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	Super Scrabble - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Super Scrabble is a board game that is a variant of Scrabble, first introduced in 2004.
		Super Scrabble has exactly twice as many tiles as Scrabble, but the distribution of letters is not simply the regular distribution doubled.
		With quadruple letter scores spaced only 3 squares away from a double word score, it is not uncommon to see a single play score over 100 points, even without a 50-point bonus.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Super_Scrabble (546 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 15×15 game board.
		Each letter is worth a set number of points, with the value depending on the letter's frequency in standard English writing; commonly-used letters such as E or O are worth one point, whilst less common letters score higher, with Q and Z each scoring ten points.
		Letters which are worth four or more points should be played on premium squares if possible, and letters such as X, H, and Y are powerful if they can score in both directions, for four or six times their face value.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrabble (6132 words)

	Scrabble letter distributions - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Many editions of the word board game Scrabble vary in the letter distribution of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language.
		Afrikaans uses the letter Z but so infrequently that there is no tile for it in the standard set.
		The distribution remains unchanged despite the spelling reforms in Spanish that have split "LL" and "CH" into separate letters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions (551 words)

	Scrabble - Wikipedia
		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 name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the US and Canada and of J. Spear and Sons PLC elsewhere.
		As a letter, it scores no points (even doubled or tripled) regardless of what letter it is designated, but its placement on a double-word or triple-word cell does cause the appropriate premium to be scored for the word in which it is used.
	wikipedia.findthelinks.com /sc/Scrabble.html (1842 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Scrabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The National Scrabble Association was created in 1978 by Selchow and Righter, then the makers of Scrabble, to promote their game.
		Scrabble is a word 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 most basic unit of Scrabble strategy is knowing which words are acceptable and which are not, according to the official tournament reference.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Scrabble (757 words)

	Scrabble
		Letters which are worth four or more points should be played on premium squares if possible, and letters such as X, H, and Y are great if they can score in both directions, for four or six times their face value.
		The letters A, E, I, N, R, S, and T are the most useful letters for this purpose, and so a good player will be extremely reluctant to play off these letters in a shorter word unless they have more than one of the same letter.
		Conversely, good players will often try to get rid of as many undesirable letters as possible per play, even if that play is not the highest scoring one available to them, and will even trade in their undesirable tiles if they cannot get rid of enough of them.
	en.mcfly.org /Scrabble (2741 words)

	Home - Stewart Holden (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		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.
		Scrabble scoring examples Each word formed in the play is scored this way: first, any tile played from the player's rack onto a previously vacant cell that is a "double letter" or "triple letter" premium cell has its point value doubled or tripled as indicated.
		Because the distribution of the letters in the Countdown tile set approximately reflect their frequency in the English language, some words which are made up mostly or entirely of common letters are frequently seen.
	stewart.holden.en.infoax.org (7558 words)

	Scrabble: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A blank tile may be designated by the player as any letter; it remains as that letter thereafter for the rest of the game.
		An anagram (greek ana-, "back", and graphein, "to write") is the result of permuting the letters of a word or words in such a manner as to produce other...
		Letters which are worth four or more points should be played on premium squares if possible, EHandler: no quick summary.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/s/sc/scrabble.htm (5177 words)

	Letter-by-Letter Word Games
		Letters are drawn one at a time, and all players fill their own in at the same time, one letter at a time.
		Letters can be either upper or lower case allowing proper nouns, bonuses for using all red letters (especially in the red zone -- outmost 5 rows/columns of the board) and bonuses for using words that fit a category listed on a card and with so many letters.
		The letters are given a value (not always in keeping with their frequency - "H" is worth far too much, for example - Alfred got his original distribution by counting letters on the front page of an issue of the New York Times!), and some spaces are special: double-letter, double-word, triple-letter, triple-word scoring spaces.
	www.panix.com /~sos/bc/wordgame.html (5091 words)

	Scrabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(It is interesting to note that that distribution has never changed since Butts made his game in 1938.) Editions in other languages vary greatly because the letter distribution and values are adapted to the frequency of letters in the language.
		It is bad to keep duplicates of any letter (except possibly E) and it is bad to have an imbalance between vowels and consonants.
		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.wikiverse.org /scrabble (2567 words)

