How to Win at Scrabble
Learn what turns a beginner into an intermediate player and an intermediate player into an expert.
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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
Instructions
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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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Practice improving your vocabulary. The more words you know, the more words you will think to use.
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Capitalize on variations by adding -ing, -ly, -ed and other suffixes.
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Learn a lot of 3-letter words. (There are about 975 of them.)
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Try to get the bonus squares. Earn even more points by using two bonus squares in one play.
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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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Don't let yourself get stuck with all vowels or all consonants on the rack.
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Join the National Scrabble Association and read its publication, "The Scrabble News," for strategies and tips.
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Tips & Warnings
It isn't important to know big words - it's important to know how to use combinations of letters.
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Comments
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stevemar2
Jan 29, 2009
I used to play Scrabble online often. Great article! -
stevemar2
Jan 29, 2009
I used to play Scrabble online often. Great article!
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Mar 15, 2006
Get a good dictionary - such as the concise OED. Learn all the words that have q without u.
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Mar 15, 2006
Get a good dictionary - such as the concise OED. Learn all the words that have q without u.
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Nov 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!
