Scrabble 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...
Scrabble 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...
Scrabble 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...
Scrabble 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...
Scrabble 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....
Scrabble 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...
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 ser...
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 po...
Speed 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 little...
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 a...