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Friday, June 17th, 2011Swapping Letter Tiles in Scrabble Games One little-known Scrabble rule is the one which lets you swap letters during your turn. The reason the Scrabble letter-swapping rule is so little-used, though, is because you have to forfeit your chance to place a word on the board that time. Since this is a crippling action in most competitive games, most people prefer to place small, low-scoring words that...
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Official Scrabble Rules for Challenging Words in Scrabble Games
Thursday, June 16th, 2011Official Rules and Penalties for Challenging Words in Scrabble Whether you’re playing competitive Scrabble at an officially sanctioned tournament or you’re playing with the family around the kitchen table, there’s no more dramatic moment in the Scrabble board game than when someone decides to challenge a word. This often is the moment which decides the outcome of the game. Since ...
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How to Improve Your Vocabulary
Monday, June 6th, 2011How to Improve Your Vocabulary Don’t you hate when someone insults you or hurts your feelings and you can’t think of anything to say? In French, the phrase “L’esprit de l’escalier” describes that moment when you come up with a perfect comeback when it’s too late to deliver it. It’s moments like these when improving your vocabulary can really help. In...
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Pogo.com
Tuesday, April 26th, 2011Pogo.com Pogo is the online gaming entity of popular video game manufacturer Electronic Arts. Pogo.com has a huge fanbase, bragging of millions of unique visitors every day. The first think you’ll notice about Pogo.com is that it is colorful, bright, and friendly on the eyes. Pogo is incredibly easy to navigate, though as I get older I find the bright colors and flashy bits a little hard to ...
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Hasbro
Monday, April 25th, 2011Hasbro Hasbro is the second-largest American toy manufacturer, headquartered in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. The funny name comes from the company’s origin–in the early 1920s, the Hassenfeld Brothers founded a small textile company. They made textiles exclusively for twenty years before eventually finding their way into the school supply business. From children’s pencil boxes and map...
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Scrabble News Headlines February 2011
Sunday, February 13th, 2011I thought it would be interesting to take a look at what kind of news coverage our favorite game was receiving in the month of February. Here are links to news articles about Scrabble along with my commentary. (I didn’t comment on all of the articles–just some of them.) Tri-City students prep for 2nd national Scrabble championship – Jacob Sivonen and Will Stone, two junior high ...
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Scrabble on YouTube – Scrabble Videos
Tuesday, February 1st, 2011Scrabble Clips on Youtube Scrabble on YouTube comes in many shapes and sizes. You can watch Scrabble videos ranging from basic how-to guides which teach you how to play Scrabble, hints on how to play Scrabble in new media formats, watching old Scrabble episodes from the traditional media, and even Scrabble spoofs for those who like a sideways glance and perhaps even a chuckle or two about their f...
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Scrabble Vowel Dumps
Friday, January 28th, 2011Scrabble Vowel Dumps The easiest way to lose a round of Scrabble is to get stuck with tiles that you can’t place. Most of the time, having a buildup of tiles is due to one of two things–having a small Scrabble vocabulary or having too many vowel tiles on your rack. There are one hundred tiles in the game of Scrabble–ninety-eight letter tiles and two blank tiles. Since forty-two ...
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Scrabble Halloween Costumes
Thursday, January 27th, 2011Scrabble Halloween Costume Ideas Those of us for whom Scrabble is more than just a time-killing board game understand that when Scrabble gets a hold of you, it doesn’t let go. You want to involve Scrabble in every part of your life–including your Halloween costume. While most people are content to go Trick-or-Treating with a sheet thrown over their head or a pair of plastic fangs, the...
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Scrabble Jokes
Tuesday, January 25th, 2011Scrabble Jokes Though Scrabble players are generally a very serious lot, more math-obsessed and less likely to smile than your average person, a ton of Scrabble jokes have popped up over the years. Scrabble jokes are good for clearing the air during a particularly tough match or to cause your opponent to crack a smile and drop the uber-serious persona. Here are our favorite Scrabble jokes along w...
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