Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news!uhog.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in3.uu.net!nntp.teleport.com!usenet From: stevena@teleport.com (Steven Alexander) Newsgroups: rec.games.board,rec.puzzles.crosswords,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Scrabble FAQ - General Information Supersedes: <4sehgk$ijk@nadine.teleport.com> Followup-To: rec.games.board Date: 20 Aug 1996 23:53:11 GMT Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Lines: 2255 Sender: stevena@teleport.com (Steven Alexander) Approved: news-answers-request@mit.edu Expires: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <4vdj57$9ln@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: stevena@teleport.com (Steven Alexander) NNTP-Posting-Host: kelly.teleport.com Summary: Frequently Asked Questions and their answers on the game Scrabble Keywords: Scrabble, crossword game URL: http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faq.html Originator: stevena@teleport.com Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.games.board:89904 rec.puzzles.crosswords:6564 rec.answers:23293 news.answers:80049 Last-modified: 20 Aug 1996 Archive-name: games/scrabble-faq/general Scrabble Frequently Asked Questions This article is posted monthly to the Usenet newgroups rec.games.board, rec.puzzles.crosswords, rec.answers and news.answers. Other ways to obtain it are ANONYMOUS FTP to rtfm.mit.edu (18.181.0.24) and get the files /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/general /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/supplement EMAIL (for those without ftp access) send To: Subject: send /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/general send /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/supplement A hypertext version is available at . 1. What this FAQ covers 2. The trademark Scrabble 3. Organized Scrabble activity 3.1. National Scrabble Association and Association of Premier Scrabble Players 3.2. Clubs 3.3. Tournaments 3.3.1. North American, UK and world championships 3.3.1.1. Winners of the North American championships 3.3.1.2. Winners of the World (English language) championships 3.3.2. How club and tournament Scrabble differs from the rules in the box 3.3.3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Official Scrabble Words 3.3.3.1. Why are all those stupid/non-English/indecent words allowed? 3.3.3.2. Words removed from OSPD 1st ed. in 2nd ed. 3.3.3.3. Current corrections to the OSPD 2nd ed. 3.3.3.4. Current corrections to the Franklin Electronic OSPD 3.3.3.5. Expurgation of OSPD and OSPD 3rd ed. 3.3.4. Tournament pairings 3.3.5. Tournament ratings 3.3.6. Upcoming tournaments 3.4. Organizations conducting Scrabble activity outside North America and the UK 3.6. Crossword games on the Internet 3.6.1. Crossword games servers 3.6.2. Crossword games mailing list 3.6.3. Crossword games related homepages 4. Differences between Scrabble in North America and in the UK 5. Publications on Scrabble 5.1. Periodicals 5.1.1. Scrabble News 5.1.2. Tourney News 5.1.3. JG Newsletter 5.1.4. Non-North American periodicals 5.1.4.1. Onwords 5.1.4.2. APSP Newsletter 5.1.4.3. Forwords 5.1.5. Defunct periodicals 5.1.5.1. Letters for Expert Players 5.1.5.2. Matchups 5.1.5.3. Medleys 5.1.5.4. Rack Your Brain 5.2. Books 5.3. Word lists 5.4. Word study software 6. Basic tactics and methods 7. Typical games 7.1. Typical scores 7.2. Frequency of bingos 8. Scrabble records 8.1. Actual 8.2. Theoretical 8.3. Blocked games 9. Scrabble variants 10. Play-by-mail games 11. Scrabble paraphernalia 11.1. Tiles 11.2. Clocks 11.3. Playing equipment 11.4. Miscellaneous 12. Computer versions of Scrabble 12.1. CrossWise (IBM PC) 12.2. Gameboy Super Scrabble (hand-held) 12.3. Maven (Macintosh, Windows) 12.4. Monty Plays Scrabble (hand-held) 12.5. Scramble/Literati (IBM PC/Windows) 12.6. Tyler (IBM PC, Macintosh) 12.7. US Gold Scrabble (IBM PC, Amiga, Atari ST) 12.8. Vic Rice's Game (IBM PC) 12.9. Virgin Mastertronic (IBM PC, Macintosh) 12.10. WordsWorth (IBM PC) 12.11. STrabbler (Atari) 12.12. Unix Scrabble (Unix) 12.13. CRAB (Unix, Sun, Vax and Macintosh) 12.14. Scrabble Door (IBM PC BBS) 12.15. ScrabOut (Windows) 12.16. X-Words (Macintosh) 12.17. Amiga Scrabble (Amiga) 12.18. Scrabble CD-ROM (Windows, other formats unknown) 12.19. XScrabble (X Windows) 13. Glossary 14. Litigation A0. Copyright A1. Credits [In the supplement:] A2. Roster of clubs in the US and Canada A3. Upcoming North American tournaments A4. Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide 1. What this FAQ covers This article is about English language Scrabble, or more properly, Scrabble Brand Crossword Game. It is North American-centric (and to a lesser extent covers the UK), but information regarding English language Scrabble played anywhere is welcome. 2. The trademark Scrabble Scrabble is a registered trademark owned in the United States and Canada by Milton Bradley Company, a division of Hasbro, Inc. In Great Britain and everywhere else in the world, by J.W. Spear & Sons PLC. Selchow & Righter, listed as the US owner on many of your boards, was bought -- in good health -- by Coleco, which shortly went into bankruptcy due to the collapse of the market for their Cabbage Patch dolls. Coleco also led itself to bankruptcy by losing a fortune on the Adam home computer flop, and the unexpected (to them) slowdown in Trivial Pursuit sales. (Trivial Pursuit was marketed in the US by Selchow & Righter). Coleco was bought up by Milton Bradley, which was in turn gobbled up by Hasbro. In North America, technically, the term Scrabble refers to any game or related product Milton Bradley cares to label that way, while the popular board game is "Scrabble Crossword Game". Most people -- including Milton Bradley's own publication -- use the term Scrabble to refer to that game, and so will this FAQ. 3. Organized Scrabble activity 3.1. National Scrabble Association and Association of Premier Scrabble Players The National Scrabble Association ("NSA") is the only organization running Scrabble activity in North America. It is a subsidiary of Milton Bradley. NSA licenses tournament and club directors. Club and tournament play, except for the national and world championships, is sanctioned but not run by NSA. Non-members are supposed to be charged an extra $5 at tournaments, but this is not consistently done. Membership is $18 per year in the US, $20 (US) in Canada, and $25 elsewhere, by postal money order outside the US. National Scrabble Association c/o Williams & Company 120 Front St Garden Box 700 Greenport, NY 11944 (516) 477-0033 (516) 477-0294 fax In the UK, the Association of Premier Scrabble Players ("APSP"), while not owned by the UK copyright and trademark holder, is bound to it by a licensing agreement. The APSP organizes many tournaments. It may be reached at APSP c/o Gareth Williams 209 Fidlas Rd Llanishen Cardiff CF4 5NA United Kingdom Tel: +44 1222 758249 Membership in APSP costs #10 per year. members receive a newsletter six times per year. Its chairman, Graeme Thomas, may be reached by e-mail at . 3.2. Clubs Clubs normally play Scrabble according to tournament rules, although sometimes accommodation for newcomers includes allowing them to refer to lists of two- and three-letter words for their first couple of visits. The current roster of active North American clubs, according to the most recent listing from the National Scrabble Association, is an Appendix to this FAQ. Some of the listings may be out of date, so call the person listed before trying to attend. A list of clubs in the UK is available at . For further information on them, contact Philip Nelkon J.W. Spear & Sons PLC Richard House Enstone Road Enfield, Middlesex England EN3 7TB Tel: +44 181 443 8152 Fax: +44 181 443 8175 Steve Oliger has written an IBM PC program, Focus (currently in version 2.10) to maintain club statistics. It comes highly recommended by others who have used it. $20 plus shipping ($3 in US). Steve Oliger P.O. Box 7003 Lancaster, PA 17604-7003 3.3. Tournaments 3.3.1. North American, UK and world championships "National Scrabble Championships", really for North America, are held by the National Scrabble Association in even years. For 1996 it will be in Dallas in late July. North American players were eligible for entry in 1994 if they had played in at least one rated tournament. Players from elsewhere entered without condition. In odd years, an invitational "World [English language] Championship" is held. The 1995 World Championship was held in November in London. Words allowable in North American or British play are allowed. In the UK, Spear runs the National Scrabble Championship. Several regional events (apparently open only to UK residents) are used as qualifiers for the national final. Also in the UK, the APSP organizes a 17-game British Matchplay Scrabble Championship held each August. It is open to all. 3.3.1.1. Winners of the North American championships 1978, May 19-21, New York City: invitational, 64 contestants David Prinz 1980, November 14-16, Santa Monica: invitational, 32 contestants Joe Edley 1983, August 10-12, Chicago: qualifiers, 32 contestants Joel Wapnick 1985, July 28-31, Boston: open, 302 contestants Ron Tiekert 1987, July 5-7, Las Vegas: open, 300+ contestants Rita Norr 1988, July 31-August 5, Reno: open, 323 contestants Robert Watson 1989, July 29-August 3, New York City: open, 221 contestants Peter Morris 1990, August 5-9: Washington, 300+ contestants Robert Felt 1992, August 9-13, Atlanta: open, 320 contestants Joe Edley 1994, August 14-18, Los Angeles: open, 294 contestants David Gibson 3.3.1.2. Winners of the World (English language) championships 1991, September 27-30, London: invitational, 48 contestants Peter Morris 1993, August 27-30, New York City: invitational, 64 contestants Mark Nyman 1995, November 2-5, London: invitational, 64 contestants David Boys 3.3.2. How club and tournament Scrabble differs from the rules in the box NSA and APSP rules for competitive play are available for ftp at sushi.st.usm.edu in the directory /doc/doom, in the files rules-nsa.html and rules-apsp.txt. ASPA rules are at . Club and tournament Scrabble games are always two-player games. Both players must keep score. A bag is used for tiles (not the box lid). Chess clocks are used to time the game and each player is allowed a total of 25 minutes to make all of his or her moves in the game. If a player's time limit is exceeded, the game continues but the player is penalized 10 points for each minute over the time limit. The validity of words is determined, in North America (and some other places, including Israel and Thailand) by the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, and in the UK by Official Scrabble Words. Most other places use Official Scrabble Words, although some (including New Zealand and all of mainland Australia) use both. (These references are described in section 3.3.3.) When a player challenges one or more words in his or her opponent's move, the clock is stopped while a third party (usually a club or tournament director) looks up the challenged words (which the challenger must specify) to determine whether the move is valid. If a challenged word is unacceptable, the play is removed and the player loses that turn. In North American play, the maker of an erroneous challenge loses a turn; in the UK, and most of Australia, they do not. There are no "house rules" that many social players use, such as free exchange of four of a kind, or claiming blanks off the board by substituting for them. Once there are fewer than seven tiles left in the bag, no exchanging of tiles is allowed. Passing is allowed at any time. At the end of a North American game, when one player uses all his or her tiles with none remaining in the bag, he or she receives double the value of the opponent's remaining tiles. In the UK, as specified in the box, that value is added to and subtracted from the players' respective scores. Both methods result in the same spread. Ties are not broken. (The box rules don't mention this possibility.) If the two players take six consecutive turns without successfully placing any tiles on the board -- due to any combination of challenges, passes and exchanges -- the game ends, and both players lose the value of the tiles on their racks. A game in which neither player can make a play ends this way, although the players may simply agree that the game is over without going through all six turns. In the UK, exchanges do not count toward the six turns. The box rules do not mention whether one can make written notes during the game. In tournaments and clubs, players are allowed to write anything they wish on their score sheet. One use of written notes is to keep track of which tiles have been played, allowing one to know which tiles remain to be played. This is known as tile- tracking, and players may use preprinted score sheets that show the tile distribution as an aid to tile-tracking. 