The "secret sauce" for the largest crop of the longest words: a bigger board, more tiles, wider racks, and a point for each blank tile on the board.


Francis Gurtowski graduated from the Newark College of Engineering and subsequently retired from his position as a software developer at the International Business Machines Corporation. The ancient coder and late-blooming author/artist was born and raised in Passaic, New Jersey, has a masters degree from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, and has cherry-picked sweet courses in Manhattan at both the School of Visual Arts and the Art Student’s League.