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Monday, January 24th, 2011Scrabble Zen Scrabble players love their three-letter words. These mini units of language are the building blocks of any good Scrabble strategy, and players memorize long lists of three-letter words to help build that strategy. The list of three-letter Scrabble words containing “z” is short, just twenty-four three-letter words containing the letter “z” are legal plays. T...
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Scrabble on Amazon
Thursday, January 20th, 2011Scrabble on Amazon is about as easy to buy as just about anything else on Amazon. They actually have a wealth of Scrabble games, books, and other items available for sale. In this post, I’ll provide a list of Scrabble items available on Amazon along with some commentary. To research this post, I started by doing an Amazon search in “All Departments” for the word “Scrabble....
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How to Play Scrabble Junior
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Scrabble Jr. Rules and Instructions 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 ne...
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How to Replace Scrabble Pieces & Tiles
Monday, February 8th, 2010Replacing 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 ser...
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Z Words – Scrabble Words with Z in Them
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Scrabble 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 po...
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Speed Scrabble Rules
Monday, February 1st, 2010Speed Scrabble Rules and Instructions 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 littl...
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How To Set Up a Scrabble Group
Friday, January 29th, 2010How 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 a...
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How to Teach Spelling with Scrabble
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Teaching 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 woul...
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How to Play Scrabble on Facebook
Wednesday, January 27th, 2010Facebook 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 Intern...
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How To Play Strip Scrabble
Tuesday, January 26th, 2010Strip 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 S...
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