3.3.3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Official Scrabble Words The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary ("OSPD"), published by Merriam-Webster, is the official dictionary used for all North American tournament and club play. The OSPD first was published in 1978. It includes all words of eight or fewer letters, and simplifies the settling of Scrabble word arguments by specifically showing those words' inflections (plurals of nouns, conjugations of verbs, comparatives and superlatives of adjectives). For root words longer than eight letters, Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth edition, is used. (The Tenth came out in May 1993 and replaced the Ninth on May 1, 1994.) The OSPD does include inflected forms of up to eight letters whose roots words are longer. In 1990, a second edition of the OSPD came out in hardcover. A paperback of the OSPD2 came out in June 1993. Matchups ($1 + $1 shipping, see section 12.6) and Cygnus Cybernetics (see section 12.1) each publish a complete list of the words added (and the handful removed) in OSPD2. A hardcover third edition of the OSPD came out in October 1995. See section 3.3.3.5 below for a discussion of its contents. The new words in it are allowable in competitive play as of February 1, 1996. Only SPAZES and HERPESES will be removed. A list of the additions is available by ftp at ftp.cygcyb.com in the directory /Cygnus, file name ospd3.add. The OSPD was created because in the 1950s Selchow & Righter sold the right to put out Scrabble word lists to Jacob Orleans and Edmund Jacobson, authors of Scrabble Word Guide, a 1953 book based on the Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary. The official publication, Scrabble News, is still circumspect about publishing word lists, tending to print them in small chunks to conform to some idea of their remaining rights. Parallel to the OSPD for North America, the UK has Official Scrabble Words ("OSW"), which lists all rules-acceptable words in the Chambers Dictionary ("Chambers") whose uninflected roots have nine or fewer letters, and words of nine or fewer letters which are inflections of longer words. The third edition of OSW, including words from the 1993 edition of Chambers, came out in September, 1994. Challenges of longer words are looked up in Chambers. OSW is available outside the UK from James Thin Ltd 53-59 South Bridge Edinburgh, EH1 1YS Scotland +44 131 556 6743 +44 131 557 8149 fax For trademark reasons, the OSPD is not legally sold outside North America, and OSW is not sold in North America. Here are data showing the relative sizes of the lexicons of OSPD and OSW, showing that OSW is a richer lexicon at all lengths. "SOWPODS" is a common abbreviation for the union of the two. length OSW OSPD SOWPODS 2 109 97 121 3 1126 977 1231 4 4769 3904 5140 5 10697 8635 11774 6 18435 15224 20895 7 26539 23097 31136 8 30732 28406 37907 9 30456 24752 36655 3.3.3.1. Why are all those stupid/non-English/indecent words allowed? The OSPD was formed according to the rules of Scrabble, allowing all non-capitalized words without apostrophes or hyphens which are not designated as foreign. In a compromise between the number of words in a standard college dictionary (such as Funk & Wagnalls, in use before the OSPD) and an unabridged dictionary, the OSPD includes all words found in at least one of five major US college dictionaries, including a total of nine editions, which in the judgment of Merriam- Webster's lexicographers (contracted by the trademark holder to do this) meet the rules. The dictionaries used for OSPD2 are: Funk & Wagnalls Standard College Dictionary (1973 printing), American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (First and Second College Editions), Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary (Merriam-Webster; Eighth and Ninth Editions), Webster's New World Dictionary (Second and Third College Editions), Random House College Dictionary (Original Edition and Revised Edition). To some extent, this succeeds at capturing the language, not as some set of Scrabble players would have it, but as it is -- according to professional lexicographers. 3.3.3.2. Words removed from OSPD 1st ed. in 2nd ed. AINE AINEE ALIYAHS AUTARKIK BABBOOL BABBOOLS BORAZON BORAZONS DIALOGGED DIALOGGING DUC DUCS ECOLE ECOLES ENFIN INVAR INVARS IODOL IODOLS MISENROLL MISENROLLS NEGRO NEGROES NOIR ONCES PAPULAN PERE PERES PHYTIN PHYTINS SITI SLIVOVICS STETSON STETSONS SULFONAL SULFONALS SURVEILED SURVEILING THERMIT THERMITS UIT WAEFU WITEN WOSTTETH WOTTETH XANTHATE XANTHATES 3.3.3.3. Current corrections to the OSPD 2nd ed. The cumulative corrections to the OSPD2, all (except for DIDDLEYS) corrected in the most recent printings, are: p16 ALIYAH: -YAHS (not -YAS) 108 CLAUGHT: -ING (not -INT) 109 CLEEK: CLAUCHT (not CLAUGHT) 155 DIDDLEY: DIDDLEYS, DIDDLIES 213 FLANKEN: pl. FLANKEN 272 HONDLE: -DLED, -DLING, -DLES (not -DLIED or -DLIES) 273 insert HOOTY adj HOOTIER, HOOTIEST 321 LEAP: add LEPT as third past 359 insert MISENROLL v -ED, -ING, -S 364 MOJO: add MOJOES 424 PECORINO: -NOS, -NI 436 PINYIN: delete PINYINS 451 delete PREFROZE; insert PREFREEZE v -FROZE, -FROZEN, -FREEZING, -FREEZES to freeze beforehand 481 delete REARMICE; insert REARMOUSE n pl. -MICE reremouse 477 REFALL: add REFALLS 488 delete REREMICE; insert REREMOUSE n pl. -MICE a bat (a flying mammal) 537 SJAMBOK: definition should be "to flog" 635 UNMESH: -ES (not -S) 638 UPFRONT adj 639 URB: pl. URBS 643 delete VANIR 675 insert XANTHATE n pl. -S a chemical salt Some of these "corrections" muddy the rule that all uninflected words in the OSPD have eight or fewer letters. 3.3.3.4. Current corrections to the Franklin Electronic OSPD additions deletions --------- --------- AMNIA AMNIONIA BRITISH CAUDILLOS CAUDILLLOS CHEERLEADED CHINESE CHRISTMAS CLUBBERS CRACKLES CRACKLEES CRIOLLOS CRIOLLLOS EXPIATING GONIONIA GRAMS HALAZONES HIGGLED HONDLES HONDLIES HORNBEAMS IRISH ITALIAN MACHES MISEATE OPALESCING OPALESCESCING OUTDRAGGING OUTEATE OVEREATE OVERLIT PECORINI PINYINS REFALLS S SISSIES SIES UNCLOGGING UNDEREATE 3.3.3.5. Expurgation of OSPD and OSPD 3rd ed. In October 1995, NSA issued an Expurgated Scrabble Players Dictionary ("ESPD"), calling it OSPD3, omitting approximately 167 words labelled as offensive to specific ethnic, racial, sexual and other groups, such as the words "dago", "jew" and "fatso". Hasbro, the NSA's parent, gave as major reasons for the change its desire to promote Scrabble in elementary schools using the OSPD and complaints by offended ethnic groups. Facing much opposition by competitive players who did not want their playing vocabulary restricted to those words considered safe for children, NSA has made the ESPD *not* the official reference for club and tournament play. (It says on the dust jacket, "for recreational and school play.") Instead, as of February 1, 1996, competitions use OSPD2 plus the words added in ESPD. (A few words which reappear in ESPD because of its sloppy basing on early copies of OSPD2 -- before some corrections -- will not be added back, though.) This compromise may be illusory, as ESPD will be in print, while OSPD2 will not. NSA says it will supply the need for an in-print copy of the unexpurgated word list by making All Words (section 5.3) or something similar an official, licensed, publication. Whether or not this works, it's anomalous to have the "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" not be official. 3.3.4. Tournament pairings Most North American tournaments are ranked according to win-loss record first, followed by the total of point margin in each game. A few tournaments score according to a predetermined number of credits for winning and for each ten points of margin. UK tournaments commonly use sum-of-scores (the sum of the number of wins by one's opponents), and Australian tournaments use total game score, as the secondary factor. In small tournaments or ones in where the field is sufficiently divided, each player plays every other once. This is called a round robin. In all the other tournament designs, whom one plays depends on where one stands in the tournament so far. In the first round, generally the players' pre-tournament ratings temporarily stand in for the tournament rank. The modified form of Swiss pairing used at North American Scrabble tournaments is best described by example. Suppose 64 players are at the tournament. In round one, the first player plays the 33rd, the second plays the 34th, etc., and the 32nd plays the 64th. In round two, the same top plays middle is used for the top and bottom halves of the tournament separately: 1 plays 17, 2 plays 18, down to 16 plays 32, and 33 plays 49, down to 48 plays 64. This continues with groups shrinking by a factor of two at each round. Because determining the pairings between rounds can take so long in this method (computers are fast, but data entry can be slow), often the field is divided into four groups, instead of two. So with 64 players, 1 17 33 49 would be grouped together, as would 2 18 34 50, and 16 32 48 64. These groups of four then each play a round robin. Note that this "speed-pairing" method provides the better players an advantage. Denote the four quartiles in order as A, B, C, D. Then the A player plays a B, C and D, while the D plays an A, B and C; this tends to reinforce the pre-tournament estimate of the players' strengths, and thus detracts from the aim of a tournament -- to recognize performance, not rank. A simple improvement has rarely been tried, to have each A player also matched against an A from another group, etc. This models the round robin in small, and seems inherently fairer. (If anyone has references to scholarly treatments of the fairness of tournament designs, I would be grateful to be supplied with them.) In the UK, most tournaments use a version of the Swiss method in which at each round players are paired within groups consisting of those with the same win-loss record. 