http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-play-scrabble-junior/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-play-scrabble-junior/#comments Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:10:04 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=71 How to Play Scrabble Jr. Teaching your kids how to play Scrabble Junior gives children 5-7 years old a fun tool to learn the spelling of words, while playing a board game with the family. Not only do you give your reading-age child an extra way to learn vocabulary and word spelling, but you also show your son or daughter a window into the world of Scrabble and word games. It’s never too earl...

]]> How to Play Scrabble Jr. Teaching your kids how to play Scrabble Junior gives children 5-7 years old a fun tool to learn the spelling of words, while playing a board game with the family. Not only do you give your reading-age child an extra way to learn vocabulary and word spelling, but you also show your son or daughter a window into the world of Scrabble and word games. It’s never too earl...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-play-scrabble-junior/feed/ 1 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-replace-scrabble-pieces-tiles/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-replace-scrabble-pieces-tiles/#comments Tue, 09 Feb 2010 04:50:56 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=68 Replacing Scrabble Pieces Here’s how to replace Scrabble pieces & tiles, so every time you lose the “L” piece in your Scrabble set, you don’t have to run out to Target to buy a new Scrabble set. While I’ve been critical of Hasbro for their heavy-handed methods to keep people from playing Scrabble online, I have to praise Hasbro for their attention to customer serv...

]]> Replacing Scrabble Pieces Here’s how to replace Scrabble pieces & tiles, so every time you lose the “L” piece in your Scrabble set, you don’t have to run out to Target to buy a new Scrabble set. While I’ve been critical of Hasbro for their heavy-handed methods to keep people from playing Scrabble online, I have to praise Hasbro for their attention to customer serv...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-replace-scrabble-pieces-tiles/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/z-words-scrabble-words-with-z-in-them/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/z-words-scrabble-words-with-z-in-them/#comments Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:01:25 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=64 Scrabble Z Words Learning the “Z words” in Scrabble will let you get rid of that pesky Z when you play your favorite word game, while scoring big points from Scrabble words with Z in them. This turns getting a “z” letter tile from a crisis into an opportunity. Z’s are worth 10 points, but if they get stuck in your hand at the end of the game, you’ll have ten poi...

]]> Scrabble Z Words Learning the “Z words” in Scrabble will let you get rid of that pesky Z when you play your favorite word game, while scoring big points from Scrabble words with Z in them. This turns getting a “z” letter tile from a crisis into an opportunity. Z’s are worth 10 points, but if they get stuck in your hand at the end of the game, you’ll have ten poi...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/z-words-scrabble-words-with-z-in-them/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/speed-scrabble-rules/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/speed-scrabble-rules/#comments Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:19:06 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=61 Speed Scrabble Rules Guide We’ve discussed Speed Scrabble” before, but I wanted to present you with a detailed, yet efficient, set of Speed Scrabble Rules you could print off and use in your games. To that end, I’ll try to give you a straightforward set of rules you can use the next time everyone in your Scrabble group or Scrabble Club wants to trick things up a little bit with t...

]]> Speed Scrabble Rules Guide We’ve discussed Speed Scrabble” before, but I wanted to present you with a detailed, yet efficient, set of Speed Scrabble Rules you could print off and use in your games. To that end, I’ll try to give you a straightforward set of rules you can use the next time everyone in your Scrabble group or Scrabble Club wants to trick things up a little bit with t...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/speed-scrabble-rules/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-set-up-a-scrabble-group/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-set-up-a-scrabble-group/#comments Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:17:50 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=59 How To Set Up a Scrabble Club Figuring out how to set up a Scrabble group in your area will let you enjoy your favorite word game and meet new friends while you do it. If your local area doesn’t have a Scrabble club, it needs one. Here’s 7 steps to setting up a Scrabble club in your local area. 1. Find a Meeting Time Select a proper meeting time for the people you’re hoping to at...

