The annual All-Island Senior Citizens Scrabble Tournament will be held on October 22 at the Hilton Colombo at 9 a.m.
The tournament will be held under two categories. Category “A” will be for the words from the Collins Scrabble Words Dictionary and the winner will be awarded the Deshabandu Clara Motwani Memorial Cup. Category “B” is for the players who use more traditional words from the Oxford English Dictionary and the winner will receive the Rajathy Kandasamy Memorial Cup.
Spot prizes will be offered including for the Highest Word Score and the Highest Game Score.
Entry forms for the tournament can be obtained from Indrani Athukorale, No.102/1, Dharmapala Mawatha, Colombo 7 (Tel:2696993) and Delryn Wijesinghe, No.27, Ridgeway Place, Colombo 4. (Tel:2587094).
Entry fee is Rs. 800 and the closing date for entries is October 15.
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