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How to Play Scrabble Junior
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010How 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...
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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 poi...
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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 would...
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How To Layout a Scrabble Board
Friday, January 22nd, 2010Laying 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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How To Play Anagram Scrabble
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010Anagram Scrabble – Scrabble Games Anagram Scrabble is a Scrabble variant which can be played by adding one rule to the classic game, so if you want to enhance the next Scrabble night around the dinner table, ask your playing group whether they would be interested in a house rule. You only have to introduce one new rules change, which probably makes it easier for those players who don’t...
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How To Use a Blank Tile in Scrabble
Thursday, January 14th, 2010Using Blank Tiles in Scrabble When you master how to use a blank tile in Scrabble, you can use blanks to score especially high point totals. A blank tile has no value in and of itself when playing Scrabble, but blank letter tiles give you flexibility in the type of words you can place on the board. For that reason, blank tiles are highly coveted in Scrabble, though rare (2 blanks per game). Blank ...
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Scrabble Solver
Friday, January 1st, 2010Scrabble Solved The “Scrabble Solver” is another name for the Scrabble helper program or the Scrabble wordfinders we’ve been discussing so much this week. I’ll go over that in a bit, but let’s discuss the basics: a Scrabble solver is a word search program meant to help people playing online Scrabble, Lexulous or other word games. When you put a combination of letter o...
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Scrabble Help
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009Scrabble Helpers If you’re looking for Scrabble Help during your online Scrabble games, then you probably want to find a Scrabble wordfinder website. These sites offer programs that spit out word lists from letter combinations you plug into the program. Generally speaking, you’ll want to post in the Scrabble help box the letter you have on your tile holder, as well as perhaps the lette...
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Scrabble Cheat
Tuesday, December 29th, 2009Scrabble Cheats A Scrabble cheat is a computer program designed to find the best Scrabble words from a particular letter combination. Online Scrabble players use Scrabble cheats extensively in their Internet Scrabble games. Online Scrabble cheat websites will have their own software for word compilation, usually under titles like “Scrabble word builder”, “Scrabble word constructo...
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Scrabble Dictionary
Monday, December 28th, 2009Scrabble Word Lists A Scrabble dictionary is an official dictionary used by Scrabble players which contains the accepted word list for tournament and competitive Scrabble. There are actually two major Scrabble dictionaries in the community: The Chambers Dictionary and TWL. These official Scrabble dictionaries are used in different parts of the world, and will occasionally draw from different word ...
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