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	Scrabble - Wikinfo
		Though he left most of the game (including the distribution of letters) unchanged, Brunot slightly rearranged the "premium" squares of the board and simplified the rules; he also changed the name of the game to "Scrabble", and sold sets to, among other customers, Macy's department store, which created a demand for the game.
		The game ends in North American rules when (1) one player plays every tile in his rack, and there are no tiles remaining in the bag (regardless of the tiles in his opponent's rack); or (2) when six successive scoreless turns have occurred and at least one word is on the board.
		The first lasts from the beginning of the game up until the last tile in the bag is drawn; during this phase, it is not known what the other players' tiles are, and the game has an element of randomness.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=Scrabble (7297 words)

	Scrabble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15x15 game board.
		Though he left most of the game (including the distribution of letters) unchanged, Brunot slightly rearranged the "premium" squares of the board and simplified the rules; he also changed the name of the game to "Scrabble", and sold sets to, among other customers, Macy's department store, which created a demand for the game.
		The game is played with two to four players on a square (or nearly square) board with a 15-by-15 grid of cells, each of which accommodates a single letter tile.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrabble (4912 words)

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	An Introduction to Competitive Scrabble®
		The purpose of this game is use single-letter tiles to form and lay down words on the 15 x 15 game board in a crossword-like fashion, such that all formed vertical and horizontal words are acceptable words.
		The object of the game is to outscore your opponent.
		Of central importance in the game of Scrabble® is the lexicon of acceptable words.
	www.wolfberg.net /scrabble/intro (1917 words)

	Example Scrabble tournament game - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The following game of Scrabble was played between John Chew and Zev Kaufman on June 15, 1997, as part of an NSA-sanctioned tournament in Toronto, Canada.
		This late in the game, it is important to run simulations all the way to the end of the game, to correctly account for issues of endgame timing, specific utility of tiles, and hotspot values.
		He feared that it might set up a big play in row 14, and he wanted to get rid of the G and O that he thought might hinder his endgame, but that is not enough compensation for the loss of points.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Example_Scrabble_tournament_game (2539 words)

	ipedia.com: Scrabble Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scrabble ® is a board game in which players use 100 tiles with printed letters to form words on a 15 x 15 grid with certain "premium" squares to accumulate points.
		Scrabble® is a board game in which players use 100 tiles with printed letters to form words on a 15 x 15 grid with certain "premium" squares to accumulate points.
		The game was invented by architect Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938, as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko.
	www.ipedia.com /scrabble.html (2604 words)

	Hasbro (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Those of you who'd like a game with more scoring chances may play the variation that allows players to replace a blank on the board with the letter (from your rack) it represents.
		The boxed rules mention that the game is over when a player uses all of his or her tiles and there are no more tiles to draw.
		Example: Player #1, with 323 points, ends the game while Player #2, with 320, still has EMP on his rack.
	www.hasbro.com /scrabble/pl/page.faq_rules/dn/home.cfm (1334 words)

	Scrabble board game: how to play, what strategy, setup, instructions and rules. Online
		The game is played with two to four players on a square (or nearly square) board with a 15-by-15 grid of cells, each of which accommodates a single letter tile.
		At the beginning of the game, and after each turn until the bag is empty (or there are no more face-down tiles), players draw tiles to replenish their "racks", or tile-holders, with seven tiles, from which they will make plays.
		In most game situations, this penalty is much lower than that of the "double challenge" rule; consequently, such tournaments encourage a greater willingness to challenge and a lower willingness to play dubious words..
	www.gaissa.com /Board_Games/w-Elimination/Scrabble.htm (5120 words)

	Scrabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Scrabble is a popular word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15x15 game board.
		The game is commonly known as Alfapet in Sweden.
		In Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, Scrabble is used as a pretext for the commander to have non-sexual interactions with the main character, Offred, though these interactions are forbidden by the laws and customs of their dystopian society.
	abcworld.net /Scrabble.html (4846 words)

	Duplicate Scrabble . Games . etg Design (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Another problem plagues 3- or 4-player games; invariably, one person must cope with the leavings of the best player while the best player gets gifts from the third or fourth player.
		In this variation, all pairs in a tournament play the exact same cards—so what matters is not your raw score, but only how your score compares to everyone else's.
		Telling friends you had a 78% game, for example, is more meaningful than saying you scored 288 points.
	www.etgdesign.com /games/scrabble.php (392 words)

