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	Scrabble Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc in the US and Canada and of J. Spear and Sons PLC elsewhere.
		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.
		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.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/s/sc/scrabble.html (2356 words)

	Travel Scrabble
		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.
		For example, the fifty points earned from a bingo (using all 7 tiles) is not nearly as significant when compared to the high final scores (for a 2 player game, scores over 800 points are not uncommon).
		Super Scrabble has exactly twice as many tiles as Scrabble, but the distribution of letters is not simply the regular distribution doubled.
	www.artistbooking.com /trips/206/travel-scrabble.html (1768 words)

	Endgame
		Sometimes this may mean taking a lesser score to thereby catch your opponent with an extra tile or two on his rack.
		These days most championships are decided by wins and total score margins and twenty or thirty wasted points per game could add up to you finishing further down the leader board than you should have.
		Scores are wheedled and cajoled using every available nook and cranny.
	www.scrabble.org.au /strategy/endgame.htm (1135 words)

	Srabble
		Scrabble is a popular word board game in which 2-4 players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a 15×15 game board.
		Scrabble experts tend to play games that provide ample openings for their opponents to utilize premium squares, unlike intermediate players, who tend to be more concerned about blocking their opponents.
		Scrabble and the tournament scene revolving around it are the subject of the documentary Word Wars.
	www.oobdoo.org /wiki/Scrabble.htm (6461 words)

	A Club-Independent Guide for Beginners to Competitive Scrabble®
		Using today's OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary), if you just go to the full bag of tiles and randomly pull out 7 letters, the probability they will form a 7-letter word is about 12.5%, in other words 1 chance in 8.
		For example, there are 12 E's, 9 A's and I's, 6 N's and R's and T's, so these are likely letters to show up when pulling randomly from a full bag.
		Examples of likely words you might not know or have thought of are ANISOLE, ERASION, and RETINAE, but if you play a lot you should come across these.
	www.wolfberg.net /scrabble/beginners (1394 words)

	Official Tournament Rules (all in one file)
		The score for each turn is the sum of the letter values in each word formed or modified during the play, plus the additional points obtained from placing letters on premium squares.
		The player has failed to announce her score within 10 seconds after being notified that all the sand has dropped (no warning was given prior to sand dropping).
		Examples: the blank has not been properly designated; tiles are overdrawn; there has been an inappropriate tile exchange; one player is speaking aloud during play.
	www.scrabble-assoc.com /build/rules/rules.html (11045 words)

	Scrabble Resource Center - scrabble dictionary
		Scrabble is a popular scrabble word board game, in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual hasbro scrabble lettered tiles on a 15x15 game free full scrabble download board.
		When free scrabble a blank tile is employed in the main word, the letter it has been chosen to represent is indicated with a lower case letter, or, in handwritten notation, with a square around the letter.
		In particular, when scrabble tile playing against a single opponent, the computer knows exactly the tiles on your rack and thus what your possible moves are for the rest of the game.
	www.taxgloss.com /Tax-Genericized_Trademark_Q_-_S-/Scrabble.html (5021 words)

	dis-Emi-A Software: Game Compromise: Examples of Rules
		The game of scrabble obviously has many ways in which a player can gain an unfair advantage by means of a compromise.
		The rules of scrabble include a manner by which this tension between the two players can be resolved: the challenge.
		Scrabble therefore demonstrates one of the methods to mitigate game compromise: include the known manners of cheating in the rules of the game.
	disemia.com /software/game_compromise/examples.html (656 words)

	Dictionary.com
		Scrabble experts build up a knowledge of unusual words (such as addax, heaume, jaboty, xoanon, zemstvo) which help them get rid of unwanted letters.
		Besides an extensive vocabulary, Scrabble experts require skill in game strategy such as: placing high-scoring letters on premium squares but not giving the opponent a chance to do the same; making more than one word with one move; and making words to which one can later add extra letters.
		Scrabble players should try to keep a good balance of vowels and consonants within the seven letters in the rack, ideally four consonants and three vowels.
	dictionary.reference.com /help/faq/language/t04.html (183 words)

	NPR : Scrabble, Present at the Creation
		At this week's National Scrabble Championships in San Diego, more than 700 tile-jockeys are vying for the grand prize: a check for $25,000.
		To those weaned on a less intense Scrabble, the primary challenge may be getting rid of that Q before the game runs out (Hint: try QANAT*).
		Scrabble might not have existed had Butts not come upon hard times during the Great Depression.
	www.npr.org /programs/morning/features/patc/scrabble (1286 words)

	Examples of the scoring process
		We have prepared a few examples to show how a move by you is scored at BingoBinge.
		The scores shown are the correct scores if the letter R is placed on the center square.
		Scrabble© is a registered trademark of J. Spear and Son PLC and Hasbro© Inc. Any and all uses of the word "Scrabble©" on these pages refers to this trademark.
	www.bingobinge.com /examples.php (275 words)

