequently retired from tournament Scrabble to pursue other interests, including medicine. According to the Scrabble statistics website cross-tables.com, he has not played a tournament since 1992.
Watson, of Edina, Minnesota
, began playing Scrabble after memorizing three- and four-letter words to play Boggle
and was skilled at bluffing. He beat Joel Wapnick in the final of the 1988 US championship.
Watson, of Edina, Minnesota
Edina, Minnesota
Edina is a city in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States, and a first-ring suburb situated immediately southwest of Minneapolis. Edina began as a small farming and milling community in the 1860s. The population was 47,941 at the 2010 census.-Geography:...
, began playing Scrabble after memorizing three- and four-letter words to play Boggle
Boggle
Boggle is a word game designed by Allan Turoff and trademarked by Parker Brothers, a division of Hasbro. The game is played using a plastic grid of lettered dice, in which players attempt to find words in sequences of adjacent letters.-Rules:...
and was skilled at bluffing. He beat Joel Wapnick in the final of the 1988 US championship.