Waseem Khatri bags Pakistan Scrabble Championship title
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00:00We are going to introduce you to Waseem Khatri, who is he? He is a scrabble champion.
00:06Have you ever played scrabble?
00:08I tried it once or twice.
00:10There was a time when there was no news flow like this.
00:14To be honest, when social media was not that active.
00:16So, you used to get a proper break.
00:18So, we used to play scrabble together as anchors.
00:21And our vocabulary was very good.
00:23Then we started using dictionaries.
00:26Okay, we can try that again.
00:27We can try it someday.
00:30So, what does it mean?
00:33It is a battle of words.
00:38It is an exciting and difficult game.
00:40Once again, Waseem Khatri has become the scrabble champion.
00:44And he has won the scrabble championship in Karachi.
00:47And he has defeated Hassan Hadi.
00:49So, we have with us Waseem Khatri.
00:52Waseem, thank you so much for joining us.
00:55Congratulations.
00:56How many times have you become the champion of scrabble?
01:08Thank you so much for joining me.
01:10It has been a great pleasure.
01:13Alhamdulillah, I have been the national champion 11 times.
01:16I started playing when I was around the age of 18.
01:24I have travelled all over the world to play.
01:28I am the number one player in Pakistan right now.
01:31Waseem, since we are also interested in this.
01:35Please tell us how much effort you have to put in.
01:38And how much do you learn?
01:40New words, new things.
01:42And how much of your brain is used in this?
01:44Yes, we have to put in a lot of effort.
01:47We have to remember a lot of words.
01:49It is all about vocabulary and maths.
01:51The more words you know, the better you will play.
01:57There are around 3-4 lakh words in the dictionary.
02:02We do daily quizzes and try to learn the words.
02:06And we replicate them in the game.
02:09We try to learn these 3-4 hours daily.
02:16So that when we play internationally, we can play better.
02:21And the trickiest part is the smallest word.
02:25The one with the least number of letters.
02:27I think that is the trickiest part.
02:29Sorry, can you please repeat it again?
02:32The word that is the shortest.
02:34Is it a sentence of 3 words?
02:36Yes, absolutely.
02:38For beginners, the basics are 2-letter words and 3-letter words.
02:43These are the words that you should know at least for playing Scrabble.
02:47At our level, we learn the bingos.
02:53Bingo means that you play all the 7-letter words and you will get an extra 15 marks.
02:58So we try to play at least 2-3 such words in the game.
03:02So that we get an extra score.
03:04I wanted to know that you have participated in many events around the world.
03:08How do the people who attend these events prepare differently from you?
03:14How do they train their brains?
03:17Because every place has a different way of doing things, obviously.
03:22I am sorry, your voice is very disturbing.
03:25I can hear the other voice, but your voice is a little...
03:28Okay, please improve my voice.
03:30I wanted to know, Wasim, that you participate in many events around the world.
03:35How do the people who attend these events prepare differently from you?
03:44I am still not able to hear. I can hear the female voice.
03:47Wasim, if you can hear me, Ashfaq wants to know.
03:50He says that you compete with a lot of people internationally.
03:53What difference did you see in their preparation?
03:56How do they prepare? Is there any difference?
04:00Obviously, we prepare in such a way that we learn words on the computer.
04:07We have a lot of software where we have dictionaries in our mobile phones.
04:13We have quizzes in it.
04:15So what we do, we learn the words over there.
04:18Whenever we get free time, we look at the dictionary of words.
04:22So we have all the apps available every time.
04:25So whenever we are free, anywhere we are traveling,
04:28we just see the list and try to learn whatever we can do.
04:32Thank you so much, Wasim.
04:34And we pray that you also participate in the upcoming events in the same way.
04:40Wasim mentioned that when we get free time,
04:43Ashfaq, remember how much free time we used to get before the internet, pre-internet, social media.
04:49Now we get free time.
04:51So we waste all that time on one app, then on another app, then on the third app,
04:56then on the first app, then on the second app.
04:58We waste all the time in this.
05:00And in this, there is Netflix, Amazon Prime, there are a lot of things.
05:05Earlier, you used to invest your time on books.
05:08Then you used to invest in such games.
05:10People used to play chess.
05:11People used to play chess with great interest.
05:13I also got the interest to play chess.
05:15That too, a season came on Netflix after watching it.
05:18Queen of Gambit.
05:20So after watching that, you get interested.
05:22So after seeing such things, you feel like trying different games.
05:27And these are mental exercises for you.
05:29We should have a chess board here.
05:31And we should play the game here every day.
05:33We should start from where we leave it.