	Writer's Block, Feature, The Sum of its Letters, Scrabble Isn’t Just a Game about Words - Spring 2004
		Although top Scrabble players may know more words than most of us—as many as 14,000, which is about seven times the number of words that make up the average vocabulary—they don’t necessarily know their meaning.
		Scrabble contains two basic mathematical elements: the element of probability—the ability of players to keep track of what letters have been played in the game and anticipate which ones their opponent likely has; and what Stefan Fatsis, the author of Word Freak, an exploration of tournament Scrabble, calls the geometry of the board.
		All of these additional words should make serious Scrabble players happy, even if it means revising their word lists and memorizing new words, because more words can only increase the probability of creating words, scoring points, and winning games.
	www.writersblock.ca /spring2004/feature.htm (2433 words)

	Scrabble thoughts. Dictionary; variants; challenges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The tournament challenge rule fosters bluffing, which is beneath the dignity of scrabble (and almost all games except poker.) This bluff element makes it nigh-impossible to have any sort of a good game between someone who studies word lists and your typical word-lover.
		Scrabble was designed for up to 4 players, and I suggest there are some nice advantages to 3- and 4-person games.
		I've played a game with 6 Vs, and a game where 3 players each used his Q to make a 60-point play, and a game where 3 Qs were stuck on racks at the end.
	www.geocities.com /CapitolHill/Lobby/7049/scrab.htm (5450 words)

	SCRABBLE - Playstation Game Preview - ABSOLUTE PLAYSTATION INTERNATIONAL
		For those of you that are unaware of this game, Scrabble is basically the ultimate interactive word game.
		For example: vowels are all worth 1 point, whereas some of the harder letters used to make words like the "Q" is worth ten points.
		Scrabble features multi-player support with different levels of play and skill that should make it accessible to the entire family.
	www.absolute-playstation.com /api_preview/fscrabble.htm (440 words)

	Yale Bulletin & Calendar - News Stories
		Eventually, his passion for the game led to more serious play, and he began utilizing the "two great innovations" that allowed for Scrabble tournament competitions: a chess clock, which gives each player 25 minutes in which to make all moves, and a definitive Scrabble dictionary.
		Those who are the best at the game, Professor Ellickson says, not only have excellent word knowledge, but are also good at "rack management" -- that is, playing a word that both scores a large number of points and also is likely to lead to a good play on the next turn.
		Professor Ellickson recalls, for example, the time he gambled on his last turn by playing the word SPEEL, not certain it was a real word but knowing that the play was his only chance to win.
	www.yale.edu /opa/ybc/v25.n31.news.11.html (1017 words)

	Tournament Results
		means that in a six-round tournament a player won the first game against player #1, tied player #2 in the second round, and lost to player #5 in the third round before having three byes to finish the tournament.
		For split-rated tournaments (see below) the spread shown is the spread at the end of the tournament, even on pages which show only one tournament segment.
		For tournaments longer than 16 rounds, ratings are calculated in two approximately-equal segments.
	www.scrabble-assoc.com /tourneys/results.html (452 words)

	Scrabble History - Invention of the Scrabble Board Game (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In April of 1993 the game's inventor Alfred Mosher Butts died at the age of 93.
		But he and his friends were tired of the "heavy-handed moral lessons" of the typical board game, and George, an inventive young man, created his own game, called Banking (chartered banks were a relatively new thing in the U.S., and people were fascinated by the whole subject).
		All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear and Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.
	www.ideafinder.com /history/inventions/story059.htm (1266 words)

	Glossary of Common Terms
		It is generally considered impolite to talk during a tournament game unless it is pertinent to the score or the play.
		Association tournament a new rating is computed for each of the contestants.
		Example: If the score of a game is 350-280, then the spread is +70pt for the winner and -70pt for the loser.
	www.scrabble-assoc.com /info/glossary.html (2257 words)

	Scrabble Club celebrates game's 50th anniversary
		For example, during a recent Monday night of Scrabble, Mary Lee Couey spelled out the word "nertz," only for opponent Nellie Payne, 83, a player for 29 years, to challenge her on the word's existence.
		Payne, who checked her Scrabble pocket-sized dictionary computer while Couey checked her paperback book version of the same, shook her head upon discovering that the word truly existed, at least in the minds of the powers who oversee all that is and ever will remain Scrabble.
		While others across the nation stress the game's particular value to youngsters learning the language and its diversity, the old-timers in Abilene have their own reasons for continuing to play the game.
	texnews.com /1998/features/scrabble0906.html (849 words)

	Welcome to National SCRABBLE® Association Club No. 171, Washington, DC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Details on the tournament are available from Ted Gest (who almost always attends our weekly sessions) or from Mary Lou Goetz.
		A devout student of the game, Bob was recently rated one of the top fifty players in the United States.
		SCRABBLE® is a trademark of Hasbro in the United States and of J. Spear and Sons in the United Kingdom.
	www.nsli.com /.../scrabble (698 words)

	i hate peas… » No “lez” in the Scrabble tournament
		A player was admonished for playing the slang term “lez” in the US National Scrabble Championship that was airing on ESPN (why it was airing on ESPN I have no idea).
		Eric Chaiken, a tournament participant and director of “Word Wars,” a documentary about the Scrabble championship, said the definition of “offensive” was open to interpretation.
		Slang terms are allowed in Scrabble tournaments, according to the article.
	www.greengrl.org /index.php?p=2581 (528 words)

