Lesson 1
The challenge of Scrabble
S C R A BB L E Scrabble. The famous board game that forces you to be both a spelling bee and a math wiz. And though you've tried to hit that triple word a few times, luck hasn't...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
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Scrabble history and winning strategies
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Lesson 2
Basic Scrabble rules
rules. Each player gets seven letters. There are 98 letter tiles and two magical blank tiles. Those can be turned into any letter. You cannot play diagonally, as much as that wo...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 3
How Scrabble was invented
letters and create words from it. Alfred chose the amount of letter tiles in their point system by analyzing none other than the frequency of letters in the front pages of sever...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 4
How Scrabble became a business
manufacturing rights from Alfred and agreed to give him a royalty for every set sold. He copyrighted and trademarked Scrabble in December 1948 and then went to make the game set...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 5
A champion’s first Scrabble game
elder brother, he brought it home. I was like 14, 15. Back then I was a fan of such board games like Monopoly, chess and all that and I got naturally drawn to it. I played my fi...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 6
Prefixes, suffixes, and premium squares
like remaking. You are use utilizing both a suffix and a prefix. What you want to do is to be able to extend an existing word to get to the premium squares. You can add an E R t...
Language: enDuration: 2 min
Lesson 7
Blocking your opponent
something about it and that is what we call blocking so if you notice we we scored little But with the little that we scored, we were able to prevent our opponent from having ac...
Language: enDuration: 1 min
Language: en
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