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10 Sweet Examples of Scrabble Photography From Instagram
In a recent post, we shared four of our favorite Scrabble arts & crafts from around the web. While we’re in that same vein, today’s post will feature ten stunning examples of Scrabble photography from the Instagram website. I just stumbled upon these today by accident and I have never used Instagram before this, to [...]
Four Creative Scrabble Arts & Crafts for Inspiration
Since I have started this website, I’ve been tuning into all things Scrabble related which appear on the web so that I can play with the ideas and also share them with you here. I’ve been surprised at how many different ways people have managed to use my favorite word game as inspiration for some [...]
Book Review: Weird Little Words That Win Word Games
Weird Little Words that Win Word Games (Word Buff’s Totally Unfair Word Game Guides) Amazon.com In case you don’t already know, I’m a big fan of Word-Buff.com. The man behind the site is Derek McKenzie and I signed up for his mailing list some time ago. The other day, I received an email from him [...]
5 Fun Online Quizzes to Help You Win Scrabble
Okay, so we recently covered some really awesome online word games to help you start training your brain for Scrabble. Today, we are going to share with you five fun online quizzes which are madly addicting and will specifically help sharpen your Scrabble skills. These quizzes come from an insanely entertaining website called Sporcle. In [...]
How to Play in Scrabble Tournaments
So you have spent some time learning the ropes and now you’re starting to feel like you might be ready for competitive Scrabble, huh? Okay, fine. First question though: have you joined a local Scrabble club yet? Because if you haven’t, then you will absolutely need to. You aren’t going to be ready to play in [...]
What is the Highest Point Scrabble Word Possible?
Highest Point Scrabble Word Ever Played You might doubt it, but it’s the truth. A Lexington, Massachusetts carpenter by the name of Michael Cresta managed to score a total of 365 points with a single word played in a game of Scrabble. So what was this word worth such an insane number of points? Cresta [...]
Letter Values in Scrabble
As you may already know, the scoring and points system for Scrabble was created back in the 1930′s by an American architect named Alfred Butts. He calculated the letter values in Scrabble by performing a frequency analysis of newspaper pages, including the New York Times. However, researcher Joshua Lewis now claims that the highest letter [...]
Unique Gifts for Word Lovers
Amazon.com WidgetsNeed to shop for the word lover in your life, but not sure what to get them? No worries, we have you covered. Being a passionate wordsmith myself, I have a pretty good idea of what is likely to be treasured dearly by the word lover or lovers who are closest to your heart. [...]
Best Online Word Games
If you love to play Scrabble, then you likely enjoy many other word games as well. As my fellow wordsmiths, I’m sure you tend to geek out on these types of games as often as I do myself. But if you’re new to Scrabble, you may not be aware of all the other great online [...]
