Word nerds have a weekend on the tiles at Thailand's Scrabble title

If he were no longer physically able to play Scrabble, 86-year-old Tan Jin Chor said he would "shut the lights and call it a day", but his love of the word game has kept the veteran verbophile competing.When Tan first started competing seriously 35 years ago, prizes could include a pair of socks, a necktie, or sometimes a plaque.