Things You'll Need:
- Dictionaries
- Deluxe Scrabble
- Hasbro Interactive Scrabble
- Scrabble
- Scrabble 50th Anniversary Editions
- Scrabble Deluxe: Travel Editions
- Scrabble Junior
- Scrabble Junior: Curious George Editions
- Spanish Scrabble
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Step 1
Get the Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (3rd Edition) - which is known as the OSPD3 - and become familiar with it.
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Step 2
Practice improving your vocabulary. The more words you know, the more words you will think to use.
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Step 3
Capitalize on variations by adding -ing, -ly, -ed and other suffixes.
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Step 4
Learn a lot of 3-letter words. (There are about 975 of them.)
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Step 5
Try to get the bonus squares. Earn even more points by using two bonus squares in one play.
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Step 6
Learn "rack management." Understand that each move is dependent on the ones before it. Sometimes playing the highest-scoring word will leave you with a bad set of letters.
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Step 7
Don't let yourself get stuck with all vowels or all consonants on the rack.
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Step 8
Join the National Scrabble Association and read its publication, "The Scrabble News," for strategies and tips.
Comments
stevemar2 said
on 1/29/2009 I used to play Scrabble online often. Great article!
Anonymous said
on 3/15/2006 Get a good dictionary - such as the concise OED. Learn all the words that have q without u.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 The word 'craziest', played in the very top, left corner of the board earns you 311 points.
C and T are placed on triple word scores and the Z is on the double letter score.
Voilà, 311 points, you win!
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 1. Learn the 2-Letter words, there are 96 of them and will definitely help your score.
2. Try to use all the letters in your rack at once. This is a BINGO and will garner a 50-Point Bonus
3. Avoid getting stuck with a Z or Q: Even if you can only get face value for it, it's much worse to have it in your hand at the end of the game.