	Scrabble \| Board Games (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		(The distribution of premium cells is shown on the diagram at right.) The center cell (H8) is often marked with a star or logo, and counts as a double-word cell.
		Acceptable words are those words found as primary entries in some chosen dictionary, and all of their inflected forms.
		(One letter words are impossible to play, and you only get seven tiles on the rack at one time, so it is very difficult to build a word that is longer than eight letters.) The dictionary is consulted for longer words.
	www.backgammon-games.net /scrabble (1034 words)

	References and Resources for the Beast Number Factor Project
		Of the 22 letters in the Hebrew alphabet, the first ten are given number values consecutively from one to ten, the next eight from 20 to 90 in intervals of ten, while the final four letters equal 100, 200, 300, and 400, respectively.
		The letter is always the first letter of the surname, whether it is a vowel or a consonant.
		Because this is not enough combinations to communicate all letters, numbers and needed symbols, two codes are used to "shift" which character set is to be used for printing subsequent characters.
	www.scatteredsheep.com /antichrist/bnf_references.htm (2017 words)

	HeiDeas: February 2006
		Recently reading a historical para about Scrabble, I was surprised to (re)realize that the letter distributions in Scrabble are based on an (informal) corpus count (New York Times front page), not a dictionary-headword (i.e.
		So, e.g., 12 per cent (12 tiles of 100) of letters in the Scrabble bag are 'e'; that's pretty exactly the percentage of letter occurrences that are 'e' in a corpus of written English.
		So it seemed to me that it would have been more appropriate to use a letter distribution based on the percentage of each letter occurring in a list of dictionary headwords.
	heideas.blogspot.com /2006_02_01_heideas_archive.html (1249 words)

	Eric Harshbarger's SCRABBLE website, Questions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Also, if a reader has a question or puzzle of his or her own which might be appropriate, feel free to email it to me. If I include it as a question, I will, of course, give credit.
		I assume that readers are familiar with the standard Scrabble game, its letters, their distribution and individual scores, and the layout of the Scrabble board (consult the notation page to see how I represent the board on these pages).
		However, the reader obviously decides what order the tiles are extracted from the bag, so it is quite likely scenarios might be generated such that one or both of the players cannot play, and none of the tiles left in the bag may be played either.
	www.ericharshbarger.org /scrabble/questions.html (478 words)

	romeo and juliet (tchaikovsky) - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The group was not entirely sympathetic to Tchaikovsky’s musical outlook, which was too international for their liking.) Despite the fact that Balakirev had many problems in his own musical life, he had a head full of ideas, and almost a compulsion to persistently give detailed help to all the musicians he met.
		The Fate piece received only a lukewarm reception, and the older composer wrote a detailed letter to Tchaikovsky explaining the defects.
		Tchaikovsky accepted the criticism, and the two continued to correspond.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Romeo-and-Juliet-(Tchaikovsky) (775 words)

	Scrabble, online scrabble, 2 letter scrabble (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Scrabble® is one of the most popular word games ever devised and.
		Website of the New Zealand Association of Scrabble® Players Scrabble® is aregistered trademark of JW Spear & Sons, England, under licence in New Zealand to.
		HASBRO is the owner of the registered SCRABBLE® trademark in United States scrabble.The SCRABBLE trademark is owned by JW Spear and Sons, PLC, a subsidiary of.
	lookgames.net /scrabble.html (294 words)

	HeiDeas: Notes from the catbird seat
		Our favorite Extreme packages in our collection so far are the 'Extreme Vanilla Ice Cream', and the 'Extreme Pastel Gel Pens'.) Anyway, Super Scrabble is fun, especially if you've been playing a lot of regular scrabble; it feels like you have lots of room to roam by comparison.
		b) Check out Lance's further notes on letters at the end of words in the comments on the previous post; it does seem like the big 's' count in the lexicon he used (the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary) is due to the inclusion of all the plural forms.
		Interesting observations about the letters which are most likely to be addable-on to the ends of words -- 'y', of course, and, surprisingly, 'o'.
	heideas.blogspot.com /2006/03/notes-from-catbird-seat.html (748 words)

