Inter-House Scrabble

The four houses battled it out at ‘Scrabble’ this week, with Churchill House emerging the victors, winning all four of their matches.

For those who do not know the game, ‘Scrabble’ involves the players needing to form words from a certain amount of letters and, in the case of our in house rules, a certain amount of time. The letters are then placed on a board and the score determined by the letters used, the length of the word and the squares the letters are placed on. As we have a range of languages used at King’s College, the pupils were allowed to form words from English, Spanish, French and German. This gave them more possibilities and also tested their knowledge of the languages.

The matches were very closely fought and in most cases it was not clear who would win until right at the end. Nevertheless, Churchill House proved too strong this time for the other house teams. Their final game was against Cervantes House, who had also won their previous two matches, but close to the end Shea Toomey (Year 9) placed a word scoring a gigantic 45 points which sealed the win. Churchill House had not won a house competition in the Secondary School so far this year, so well done to their Scrabble team for giving their house something to shout about.