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Scrabble competitor caught c-h-e-a-t-i-n-g

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    Teen player kicked out of National Championships

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Caroline Easter is -- scrabble now I'd.

-- Scrap parts.

Like most of the players in this ballroom Easter is obsessed with the games I have -- person but Janet.

Pillows as well as letters and words the words are insisting all are here to -- -- national championships and 101000 bucks while we're keeping work.

But even in this community where letters and words are revered there is one word that reared its suddenly -- this week.

That nobody likes that's been a very big topic of conversation this year.

Because organizers caught a kid who's about to start high -- -- cheating it's cheating it's.

Very very frowned upon -- -- not.

-- cool thing.

John Williams as the national scrabble association's executive director he says the -- will likely be suspended from competition for a while but not being.

He also says other players tried to catch the same kid cheating last year.

Think it all -- computer these simulations.

Turtle that Kyle you're drawn -- things he had made and nobody could prove it until this year when someone caught him homing tiles everyone here knows the story because it happened right out in the open he took.

-- links which are the most powerful.

Tiles and it's -- and put all the -- are ready to start it.

And where were those files in again.

Easter says most here are not angry rather it's an eight letter word he he.

Saddened saddened -- teenagers now labeled by an ugly word from his unfortunate actions Tom Johnson and achieve its really important.

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