Apple Special Event (c'mon we all know it's a phone) Game

JonT posted some pics said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:38am ET

Post your one-word guess for the word used during this announcement that you think will be worth the most points in Scrabble.

Here's a cheat sheet:

I'll be using this calculator to determine the winner after verifying that the word was used during the super secret phone announcement.

I'll be posting another thread for general discussion about the event so save your chatter for that one.

Only one entry per person, no funny stuff, and all submissions need to be in by 11:55am Central.

Good luck!

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Teripie said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:45am ET:

Amazing

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medz said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:46am ET:

quintessential

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- @medz Dang that's what I wanted to use. Cheater. Quit reading my mind.
  
  MEHcus said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:00pm ET
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- @medz ^^^ Yeah, what he said!
  
  bluedog said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:19pm ET
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- @medz damn, that's good.
  
  jsh139 said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:25pm ET
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- only worth 23, there are a couple ex... words below that will beat me
  
  medz said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:28pm ET
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LadyLeela said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:47am ET:

Groundbreaking

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jsh139 said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:50am ET:

Existential

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Kevin said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:58am ET:

Unbelievable

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DaveInSoCal said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:58am ET:

New

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Starblind said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 11:59am ET:

Predecessor

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MEHcus said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:01pm ET:

chimichanga

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- @JonT I got the most votes so that means I win. Give me a prize now or I will kick you. I know where you work.
  
  MEHcus said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 12:20pm ET
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bluedyn said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:05pm ET:

exponentially

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The_Baron said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:06pm ET:

Extraordinary

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darksaber99999 said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:07pm ET:

Coniferous

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editorkid said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:09pm ET:

Created

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curtise said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:11pm ET:

Revolutionary

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snapster said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:11pm ET:

Jazz

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- @snapster Price is Right follow up guess: Jazzy
  
  MEHcus said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:30pm ET
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- @MEHcus jazzier
  
  medz said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:35pm ET
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- @medz Jazztastic
  
  MEHcus said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:46pm ET
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- Jazz hands
  
  bluedog said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:30pm ET
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bluedog said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:19pm ET:

Unprecedented

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Ignorant said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:24pm ET:

S'mores

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jetedrow said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:28pm ET:

quantifiable

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pitamuffin said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:40pm ET:

Conceptualize

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Trailmix said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:49pm ET:

Revolutionary

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MEHcus said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 12:49pm ET:

hashtagstevejobshologram That counts as one word right?

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Kevin said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:08pm ET:

Apple has done a lot of things I haven't agreed with since Steve Jobs passed away. But, screwing up the live stream has got to be the most annoying.

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- @Kevin Dude, that is like 29 words. Follow the rules.
  
  The_Baron said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:24pm ET
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- @The_Baron I thought @JonT was going to set up another place to chat?
  
  medz said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 2:11pm ET
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- @medz I was going to but nobody seemed to care enough.
  
  JonT said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 3:21pm ET
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- @JonT How would you know if nobody had a place to convey their feelings?
  
  medz said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 3:23pm ET
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- medz said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 4:06pm ET
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- @The_Baron I am the outlier
  
  Kevin said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 4:25pm ET
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EricGravedoni said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:11pm ET:

Innovative

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Bingo said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:36pm ET:

Pizza

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badmnky said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:43pm ET:

Quixotry

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fishcake said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:45pm ET:

Zigzag

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bluedog said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:53pm ET:

NY magazine had a similar idea. They've got "Apple Keynote Bingo" going on. Apple Keynote Bingo

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phatmass said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 1:57pm ET:

Puzzle or puzzling, But if I am only allowed one variation of said word I will go with puzzling.

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editorkid said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 2:59pm ET:

I should note that in my entry, both the C and the D are on triple-word-score squares.

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capguncowboy said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 9:18pm ET:

pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcaniconiosis...

Okay, that's probably not likely. My official guess is:

Equipped

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MasterST said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 9:44pm ET:

ZiC-GU-JOK

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marklog said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 9:57pm ET:

So here's the bitch of it: who is going to transcribe the entire keynote?

