What Does Peak Scrabble Efficiency Look Like?

How long does it take to play a Scrabble game? If you're playing family or friends at home without a timer, it could take hours. But there's another way to measure game length - the number of combined turns it takes to finish a full game. In English, hyper-efficient 18-turn games are incredibly rare, but they do happen, and when they do, the result is pretty spectacular. Thank you to Erickson Smith for more Macondo data wrangling and Seth Lipkin for the assist with the cross-tables.com annotated game database! Sometime soon, I plan to resume streaming on my Twitch channel:   / wanderer15   I also have a weekly show on the official Scrabble Twitch channel (Tuesdays 3-5 PM ET):   / scrabble   Play Scrabble at http://playscrabble.com!