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Personal approaches: Scrabble Cartoon
Posted by johnG on Monday, March 23 @ 12:21:15 EDT (896 reads)
Topic Miscellaneous
Anonymous writes "Scrabble, the way it was never intended. As a long-time player, I had to make this cartoon about the way my friend and I play together.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GTFrFZd_eHg"


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Personal approaches: Another Hierarchy of Study
Posted by johnG on Tuesday, July 18 @ 18:52:57 EDT (2598 reads)
Topic Study Approaches
by Geoff Thevenot

Another player's observations; mileage may vary...


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Personal approaches: Hierarchy of Study
Posted by johnG on Tuesday, July 18 @ 11:16:51 EDT (2969 reads)
Topic Study Approaches
by Ben Withers

The question about studying 9s got me to thinking about what words are most valuable to know in terms of effectively playing Scrabble. I have given this considerable thought over the last 3-4 years, after starting a program of study intended to eventually encompass all words up to 8 letters long.


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Personal approaches: Combine anagraming with study
Posted by john on Saturday, July 24 @ 06:11:55 EDT (6239 reads)
Topic Study Approaches
Rob Robinsky wrote: Though I have a semi-photographic memory for words, I've found that I learn more quickly and deeply when I actually work with the words as I study them.


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Personal approaches: Different strokes
Posted by john on Friday, July 23 @ 17:37:20 EDT (1500 reads)
Topic Study Approaches
If you've been following the cgp debate involving Brian Williams and John O'Laughlin about 'playability' of bingos as measured by bingos that Bots play...


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