3.3.5. Tournament ratings Using a system based on the Elo system used in chess, North American tournament players get a rating in the range 0 to ~2150 which indirectly represents the probability of winning against other rated players. This probability depends only on the difference between the two players' ratings as follows: rating probability difference of winning 400 .919 300 .853 200 .758 100 .637 50 .569 0 .500 -50 .431 -100 .363 -200 .242 -300 .147 -400 .081 This represents the area under the standard bell-shaped curve where 200*sqrt(2) points are taken as one standard deviation. (The table shows some sample points on this curve, adequate for good approximations of rating calculations by interpolation, although actual calculations use the exact curve.) To keep current on a player's actual quality of play, the rating is updated after every tournament played. First, the number of games one is expected to win is calculated. Let's use as an example a two game tournament, in which player P begins with an 1800 rating, and plays opponents rated 1900 and 1725. P's rating is 100 below the 1900 player's, so P is expected to win .363 fraction of a game; P's rating is 75 above the other player's, so P is expected to win .603 of a game (halfway between .637 and .569). So in the two games, P is expected to win a total of .966 games. Let's say P won one game. That's .034 more than expected. P's rating goes up some constant multiple of this number. Well, actually it's not a constant, but depends on how many tournament games P has ever played and how high P's rating is. games played Rating < 50 >=50 below 1800 30 20 1800-1999 24 16 2000 & up 15 10 The UK ratings are somewhat similar but simpler: the probability of the better player winning is taken as 50% plus the rating difference as a percent, but no larger than 90%. The Australian rating system is the same as the North American. Current North American and UK ratings are available in . 3.3.6. Upcoming tournaments For a listing of upcoming North American tournaments, see the Appendix. 3.4. Organizations conducting Scrabble activity outside North America and the UK Spear, which sells Scrabble sets in 31 languages and 120 countries, is considering organizing Spanish, German and Dutch Scrabble tournaments, perhaps in 1997. Contact Philip Nelkon (section 3.2). The remainder of the information in this section is about English language Scrabble. Membership in the Australian Scrabble Players Association, which is independent of the trademark holder, is $10 per year, $15 overseas. Its quarterly newsletter, 'Across the Board', has columns on playing, and tournament listings. It may be reached at The Scrabble Enquiry Centre PO Box 405 Bentleigh Australia 3204 Tel: +61 3 578 6767 John Holgate Australian Scrabble Players Association 14 Moodie Street Farrer Australia 2607 In Israel, English language Scrabble is played by several clubs. There is a large one in Jerusalem. Tournaments are rated under a copy of the North American system. There are occasional national tournaments. Sam Orbaum, who once wrote a weekly Scrabble column for the Jerusalem Post, runs the Jerusalem club, which meets at ICCY, 12 Emek-Refaim St, Jerusalem at 7:30pm JST Tuesdays. He can be reached at (02)767967 (H), (02)315678 (W). The Thailand National English language Scrabble tournament has drawn as many as 885 contestants, including some top North Americans. For information on the (OSPD-based) yearly tournament usually held around the end of January, contact Mr. Ravee Joradol Thailand Crossword Club 645/1 Petchburi Rd Payathai, Bangkok 10400 Thailand (662) 252-9607, 252-8147 (662) 252-8147 fax In Thailand, sets are sold without regard to Spear's rights, resulting in its players not being invited to the World [English Language] Scrabble Championships. Nigeria and Japan each have an active English language Scrabble tournament scene. For addresses of many English language Scrabble organizations and contacts, see the Appendix. 3.6. Crossword games on the Internet 3.6.1. Crossword games servers A MUD-like server dedicated to playing crossword games (with boards configurable by the players) is available by telnet at eel.st.usm.edu, port 7777 (this means to reach it under Unix, type "telnet eel.st.usm.edu 7777"). A FAQ for this server is available for ftp at sushi.st.usm.edu in /doc/doom/faq, and for MUDS generally at pit-manager.mit.edu in the directory pub/usenet/news.answers/games/mud-faq. Other MUDs having crossword-game play as one of their services are listed at . 3.6.2. Crossword games mailing list To be added to one of the crossword games mailing lists, write to . crossword-games is open to anyone, crossword-games-pro to active tournament players, and word-game-programmers to anyone interested in design of programs for crossword games. See 3.6.3. Crossword games related homepages These crossword game entities have WWW homepages: the Los Gatos, CA, club: the Sysosset, NY, club: Scrabble(r) in North Central Florida: the Romford, England, club Cygnus Cybernetics: The Australian Scrabble Players Association: The Scrabble HomePage in Japan: Kevin Cowtan's Scrabble Challenge, University of York, UK: %9%/%i%V%k$N>R2p - Scrabble HomePage in Japan: Des mots, toujours des mots: 4. Differences between Scrabble in North America and in the UK OSW and Chambers govern Scrabble play in the UK. Australia is moving toward "double-dictionary" play, where words from either Chambers or OSPD are accepted. Some clubs in North America are considering making this at least optional. An added impetus for this trend is the expurgation of OSPD (see section 3.3.3.5). In the UK, a player erroneously challenging suffers no penalty. The UK has a second form of Scrabble play that is waning: high-score tournaments, where only the total of one's own scores matters. Since one's "opponents'" scores are irrelevant, play in this system aims for open boards and encourages elaborate setups often independently mined by the two players. 5. Publications on Scrabble 5.1. Periodicals 5.1.1. Scrabble News This is a publication of the National Scrabble Association (see section 3.1), and comes with membership. Puzzles, contests, gossip, intermediate and advanced tactics, official information from NSA and Milton Bradley, tournament listings and tournament results. 5.1.2. Tourney News This provides mostly tournament results listings, with bits of discussion of tactics, issues and occasional word lists. $18 per year in the US, $C24 in Canada, $35 US elsewhere. Tourney News Box 2013 Teaticket, MA 02536 5.1.3. JG Newsletter This excellent publication follows in the footsteps of Letters for Expert Players (section 5.1.4.1) and Medleys (section 5.1.4.3) in its thorough position analyses. Also includes some puzzles. $25 for 1996 11-issue subscription. Jim Geary 31 West Cochise Dr Phoenix, AZ 85021-2484 5.1.4. Non-North American periodicals 5.1.4.1. Onwords Billing itself as the "Scrabble Enthusiasts' Magazine", this is the only publication substantially written by more than one person. It features numerous columns, lists, analyses, letters and tournament reports. Subscriptions are #6 for 6 issues in the UK, #10 elsewhere. Allan Simmons Onwords Magazine Shilling House 1 Woolmer Hill Haslemere Surrey, GU27 1LT England 5.1.4.2. APSP Newsletter The newsletter of the APSP, section 3.1. 5.1.4.3. Forwords The quarterly official magazine of the New Zealand Association of Scrabble Players, including news, tournament results, comments and competitions. Jeff Grant Waipatu Settlement Rd RD2 Hastings New Zealand 5.1.5. Defunct periodicals 5.1.5.1. Letters for Expert Players This letter-form publication, which ceased in December 1986, still forms a rich mine of top expert opinion on interesting positions. Back issues may (possibly) still be available from: Albert Weissman 11 White Rock Road Westerly, RI 02891 5.1.5.2. Matchups Besides detailed tournament results, Matchups picked up from the Letters in using a panel of experts to annotate interesting positions. Suspended publication in July 1991. Back issues may be available. See section 12.6. 5.1.5.3. Medleys Probably the highlight of this well-edited, entertainingly written monthly were the game annotations. One game per month was annotated in full. Three interesting positions were analyzed by readers, with quotes. Word lists, study techniques, anecdotes, humor and opinions rounded out the publication. The only drawback was a long-running two-page tournament advertisement in this 12 page newsletter. For the 12 issues of 1991 and 1992, $34 each; for 1993, $36; plus $2 shipping ($3 US in Canada). Also, compiled from the pages of Medleys, "The Art and Science of Anamonics" [a memory-efficient method for studying which letter 6- and 7-letter sets anagram to make words with; e.g., the letters of SLANDER make an 8-letter word with those in CALL GOD A PIOUS CHUMP] and "Complete 7+1 Anamonics #1-2100". $5 and $29 respectively; plus $0, $2 shipping. "Expert Analysis -- Consensus Game" #1, #2, #3, #4, and "Expert Analysis -- Consensus Extras" vol. 1, vol. 2, $29 each; plus $2 shipping. Available August and September 1994, respectively. The second and subsequent least expensive items are charged half the above shipping costs. Nick Ballard 536 Kirkham St San Francisco, CA 94122-3611 (415) LOG-NICK 5.1.5.4. Rack Your Brain Subtitled "Analysis of your favorite crossword game", Brian Sheppard's series of booklets deeply analyzed specific positions. By the author of the program Maven (section 12.3), which is an important tool for move analysis. $42 for one year, $5 each. Brian Sheppard 296 Old Marlboro Road Concord, MA 01742 5.2. Books Everything Scrabble, Joe Edley & John D. Williams, Jr. 1994, Pocket Books. In bookstores, $12.00, or from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. Practical advice for finding good plays plus practice word puzzles on and off board. The first author was the 1980 and 1992 North American champion. The Champion's Strategy for Winning at Scrabble, Joel Wapnick. 1986, Stein & Day. Out of print. Best for advanced players, with sophisticated analyses of many positions and good study techniques. The author was the 1983 North American champion. How to Win at Scrabble, Jacob Orleans & Edmund Jacobson. 1953, Grosset & Dunlap. Out of print. More Fun with Scrabble, Jacob S. Orleans & Edmund Jacobson. 1954, Grosset & Dunlap. Out of print. The Official Scrabble Player's Handbook, Drue K. Conklin. Harmony Books. Out of print. Scrabble Players Handbook, Selchow & Righter Company. 1974. Out of print. The Scrabble Book, Derryn Hinch. 1976, Mason/Charter. Out of print. The Ultimate Guide to Winning Scrabble Brand Crossword Game, Michael Lawrence & John Ozag. 1987, Bantam. Good for beginners to intermediates; covers many of the basic approaches to analysis. Out of print, but may be available from Edward R. Hamilton, a mail-order remainder bookseller. Scrabble Tournament Success, a booklet focusing on the thought processes which can help intermediate players improve. Available >from the author, an excellent player, for $7 + $1 shipping. Darrell Day Marketing Concepts 5 Westglen Place Plano, TX 75074 World Championship Scrabble, Gyles Brandreth & Darryl Francis. 1992, Chambers. Twenty-two annotated games from the 1991 World (English language) Scrabble Championship, which was played using words in OSW or OSPD. In bookstores, or $7.95 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. The Word Game Power Workout, Rita Norr & Audrey Tumbarello. 