	Scrabble
		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 was a trademark of Murfett Regency in Australia, until 1993 when it was acquired by Spears.
		Absent better documentation, it is believed that the following records were achieved under a formerly popular British format known as the "high score rule", in which a player's tournament result is determined only by the player's own scores, and not by the differentials between that player's scores and the opponents'.
	www.gametoplay.freegames.eu.com /games/Scrabble.html (5293 words)

	How moves are scored in a game of Scrabble©
		Special Word Squares - The score for an entire word is doubled when one of its letters is placed on an orange square, and it is tripled when one of its letters is placed on a red square.
		If a word is formed that covers two special word squares, the score is doubled and then re-doubled (4 times the letter count), or tripled and then re-tripled (9 times the letter count).
		Please note : the center square doubles the score for the first word and that a special square can affect the score only once.
	www.bingobinge.com /scoring_process.php (485 words)

	Scrabble Strategy Guide - Q without U - Board Games
		The letter "Q" in Scrabble is the highest-scoring letter, along with "Z", scoring 10 points straight-up.
		With a couple of notable examples of modern English slang, all of the other words on this list are originally from that region.
		Perhaps in the next edition of the OSPD (Official Scrabble Players Dictionary), they'll add some more (my Webster's Unabridged offers qaf, qasida and qibla as valid words) but for now, these are the big ten.
	www.bellaonline.com /articles/art36789.asp (484 words)

	Scrabble
		Letters written in lower case indicate where a blank tile was laid on the board, and blanks score 0 points.
		When scoring a word, you must first take account of the individual letters in the main word, and then the whole word.
		Pale Blue squares double the score of the individual letter, and Dark Blue squares triple the score of the indiviual letter.
	www.cosine-systems.com /cubestation/ueacubeclub/scrabblepuzzle.html (469 words)

	Scrabble Strategy
		Score With the S and Bank on the Blank.
		There are exceptions to this rule, of course, relating to the openings on the board and the letters that have been played, but the general rule works well until you get deep into tracking and strategy.
		It's easy in that a lot of the basics come naturally to most players and difficult in that, except for the end of the game, you can't be sure of what letters your opponent has, which creates the danger of a brilliant block turning into a hole you can't dig out of.
	www.cyberonic.com /~bigdoggy/strategy.html (3650 words)

	Amazon.com: Everything Scrabble: Books: Joe Edley,John D. Williams Jr. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Scrabble is a game that can be seen as intermediate between poker and chess as far as luck and skill go.
		Where Scrabble differs from the other two games is in the amount of pure, before-game knowledge needed to play a strong tournament game.
		I presume a corner triple word score was left hanging with a word to hook the "s" to, while running the other way was a single letter at the side of the board allowing the eight-letter play to cover two triple word scores.
	www.amazon.com /Everything-Scrabble-Joe-Edley/dp/0671042181 (3299 words)

	Bingo (Scrabble) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bingoes are an important part of achieving high scores in Scrabble.
		The highest scoring 8 letter bingo is QUIZZIFY (with a blank Z).
		The highest scoring 8 letter bingos without a blank are BEZIQUES and CAZIQUES which amount to 392 points on two triples.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bingo_(Scrabble) (444 words)

	Amazon.fr : Everything Scrabble: Livres en anglais: Joe Edley,John D., Jr. Williams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		It's also a reference manual with such valuable information as a list of crucial but uncommon two-letter words (do you know what a "Li" is?) and a number of words that require a Q but no U. Exercise puzzles are included so you can practice what you learn.
		SCRABBLE game fans, beginners and pros, here's the book you've been waiting for: the first-ever SCRABBLE how-to book written by the National SCRABBLE Association.
		This extensively illustrated official guidebook brings you all the facets of the game and the entire worldwide SCRABBLE culture, including the clubs, tournaments, champions and rules, plus a complete history of the game and a rare interview with SCRABBLE's inventor, the late Alfred Mosher Butts.
	www.amazon.fr /Everything-Scrabble-Joe-Edley/dp/0671866869 (510 words)

	The Man in Blue > SSCrabble
		After whipping up the tiles in a couple of minutes it struck me as a bit trivial to implement just the generator and thought it might be cooler to be able to place the tiles on a board.
		You may have to code in a score punishment for swapping tiles and possibly add a timer which would also impact the score.
		I play Scrabble online at http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/but their interface looks dated compared to yours, though you can type your words in and shuffle tiles in your rack.
	www.themaninblue.com /writing/perspective/2004/01/27 (6369 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 (1627 words)

	Amazon.fr : Everything Scrabble: Livres en anglais: John D., Jr. Williams,Joe Edley (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Amazon.fr : Everything Scrabble: Livres en anglais: John D., Jr.
		Williams, Joe Edley "If you want to get serious about the SCRABBLE game, sooner or later you are going to need The Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary (OSPD)..." (plus)
		Featuring a rare interview with the SCRABBLE game inventor, the late Alfred Mosher Butts, this extensively illustrated guidebook covers all facets of the game and worldwide SCRABBLE culture, including the clubs, tournaments, champions and rules, and playing SCRABBLE with children, plus a complete history of the game.
	www.amazon.fr /Everything-Scrabble-John-Jr-Williams/dp/0671042181 (470 words)

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