What are premium squares?
If you look at a Scrabble board, you will see some rows and columns have both premium-letter squares and premium-word … Continued
Barry Grossman
Six-letter stems
The secret to playing the big bonus-scoring words is … you’ve got to know them! Obvious really, but you won’t
Should you change your letters?
Nobody likes having to change letters, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. In most circumstances, if you can score at least twenty,
Thinking Positive – getting the correct mindset!
Scrabble is played by millions worldwide. Half of the households in Britain have a set. It’s the board game of
Keep scoring
It can be useful to hold on to the one-point tiles AEIOU and LNRST as these are the commonest letters
Company names allowed in Scrabble
You might think that the name of a company or a product would always be spelt with a capital. Not
The letter Y
The Y appears in lots of two-letter words: AY, BY, FY (exclamation of disapproval), KY (Scots word for cattle), MY,
The letter X
The X is often a short cut to a high score with very little effort. Perhaps surprisingly, it combines with
Serious hooking
Even reasonably experienced players tend to think that hooks – those letters you can add to the beginning or end