1993, Perigee, Putnam Publ. Endeavors to teach words "through trivia, word meanings, riddles, mnemonics, and geography." This book appears useful for breaking the reader through to thinking in terms of anagrams, hooks, prefixes, suffixes and extensions. Also includes four pages of well thought out, dense suggestions for better Scrabble play. In bookstores, or $10.95 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. The Literate Puzzler. Rita Norr & Audrey Tumbarello. 1994. Sterling Pub. Co. More puzzles using words from OSPD. In bookstores, $4.95. One Wordy Guy, William R. Webster A novel on Scrabble; includes puzzles. $6 postpaid from WilMar Publishing, c/o William R. Webster, Box 5023, Carefree, AZ 85377. British and Double-Dictionary Scrabble books: Official Scrabble Words (Chambers) Comprehensive listing of 2- to 9-letter words in the official Scrabble word reference, the Chambers dictionary. The Ultimate Scrabble Book, Philip Nelkon 1995, Stanley Paul, #14.99. Tips on tactics illustrated with tournament situations; explanation of the British rules. Quizzes and puzzles. Credit card orders in the UK at 01279 635377. Play Better Scrabble Video, Darryl Francis #10.99 including shipping to the UK, from Spear. Championship Scrabble, Alan Richter Play Better Scrabble, Michael Goldman Focuses on nearly obsolete high-score version of competition. How to Play Better Scrabble, Darryl Francis (Chambers) Some good strategy tips, reportedly. The Scrabble Book, Gyles Brandreth covers both British & North American Scrabble, available, $5.99 + $4 shipping, from Cahill & Co., (800) 755-8531 The Scrabble Puzzle Book, Gyles Brandreth 5.3. Word lists Since the list of words from a dictionary has uncertain copyright status, people having such lists for personal use shy away from sharing them. However, a copy of the OSPD2 two to eight letter words is available for ftp from gatekeeper.dec.com in /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive, in files named words.?.Z, for ? from 2 to 8. Another copy, in one file, is at byrd.math.uga.edu in /pub/win/games/scrabble, file ospd.txt. Also available for ftp is a large list of Anamonics (section 6), compiled by John J. Chew III, at sushi.st.usm.edu:/doc/doom/anamonics. Numerous lists and other items are available from Cygnus Cybernetics (see section 12.1). On-the-fly list-making: telnet to MarlDOoM at eel.st.usm.edu 7777 and give the command "help acbot-words1" for how to summon the multitalented robot ACBot and get it to generate lists to your specifications. See List-making tools: Pageize is a set of tools for making anagram and other word lists for Scrabble study. From the author of Video Flashcards (see section 5.4). Sheppard Company, Inc., maker of Maven (see section 12.3) sells lists (charging $5 + $1 for each additional list for shipping the lists; the book is separate) including: The Tournament Study Book: various lists, with duplicates removed, for studying all the major areas a tournament player must know, emphasizing efficiency, mnemonics and self-tests. Anamonics (see section 6) included. $19.95 + $4/5/7 shipping to US/Canadian/other addresses, + $2 shipping each additional book, to any address. 2-, 3- and 4-letter words with hook relationships, $7.95. 5-letter words by consonant content, $7.95. Bingo frequency list, $12.95 each for 7- and 8-letter words. Bingos grouped by anahooks (see section 6), $12.95 each for 7- and 8-letter words. Vowel-heavy words, $7.95. Tournament Study Book (new for OSPD3), $19.95 plus $4 for U.S. shipping, $5 Canada, $7 elsewhere. The Blank Book, 2nd ed., Alan Frank Shows all letters with which each set of six and seven letters anagrams to make a word. Also specifies whether more than one word can be formed. Spiral bound. $20 + $3 shipping from Matchups, section 12.6. The Old-Fashioned Anagram Book, Alan Frank All 2- to 8-letter words anagrammed according to their alphabetized letter sets. Spiral bound. $15 + $3 shipping (or $32.50 + $4.50 shipping together with the Blank Book 2nd ed. above) from Matchups, section 12.6. The Weird Book, Alan Frank Features such retrograde lists as words with weird trigrams, high probability racks forming 7- and 8-letter words with only one low probability tile, and words displaying all ways of forming plurals (e.g. LIKUTA MAKUTA, ZLOTY ZLOTYCH). $10 + $2 shipping from Matchups, section 12.6. The Complete Wordbook, Mike Baron & Brian Sheppard Contains (1) specialty word lists: the most efficient lists to study (vowel heavy words; JQXZ 2..6s; -S and non-S surprise shorts; 7s & 8s grouped by studying priority; -INGS, -LIKE, -ABLE, -IBLE lists); (2) hooks: 2-to-make-3s ... 8-to-make-9s; and (3) alphagrams: all 3s ... 8s unscrambled. $20.00 including The Complete Blankbook and shipping. Outside the US and Canada, add $5 per address. Wordbooks & Listmats, P.O. Box 2848, Corrales NM 87048-2848. The Complete Blankbook, Mike Baron & Jim Homan Lists all 6- and 7-letter sets forming 7- and 8-letter words and all bingos formed. $20.00 including The Complete Wordbook and shipping. Outside the US and Canada, add $5 per address. Wordbooks & Listmats, P.O. Box 2848, Corrales NM 87048-2848. All Words, Jim Homan All 2- thru 9-letter words accepted in North American play, updated for OSPD3. $12 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. Back-Words, Jim Homan All 2- thru 9-letter words accepted in North American play alphabetized from the back. $12 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. 9-Letter Hooks and Anagrams, Jim Homan Shows what letters extend 8- to 9-letter words, and letter sets forming all 9-letter words. $10 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. High Probability Bingos, Jim Homan The 1000 most likely 7- and 8-letter words to draw to an empty rack. Also, the 1000 7- and 8-letter words most often played by a computer in a substantial sample of games. $3.25 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. JQXZ Bingos, Jim Homan 7-, 8- and 9-letter words containing the four top tiles. $3.25 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1. Various word list books, Sheppard Company, Inc. Short words, JQXZ words, 5-letter words, vowel-heavy words, 7- and 8-letter anamonics, 7s and 8s in frequency order, 5-vowelled 8s, 5-to-make-8s, front hooks. Section 12.3. The Family Bingo Tree Similar to the two above, it groups together all 7- and 8-letter words formable from each 6-letter set. $45 from Randy Hersom (section 5.4). hookiesT 2-to-make-3 thru 7-to-make-8 hooks. $22 from Randy Hersom (section 5.4). Hooklets Traces chains of words each hooking the one before. Also has lists of non-hook words and prefix and suffix lists. $12 plus $3 shipping, at Northeast tournaments or by arrangement for postal mail, from John Babina, . New Words Study Guide and Definitions, Pat Cole Lists words added due to OSPD3, with inflections and brief definitions, plus some important lists of new words and hooks, study hints, variant spelling and anagrams. $10 plus $2 postage from Pat Cole, 5816 Eastpines Dr, Riverdale, MD, (301) 927-5537, fax 249-2609, . Double List Word Book, Ethel Cannon Sherard OSPD1 based, alphabetically by word length and by last letter. Has numerous omissions. Gwethine Publishing Co, P.O. Box 41344, Los Angeles, CA 90041. The Scrabble Word-building Book, Saleem Ahmed; $5.99 Inconsistent in inclusion of new OSPD2 words; numerous errors. The Official Scrabble Word Finder, Robert W Schachner; $7.00 This is useless for Scrabble. Official Scrabble Word Guide. Grosset & Dunlap, Jacob Orleans; $6.95 This 1953 book, still found in stores, is based roughly on the Funk & Wagnalls dictionary then current. Official Scrabble Lists, 2nd ed. Numerous lists based on OSW3; useful playing hints. Available in the same places as OSW. Griffon Word List 1995 Based on OSW + OSPD, listing all words up to 8 letters in length. Aus $28 includes international air mail, Aus $20 each for ten. Geoff Wright PO Box 13 Brunswick Australia 3056 Barry Harridge English Jus Ain Twat Tizwas, Arlene Fine Humorous and, the goal is, memorable mispronunciations of many double-dictionary words in short narratives and lists. Real definitions are given in a glossary. Arlene Fine 87 Sandler Rd Percelia Estate Johannesberg 2192 South Africa Four-Letter Words Allowable in Scrabble, 2nd ed., Bob Jackman Unusual double-dictionary fours defined and organized by common characteristics as an aid to learning. Five-letter version forthcoming. $12 US overseas postage paid, or Aus $10, from R.S. Jackman P.O. Box 28 Lindfield NSW 2070 Australia Official Scrabble Words on Compact Disk This is supplied for Sony's Data Diskman. Search facilities are reportedly poor. Official Scrabble Players Electronic Dictionary Produced by Franklin, this credit-card sized device contains the OSPD2. It does anagram queries and queries with blanks in fixed position. Some proper nouns have crept in as acceptable words, apparently from careless scanning of the printed OSPD2. Available for $36.00 + $5.00 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics (see section 12.1), for $35.00 in person, or in quantities of 4 at $29.00 including shipping from Bob Smith 1785 O'Farrell St #7 San Francisco, CA 94115 (415) 931-0141 (415) 968-7297 fax or from Radio Shack, when in stock, at varying sale prices below their original $59.99. Cygnus and Smith ship each device with a card listing all the current corrections -- for which, see section 3.3.3.4. It was rumored in 1993 that the Franklin OSPD might be withdrawn because of wrangling between Franklin and Milton Bradley about the proceeds, but nothing has been heard about this since. There are no plans to manufacture a version for OSPD3. 5.4. Word study software LexAbility (IBM PC), besides an anagram study system, includes a feature allowing play of Scrabble by modem. $50 postpaid in US and Canada. Randy Hersom 115A Rhyne St Morgantown, NC 28655 Puzlpack (IBM PC), $25 + $3 shipping; also from Cygnus Cybernetics (see section 12.1). Chuck Fendall Recroom Recware P.O. Box 307 Pacific Grove, CA 93950 Anna (IBM PC), $99 + $5 shipping, quizzes on anagrams without requiring typing words. It emphasizes words missed over time, and allows custom lists as well as functioning as an anagrammer. Mary Rhoades 2325 Shady Grove Dr Bedford, TX 76021 (817) 545-3216 LeXpert (Windows), $59.95 (+ $4.95 shipping), updated for OSPD3, tests on or presents a timed slide show of many predefined anagram and hook word lists; lists words containing patterns or letter sets. Demo version available for $2.00 by mail or by ftp from ftp.netcom.com, /pub/sm/smartsoft. Everything's Possible 8930 Monterey Dr Southfield, MI 48076 (810) 353-9241 Wordy (IBM PC), $2 registration fee. More useful for its set of list construction tools than its word-formation game. Mendel Cooper P.O. Box 237 St. David, AZ 85630-0237 qz (Unix), free. Tests on questions and answers supplied by the user individually or inserted from a file. By John J. Chew, III, . By ftp from sushi.st.usm.edu:/doc/doom/qz. Word Ear-Obics, $10 for each of three cassettes, which contain high- frequency seven-letter words from common six-letter stems, eight- letter words from the stem AEINST, and four and five letter JKQXZ words with hooks. 