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Style Conversational Week 1508: One hundred tiles= Loser hunt? Indeed!

The Empress of The Style Invitational on this week’s 100-Scrabble-tile results and a new neologism contest

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Chris Doyle's winner of Style Invitational Week 1504, which asked readers to write something using all 100 Scrabble tiles. You can make your own GIF at wordsmith.org/anagram. (Animation by Dave Cohen with the tool at wordsmith.org)

*The headline above was a non-inking entry by Chris Doyle for Week 1504 (I used another one he wrote)

The moment I heard about a thing called, variously, Scrabblegrams and Scrabble tableaux — writing something that uses all 100 Scrabble tiles — I knew that it would provide amazing results in a Style Invitational contest: After all, past Invites have featured readable, clever, even funny anagrams of everything from people’s names to the entire Gettysburg Address.