Everything Scrabble

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For both the beginner and the seasoned pro, this how-to book from the National Scrabble Association offers all the keys to better play: Basic board strategies for surefire results Turn the enemy -- Q -- into your best friend: a winner's list of Q words with and without U Master the terrific "twos" -- a complete list of two-letter words that can boost your scoring average by thirty to forty points Maximize your score with bonus squares and parallel play -- including triple triples, the pinnacle of SCRABBLE scoring success Make more seven-letter plays -- and earn a fifty-point bonus Secrets to getting better tiles How to get your words' worth with high-point tiles J, X, and Z Words with no vowels How the world's greatest players win -- twenty-eight examples of outstanding SCRABBLE play

Featuring a rare interview with the SCRABBLE game inventor, the late Alfred Mosher Butts, this extensively illustrated guidebook covers all facets of the game and worldwide SCRABBLE culture, including the clubs, tournaments, champions and rules, and playing SCRABBLE with children, plus a complete history of the game.

What Customers Say About Everything Scrabble:

My kids love to play scrabble & this book was given as a gift. They get lots of use from this book.

I wish however that it included a scrabble word dictionary. This is a very helpful book and it came in a timely manner. The word "everything" made me think that.I would order from this vendor again.

A fantastic book that will improve your game and change how you score. Filled with teaching tips, word lists and skill-builders, as well as some pretty interesting (though dorky) Scrabble stories and trivia, this book is a must for anyone serious about getting better at Scrabble.

It's a great reference that I return to often. Important learning strategies and tips are shared with the reader which makes one realize just how intricate and challenging the game of Scrabble can be. If you love Scrabble and would like to venture beyond the kitchen table format and play in local tournaments, on-line, etc. this book can be a great help. Even a quick skim through through some of the chapters can result in an increase of 50-100 more points in your average game.

A few exercises later I was stumped. I overlooked this and inserted a blank for an H. After spending 3 times the 10 minutes of allotted time for the exercise I decided to check the answer and found a word containing a Q, which was not on the rack or the board setup for the exercise. After spending less than an hour with it I realized that this is a poorly edited guide. If you are just looking for Scrabble strategy I guess this book is fine, but it isn't updated and it doesn't even adhere to the basics of Scrabble in its exercises. Annoying but not unforgivable.

I took it back the next day before I wasted anymore time with it. I picked this book up for the puzzles and the general strategy. The first puzzle that I tried had a setup with more H's in it than come in a scrabble set. I am a decent player (1400+ rating on Scrabble Beta and I almost always score over 300) but I couldn't for the life of me solve this exercise.