4414 Sparta Way N Las Vegas, NV 89030 (702) 656-7570 Video Flashcards 96 (IBM PC), $60 (+ $3 shipping). Tests on anagrams and hooks. The flashcards of this well done program's paradigm can be chosen, sorted, filtered and saved straightforwardly. Words solved needn't be typed. Shows definitions from a user-supplied file. Excellent visual reinforcement, including slide show mode. Functional demo available limited to 100 uses and 45 days, $3 shipping. Mac version due out in June. Robert Parker's Video Flashcards P.O. Box 3365 Albuquerque, NM 87190-3365 (505) 837-1611 Flash (IBM PC), #18.50 in the UK. For studying OSW bonus (bingo) word lists starting from the top 99 6-letter racks. (The program is licensed to use OSW; its author is considering an OSPD or double dictionary edition.) Ian Burn 8 Cromer Close Reading, Berks England RG31 5NR 6. Basic tactics and methods Rack Balance Some groups of letters combine well, others poorly. Most obviously, racks full of vowels or of consonants are usually hard to play. Also, racks with duplicate letters -- even "good" letters (except most often S and sometimes E) -- reduce flexibility. Therefore, give weight in evaluating possible plays to how well the leave combines. As a corollary, also consider what replacement tiles you're likely to draw. For example, if the choice between playing FARM and FORM is otherwise indifferent, and there are many "A"s unplayed but few "O"s, use the A to minimize the likelihood of duplication on the next rack. The simplest application of attending to leave is attempting to keep good tiles. On average, S, E, R, and so on form words most flexibly, and are particularly conducive to bingos. Choices between letters lower down also matter: P is better than B. But racks with Z or X tend to score high without playing long words. Which type of "good" letter is best to keep varies. In applying all these ideas, consider the board situation. If there is a prime spot for a T, not used by the candidate plays, but none for an S, prefer to play off the S. If the letters available to be played through are mostly consonants, lean further toward keeping vowels. Tile-tracking Since the set of tiles in a game is always the same, knowing what is left is as useful to the Scrabble player as to the card-counting blackjack player -- only easier. While some find tracking hurts their concentration, after practice, most do it without disruption. Others count only when they see a specific need. Tracking allows better rack balancing: knowing there are many more "A"s than "O"s outstanding allows one to lean toward playing an A. It keeps one aware of whether the Q is outstanding, and of the risk and opportunity in other tiles which fit particularly well or poorly with the board. Finally, once no tiles remain in the bag, tracking determines what exactly is on the opponent's rack. Just before the bag is empty, it allows fairly confident guessing what the opponent has. These allow all kinds of end-game play: set-ups, plays to assure the opponent cannot go out and enable one to throw out all rules of thumb and simply analyze cases for how to win. Challenging One of the tactical considerations for challenging is not special to Scrabble. If the only way you can lose is to challenge your opponent's word, refrain. If winning requires a successful challenge (plus perhaps some further luck) and there is any chance the word is phony, challenge. It is generally best not to challenge a bingo if an alternative bingo was playable. I once played (P)SCHENT for several fewer points than CH(A)STEN because I knew my opponent would be outraged that I'd try such a stupid word on him. He should have calmed his emotions and considered my alternatives. Of course, had he found the over ten point better play, he might have inferred I had missed it, and challenged. Consider the possibility that you are better off with the (possibly) phony word on the board. If it creates a lucrative opening for you, makes especially good use of your rack, or wastes your opponent's blank, offset the point benefit to you against the benefit to opponent of not losing this turn. Weight this calculation using your degree of certainty as to whether the word is good. Use your right to challenge all words formed. Since the director gives only one ruling on the acceptability of all challenged words, your opponent may be uncertain which word was phony and try the bad word again. Study The great variety in learning styles prevents any definitive recommendation of study methods, but there are some principles. Study the words most likely to occur. Know the two-letter words cold, since they are essential to common parallel plays. On the way to learning the three-letter words solidly, learn all front and back extensions for the twos. Learning the part of speech and the meaning of the two-letter words helps many people assimilate this; it is a technique that allows many to derive dual benefit from all kinds of study. Also extra likely to occur because of the reward, as well as worthy of special study simply because of the reward, are the seven- and eight-letter words. Many techniques are possible. One top player has memorized an ordered list of these words each of which is the first element of one of a set of subsidiary lists which encompass the entire set of bingos. That method is only for the very dedicated. Practice anagramming by matching the remaining letters to a common suffix or prefix. Some claim success in extending this technique to allow recognition of words which, for example, contain the letters ING but form only a non-"-ING" word, such as LINGOES. Unless you have a photographic memory, try to learn words in small enough sets that you can master them to the point that you recognize both when you can and cannot anagram to one of them. For example, learn the list of all eight letter words containing exactly the vowels EEIIO (EOLIPILE and others). Then the phony OLEINIZE will not get by you, nor will you try it yourself. Try Anamonics, an efficient technique for learning, positively and negatively, whether a letter set anagrams to a word. For example, the letters of SLANDER make an 8-letter word with each of those in CALL GOD A PIOUS CHUMP. For this and other very effective techniques, see back issues of Medleys (section 5.1.5.3). Practice anagramming at any time there are words around you whose meaning you do not need to concentrate on. This will soon take over your life so that even reading the newspaper, SENATOR will translate to TREASON and ATONERS, deeply affecting your world-view. 7. Typical games 7.1. Typical scores In a 27 game, 194 participant tournament in 1988, the average score was 368.6, standard deviation 60.6 and the distribution of scores: 180 2 420 214 190 1 430 165 200 2 440 141 210 5 450 101 220 26 460 100 230 27 470 58 240 19 480 63 250 56 490 53 260 78 500 34 270 101 510 24 280 137 520 19 290 185 530 12 300 205 540 6 310 257 550 6 320 309 560 4 330 325 570 7 340 336 580 1 350 345 590 1 360 325 600 2 370 331 610 0 380 325 620 0 390 328 630 0 400 276 640 0 410 225 650 1 7.2. Frequency of bingos In the 1983 national championship among 32 selected players, players got 2.9 bingos per game between them in games that happened to be annotated. 8. Scrabble records 8.1. Actual The following records are for sanctioned (that is, in an official club or tournament) North American play. Some UK records are mentioned, but not those occurring under high-score rules. (See section 4.) The high combined score and the high individual score were both obtained in a 1993 California tournament by Mark Landsberg, who scored 770 against his opponent's 338. (Graeme Thomas has scored 789 in the UK, using OSW.) The high margin of victory including phonies was by Ken Lambe of Michigan, who scored 716 versus his opponent's 147, using a single phony. The high single turn, 338 points, was achieved in a club game by Jeff Widergren of California. Longest consecutive opening sequence of bingos by one player: Jeremiah Mead of Massachusetts played five in a 1989 North American championship tournament game. 8.2. Theoretical These records allow words only from the OSPD (1st ed.) and Merriam-Webster (9th ed.). The highest single scoring play, found by Kyle Corbin of North Carolina, shown with the hooked words: A1 OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1458 1A OPACIFYING 63 3A YELKS 12 4A PREInTERVIEWED 25 h1 BRAINWASHING 63 k1 AMELIORATIVE 17 l1 ZARFS 27 15A EJACULATING 63 +bonus 50 ---- 1778 The highest combined score, found by Steven Root of Massachusetts: H2 LANKEST 74 8F METRICAL 60 8A GRAVIMETRI(C)ALLY 293 2F SULTANA(S) 61 1E HE, ES 7 1E HEN, NU 8 1I UT, UT, TA 6 1I UTA, AN 5 1M ON OS 3 L2 AR 2 L2 ARF 12 1A OXYPHENBUTAZONE, BLANKEST, ZARF 1576 5E GINKGOES, ZARFS 123 B1 XI 18 O7 PYRUVATE 67 N14 WE, WE 20 D8 VERDITER 76 13B DIT 8 B13 DE 6 B13 DEI 4 15D ROT 3 G14 OE, ROTE 6 13G JOE, JO 35 I13 BA, JOB 22 I13 BAH 8 14I AI 4 K14 LI, AIL 5 11D DEADWOOD 106 15A MICROTECHNIQUES, IN, PYRUVATES 1264 +2 times "F" 8 ---- 3642 8.3. Blocked games The positions from which no play is possible no matter what tiles are held, which are reached with the fewest plays and tiles (found by Jim Geary of Arizona and Kyle Corbin of North Carolina, respectively) are: (K) (J) K E V J U S V O X S O X (X)U (X)U Without using blanks, the smallest, found by Rick Wong of California, is: F HUP FUCI PIU 9. Scrabble variants In Anagram Scrabble (Clabbers, to some), where in the usual game, a word in the dictionary may be used, the adjacent tiles need only anagram to such a word. If there is a challenge, the challengee must come up with a single word to which the challenged set of letters anagrams. Tiles are still fixed in position once placed. In an idea discussed in Medleys, called New Scrabble, the role of luck in the draw of blanks is reduced in that both players have one blank, not in the bag, which they may use to replenish their rack once during the game. Ecology Scrabble allows recycling blanks, in accordance with a common "house rule". See section 3.3.2. In Duplicate Scrabble, players all play the same board, competing for high score on each move. Duplicate tournaments are held in France. Open Sequence Scrabble, which has been used as the basis for English language duplicate competition, is easy to play by e-mail. Two players have an ongoing game on the Web, . 10. Play-by-mail games Open-book Scrabble by snail mail is run by Medleys. (See section 5.1.5.3 for its address.) Medleys charges $5 for a round, plus $3 per game in a round; players participate in from 2 to 8 simultaneous games. In the UK, the Postal Scrabble Club is very active. See the Appendix for a contact. 11. Scrabble paraphernalia 11.1. Tiles Milton Bradley will replace without charge individual lost tiles from in-print sets sold in North America. Write to Milton Bradley Co Attn Customer Service Dept 443 Shaker Rd East Longmeadow, MA 01028 specifying the tiles, set type, and item number of the set. Standard-issue tiles are "braillable", that is, particular letters (and especially blanks) can be distinguished inside the bag by feel, and "false blanks" may be played, since the back of all tiles is the same as the front of a blank. Protiles, which are preferred according to tournament rules, prevent this. They are long-lasting, and the seller replaces lost tiles without charge. Available for $18 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1, or for $18 per set (10% off for 10 or more) from Robert Schoenman Box 408 Lake Oswego, OR 97034 Protiles in a 3-piece design (front and back encasing a paper letter) are supplied by Roy Peshkin, section 11.3. For $8.50 per set, Nate Kates will imprint the back of plastic Protiles with a name of up to 4 or 5 letters. Nate Kates 8170 Reche Canyon Rd Colton, CA 92324 In the UK, Spear makes Tournament Tiles, which besides having thinner, harder to braille ink than the regular Spear tiles, do not wear as quickly, nor smudge when wet. Available from Philip Nelkon (section 3.2) for #6. 