Adam Logan's lifetime Scrabble earnings is now well over $100,000, a solid career pay often built one $300 tournament win at a time.

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Simply defined, “diopters” is the pluralized form of a measure of reflective power in an optical lens. It’s not a word in everyone’s mental lexicon, but if you play your tiles right, it can earn you 149 points on the world’s biggest Scrabble stage . Article content

And that’s exactly what Ottawa mathematician Adam Logan did, as he placed the letters across two triple-word squares in his highest-scoring play of the World Scrabble Championship. Article content Article content

In two turns alone, Logan had added a whopping 252 points to his score — “infamies” had been his previous move for an impressive 103 points — to erase his oppon

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