Entries for February 2009
Boost Your Scrabble Scores by Playing Parallel Words
When I first started playing Scrabble, my games were always the same. Someone places a word, and your next play had to go in the opposite direction. However, it’s time to boost your scores by playing parallel words!
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Scrabble NOM NOM
Snacking is an integral part of the board game experience, so it’s my sacred duty to report Kellogg’s have released a Scrabble Junior version of their Cheez-It snack crackers.
Link Dump for February 23
In this edition: a story from Origami Boulders; Scrabble makes the police blotter; Hasbro FAIL; the Scrabble Flickr group; and the combined Scrabble score world record falls in Arizona.
Backyard Scrabble
A couple in Ohio like Scrabble so much, they built an 8-foot outdoor Scrabble board in their backyard.
Link Dump of the Week
Just some of the assorted links I stumbled across during the week of February 6 – 13.
Improve your Scrabble Game with Two-Letter Words
Most beginner Scrabble players think the key to being a successful player is a mastery of every word in the dictionary. However, it’s the smallest words than may yield the biggest points.
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Scrabble Board Picture Frame
This is a pretty clever hack for an old Scrabble board. I must admit, seeing someone take an X-acto knife to an old board like this is a bit unsettling, but the end result is pure gold. I am definitely making myself a set of those tile push-pins.
Scrabble Keyboard
Something you don’t run across every day – a keyboard where the letters have been replaced with Scrabble tiles. Commissioned by a couple of friends of the builder, the keys are made from real tiles that were all hand-beveled. Cool!
So I Decided to Create a Blog About Scrabble…
Hello there, and welcome to my new blog. This might be one of the nerdier things I have ever done. And I have done an awful lot of nerdy things. But what the hell, right?
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