Scrabble Champion of the World to be Determined in Austin

Just because you shellacked your mom and younger brother with a well-placed “quixotic” after dinner the other night doesn’t mean you’re a true Scrabble master. (Your mom told us she’d had three glasses of white wine at cocktail hour, anyway, which means the playing field was totally not level.)

If you want to prove it for real, and clear your place beside the uber-nerds of Word Wars, all while raising money for a good cause, sign up now for Literacy Austin’s Third Annual Team Scrabble Night, due to take place September 7.

You can register as a team or a singleton—they’ll hook you up with a cohort if none of your friends are geeky enough to join you. (May we recommend that you start hanging out with grad students?) Teams can buy extra letters, "peeks" in the dictionary, or expert advice from judges—all of which renders the event a not-quite-meritocracy but definitely pumps up the Literacy Austin coffers. John Erler of the Sinus Show will emcee.

Why are we telling you about this now, you ask? The registration deadline is August 28, and apparently spaces fill up quick, so stop tilting at windmills and hop to it. We’ll remind you again closer to the date.

*Image (c) Nellee100 on Flickr*