]]> How To Set Up a Scrabble Club Figuring out how to set up a Scrabble group in your area will let you enjoy your favorite word game and meet new friends while you do it. If your local area doesn’t have a Scrabble club, it needs one. Here’s 7 steps to setting up a Scrabble club in your local area. 1. Find a Meeting Time Select a proper meeting time for the people you’re hoping to at...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-set-up-a-scrabble-group/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-teach-spelling-with-scrabble/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-teach-spelling-with-scrabble/#comments Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:13:24 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=56 Teaching Kids to Spell with Scrabble Teachers, tutors and parents are always looking for new ways to teach kids how to spell, from spelling computers to word cards. If you’re looking for a vocabulary resource for how to teach spelling that’s fun and rewarding, Scrabble is a perfect tool. Scrabble is a word game all about how you spell words, so it’s natural that a word game would...

]]> Teaching Kids to Spell with Scrabble Teachers, tutors and parents are always looking for new ways to teach kids how to spell, from spelling computers to word cards. If you’re looking for a vocabulary resource for how to teach spelling that’s fun and rewarding, Scrabble is a perfect tool. Scrabble is a word game all about how you spell words, so it’s natural that a word game would...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-teach-spelling-with-scrabble/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-play-scrabble-on-facebook/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-play-scrabble-on-facebook/#comments Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:11:14 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=54 Facebook Scrabble There’s an easy way how you can play Scrabble on Facebook, if you know what to look for and where to navigate on Facebook.com. Since Facebook is a social networking website, that means you should have a growing network of friends to play online Scrabble with. This is especially useful, now that Hasbro has forced the closure of so many Internet Scrabble games on the Interne...

]]> Facebook Scrabble There’s an easy way how you can play Scrabble on Facebook, if you know what to look for and where to navigate on Facebook.com. Since Facebook is a social networking website, that means you should have a growing network of friends to play online Scrabble with. This is especially useful, now that Hasbro has forced the closure of so many Internet Scrabble games on the Interne...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-play-scrabble-on-facebook/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-play-strip-scrabble/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-play-strip-scrabble/#comments Wed, 27 Jan 2010 01:07:33 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=51 Strip Scrabble Ideas Okay, it’s time to get to the fun stuff: how to play Strip Scrabble. Everyone has heard of Strip Poker, where people bet pieces of their clothing against the value of their cards. But you might not have known that certain free thinking Scrabble players over the years devised a stripping version of their favorite word game. If you’re going to play a game of Strip Sc...

]]> Strip Scrabble Ideas Okay, it’s time to get to the fun stuff: how to play Strip Scrabble. Everyone has heard of Strip Poker, where people bet pieces of their clothing against the value of their cards. But you might not have known that certain free thinking Scrabble players over the years devised a stripping version of their favorite word game. If you’re going to play a game of Strip Sc...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-play-strip-scrabble/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-improve-your-scrabble-scores/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-improve-your-scrabble-scores/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 00:47:09 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=49 Tips for Improving at Scrabble We’ve discussed how to improve your Scrabble scores before on this blog, but this is a subject that most Scrabble players are going to want to explore, so I decided to readdress the subject of word game improvement. I’ll try to avoid referring back to Scrabble Pages this time and instead give you heads-ups on other Scrabble resources. 1. Get an Official S...

]]> Tips for Improving at Scrabble We’ve discussed how to improve your Scrabble scores before on this blog, but this is a subject that most Scrabble players are going to want to explore, so I decided to readdress the subject of word game improvement. I’ll try to avoid referring back to Scrabble Pages this time and instead give you heads-ups on other Scrabble resources. 1. Get an Official S...

]]> http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/scrabble/how-to-improve-your-scrabble-scores/feed/ 0 http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-layout-a-scrabble-board/ http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/words/how-to-layout-a-scrabble-board/#comments Sat, 23 Jan 2010 00:12:22 +0000 admin http://www.scrabblepages.com/blog/?p=47 Laying Out Words on a Scrabble Board Knowing how to layout a Scrabble board is using the confines of the Scrabble board and the various word and letter modifiers and multipliers on the board help you score. Don’t play Scrabble just from your rack. Spend as much or more time looking at the Scrabble board as the letters in your hand. That way, you’ll take in all the possibilities and fin...

]]> Laying Out Words on a Scrabble Board Knowing how to layout a Scrabble board is using the confines of the Scrabble board and the various word and letter modifiers and multipliers on the board help you score. Don’t play Scrabble just from your rack. Spend as much or more time looking at the Scrabble board as the letters in your hand. That way, you’ll take in all the possibilities and fin...

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