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Slide Shows by Bill Snoddy

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Newish additions to lexicon

Singleton 3s (without anagrams)                   3s  with  Anagrams

4s  with  Anagrams    4s  without  Anagrams  

5s & 6s           7s           8s

Five Vowel 7s   when 5 of your 7 tiles are vowels, don't rush to exchange

High Probability Bingos 6s to make 7s Reviews      #1       #2        #3       #4

High Probability Bingos 7s to make 8s Reviews      #1       #2        #3

Surprising Sticky P's! PRE-words can't drop front P!  "You can do it beforehand but you can't do it again!"

Twisted "P"   front P hooks for RE- words; once hooked, meaning gets twisted

See also Bill's weeky updates to High-Probability Bingo slide shows

Improve Your Game

6 to make 7 High-Probability Stems & Mnemonic Phrases likeliest bingos on your rack

7 to make 8 High-Probability Stems & Mnemonic Phrases likeliest bingos on your rack + 1

Aerolith fun, fast way to learn words quickly by César Del Solar

AIyee! Bill Snoddy uses CHatGPT Artificial Intelligence to answer Scrabble queries

Asheville Scrabble School slide show adapted by Jacob Cohen from Everything Scrabble

Breaking the Game Scrabble strategy headquarters by Kenji Matsumoto

Cheat Sheet 2s & hooks, 3s, Short J,Q,X,Z, Vowel Dumps, High-Probability Bingos

Everything Scrabble how-to by former National Champ Joe Edley & John D. Williams, Jr.

How to Play Scrabble Like a Champion by former National Champ Joel Wapnick

Internet Scrabble Club especially useful while tourneys & clubs on hiatus

Kurt's Alerts club member Kurt Schroeder alerts us to worthy study lists

Letterati: Unauthorized Look at Scrabble and Peeople Who Play It by Paul McCarthy

NASPA Word List deletions (slurs) 2020  

NASPA YouTube Channel expert games & player interviews

Newbie's First Scrabble Lesson by former National Champ Joel Sherman

Play Scrabble online games presented by Scopely

Quackle Scrabble game analysis tool

Score Sheet options     #1     #2     #3

Streaming Sites Scrabble players on Twitch, YouTube, and other platforms

Tournament Calendar upcoming tourneys & player stats

Twitch Scrabble Channel streaming

ULU search, define, study, judge app by Seth Lipkin for iPhone

Will Anderson's YouTube Channel former National Champ shares game insights & history

Woogles state-of-the-art online word game  –  Quick-Start Guide     Video

Word Freak Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, & Obsession of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fastis

WordListPro search, define, judging tool for Android

Word Study: Taking the Plunge into Tournament Scrabble by expert Mack Meller

Zyzzyva search, define, study, judging tool Desktop / iPhone / Android  

Study

Quiz
VictoryLovesPreparation

Bingo Lingo Quiz

Test Your Word Knowledge

patterns of the most bingo-friendly letters

(mnemonic: C-A-T-N-I-P  H-O-L-D-E-R-S)

compiled by Jacob Cohen

Victory Loves Preparation

Starts with

7s     ELA-     ELE-     LAR-     NAR-     RAT-     SEN-     SOL-     TAN-     TIN-     TON-

8s     ANE-     DER-     PEA-     PLO-     POI-     RAC-     RAN-     SAT-     TAI-     TOA-

Contains internal pattern

7s     -CEN-     -CTA-     -ILA-     -IOL-     -OIL-     -OLA-     -OTA-     -RST-     -SIC-

  8s     -CIL-     -CLO-     -IOR-     -IRT-     -NAD-     -NAI-     -NIM-     -OAN-     -STH-

Ends with

  7s     -AST     -EAL     -EED     -ERA     -ERN     -LIA     -OSE     -REL     -RTS     -SIA

  8s     -ACE     -ADE     -AIN     -ERE     -NDA     -NIA     -ODE     -RIA     -RIN     -SOL

Quiz
Slide Show
HowToPlayBetterScrabble

     A browser's paradise!

Thematic ~ Surprising ~ Tricky

Browse themes to expand your bingo horizons

compiled by Jacob Cohen, Asheville Scrabble Club

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Quick links for theme details

New(ish)          Surprise!          Vowels          Digraphs          Consonants          PRE-

Light          SSSSSSSticky          Frankenword          Capitals          -S          Archaic

Spelling          Doubles         Plurals          CAUTION!          Silent          Hold          Belief

Money          Do -ER          Plants          Animals          Life          Body          Science

Final          Good          Bad          Numbers          Foreign          Geography

Alternating          UN-          Clothing          Food          Fighting          Crowd          Direction

Teams          Time          Learning          Measure          Color          Movement          States

Half          Buildings          Sound          Words          People          Sports          Tools

Love          Law          Transport          Form          History          Airports          Soft C / G

Furniture          Cleanliness          Switchable          -YS          Mnemonic          Missing?

Picture          Offensive          Matter          RE-          Duplicates          Blank(s)

Names          Humor          Smell          Relatives          Odd          Leisure          Begin

Questions          Triple-Triple          Power          Syl-la-bles          Order          Prefix

Roots          Suffix          Compound          Ear          Combination          Hooks

Adjectives          Incomparable          Adverbs          Speech          Nouns          Verbs

Value          Extensions          Anagrams          Likeliest          Unlikeliest

Winningest          ALL

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All 7s (25,269) & 8s (31,523) sorted into each relevant theme below

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