what are some good strategies to use in scrabble?

Answer 1

Look for prefixes, suffixes, and compound words. Also, try making words from existing words.

Answer 2

1) Know your two-letter words. There are 101 legal 2 letter words in North American Play, and knowing them form the basis for a good portion of plays.

2) Know your 3 Letter words. There are 1015 legal 3's.

3) Use your power tiles and find the "Hot Spots". Look for plays that place High point tiles (JQXZ) on the Double Letter and Triple letter squares. There are quite a few places on the board where you can plunk down a 5 letter word and cover 2 bonus squares.

4) Manage your rack - keep it bingo friendly. Having a good mix of consonants and vowels on your rack is key to making the 7-letter plays. Keeping Bingo Prone tiles will have you find words more easily. S, A, T, I, N, E, L, and R are good tiles to have on your rack. Try not to have repeating letters (like 2 T's or 2 O's), because that makes it more difficult to find 7 letter words. Remember - playing all 7 of your tiles gives you an extra 50 points after your score is totaled.

5) Improve your word knowledge. In tournament play, you don't need to know what the word means, you just need to know that it's spelled correctly. And when you are playing against other people of your own cailber, it'll all boil down to who has the better vocabulary.

Basically, look for high scoring words, look for plays that cover hot spots, and most importantly - HAVE FUN!

Answer 3

Learn up the two letter Scrabble words very properly, you should know them by heart. There are different sets available for the TWL and the SOWPODS dictionary.

For the TWL two letter words go to
http://www.scrabulous.com/two_letter_words_twl.php

For SOWPODS two letter words go to
http://www.scrabulous.com/two_letter_words_sowpods.php

Also make sure that you swap wisely, for example its best to keep the letters TAINE in your hand as a lot of words can be formed with them.

And if you know someone who is superior to you, then you can play Strategy Scrabble at Scrabulous. There, both of you can see each others' tiles, so it's easier to explain / discuss moves. Very challenging and can be used as a learning tool as well.

Check it out at http://www.scrabulous.com/strategy_scrabble.php

Answer 4

nicely if there's a notice already on the board that replaced into worth a great type of things, in basic terms upload an ending which includes an "s," "ing," or "ed." additionally if can positioned down your tiles so as which you would be able to get factors for 2 words, try this.

Answer 5

Try to create more words by laying the tiles parallel to the ones already on the board. If you can do this, you can create several words in one turn and get lots of points.

Answer 6

start out with big words so you have enough room to build off of them. also if you run out of ideas look for prefixes and suffixes to creat longer words. also if you have to you can jus make a word plural by adding s. just simple stuff like that.

Answer 7

You have to be able to spell, once that's done learn as many 7 letter and under words as possible, then learn to add on to other peoples words to make even bigger words

Answer 8

build off of other players words any way you can. prefixes, suffixes, pluralizing. also utilize the triple and double letter and word scores

Answer 9

Make sure to use the x and z on a double or triple.

Answer 10

'Qat'. A Q and no U? Look it up. It's an alternate spelling of "Khat", a leaf drug similar to cocaine.