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- @marklog That's what interns are for. Hopefully Meh's got a couple of them floating around somewhere….
  
  bluedog said Tue, Sep 9th 2014 at 10:02pm ET
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- @bluedog Of course they do. They're in the intern tank.
  
  SSteve said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 2:18am ET
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- @SSteve I think they're hibernating in cryosleep right now.
  
  JonT said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 10:44am ET
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- @JonT
  
  SSteve said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 11:42am ET
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SSteve said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 2:19am ET:

Quizzical

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JonT said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 6:13pm ET:

Top 10 answers by points:
Jazz 29
Puzzling 29
Conceptualize 28
Quixotry 27
Quantifiable 26
Zigzag 26
Exponentially 25
Pizza 25
Chimichanga 24
Extraordinary 24

As mentioned the interns are in cryosleep so I'm hoping someone else does a transcription soon. I feel like conceptualize is the most likely winner, I'll verify as soon as I can.

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- @JonT Are you looking at entries before the deadline? Don't want the winner to have "heard" their answer.
  
  bluedyn said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 6:20pm ET
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- @bluedyn I'll be sure to double check that.
  
  JonT said Wed, Sep 10th 2014 at 6:24pm ET
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- @JonT What ever happened with this? I want to know if "equipped" snuck in for the win
  
  capguncowboy said Fri, Sep 19th 2014 at 12:54am ET
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- @capguncowboy and @JonT Hey yeah, I just remembered about this. Any update?
  
  pitamuffin said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 1:49pm ET
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- @pitamuffin @capguncowboy soon…soon…Fukubukuro taking up a lot of my time right now, but I'll get to it as ASAP as possible.
  
  JonT said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 2:36pm ET
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- @JonT "ASAP as possible."
  
  Thumperchick said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 5:24pm ET
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- @Thumperchick "as soon as possible as possible". this made me laugh
  
  capguncowboy said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 5:26pm ET
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- @Thumperchick sorry, I was distracted when I wrote that because I was getting some cash out of the ATM machine.
  
  JonT said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 6:08pm ET
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- @JonT hope you didn't forget your PIN number!
  
  jsh139 said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 7:18pm ET
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- @JonT @jsh139
  
  Thumperchick said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 7:22pm ET
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- @Thumperchick You forgot the first as. It's even more dazzling when you read "I'll get to it as as soon as possible as possible." One more "soon" and two more "possible" and we'd have a space time convergence here.
  
  bluedyn said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 8:19pm ET
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- @bluedyn my head hurts.
  
  jsh139 said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 8:46pm ET
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- @bluedyn I didn't forget it, I couldn't bring myself to type that, too.
  
  Thumperchick said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 11:32pm ET
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- @Thumperchick But it was one word shy of complete repetition. Why not rejoice at the badness of it? I say it was glorious and we should all feel honored to have witnessed it.
  Or I'm just giddy from having taken the day off.
  
  bluedyn said Mon, Sep 22nd 2014 at 11:45pm ET
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JonT said Tue, Sep 30th 2014 at 5:01pm ET:

Finally got around to finding a transcript. Here are the top 3 that were actually said during the event and how many points they're worth:

Amazing - 19
Revolutionary - 19
Innovative - 16

Sad that safe bets ended up winning.

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- @JonT What a disappointment. Chimichanga won the thread, so I think we should all celebrate by having a taco Tuesday.
  
  bluedyn said Tue, Sep 30th 2014 at 5:42pm ET
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- @JonT equipped wasn't on there? Really?
  
  capguncowboy said Tue, Sep 30th 2014 at 7:30pm ET
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- @JonT WOOOO!! I won I won I won! Well, I tied with Amazing :D
  
  curtise said Wed, Oct 1st 2014 at 9:06am ET
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- @JonT well in IMHO humble opinion, this was still quite entertaining.
  
  snapster said Wed, Oct 1st 2014 at 9:55am ET
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