11.2. Clocks Chess clocks, used to time games at clubs and tournaments, are available where chess paraphernalia is sold, but avoid those analog models on whose faces the individual minutes past zero are not marked. Analog quartz clocks are sold by Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1, for $45 (or $52 for a see-through case) + $5 shipping, and also by Matchups, section 12.6, $67.50 + $5 shipping, section 12.6. Wind-up clocks are sold by Matchups for $42.50 + $5 shipping. A precision analog clock, well suited to Scrabble, is sold for $125 with padded case. It features a second hand which stops at discrete positions to assure rulings as precise as those using a digital clock. Richard Buck 10 Gilkey Ct Watertown, MA 02172 (617) 923-8909 A digital model also well suited to Scrabble, called the "SamTimer", is the only choice for large (one inch) numbers showing seconds of overtime (in part because its maker caused that ability to be removed >from a competing model), and a slanted face, is sold for $135 (+ $10 for padded bag) + $3 shipping by Sam Kantimathi Box 5236 El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-5236 (916) 933-3360 In the UK, the APSP sells wind-up clocks for #20. 11.3. Playing equipment In addition to various plain, deluxe (rotating) and travel editions sold by the trademark holders, a few types of circular rotating boards are sold. These generally incorporate paper markings taken >from an authorized board. For information, write to any of Phil Rosenberg 864 Colonial Av Union, NJ 07083 John Cornelius 20 Henry St Dayton, OH 45402-2239 (513)223-4536 to Mary Lou Thurman (below), Roy Peshkin or to Eileen Willis 3664 Danielle Ct NE North Liberty, IA 52317 (319) 626-6391 Braille and Low-Vision Scrabble, a variant of the deluxe, turntable edition, is sold in North America by Lighthouse, Inc., (800) 829-0500. Blind players do play in tournaments, bringing their own braille sets, which have visible printed letters. The Franklin Mint sells a Scrabble set (complete with a copy of the OSPD2), with wooden board and shiny metal tiles, for $495, even higher in the UK. No serious player I know owns one except a few who have won this garish item as a Franklin-donated tournament prize. Mary Lou Thurman sells several things, including: a cover of light plastic mesh for the deluxe edition of Scrabble allowing collecting tiles from the board all at once, $2.50 square, $3.50 round; tote bags, $15-$20; tile bags, $6-$10; chess clock bags, $7; OSPD book covers, $6-$7; Wordbook covers, $7; all optionally decorated or embroidered with names. 7.5% tax and $1.50-$4.00 shipping up for $10-$40 of merchandise. Mary Lou Thurman 2627 24th St Lubbock, TX 79410 (806) 744-7702 Luise Shafritz sells lined tile bags with the aid of a spring device to prevent tiles from falling out, as well as clock protectors and other items. Bags are $10 or $8, plus $2 shipping ($3 for more than one). 2740 Meadowcrest Ct Wexford, PA 15090 (412) 935-5896, 935-6048 fax Peter and Trudy Olson sell silk tile bags with rounded corners for $21, by money order, including postage. P.O. Box 236, McKenna, WA 98558, (360) 894-1340. Punch bound books of 100 scoresheets in various colors and tracking orders, with or without board diagrams, are available for $5.00 each plus $3.00 shipping for up to 3 books from Danny Gatlin 191 Lakeshore Rd Jackson, MS 39212 11.4. Miscellaneous Spear (section 3.2) (shipping is to UK and Ireland only) T-shirts, standard #5.99, deluxe #7.99; baseball caps, #5.99; pins #1.25; tournament tiles #6.00; pens #.30 each, plus #1 shipping Magnificent Mouchoirs Boxer shorts, #12.95; handkerchief, #6.95; silk tie, #19.95; braces (suspenders) #24.95; bow tie, #14.95; cuff links, #14.95. Shipping #1.95 within UK, #4.00 within Europe, #6.00 outside Europe. The cuff links are of individual Scrabble tiles; Q, U, V, X, Y and Z are not available. The others depict the board from the deciding game of the 1993 World [English Language] Scrabble Championship; on the handkerchief, the board is exact, on the others, it is taken from a continuous fabric of that board, resulting in distortions. The players (and authors?) of that game (Mark Nyman and Joel Wapnick) are not credited and are not being compensated. Magnificent Mouchoirs Quayside Lodge William Morris Way London SW6 2SY 0171 371 7017, fax 0171 371 7115 Novel-Tees Authorized Scrabble t-shirts, with such sayings as "Scrabble Is My Life" spelled out, at least in part, in tiles. Novel-Tees PO Box 4043 Lindenwold NJ 08021-4043 12. Computer versions of Scrabble There are (1) Scrabble-playing programs licensed in the US and UK; (2) "crossword game" programs which can be configured to play Scrabble; and (3) programs which ignore the trademark and copyright issues. All are represented below. For a citation to a publication on efficient Scrabble move finding, see section 12.13. An improvement on the method described there appears in: A Faster Scrabble Move Generation Algorithm Steven Gordon Software Practice and Experience, 24:2, Feb 1994, pp. 219-232 The following paper compares approaches for move selection: A Comparison Between Probabilistic Search and Weighted Heuristics in a Game with Incomplete Information Steven Gordon AAAI Fall 1993 Symposium on Games: Playing and Learning, AAI Press Technical Report FS9302, Menlo Park, CA James A. Cherry () will mail back computerized critiques of played games, after being supplied properly formatted game logs. 12.1. CrossWise (IBM PC, Windows) A ridiculously fast player which plays at the highest level, twice having won the international Computer Olympiad at Scrabble. Highly configurable, with a professionally programmed interface. Contains all OSPD3 words, but no others over eight letters. (An augmentation of the dictionary to cover 9 letter words is $12.50.) No setup capability; hinting ability is "limited" to showing all moves in score order. $35 + $4.50 shipping for DOS, $45 + $5.00 shipping for Windows. Cygnus Cybernetics Corporation 2013 Weathertop Fort Collins, CO 80526 (800) 357-8168 (970) 490-1288 (970) 493-5370 fax A UK variant of CrossWise is described in section 12.7. Note that the shipping charge for orders of multiple items is $3.50 for the first $29.99 of merchandise, plus $.50 for each $10.00 up to a maximum of $6.00. 12.2. Gameboy Super Scrabble (Nintendo) Based on American Heritage Dictionary, not OSPD. 12.3. Maven (Macintosh, Windows) An extremely strong and intelligent player. Never having entered the International Computer Olympiad, its strength can't reliably be compared to CrossWise's. It includes excellent facilities for position analysis. The program keeps track of various statistics about the registered player, so orders must include the name of the player, and (if available) their current rating. All rights to Maven have been sold to Hasbro, so it won't be available until Hasbro comes out with its own, official, version. Sheppard Company, Inc. 60 Thoreau St #187 Concord MA 01742-9116 (508) 287-0055 (508) 287-4583 fax 12.4. Monty Plays Scrabble (hand-held) Ritam Corporation. Originally available for the IBM PC and Apple II, since 1987 only as a hand-held unit. Comes with 20,000 words from OSPD1, upgradable to about 40,000, which is still incomplete. Deplorable strategy. The hand-held version requires scrolling around a small screen to find the board area of interest. Reportedly sometimes changes the letter represented by a played blank. Apparently no longer licensed by Milton Bradley, its current availability is unknown. 12.5. Scramble/Literati (IBM PC/Windows) These are very pretty games. But note this from the documentation of Scramble, available for ftp at ftp.accessnv.com\fg\games\scram12.zip, (which applies as well to Literati, the Windows port): "Q. How come I can see my opponent's rack? Shouldn't it be hidden? A. You must be thinking of some other crossword game. This is Scramble. In Scramble, you get to see your opponent's rack." The machine player plays for high score on each turn. While substitution of a user-provided dictionary for the quite incomplete one supplied is provided for, this slows down an already slow game. Ted Gruber Software P.O. Box 13408 Las Vegas, NV 89112 The unregistered version of Literati v1.15, available for ftp at or , is limited to using the provided small dictionary and a non-Scrabble board; registering at $24.95 plus shipping ($4 in the US) brings a full dictionary but still not a standard board. MVP Software 1035 Dallas S.E. Grand Rapids, MI 49507-1407 12.6. Tyler (IBM PC, Macintosh) Written for the IBM PC and ported to the Macintosh (not very smoothly, I am told), this version is distinguished by a complete OSPD2 and Merriam-Webster dictionary up to 15 letters, with a UK dictionary also available, by good strategy and by good setup and hint facilities. (I regularly use it to automatically critique my tournament games.) Unfortunately, the latest version, 3.04 is flaky, and the author has not been upgrading as frequently as he had been. $50 + $2 shipping. OSPD3 version due out soon. Matchups 35 Gardner St Arlington, MA 02174 (617) 661-1007 12.7. US Gold Scrabble (IBM PC, Amiga, Atari ST) Licensed for sale in the UK, this is essentially similar to CrossWise (section 12.1), but comes with the complete contents of the OSW. Reviews in the APSP newsletter say "a splendid opponent ... speed is quite astonishing ... graphics and facilities are excellent." Cost is around #30. US Gold Units 2/3 Holford Way Holford Birmingham B6 7AX Tel: +44 1213 563388 12.8. Vic Rice's Game (IBM PC) This goes under the name "Scrabble" but for clarity, I'm denominating it according to its author's name. Available from Vic Rice 4026 Bayou Grove Dr. Seabrook, TX 77586 and from the bulletin board system (BBS) where the author resides: Ed Hopper's PC Board (713) 782-5454 12.9. Virgin Mastertronic (IBM PC, Macintosh) Licensed for sale in the US. Sold in three versions, about $15, $25 and $35. The standard version has about 20,000 words from the OSPD1. The two deluxe versions have the complete OSPD1 with some errors. In the IBM PC program, the deluxe version adds VGA graphics. The $35 version is the deluxe for Windows, which stops running when in the background. Reportedly plays at the level of a middling tournament player, but with no discernible strategy. Also reportedly very slow, with the deluxe versions, holding the full OSPD1, taking two to three minutes per move on a 386/33. Windows deluxe version was available at $18.95 from Surplus Software, (800) 753-7877. Mac version may be available from MacPlay. 12.10. WordsWorth (IBM PC) Shareware version, available for ftp from ftp.aztec.co.za in /pub/gram/wwdem.zip, uses the OSPD2 restricted to words of up to six letters. Registration brings the complete OSPD2 and Merriam-Webster, and costs 75 S. African Rand, $25 US or #20. Currently in version 1.3; version 2.0, out soon, will be for Windows and X11. Graham Wheeler P.O. Box 6680 Roggebaai Cape Town 8012 South Africa 12.11. STrabbler (Atari) Shareware, it is available for ftp from atari.archive.umich.edu in the directory /atari/Games. It requires at least 1MB of memory. Words are played by click-and-drag using the mouse. The program plays solely for high score. It contains a 45,000 word editable and browsable dictionary. 