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.

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