	SearchEngine.net - Scrabble Words With The Letter Z
		NSA Club #3 Scrabble Vocabulary Lesson 11: Five-Letter Words with Z. Revised: Wed Jan 29 15:45:03 EST 2003 Back to Lesson Index...
		In every Scrabble set, exactly one of the 100 tiles is a Z. The...
		All Three-Letter Words and Their One-Letter Extensions in the Official Scrabble® Players Dictionary (as of...
	www.searchengine.net /Scrabble_Words_with_the_Letter_Z.htm (271 words)

	Scrabble
		It isn't possible for double word and triple word cells to be used in the same word (since there are no such cells in the same row or column of the board).
		All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
		The breeze fresh springing from the lips of morn, The winding of the merry locust's horn, Sweet sights, sweet sounds, all sights, all sounds excelling, Again in the dull world of earthly blindness?
	www.termsdefined.net /sc/scrabble.html (2097 words)

	SCRABBLE Junction - Links Galore
		Association of British Scrabble Players - From the site: "The ABSP was formed in 1987 under a special agreement with JW Spear and Sons Limited, the Scrabble trademark holders, to promote matchplay Scrabble tournaments with cash prizes and to seek sponsorship for these events.
		Interactive Skill in Scrabble - An interesting article I recently came across while browsing for new Scrabble links; here is a quote from the site itself: "An experiment was performed to test the hypothesis that people sometimes take physical actions to make themselves more effective problem solvers.
		The task was to generate all possible words that could be formed from seven Scrabble letters.
	www.scrabblejunction.org /linkcity.htm (1593 words)

	Language Log: Dakota Scrabble, anyone?
		The AAIA and the college have supported previous efforts to revitalize the language, such as the recording of Dakota rap songs last year.
		[Update 3/29/06: Tammy DeCoteau of the AAIA posted a comment on Blogamundo saying that the distributions and point values of letters were based on the words in the Official Dakota Scrabble Dictionary.
		So that answers Heidi Harley's question about whether letter distributions were determined by corpus frequency or lexicon frequency.]
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/002965.html (226 words)

	gridCOMMENTS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I seem to have made it too hard for everyone except (of course) the legendary Ian ``The Word Guy'' Facey, who got perfect.
		The theme for this one is Scrabble ((TM), all rights reserved, pay homage to the deity, etc.), and so there are exactly 100 blanks, with the exact letter distribution of a Scrabble game.
		if you don't have a copy of the letter distributions handy.) Remember, of course, that there are two blank tiles, which can be any letter (but are the same letter down and across).
	www.mathnews.uwaterloo.ca /Issues/mn7604/gridcom4.html (213 words)

	RJBS :: Hacks :: Perl
		I wrote it to determine Esperanto letter frequency for the purpose of playing Esperanto Scrabble.
		This script looks up an author's distributions on search.cpan.org and reports on their ratings (from cpanratings.perl.org).
		This script tells you all the opportunities for improving the Kwalitee of an author's CPAN distributions.
	rjbs.manxome.org /hacks/perl (469 words)

	Encyclopedia article on Scrabble [EncycloZine] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Likewise it is silly to play CWM (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Cwm) just to prove that you know a word with no vowels if MACAW leaves you with better rack balance.
		National Scrabble Association (North American Organization created by Hasbro) (http://www.scrabble-assoc.com)
		Products related to Scrabble: books, DVD, electronics, garden, kitchen, magazines, music, photo, posters, software, tools, toys, VHS, videogames
	encyclozine.com /Scrabble (2867 words)

	Game Systems - Part 2
		Of course, all three decks have different deck sizes, card distributions, and numerical values for letters, but these differences should be trivial when adapting games from one system to another.
		Games typically involve turning over a "target letter" from the draw pile and trying to be the first to create a word using the target letter from the letters in one's hand.
		However, it is unclear whether the letter cards have number values (which would make it possible to play games designed for "standard" alphabet decks with it).
	www.thegamesjournal.com /articles/GameSystems2.shtml (6276 words)

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