Ultimate Guide to Scrabble and Words with Friends


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Stop losing and start winning immediately with the Ultimate Guide to Scrabble & Words With Friends. Whether you want to be the best Scrabble player in your family over the holidays, dominate people around the world in Words With Friends, or teach children how to spell by having fun, this Ultimate Guide has you covered. We all have busy lives. We can't memorize EVERY word and advanced technique, so I created easy-to-remember shortcuts that anybody can remember, plus strategies to take you to the next level. Proven tips like the "X + Vowel Trick" and "97% Rule for Prefixes" to help you win your games today! Discover how to find opportunities, rack up points, and take control of every game. Challenge your mind, strengthen your vocabulary, and WIN! :) My goal is to help make these tips second nature and guide you to your full potential. Most people I help actually underestimate how much they really know! Looking for 2-letter and 3-letter words? I've not only created lists for both, but memory tricks, including the "Sound of Music" and "Comic Character" shortcuts. Tired of racks with ALL vowels or consonants? I'll teach you how to turn those racks into a positive! I have not only jam-packed this bundle with all-vowel and all-consonant words (100+), but many 4-letter words with 3 vowels that will actually have you WANTING vowels. :) Plus, learn when you should swap or play when your rack is filled with vowels or consonants! Are you often stuck with frustrating letters like J, Q, X & Z? These are the highest scoring letters! Having go-to words with these letters in your back pocket (or this Ultimate Guide!), will make you unstoppable. We have word lists for each of those letters! What about Q words with U? Q without U? I was always taught they had to be together. Nope. We've got that, too! What else will I discover? How you should open and close games When to play defensively How to track your tiles When to play or block Triple Word Score How to extend words What are the best letters to hold onto When should you swap tiles What are the highest scoring words Top-4 prefixes and suffixes to account for 97% of your options Tile tracking sheets History of Scrabble and Words With Friends Enjoy winning!




The Scrabble Word-Building Book


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The ultimate winner’s handbook for mastering Scrabble® and other word games—for players of all backgrounds and skill levels. Become a master of Scrabble® with this essential guide to top-scoring game play. You’ll discover: -The more than 100 crucial two-letter words in one handy list -A section of independent three-letter words that cannot be built from two-letter words -All of the three-letter words which can be formed from two-letter words -All eight-letter words that can be formed from seven-letter words -Every word up to seven letters you can play Keep this invaluable reference at your fingertips to increase your word-building power, achieve the highest score, settle word disputes, and win every game of Scrabble® you play.




Breaking the Game


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Written by one of the best Scrabble players in the world, Breaking the Game delves into Scrabble like you've never seen before. Whether you are a new player who wants to beat your friends and family, an avid word lover who wants to know about Scrabble, an avid game player who wants to pick up the game, or an experienced Scrabble master, Breaking the Game can help anyone become a better Scrabble player. Breaking the Game covers basic Scrabble concepts (such as anagramming and board vision) to more complex concepts such as leaves, fishing, setups, and endgame. While it describes these concepts at a high level, it is written simply, at a level that anyone can understand! This book will become a reference for any Scrabble enthusiast that they can come back to time and time again!




The Ultimate Guide to Winning Scrabble Brand Crossword Game


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This book is a complete guide to winning Scrabble strategies that will help everyone from beginners to advanced players become Scrabble champions! More than 100 board illustrations.




Everything Scrabble


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Newly revised with updated new strategies and words, the classic how-to guide to one of the most popular board games of all time. First introduced to the public in the mid 1950s, Scrabble has gone on to be one of the biggest selling board games in history—and is currently gaining legions of new fans in the online world. Offering relevant game tips for both the beginner and the seasoned pro, Everything Scrabble includes basic board strategies, tips for utilizing the letter "Q" (with and without the letter "U"), the latest in high scoring words, a complete list of two-letter words that can to increase players’ scoring averages by thirty to forty points—and much more. Featuring a complete history of the game, this extensively illustrated guidebook covers all facets of the game and worldwide Scrabble culture—including tournaments, champions, and rules—and is a must have for every serious fan.




How to Play Scrabble


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If you want to know how to play scrabble, then get "How To Play Scrabble" guide. Have you ever thought about finding a game that lets you use your brain while still allowing you to have a lot of fun? - Scrabble is the perfect game for you to enjoy with your friends, family, coworkers, social group, church function, or anyone! With this handy guide description, you can learn all about how to play Scrabble, with instructions on setting up the game, word building, scoring, the history of Scrabble, and much more. - Inside this guide you will find chapters for anything Scrabble-related that you can think of, so that you will understand the rules and gameplay. The guide also offers tips and strategies for building high-scoring words and finding other ways to play Scrabble when you cannot play the traditional board game. This includes information on Scrabble for your Kindle, Scrabble's Facebook application, and Scrabble on the iPhone. - The Table of Contents also provides a quick overview of the guide's chapters, with headings and subheadings to make finding what you are looking for even easier. - Colorful pictures feature the process in detail, so you will be ready to play Scrabble by the end of the book. You might not be a professional yet, but you will be well on your way to the highest scoring words and games ever! Click "Buy Now!" to get it now!




Word Freak


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This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.




101 Two-Letter Words


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A one-of-a-kind celebration of the 101 two-letter words allowed in Scrabble. Rolling Stone has called singer-songwriter Stephin Merritt of the Magnetic Fields “the Cole Porter of his generation”; O, The Oprah Magazine has hailed cartoonist Roz Chast as “the wryest pen since Dorothy Parker’s.” Together they have crafted a wonderfully witty book that is sure to prove useful to Scrabble players and Words With Friends addicts—and to delight anyone in thrall to the weirder corners of the English language. With the mordant wit and clever wordplay of Edward Gorey or Shel Silverstein, Stephin Merritt has written an original four-line rhyming poem for each of the 101 two-letter words included in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary. Here are poems about familiar words (such as at, go, hi, no, and up) as well as obscure ones (such as aa, ka, oe, qi, xu). And every one of the 101 poems is accompanied by a full-color illustration by the incomparable cartoonist Roz Chast. 101 Two-Letter Words is perfect for any language lover or Scrabble player (it may even improve your score!).




The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary


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Includes more than 100,000 words that are acceptable for playing Scrabble, with parts of speech, varient forms, and definitions.




Is That a Word?


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Scrabble® aficionados may know that both "Brr" and "Brrr" are legitimate plays, but what about everyday names like Peter, Carl, and Marge? They're not listed as proper nouns, but they are certainly playable. For lovers of Scrabble®, Bananagrams®, and Words with Friends®, this lively guide helps readers make the most out of word games, packed with new ways to remember the best words alongside tips for improving game play and much more. Part strategy guide and part celebration of all things wordy, this collection of facts, tips, and surprising lists of playable words will instruct and delight the letterati.