{"id":362,"date":"2006-06-26T12:39:52","date_gmt":"2006-06-26T17:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/?p=176"},"modified":"2006-06-26T12:39:52","modified_gmt":"2006-06-26T17:39:52","slug":"scrabble-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/scrabble-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrabble&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I briefly made it into the 1000s again in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.isc.ro\">Scrabble<\/a> at the weekend (I&#8217;m back at 950 now\u2026) I&#8217;m enjoying the 3 minutes per side games most. It&#8217;s like table tennis without the exercise. Although, apparently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/popsci\/science\/61994314e58fb010vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html\">the harder you think, you more calories you burn<\/a>&#8230; Anyroad, to celebrate here&#8217;s a few handy tips:<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re starting, make sure the vowels in the word aren&#8217;t adjacent to the double letter score spaces on the board. Your opponent is more likely to score highly if (s)he can put a high scoring consonant on those squares. Eg  if they&#8217;ve got a J, X, Q, Z, etc. they&#8217;re in fine form. Ex 1,2<\/p>\n<p>When starting, see if you can reach the double letter scores with your word. Can you rearrange the word so the highest scorer is on a double letter score?<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re starting and your tiles are rubbish, change some of them. Often your scrabble partner will change theirs too. And if not, I don&#8217;t see a huge advantage in starting except for the double word score. Hopefully, you&#8217;ll have a longer word to start the game which means a more enjoyable board ready for bingos,  instead of the dreaded X-shape made of 3 letter words. Which starts off ok, then gets harder and harder. Ej 5:<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all about the bingos (7 letter words). Playing low-scoring words is fine as long as it&#8217;s strategic and heading towards getting a rack more likely to get you a bingo. 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