How many points do you get for W-I-N-N-E-R? Melbourne logophile David Elgar won the World Scrabble Championship in Las Vegas over the weekend, taking home the $10,000 cash prize.

A Sydney woman is glad that she checked a lotto ticket that had been stuck to her fridge door for 2 weeks – it turns out that the slip of paper was worth a neat $2 million. The unnamed woman said she’s going to pay down the mortgage and set her kids up. Boring…

And Swifties in Seattle will go down as winners for enthusiasm… A local seismometer recorded the equivalent of a 2.3 magnitude earthquake after 2 nights of dancing as Taylor Swift’s Eras tour came to town. So, more raucous than a Scrabble tournament, then…