12.12. Unix Scrabble (Unix) Available by ftp from ftp.doe.carleton.ca in the directory /pub/scrabble. This program, by James A. Cherry, has to be compiled for the target machine. It comes with an American Scrabble dictionary, for which a single word file in simple ASCII may be substituted. Currently in version 1.31. The player faces from one to three computer opponents which play for highest score at each move. 12.13. CRAB (Unix, Sun, Vax and Macintosh) Based on their article in a research journal: The World's Fastest Scrabble Program Andrew W. Appel and Guy J. Jacobson Communications of the A.C.M. v.31 no.5, May 1988, pp. 572-578,585 abstract: this product from Jacoppel Enterprises (the Unix, Sun, Vax version of which is currently in version 1.3) appears primarily designed to demonstrate the speed of their move-finding method, but does permit a real, player-versus-machine game to be played. Their method is no longer the fastest (their timings on more sophisticated machines are far outdone by CrossWise on a lowly IBM PC), but illuminating nonetheless. The Mac version is available at any mirror of the Info-Mac archive, including mirrors.aol.com, directory /pub/info-mac/game/word, in the file x-words-10.hqx; the Unix source code is available by anonymous ftp from the Crossword Archives, gatekeeper.dec.com, /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive/crab.sh. 12.14. Scrabble Door (IBM PC BBS) When installed by the system operator, allows playing others on an IBM-PC based BBS. Player, logged on to the BBS, need not be using a PC. Shareware, $25 payable by sysop. Registered version includes built-in dictionary based on OSPD2, and allows sysop-supplied ASCII dictionary. Rather than challenges, plays with phonies are rejected, costing a player's turn only after 3 bad attempts. Christopher Hall P.O. Box 165507 Irving, TX 75016-5507 12.15. ScrabOut (Windows) User-installable dictionary. Plays merely for high score and doesn't see parallel plays. Having to drag tiles to the board can be annoying. Available for ftp from byrd.math.uga.edu in the directory /pub/win/games/scrabble, filename scrabout.zip or in Compuserve's Windows Game Forum. Registration at $10 brings support, and in forthcoming version 2.0, may include more standard dictionaries. Lance Frohman 2035 Filbert Street #102 San Francisco, CA 94123 12.16. X-Words (Macintosh) Registration of this shareware product by Andrew Trevorrow is $20. Available by anonymous ftp at ftp.kagi.com, directory downloads/akt, in the file xwords.hqx. Handsome interface, easy to set to common board configuration. Lexicon is OSPD1, but editable. Will kibitz high scoring and best play; has setup (a bit laborious) but not simulation capability. Reportedly fast, with strategy somewhat weaker than Maven's (section 12.3), still leaving it fairly strong. Andrew Trevorrow 12.17. Amiga Scrabble (Amiga) Scrabble for the Amiga. Available by anonymous ftp from plaza.aarnet.edu.au in the directory /pub/aminet/game/2play, file scrabble.lha. Author and features unknown so far. 12.18. Scrabble CD-ROM (Windows, other formats unknown) Hasbro plans on coming out with a CD-ROM based version of Scrabble in the fourth quarter of 1996. Beta versions are being demonstrated. The board will be seen only from a 3-D non-perpendicular perspective. 12.19. XScrabble (X Windows) This program, by Matt Chapman and Matthew Badham, has to be compiled for the target machine. It allows saving and restoring games, and comes with OSPD2. Available at 13. Glossary Bingo: A play that uses all seven of a player's tiles, earning a 50-point bonus. Good tournament players average one to two such plays per game. The unlovely term "bingo" is used by North American players. British players say "bonus play" or just "bonus". Double-Double, Triple-Triple: A play that covers two double word scores, or triple word scores, respectively, scoring quadruple or nonuple ("hey, it's in Chambers") the raw score of the word. In the UK, "4-timer" and "9-timer". Exchange: A turn in which a player trades letters rather than playing on the board. This is allowed only when at least 7 tiles remain in the bag. In the UK, "change". Hook: A play adding one letter to one end of of a word already played, while creating a main word perpendicular to the extended word. Leave: The tiles remaining on a player's rack after their play. Parallel Play: A play making several words perpendicular to the main word by extending existing words or inserting letters between existing tiles. Pass: A turn in which a player does nothing. Compare with exchange. Phony: A word played that is not in the official dictionary or dictionaries. 14. Litigation This section is still in planning, but will describe Landsberg v. Scrabble Crossword Game Players, Inc., 736 F.2d 485 (9th Cir. 1984), Worth v. Selchow & Righter Co., 827 F.2d 569 (9th Cir. 1987), the "Trivial Pursuit" case, the "Scribbage" case (proper names to be filled in when I find my notes), and perhaps others. A0. Copyright This article is copyright 1994-1996 Steven Alexander. Except as follows, all rights are reserved. Copies may be made in propagating any of the entire Usenet newsgroups on which this is posted by the copyright holder. Archives accessible by anonymous ftp which collect FAQs or entire Usenet newsgroups may maintain a copy. Individuals may make single copies for personal, non-commercial purposes. Each copy permitted must be complete. Other than the above, no permission is granted to copy or distribute. No permission is granted to prepare derivative works. A1. Credits Many thanks to John J. Chew III, Jim Homan and Graeme Thomas for numerous corrections and improvements. Also to Barry Harridge and Philip F.X. Ryan for information on Australia. Thanks also to Edith Berman, Gary Dismukes, Steven Gordon, Adam Logan, Maggie Morley, Larry Sherman and Harriet Strasberg for helpful comments, and to the members of the mailing list crossword-games-pro (section 3.6.2), who ferret out and share much useful information. If you have suggestions or better information on anything here, please mail me at with "FAQ" in the subject. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steven Alexander Path: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu!bloom-beacon.mit.edu!news.mathworks.com!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.direct.ca!nntp.teleport.com!usenet From: stevena@teleport.com (Steven Alexander) Newsgroups: rec.games.board,rec.puzzles.crosswords,rec.answers,news.answers Subject: Scrabble FAQ - Club and Tournament Supplement Followup-To: rec.games.board Date: 15 Jul 1996 22:55:47 GMT Organization: Teleport - Portland's Public Access (503) 220-1016 Lines: 2290 Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu Expires: Sat, 17 Aug 1995 00:00:00 GMT Message-ID: <4sei9j$ito@nadine.teleport.com> References: <4sehgk$ijk@nadine.teleport.com> Reply-To: stevena@teleport.com (Steven Alexander) NNTP-Posting-Host: linda.teleport.com Summary: This supplement to the Frequently Asked Questions concerning Scrabble lists clubs and upcoming tournaments within North America, and contacts for outside. Keywords: Scrabble, crossword game URL: http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faq.html Xref: senator-bedfellow.mit.edu rec.games.board:86911 rec.puzzles.crosswords:6353 rec.answers:22345 news.answers:76933 Last-modified: 9 Jul 1996 Archive-name: games/scrabble-faq/supplement This and the companion article are available by ANONYMOUS FTP to rtfm.mit.edu (18.181.0.24) and get the files /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/general /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/supplement EMAIL (for those without ftp access) send To: mail-server@rtfm.mit.edu Subject: send /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/general send /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/supplement A hypertext version is available in "http://www.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/faq.html". A2. 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Mexico CANADA No. 3 TORONTO, ONTARIO Wednesdays @ 7:30 PM Earl Bales Park Comm Ctr Bathurst St (S of Sheppard Ave W) Call for information Mike & Lynda Wise (416) 225-3535 37 Rockland Dr Willowdale ON M2M 2Y8 No. 83 MONTREAL, QUEBEC Mondays @ 7:15 PM Centennial Park Chalet #3 6975 Mackle Rd C(^)ote St Luc, Montreal (514) 485-6824 Bernard Gotlieb (514) 484-0824, (514) 484-2660 5770 Hudson Ave C(^)ote-St-Luc QC H4W 2K6 Fran Silver (514) 481-2813 No. 177 VANCOUVER, B.C. Call for information Robert Fancett (604) 325-9940 Alan and June Banwell (604) 987-7610 Christina O'Sullivan Or attend unofficial club at Thursdays @ 7:30 PM St David's Church Taylor Way West Vancouver No. 193 BRANTFORD, ONTARIO Mondays @ 7:00 PM St Mark's Anglican Church 155 Memorial Dr off Dunsdon Glenn Dunlop (519) 752-2242 55 Brunswick St Brantford ON N3T 1E9 Pat Tolhurst (519) 753-7232 No. 252 HAMILTON/DUNDAS, ONTARIO Thursdays @ 7:00 PM Carnegie Gallery Library Ogilvie & King St Barry Spinner (905) 528-3776 Vivian Minden (905) 628-2888 No. 263 OSHAWA, ONTARIO Mondays @ 7:30 PM Woodview Comm Ctr Cadillac Ave Oshawa ON Linda Gomes (905) 579-1850 Trevor Sealy (905) 432-8828 No. 264 MOOSE JAW, SASKATCHEWAN Mondays @ 7:00 PM Fridays @ 1:30 PM Cosmo Senior Citizen Ctr 235 3rd St NE (306) 692-6072 Dorothy L Evans (306) 693-5949 971 Coteau St W, #5 Moose Jaw SK S6H 5G1 Muriel Allcock (306) 693-2375 No. 307 COURTENAY, B.C. Thursdays @ 7:00 PM 16-1440 13th St Call for information Winnie & Ed Skalazub (604) 338-6619 No. 374 CALGARY, ALBERTA Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM Riverview United Church 824 Imperial Way SW Siri Tillekeratne (403) 281-2459 16 Cedarwood Pl SW Calgary AB T2W 3G6 Marjorie Gross (403) 245-0554 No. 402 VICTORIA, B.C. Thursdays @ 6:30 PM Call for information Helga Williams (604) 380-9962 Don Malcolm (604) 479-4932 No. 422 MISSISSAUGA, ONTARIO Thursdays @ 7:30 PM Presbyterian Church 353 S Common Ct Shaun Goatcher (905) 821-9726 6953 Pamplona Mews Mississauga, ON L5N 1S5 Dan Fuller (905) 274-4433 No. 457 TILLSONBURG, ONTARIO Call for information Alida Hunt (519) 582-2628 569 Orchard Ave Delhi, ON N4B 2H4 A3. Upcoming North American tournaments Note that tournament directors apparently have begun to comply with the NSA directive that, to play in their second and succeeding tournaments, players must be members of NSA. Jul 21-25, Dallas, TX North American Championship Sunday 9:30 am, registration 7/20 or make arrangement 27 games, 4 divisions divided at 1800/1500/1200 entry fee $75/60/50/50 + $25 postmarked after 6/21 Hyatt Regency Hotel, 300 Reunion St, (800) 233-1234 hotel rate per night $79/single + $10 each additional person Info: National Scrabble Association, c/o Williams & Company, 120 Front St Garden, Box 700, Greenport, NY 11944, (516) 477-0033, 477-0294 fax Aug 3, Ronkonkoma, NY Saturday 9:30 am 7 game round robins of 8 entry fee $20 + $5 if paid after 7/31 Holiday Inn, 3845 Veterans Memoria Hw, Ronkonkoma, NY 11779 Info: Ginger White, 10 Huron Rd, Shirley, NY 11967, (516) 399-2579 Aug 3, Mississauga, ON Saturday 9:00 am 7 game round robins Erindale United Church, 1444 Dundas Crescent, Mississauga ON entry fee $20 CAN ($16 US), no walk-ins, register by phone up to 