101 Ways to Win at Scrabble (Collins Little Books)电子书

Table of Contents

Foreword

About the Author

1 Think Positive

2 Two-Letter Words

3 Using the A-Team

4 Too Much of a Good Thing

5 Three-Letter Words

6 Three-dom!

7 Small but Powerful

8 Not the B All and End All

9 Queen B’s

10 B is for Bonus

11 Four-Letter Words

12 Four Play

13 More on All Fours

14 The C

15 Bonuses with a C

16 Starting on the Sevens

17 Seventh Heaven

18 Sizing up the Eights

19 Fantastic Fours

20 Evaluate your Rack

21 The D

22 Short D’s

23 Making the Change

24 Before we Leave Those Vowels…

25 Keep Scoring

26 Play Parallel

27 Ode to the E

28 Short E’s

29 You Can Put an E After That?

30 Six-Letter Stems

31 Retain Those Good Letters

32 Using the F

33 Bonuses with an F

34 Seven-Letter Stems

35 Q but no U

36 Don’t Forget the Americans

37 The G

38 Nuthin’ but a G Thang

39 G8 Summit

40 Retains is a STARNIE

41 Teasing Anagrams

42 The Angriest Words

43 K-Obsessed Kiwis

44 The H

45 H-H-High Score

46 Noun(s)

47 Verbs

48 Don’t Push a Verb too Far

49 Tricky Adjectives

50 The I

51 I’s on the Prize

52 Captain Hook

53 Compound your Chances

54 Those Incorrigible Aussies

55 Double Trouble

56 Joy with J

57 Wonders of India

58 The Blank

59 Don’t Forget Mnemonics

60 Remember Retold

61 Watch Where you Put Those Tiles

62 The K

63 Out of Africa

64 Opening and Closing Time

65 Premium Squares

66 Benjamins

67 Anagrams

68 Which Anagrams are the Most Useful?

69 How do you Spell That?

70 Calm Canadians

71 Spoilt for Choice

72 The L

73 The M

74 Bonuses with M

75 You Don’t Get Two Goes in a Row

76 Keep on the Right Track

77 The N

78 Challenge!

79 The O

80 The P

81 Sneak Preview

82 The Q

83 The R

84 Match an Opening with an Opening

85 Words Can Begin and End with Anything

86 The S

87 Time for T

88 Play to the Board

89 Edge the Endgame

90 How Many can Play?

91 The U

92 The V

93 The W

94 (Im)proper Nouns

95 Serious Hooking

96 The X Factor

97 A Word to the Y’s

98 Y is that a Word?

99 Last but not Least – The Z

100 More Than Just a Name

101 The Strangest Words

The 124 two-letter words playable in Scrabble are…

The 1310 three-letter words playable in Scrabble are…

Further Resources

What’s this About Clubs?

And what About Tournaments?