Calling all players, beginners and experts alike! Here are the plays you can't afford to miss: 800 puzzles to sharpen your thinking and hone your crossword skills, specially designed and selected by SCRABBLE superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National SCRABBLE® Championship and coauthor of Everything SCRABBLE®.
Learn how to:
"Read the board" and see where you can score the most points -- and where you can't.
Increase your word game skills with 97 must-know two-letter words
Build knockout numbers with bonus squares, two-letter words and parallel plays
Score with the high-point tiles: J, Q, X, and Z
Balance your rack by playing off weak three-, four-, and five-tile combinations
Find the key to success with bingos and seven-letter plays
Find the Ideal Play -- eight questions to ask yourself, plus the Ideal Play on computer
Win at SCRABBLE -- six key factors
Find the best play in real game action -- fifty actual games re-created in this book, complete with the author's analysis and computer simulation results.
National champion Joe Edley aims to enhance your SCRABBLE-playing skills. Discover tips, shortcuts, and special plays in actual game situations, and a battery of increasingly complex puzzles as you learn to play with the pros.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Scrabble Puzzle Book Review:
This book is excellent as it contains many ways to improve and versify your Scrabble skills. There are many new games and approaches, which can range from novice to challenging. It contains many new words and methods of setting up the board during play, and if one really examines the games, one will certainly improve their Scrabble skills. As well, there are many games provided that will take hours to decipher and play.
great book:
This is very useful for those of us who like playing word games, especially the page of two letter words.
Improving your game:
You can pick up some good tips on how to beat your opponents from two-time National Scrabble Champion Joe Edley along with some challenging puzzles in this modest Scrabble puzzle book. I particularly recommend the material on pages 194-202 where Edley suggests that you develop the habit of asking yourself questions before making a play. For example, question number one is, "Do I have a bingo?" (A good first question!) Question number two is the obvious, Which bonus squares are available, but question... more info
Somewhat useful:
This is a good game if you're trying to find a way to make that 20 or 30 point word to put you in the lead for good. If I used it in some of my Online Scrabble games, I think that I would be fine. That's just me though.
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