9:00 night before Info: Shaun Goatcher, (905) 821-9726 Aug 8-11, Reno, NV Thursday 9:00 am 25 games, 4 divisions divided at 1800/1500/1200 entry fee $100/100/75/75 by 8/5, no walk-ins Sands Regency Hotel/Casino, Reno, NV, (800) 648-3553 hotel rate $59/night (3 night minimum) Info: Johnny R Nevarez, 4804 Bannock Circle, San Jose, CA 95130, (408) 379-5845 Aug 10-11, Lubbock, TX Saturday 11:30 10 games, 3 divisions divided at 1600/1300 entry fee $30 (- $5 if received by 8/1) Lubbock Inn, 3901 19th St, Lubbock, TX 79407, (800) 545-8226 hotel rate $51/single, $59/double, $65/three Info: Mary Lou Thurman, 2627 24th St, Lubbock, TX 79410, (806) 744-7702 Aug 17-18, Independence, OH Saturday 9:30 am 12 game round robins of 12 + 1 Independence Comm Ctr, 6363 Selig Dr, Independence, OH 44131 Info: Walter Konicki, 381 E Sprague Rd, Seven Hills, OH 44131, (216) 524-8100, Dan Stock, (216) 356-7366, , Heidi Nemeth, (216) 333-6369 Aug 18, Claymont, DE Sunday 10:00 am 8 games, 3 divisions entry fee $50/35/35 including lunch Wilmington Hilton, I95 & Naamans Rd, Claymont, DE 19703, (800) HILTONS, (302) 792-2700 Info: Marilyn Everett, 620 Felton Ave, Sharon Hill, PA 19079, (610) 586-8488, Matt Hopkins, (215) 455-7749 Aug 23-25, Melrose, FL Friday 7:00 am 14 games, 4 divisions divided at ~1600/1300/1000 entry fee $50 Lake Swan Camp, 747 Hwy 26 E, Melrose, FL motel/dorm/campsite rate $65/50/38 including 6 meals Info: Raynie Pate, 581 SR 26 E, Melrose, FL 32666-9703, (904) 475-3554 Aug 24, New York, NY Saturday 5:40 pm 6 games, 2 divisions divided at 1650 entry fee $25 + $5 after 8/22, no walk-ins Beverly Club, 130 E 57 St, 3d fl, New York, NY Info: Ron or Susi Tiekert, P.O. Box 908, Bowling Green Sta, New York, NY 10274-0908, (212) 477-5352, Aug 24-25, Loughlin, NV Aug 25, West Bloomfield, MI Sunday 9:00 am 7 game round robins entry fee $20 (+ $5 after 8/25) Jewish Comm Ctr, 6600 West Maple Rd Info: Carol & M.G. Ravichandran, 6632 Telegraph Rd, Suite 166, Bloomfield Hills, MI 48301, (810) 489-9422, 489-9423 fax, Aug 31-Sep 1, Portland, OR Saturday 9:00 am 13 games, 4 divisions divided at 1750/1450/1150 entry fee $60/50/50/50 with lunches + $10 received after 8/27 Days Inn City Center, 1414 SW Sixth Ave, Portland, OR 97201, (800) DAYSINN, (503) 221-1611, fax (503) 226-0047 hotel rate $59/queen one or two, $64/double, $69/three, $74/four by 8/23 Info: R. A. Fontes, P.O. Box 1371, Lake Grove, OR 97035, (503) 638-7103 Sep 6-8, Somerset, NJ Friday 8:00 pm 17 game round robins of ~18 players entry fee $50 ($60 commuters), by 8/29, no same-day entries Embassy Suites Hotel, 121 Centennial Ave, Somerset, NJ hotel rate $209/single, $115/ppdo, $87/pp3o, $69/pp4o Info: Margaret Bauer Maneth, 8 Livingston Ave, Kearny, NJ 07032, (201) 991-1499 (after 12 noon), (410) 529-4053 (after 10 am) Sep 7, Mississauga, ON Saturday 9:00 am 7 game round robins Erindale United Church, 1444 Dundas Crescent, Mississauga ON entry fee $20 CAN ($16 US), no walk-ins, register by phone up to 9:00 night before Info: Shaun Goatcher, (905) 821-9726 Sep 7-8, Roseville, MN Saturday 9:00 am 12/10/10/10 games, 4 divisions divided at 1700/1350/1000 entry fee $30/25/20/15 Har Mar Mall Auditorium, N Snelling & Co Rd B, Roseville, MN Info: Tim Adamson, 1703 Laurel #4, St Paul, MN 55104, (612) 649-1649 Sep 8, Oakland, CA Sunday, 1:00 pm 6 game round robins entry fee $15 at door plus $5 minimum food order Village Restaurant, Lucky Shopping Center, 273 E 18 St, (510) 444-3690 Info: Cynthia Pughsley, (510) 839-4090, Stu Goldman, (415) 864-2463, Sep 9-21, Rome to Athens Cruise Monday 5:00 pm 10 games entry fee $36 Holland America Line's Maasdam cruise rate $2399+; airfare-included rates higher Info: Cruises Cruises Cruises, 29202 Agoura Rd, Suite A2, Agoura Hills, CA 91301, (800) 745-7545, , Penny Baker, 1235 Via Pintada, Riverside, CA 92507, (909) 683-0989 Sep 14-15, Albuquerque, NM Saturday 11:00 am 11 game round robins entry fee $25 (+ $5 at door) including two lunches Loma Linda Comm Ctr, 1700 Yale SE, (505) 764-1707 Info: Gertrude Savadge, 7010 Phoenix NE #315, Albuquerque, NM 87110, (505) 888-4355 Sep 21, Moorestown, NJ Saturday 8:30 am 7 game round robins entry fee $35 including lunch, by 9/13 First Presbyterian Church, Moorestown, NJ Info: Betty C McDaniel, 11 Pinewood Ln, Sicklerville, NJ 08081, (609) 728-9446 Sep 27-28, Tampa, FL Friday 6:30 pm 15 game round robins, divided at ~1650/1400/1100 entry fee $60/50/40/40 Ramada Airport Hotel & Conf Ctr, 5303 W Kennedy Blvd, Tampa, FL 33609, Steve Wolf at Consolidated Tours, (800) 543-7126 hotel rate $56/room Info: Tim Wise, P.O. Box 11533, Ft Lauderdale, FL 33339, (954) 942-6319, fax 942-5718 Sep 28, NewAlbany, IN Saturday 9:00 am 7 game round robins entry fee $25 including lunch New Albany-Floyd County Library, 180 W Spring St Info: Danny Bibb, 5885 Sand Hill Rd SE, Elizabeth, IN 47117, (812) 969-2728 Sep 28-29, North York, ON Saturday 9:00 am 12 games, 11 game round robins followed by king-of-the-hill entry fee $35 CAN ($30 US) by 9/20 Earl Bales Park Comm Ctr, Bathurst St south of Sheppard Ave, North York ON Info: Mike Wise, 37 Rockland Dr, Willowdale ON M2M 2Y8, (416) 225-3535, John Chew, Sep 28-29, Los Angeles, CA Saturday 9:00 am 12-16 games, ~4 divisions entry fee $60/55/50/50 including lunch, by 9/20 Embassy Suites Hotel/LAX, 9801 Airport Blvd, Los Angeles, CA, (310) 215-1000 hotel rate $99/room Info: ?? Oct 4-6, Calgary, AB Friday 6:45 pm 17 games, 4 divisions, divided at 1600/1300/1000 entry fee $80/60/40/30 CAN ($60/45/30/23 US) by 9/27 Quality Hotel Westward, 119 12 Avenue SW, (800) 661-9378, (403) 266-4611 hotel rate $68/2 queen, $58/2 double Info: Siri Tillekeratne, 16 Cedarwood Pl SW, Calgary AB T2W 3G6, (403) 281-2459 Oct 11-13, Plainview, NY Friday 8:30 pm 15 game round robins entry fee $50 (+ $15 commuters) Comfort Inn, Plainview, NY hotel rate $115/ppdo Info: Ginger White, 10 Huron Rd, Shirley, NY 11967, (516) 399-2579 Oct 12-13, Fremont, OH Saturday 10:00 am 13 games, round robin of 12 + 2 entry fee $45 ($55 after 10/10) including two lunch and brunch Holiday Inn, 3422 N State Rte 53, Fremont, OH 43420, (419) 334-2682 hotel rate $49/room, 1-4 people Info: Jacque Lease, 2557 Cherry Ridge Dr, Fremont, OH 43420, (419) 332-4186, fax 332-0202, Oct 18-21, Toronto, ON Canadian National championship open to citizens & 5-year residents with 1700 rating some time since January 1, 1994 Friday 3 divisions Arts & Letters Club, Toronto Oct 26, New York, NY Saturday 5:40 pm 6 games, 2 divisions divided at 1650 entry fee $25 + $5 after 10/22, no walk-ins Beverly Club, 130 E 57 St, 3d fl, New York, NY Info: Ron or Susi Tiekert, P.O. Box 908, Bowling Green Sta, New York, NY 10274-0908, (212) 477-5352, Nov 1-3, Baltimore, MD Nov 2, Long Island, NY Info: Ginger White, 10 Huron Rd, Shirley, NY 11967, (516) 399-2579 Nov 8-10, Cape Cod, MA includes separate open book tournament Info: Edie Miller Berman, 26 Ships Way, Bourne Village, MA 02532, (508) 759-2561, , Alan Frank, (617) NIT-TLED, Nov 10, Oakland, CA Sunday, 1:00 pm 6 game round robins entry fee $15 at door plus $5 minimum food order Village Restaurant, Lucky Shopping Center, 273 E 18 St, (510) 444-3690 Info: Cynthia Pughsley, (510) 839-4090, Stu Goldman, (415) 864-2463, Dec 6-8, Melrose, FL Info: Raynie Pate, 581 SR 26 E, Melrose, FL 32666-9703, (904) 475-3554 Dec 6-8, Las Vegas, NV Sahara Hotel Info: Paul Terry, 4414 Sparta Way, N Las Vegas, NV 89030, (702) 656-07570 Dec 7-8, Enfield, CT Info: Edie Miller Berman, 26 Ships Way, Bourne Village, MA 02532, (508) 759-2561, , Alan Frank, (617) NIT-TLED, Dec 9-16, New Orleans to Memphis Cruise games to be determined entry fee $50 Info: Gary Moss, 3290 N Knoll Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90068, (213) 874-3709, fax 874-5817, jftsoi@aol.com Jan 25-26, Laughlin, NV Saturday 9:00 am 13 games, 4 divisions divided at 1700/1350/1000 entry fee $75 + $10 after 1/1 Flamingo Hilton, Laughlin, NV hotel rates 2/1 nights $135/$80/single $140/65/double Info: Gary Moss, 3290 N Knoll Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90068, (213) 874-3709, fax 874-5817, A4. Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide English Language John Holgate Australian Scrabble Players Association 14 Moodie St Farrer Australia 2607 jholgate@ozemail.com.au Shiraz Amith Bahrain Scrabble League P.O. Box 20725 Bahrain Lorton Graham Claybury St John Barbados David Ndombe P.O. Box 577 Douala Cameroon Michel Charlemagne 20 Rue Vautier 94340 Joinville le Tont France +33 48 83 31 09 Steve Goldberg Ramot 418/17 Jerusalem Israel 97225 +972-2-776085, work +972-2-866868, home steve@hadassah.org.il Dixon Assesa Chairman Kenya Amateur Scrabble Association P.O. Box 21908 HSE. 762236 Nairobi, Kenya Tel: 331828 Gerry R. Perez c/o Hassan's Optician Co. Wataniya Tower Fahad Al-Salem St P.O. Box 1139 afat 13012 Kuwait Tel: 2458027, fax: 2421815 James W. Flomo, National Chairman National Scrabble Association of Liberia c/o Ministry of Youth & Sports Mail Bag 9051, Newport Street Monrovia Liberia Haji A. Majid Jaafar (tel/fax: 03-2929 845) Vice President Malasian Scrabble Association c/o Office of the Deputy Minister of Defence 5th Floor Wisma Pertahanan Jalan Padang Tembak 50634 Kuala Lumpur Tel: 603-2355 040, fax 603-2910 131 Mohammad Ali Ismail Vice President Malasian Scrabble Association c/o Radio Rediffusion SDN BHD 19th Floor, Bangunan Amdb 1 Jalan Lumut 50400 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia Tel: 603-4481 101; 603-4419 988; 603-4449 880 Handphones: 6012-2106229; 6019-3113215 Fax: 603-4439 988 Jeff Grant Waipatu Settlement Rd RD2 Hastings New Zealand John Foster, President New Zealand Association of Scrabble Players P.O. Box 99-402 Newmarket, Auckland New Zealand Tel: (09) 827-0060 Femi Awowade P.O. Box 20307, U.I. Post Office Ibadan, Nigeria National Scrabble Association of Phillippines, Inc Rosario B Lambino 2-H Gatdula Bldg 2 Katarungan St Mandaluyong 1500 Metro Manila Phillippines Candido Filio 4 Matimtiman St Teacher's Village Diliman, Quezon City Philippines 1101 Armando "Bing" Lao 1034 Sikatuna Bliss I Sikatuna Village Quezon City, Metro Manila Philippines Lucian Manescu Comisia Centrala de Scrabble Anglofon Federatia Romana de Scrabble str. Cismelei nr. 17 bl. 1A, sc. B, ap. 53 Constanta, 8700 Romania Dan Laurentiu Sandu, Presidente Comisia Centrala de Scrabble Anglofon Federatia Romana de Scrabble C.P. 72-130; sector 3; cod 74600 Bucharest, Romania Tel: 673.36.46 Larry Benjamin P.O. Box 891189 Lyndhurst Tvl. 2106 Republic of South Africa Trevor Duke 405 Majestic Gate 38 Empire Rd Parktown, Johannesburg Republic of South Africa Tony Sim Block 27 Marine Crescent #09-07 Singapore 1544 Singapore Missaka Warusawitharana 11 De Silva Rd Kaluboloila Sri Lanka Amnuay Ploysangngam Director, Thailand Crossword Club 645/1 Petchburi Rd Phayathai Bangkok 10400 Thailand (662) 254-9607, 252-8147, fax 252-8147 Robin John 23 Schneider Gardens Petit Valley Trinidad and Tobago Diane Pratesi Postal Scrabble Club 33 Amberley Rd Leyton London, E10 7ER United Kingdom French Franck Manniquant, Secretary Fe<'>de<'>ration Franc<,>aise de Scrabble 96, Boulevard Pereire 75017 Paris France Tel +33 1 43 80 40 36 Fax +33 1 47 64 36 88 Fe<'>de<'>ration Internationale de Scrabble Francophone Boulevard Saint-Lazare, 4 Boi<^>te 16-1210 Bruxelles Belgium Tel +32 2 219 1587 Fax +32 2 223 0482 Fe<'>de<'>ration Que<'>be<'>coise des Clubs de Scrabble Francophone - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Steven Alexander