	Metagrams.com
		These are the rules that we have been using to run Speed Scrabble tournaments in the North East during the last year.
		They attempt to put consistent rules in place and to handicap players so that the games are more balanced.
		For example, if you trade 5 tiles, and while you are drawing your tiles, your opponent passes his/her turn, you must finish drawing your tiles before you can pass your turn.
	www.metagrams.com /view.mod/speed_scrabble.html (700 words)

	Eric Harshbarger's SCRABBLE website
		I played 501 tournament games (3 of those byes, actually), handwritten about 30,000 flashcards, and memorized over 50,000 words by alphagrams.
		Listed are the dates, locations, number of rounds/games played in a tournament, cumulative tournament game count, ratings after each tournament, and a graph indicating the increase or decrease in rating.
		Number of games in a tournament does not include any BYE rounds (which do not count toward rating).
	www.ericharshbarger.org /scrabble (355 words)

	6th Dutch matchplay Scrabble tournament
		This afternoon, I went to observe the 6th Netherlands matchplay Scrabble tournament at the European Go Cultural Centre in Amstelveen, which is close to Amsterdam in The Netherlands.
		First of all they called this tournament "wedstrijd kampioenschaap" which means "matchplay tournament", the reason being that they play all 3 forms of Scrabble here and so they have tournaments for all 3 forms.
		Herman van Westerloo, the guy who organised this tournament told me that he personally prefers the matchplay style, and he's trying to popularise it, but it's not easy to get people to adopt it.
	www.nesc.nl /6th-dutch-matchplay-tournament.html (871 words)

	Haley's Poker Bl-Auggh!! --- Home Page
		The poker sites with the worst customer service are, invariably, the same ones that send you the most spam promoting their upcoming promotions and events.
		And it's the rare tournament indeed that keeps me watching and chatting after I've been bounced, which is what happened here (though I did sneak over to --- and win --- a $10 SNG while I watched and chatted).
		But I was there for the chat as much as the game, and collectively, it was the best damn table-chat ever in a largish tourney...
	www.hintzes.com /poker (1551 words)

	DOoM FAQ
		However, for some time now, Hasbro has apparently tolerated the existence of generic crossword game software, that is, software that allows the user to play any of a variety of crossword games (including Scrabble®) depending on how the user chooses to configure such things as tile distribution, tile values and board layout.
		For example, if the system would otherwise award you seventy points for your performance in a six game tournament, you get 70 - 6 * 5 = 40 acceleration points for a total of 110 points.
		More frequently, a game won't get rated because someone forgets to type 'endgame' or both players forget to make sure the game is a rated one before they play.
	www.math.utoronto.ca /~jjchew/doom/faq.html (2409 words)

	Chew vs Kaufman
		Immediately after the game, he regretted not having played ADOBE 15F 29 for fear that it might set up a big play in row 14, choosing instead just to get rid of the G and O that he thought might hinder his endgame.
		This would be a good idea if external (tournament) conditions required only that we not lose by a large margin; otherwise, since there's only a 10% chance of Chew making a 70-point play at H1, the ten-point sacrifice isn't worth the seven-point risk.
		After a harrowing recount, Kaufman is found to have overscored SQUEALER by one point, and the game is a 502-point tie, the highest ever recorded in a sanctioned tournament game.
	www.math.toronto.edu /jjchew/scrabble/analysis/19970615.html (1865 words)

	Play Scrabble Online free ® by Java, Email Scrabble game or IRC
		Their system is stable and fast, the games configurable so that players can choose time limits per move or per game, and so forth.
		In what appears to be an attempt to design an online game similar to Scrabble, yet without breaching any copyrights, trade marks or patents, Literati is a game that has altered the rules, changed the bonus squares on the board, uses a different dictionary source, and so forth, from the REAL Scrabble game.
		They will send a daily email to players of active games, though players may check online at any time whether their opponent has made a move, and therefore if it is now their turn yet.
	www.bonuswords.com /play_scrabble_online.htm (2588 words)

	Ortograf - Crossword game for your Macintosh - Scrabble
		Similar to a Duplicate game, with the exception that the racks contain letters allowing a 7 letter word (or more).
		Mini Scrabble games, anagrams, rackagrams, and tournaments help users hone their Scrabble skills.
		Scrabble ® in North Central Florida The ever popular game of Scrabble ® originated in 1931.
	www.ortograf.com /an_index.html (519 words)

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