"muzjiks": actually not Yanni's musical stylings.

"Muzjiks" is defined as a group of Russian peasants. But should a Russian peasant use that word at a high stakes, big-money Scrabble tournament, well...they...won't be a muzjik any longer.

According to people who know these things, "muzjiks" is the word with the highest point total you can get during a game of Scrabble in which you use all seven letters on your rack. 29 points just on the letters alone. That doesn't count double and triple letter/word scores, or the 50 point bonus you'd get for using all seven letters at once. Then you're talking 128 points.

Pssh. That's just for overachievers. All that matters in Scrabble is how to leech off other people's words. Hoard every S you get and add it to big words. And don't fear the X. Is there an A or an O around? Voilà. You just got 9 points.

Of course, you won't earn Scrabble victory this way. Just the passive aggressive vitriol of your competition. But isn't that the greatest victory of all?