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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...

Course: Champions and bold adventuresSection: Scrabble history and winning strategiesSubtitles: en

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have to do

7:43

something about it and that is what we

7:45

call

7:50

blocking so if you notice we we scored

7:53

little But with the little that we

7:56

scored, we were able to prevent our

7:58

opponent from having access to this very

8:03

juicy

8:06

square. Keeping a poker face is very,

8:09

very invaluable in Scrabble. Some people

8:12

make the mistake of making it easy for

8:17

your opponent to guess the kind of tiles

8:19

you have just by looking at your face.

8:22

So, in Scrabble, you want to be able to

8:25

keep a bland face, an unreadable

8:30

face. Okay, get your board, tiles,

8:33

rocks, and some players because you are

8:35

definitely ready to scrappble.

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