Scrabble Wordbook: Crossword Game

by Mike Baron, Brian Cappelletto (Foreword)

Whether at an official tournament or a home kitchen table, every SCRABBLE player wants to be a winner?and these specially selected words and expert hints are guaranteed to boost scores. Based on the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (currently one of the bestselling games and puzzles books) and with foreword by World SCRABBLE Champion Brian Cappelletto, this is the equivalent of an intensive training course. Complete with winning word lists, such as those that combine high-scoring letters, those that have a preponderance of vowels, and those that allow multiple I and U dumps, it also offers tips on hitting triple-triples and achieving those elusive 7-letter bingos.
SCRABBLE, the distinctive game board and letter tiles, and all associated logos are trademarks of Hasbro in the United States and Canada and are used with permission. © 2007 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved.

Genres: Reference

335 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2007

Reviews

[Mark]

Becoming and expert Scrabble player necessarily involves memorizing words. But just opening up the dictionary at "A" and going straight through is ridiculously inefficient because of the probability of ever being able to play most longer words in a game. Realizing that they were limited by the tile distribution, experts of yore analyzed the dictionary and came up with lists of words that were more likely to show up on your rack- words that contained mostly single-point tiles, as these are the most plentiful. Few of these competitive Scrabble pioneers did as much dictionary-scouring and list-compiling as Mike Baron. Inside this behemoth are list after list of the best words to know, with Baron's commentary on how the lists came about and some suggestions on which lists to start with.

[Lam]

I may be reading this for a few years. It is large & fascinating. To me.

[Mariah]

I have a second copy of this book because I wore the first one out. It is the best study guide in book format for scrabble players.

[chan park]

mike baron's guide to competitive scrabble. i want this man's brain.