Some word nerds didn’t spend their Easter long weekend gorging themselves on chocolate (guilty…) – they were battling it out at the Australian Scrabble championships in Melbourne. Organiser Carol Johnsen said 18 out of the country’s top 20 players were there, including 2017 world champion David Eldar – at 32yo, he was the youngest in the room… But accountant Naween Fernando took home this year’s top prize and a spot in the World Scrabble Championships in Las Vegas in July. He had the highest-scoring single word of the year after getting a triple word score of 194 with the word ‘IMPROVING’. For those wondering, the highest-scoring single Scrabble word in history is the 365-point ‘QUIXOTRY’, which means a visionary idea. Theoretically, the highest-scoring single Scrabble word would be the drug ‘OXYPHENBUTAZONE’, but that would be tougher to play than a rack full of consonants…