Austin Shin 🇬🇧

The Try Guys “4 vs 1” Scrabble video has just dropped on their YouTube channel! I played 3 Scrabble games against them with increasing handicaps, and you can watch it here: youtube.com/watch?v=r7a4GC… Leave a like and comment on the video, if you found it entertaining!

Crescent City Cup 2026, LA - 20 games (F-A) Av score: 437-430 Bingos: 40-45 (2.00-2.25/game) Bingo Frequency: 0: 0-0 | 1: 7-3 | 2: 7-11 | 3: 5-5 | 4: 1-0 | 5: 0-1 J: 7-13 Q: 11-9 X: 8-12 Z: 14-6 S: 39-41 ?: 14-26 🥴 (Freq - 0: 7 | 1: 12 | 2: 1) #scrabble #ScoringNeverStops

CCC20: L 352-517. His lapping, shoaling in first 3 moves. I foolishly let his beacher* go (mixed up anagram pair berdache/breached and peachers/preaches) but no excuse. My roseate, his notarize. Winner here gets 2nd ($1,250), loser gets nothing. End: 11.5-8.5 +138, 6th #scrabble

CCC19: W 518-464. My inducts, arointed b2b. His touching midgame. My escalop, eobiont b2b late on, his aureate. Luckily his fish for an outbingo doesn't hit and this turns out to be only game in CCC2026 where I had both blanks in any game! 11.5-7.5 +200 #scrabble

CCC18: W 467-418. My aniline early on. His mudhole, my atebrin. About level but I get toilinet, his nutsedge. Fortunately I have wood 45, za 47 to end the game! 10.5-7.5 +249 #scrabble

CCC17: L 382-396. His pettily, my detaches. His obelias puts him about bingo ahead, but on a tight board I can score well across a number of moves to at least make it close. Couldn't quite eke out enough with a Z? in hand in the endgame. 9.5-7.5 +200 #scrabble

CCC16: W 433-358. His joinable, my premiere. Was lucky post-bingo to have zexes 81! Also lucky to not have prefit* challenged off. His splurts got him to within a bingo but unwoven at the end and my grace blocked his sudamina outplay. Day 2 end: 9.5-6.5 +214 #scrabble

CCC15: L 368-490. Not much to do here either. Started well with doofers. But he gets inarming, fulmines and saponite by move 6 and I was cut adrift. My arsenide but some terrible draws meant that there was no comeback on the cards. 8.5-6.5 +139 #scrabble

CCC14: W 448-376. My starked 96, his climates. About even until I get yawling, to go up 130. His softens late on only reduced the spread. 8.5-5.5 +261 #scrabble

CCC13: L 413-483. Not much of a chance in this one, his birthed to start, then ductings, tangents b2b on move 3 and 4. My touzing, latrine. My jager 47, but the board gets congested and there's no way back with the tiles I had. 7.5-5.5 +189 #scrabble

CCC12: T 404-404. His uneaten kept us level. My editors and cantdogs b2b, but his adieux keeps us close. I draw into some tricky racks, but at the end his dribs 39 puts us level. Only two ways to tie at best and I found one with pit. Unbeaten morning! 7.5-4.5 +259 #scrabble

CCC11: W 481-373. My advects, his banished. I score well with yex 37, draco 42, hamzas 45 and then get goalised 83 to get into a big lead. His relearnt near the end, but I could still play roseting elsewhere! 7-4 +259 #scrabble

CCC10: W 421-396. A tough game as I get minable early, and his unseated, fiz 45 put us level on a very tight board. I aggressively force an opening for my S leading him to attempt to block, and I just about score enough at the end to through to unscathed. 6-4 +151 #scrabble

CCC9: W 524-492. A total shootout as I get offline, ibogaine. His unweened, tattooed and stridor all b2b at the start. Also his trinodal, aphasic b2b later on. I'm still in it though, and as he misses a fish with yo, I can go out with wrestles to steal the win! 5-4 +126 #scrabble

CCC8: L 412-444. His emeriti, my tangler. His outadds to go 100 ahead. I end up fishing for a D or S holding ACEGKNR, hit it after off the G and get prancked 110! Merely heavily reduced the spread as the result was already beyond doubt. Day 1 end: 4-4 +94 #scrabble

CCC7: L 365-454. His jettison, my ingener. The main difference was his topspin 88 and with the board being too tight, the result was never in doubt. I did attempt to fish for an E for autogu(id)e at the end but got blocked anyway, 4-3 +126 #scrabble

CCC6: W 484-469. My gyration early on. His teeters, qeema 52 b2b, but I get asteroid for 140! His resoled to hit back, and then diplogen two moves later to go about level. Crucially my play of platt blocks all his bingos and I can score enough in the endgame! 4-2 +215 #scrabble

CCC5: W 477-401. His pigfeed to start. My archines and anodiser later. My glitz 50 puts me slightly in front until he slots in rialtos 80 on the penultimate turn. I hit the jackpot as I find only winning play - unsexing 81... and out! 3-2 +200 #scrabble

CCC4: W 502-321. A big win in this one as I get loeries early on. My tex 58, infeed 45+5. His vanity 57. Crucially he phonies, and allows me to get momentum with sociate 102 midgame, as he gets gurnets near the end to cut the spread. 2-2 +124 #scrabble

CCC3: L 453-531. On stream! Started well with heavier and cancered. His bachelor got him back in and after that things went downhill. I missed discrown thru C and later he b2b bingos with sapajou 94 and diastem 93 to seal it. 1-2 -57 #scrabble

CCC2: L 414-452. My finalise, his birthing 4x. He also gets antisag shortly after. My lamiter midgame, but was down 50 near the end on a blocked board and couldn't overturn the deficit. 1-1 +21 #scrabble