Showing posts with label scrabble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scrabble. Show all posts
Tuesday, April 10, 2012

How good are competitive Scrabble players at recognizing words?

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Researchers from the University of Calgary recently published a study (available in PDF or HTML ) on how being an elite player in Scrabble ...
Monday, November 7, 2011

How Scrabble dictionaries are made

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A web site called Word Buff has an interview with Darryl Francis on the making of the British Scrabble tournament word lists. From his self...
Monday, June 20, 2011

Words deleted from the new British Scrabble dictionary

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One point in favor of the British approach to Scrabble dictionaries is that they appear to actually delete words from the list once they sto...
Wednesday, June 8, 2011

The new Scrabble words (if you use the British Scrabble dictionary)

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A couple of people asked for my opinion on the "new Scrabble words", so I looked them over. The first and most important thing to...
Friday, October 22, 2010

Advanced Scrabb.ly/WordSquared techniques

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I recently posted an introduction to Scrabb.ly (now called WordSquared). Since then, I have still been playing, loading up Scrabb.ly from t...
Saturday, October 16, 2010

Scrabb.ly/WordSquared - Massively Multiplayer Online Word-formation Game

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The biggest word game ever is slowly growing still bigger over at Scrabb.ly (recently renamed "WordSquared"). Created by four prog...
Friday, September 24, 2010

Scramble: Part word game, part scavenger hunt, part Easter egg hunt

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If you travelled back in time to the 2010 ARGfest in Atlanta (a conference for Alternate Reality Game designers and fans), you could have pl...
Sunday, August 22, 2010

Scrabble reformers: Donald Sauter and the Dover Scrabble Club

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In contrast with the Scrabble reform proposed by Peter Roizen (see the previous post on WildWords ), Donald Sauter's complaints are more...
Sunday, May 23, 2010

Scrabble reformers: W*W*S

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Last month, the Scrabble world was briefly rocked by news reports saying that a new version of Scrabble would allow proper nouns to be used ...
Saturday, February 6, 2010

Some more of the Official Scrabble Dictionary's greatest mistakes

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After posting my essay describing the many problems with the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD) , I discovered that I am not the on...
Sunday, December 20, 2009

Well, that about wraps it up for the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary

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I found a nice critique of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary in one of the reviews on Amazon. It's by Daniel Pratt, a lexicograp...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Another reason Scrabble dictionaries are inadequate for Bananagrams

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The Scrabble board is a 15-by-15 grid, so naturally, Scrabble dictionaries have no need for words longer than 15 letters. Oddly even " ...
Saturday, October 24, 2009

Scrabble Me: The chimera of Scrabble games

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I recently ran across the strangest official Scrabble mutation that I have ever seen: "Scrabble Me" It looks like, in addition to ...
Sunday, September 13, 2009

Word Game Poetry

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The idea of rearranging a set of Scrabble tiles to form a poem has been around for a long time. James Ernest of Cheapass Games is credited w...
Monday, July 13, 2009

Letter distributions in Bananagrams and other games

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What determines how many of each letter there are in various word games? The inventor of Scrabble designed the frequency of his tiles around...
Sunday, June 14, 2009

Other games: Scrabble Apple and Los Bananagrams

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The makers of Scrabble have released a game that is packaged as a bunch of tiles in a fabric piece of fruit: Scrabble Apple. (I like to call...