Updated Wednesday March 5, 2008 1:23 PM

Sessions take place Mondays and Thursdays (2:45-3:45pm) in Room R13.

The M.H.S. SCRABBLE® Club is open to all campus SCRABBLE® enthusiasts, students or faculty.
A knowledge of the game is helpful, but not a requirement to join!
For more info, contact Mr. Holschuh (holsed@mansfieldisd.org).

M.H.S. SCRABBLE® Club Goals

• Play SCRABBLE® for fun (win or lose)!

• Be a real SCRABBLE® geek and use terms like "brailing"
and "coffee-housing" (check out the whole Glossary of Common Terms)!

• Learn more about the strategy of the game and how to play better
(scroll down for some immediate pointers)

 

 


Play SCRABBLE® against the computer or online!

CLICK BELOW FOR FREE TRIAL DOWNLOAD
DOWNLOAD SIZE - 15.31 MB
INCLUDES RealArcade

 

Tournament players practice locally at
Mid-Cities SCRABBLE® Players Club

See NSA tournament schedules and player ratings at cross-tables.com.

 

Visit the
Ottowa SCRABBLE® Club's
Puzzle Room or Study Room
Great puzzles, quizzes, and wordlists to improve your game!

 

If you're SERIOUS about improving your SCRABBLE® skills, you've got to visit

 

Interesting SCRABBLE® Articles*!

It's Man vs. Machine

Robot Plays Dirty

830!

It's Not You. It's Me.

The Sum of its Letters

Advanced SCRABBLE® Techniques

*ARTICLES POSTED HERE ARE IN .PDF FORMAT AND ARE FOR CLUB USE AND NOT FOR PUBLICATION OR REPRINT.

 

Here's a SCRABBLE® Primer, a perfect "starter kit" for beginning/intermediate
players who want to play better tournament-level SCRABBLE®!
compiled by Julie “Bean” Jones, webmaster for scrabblejunction.org

 




The M.H.S. SCRABBLE® Club is not affiliated with the National SCRABBLE® Association, the official organization of U.S. tournament SCRABBLE® players; however, membership is strongly encouraged for those players with a desire to earn a tournament rating* and play more competitively.
*Members of the National SCRABBLE® Association (NSA) who play in sanctioned tournaments establish a national rating which is a number in the range of about 200-2200. The value of the number has no intrinsic meaning, but should be viewed as a number relative to other rated players. This form of rating is similar to that used in chess. The NSA rating is an indication of how a player performs in tournaments. The NSA rating is based on win-loss records of an individual in comparison to the average ratings of that individual's opponents in the tournament.

 

The only dictionary permitted for reference in the M.H.S. SCRABBLE® Club is
The Official SCRABBLE® Players Dictionary (4th Ed.), available locally from popular booksellers
or from the National SCRABBLE® Association by clicking here.

 
How to Play Better SCRABBLE®
From the About.com Board Games Guide

This word game presents a number of unique challenges to its players. Memorizing the entire Official SCRABBLE® Player's Dictionary would be great, but it's probably unrealistic. Start with these basics first:

1. Consider balance as you look at the letters on your rack. It might be smart to form a word eliminating double letters in your rack even if it's not the highest-scoring move you have available.
2. See what's on the board before making a move. If few E's have been played, you might chose to create 'were' instead of 'ware,' reducing the chance you’ll draw a double tile.
3. Plan ahead to be able to create long words, possibly even using all the tiles on your rack in one turn (and thus earning mondo bonus points).
4. Don't concentrate so much on one word that you blind yourself to other options.
5. Don't fear the Q! This tile (as well as the less-frightening X, Z and J) offers some high-scoring potential.
6. Even if you don't have a U to go along with it, there are more than a dozen legal words you can spell with the Q (such as qanat, an underground system of tunnels in the Middle East, and qindar, a monetary unit of Albania).
7. If you get stuck with a lot of vowels, think about iodine -- and the dozens and dozens of other vowel-rich words available. (Cookie, anyone?)
8. If you have a lot of consonants, there are legal words without vowels -- myrrh, rhythm and tsktsk, for example.
Avoid giving other players easy access to bonus point squares.
9. Practice. You can buy SCRABBLE® books, and there are a lot of useful practice tools available on the Internet.
If you study, concentrate on unusual words. Two-letter words are useful in a lot of situations. Q words, X words, J words, Z words and words with lots of vowels also are good to know, as are longer words.
10. Join the M.H.S. SCRABBLE® Club!


Visit Hasbro's official SCRABBLE® website!

HASBRO is the owner of the registered SCRABBLE® trademark in United States and Canada. © 2007 HASBRO. All rights reserved. "SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game" is the proper way to refer to this unique group of word games and related properties marketed by HASBRO. "SCRABBLE®" is not a generic term. To use it as such is not only misleading but also does injustice to the company responsible for the trademark's longtime popularity. All we ask is that when you mean SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game, you say so. Neither Mansfield High School, nor Mansfield ISD, endorses or claims any affiliation with either Hasbro or the National SCRABBLE® Association.