2012年5月17日星期四

Tips For Playing Scrabble

Scrabble was invented by an unemployed American architect named Alfred Butts, who began tinkering with a word game in 1933. Originally called Lexico, Butts bit by bit developed the game over the next five years.If you are tired of with losing, here are some tips to help you ameliorate your game.Don't use "baby" words. By this I mean do not get down using words like "cow," "the," "sun," "go!" These words are worthless and worth very, very few points. The only time to use these, is if you have reexamined all possible words. I mean you need to have sought and picked at your brain for those big words you remember from schooling. If you have done all of that and are yet clueless, then go ahead and lay down your three point word.Arrangement on the board is essential. For certain, the squares that double and triple your letters and words are the most desirable. But there are other ways to duplicate your letters and words when those squares are not useable. Play as much of your word against a word already on the table as you can, contacting as many letters of both words as possible. That doubles every letter in your word, or at least as many wholesale uv gel tiles as you are able to line up.Another tip in playing Scrabble, is to expand across the board. More often that not, when observing people play scrabble, they always seem to fuddle all of their words up onto one side, or one corner. This is ok for a while, but finally you don't have any room to play off of words, and your selection gets very restrained. Instead of doing this, attempt to do words evenly across the board, this will allow for a greater option, and you will end up with large and better words. Scrabble helper is a great tool that will receive words from a applied tiles even a nintendo dsi wholesale blank tiles. The following tip is to look out for useful words. I was in a book shop the other day and they had a poster of horse anatomy on display - a veritable gold mine of potentially useful words. Only browsing through a good dictionary is an amusing and useful practice. Constantly maintain a dictionary in the bathroom and when you are engaged on nature's business, open randomly. Don't let your adversaries catch your tiles. You may believe it isnt a big deal, but if it comes down to a two or three point game, letting an opponent see a tile can end the game. For example, you are playing to 300, and the score is you 292, and the opponent 275. If the opponent sees you have an "E", and an "E" is worth few points and then the opponent knows that whatever they do, they shouldn't play a word that would help you in using your "E.". Try to use all your tiles up first at the end of the game, and don't get left with high scoring tiles in your hand. These count against you at the end, and are added to the score of the person who finishes first.