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The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book

Autor Joe Edley
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 1997
Calling all players, beginners and experts alike Here are the plays you can't afford to miss: 800 puzzles to sharpen your thinking and hone your crossword skills, specially designed and selected by SCRABBLE superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National SCRABBLE(r) Championship and coauthor of "Everything SCRABBLE(r)."
Learn how to:
  • "Read the board" and see where you can score the most points -- and where you can't.
  • Increase your word game skills with 97 must-know two-letter words
  • Build knockout numbers with bonus squares, two-letter words and parallel plays
  • Score with the high-point tiles: J, Q, X, and Z
  • Balance your rack by playing off weak three-, four-, and five-tile combinations
  • Find the key to success with bingos and seven-letter plays
  • Find the Ideal Play -- eight questions to ask yourself, plus the Ideal Play on computer
  • Win at SCRABBLE -- six key factors
  • Find the best play in real game action -- fifty actual games re-created in this book, complete with the author's analysis and computer simulation results.
    National champion Joe Edley aims to enhance your SCRABBLE-playing skills. Discover tips, shortcuts, and special plays in actual game situations, and a battery of increasingly complex puzzles as you learn to play with the pros
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    Specificații

    ISBN-13: 9780671569006
    ISBN-10: 0671569007
    Pagini: 272
    Dimensiuni: 188 x 236 x 18 mm
    Greutate: 0.39 kg
    Ediția:Original
    Editura: Gallery Books

    Notă biografică

    Joe Edley is the coauthor of Everything SCRABBLE® the Definitive Book on SCRABBLE!, the only two-time national champion in SCRABBLE history, and the associate director for games and tournaments at the National SCRABBLE Association. He was born in 1947 and raised in Detroit, and earned a B.A. in mathematics and philosophy from Wayne State University where he was the campus chess champion. In 1978 he took up playing SCRABBLE with the intent of becoming an expert. He won the 1980 National SCRABBLE® Championship and continued to play and promote SCRABBLE by directing the San Francisco SCRABBLE Club. In 1988 he was hired by Williams & Company in Greenport, New York, to help promote the game. Ile organized and directed the 1988, 1989, and 1990 National SCRABBLE® Championships. He returned to championship play to win the 1992 National SCRABBLE® Championship.Mr. Edley married in October 1993; his daughter, Amber, was born in April 1995. Among his hobbies are creating and solving puzzles and playing a variety of games including backgammon, chess, and pool. He also likes to bike, in-line skate, jump rope, meditate doing tai chi chuan, watch movies, and read science fiction.

    Descriere

    From the only two-time national champion in Scrabble history comes a challenging and extensive collection of 1,000 Scrabble puzzles. Diagrams throughout.

    Cuprins

    Contents

    ABOUT THIS BOOK

    PART ONE: READING THE BOARD

    1 Notations, Definitions, and a Short Word List

    2 Two-Letter Words

    Answers

    3 Placing Your Words on Hot Spots

    Answers

    4 Bonus Squares, One at a Time

    Answers

    5 Bonus Squares, Two at a Time

    Answers

    6 Bonus Squares, Choice of Five

    Answers

    7 The J, Q, X, and Z

    Answers

    8 The Highest-Scoring Play, No Hints!

    Answers

    PART TWO: BALANCING YOUR RACK

    9 Three-Tile Plays

    Answers

    10 Four-Tile Plays

    Answers

    11 Five-Tile Plays

    Answers

    PART THREE: PLAYING ALL SEVEN TILES

    12 Bingos: Beginnings and Endings, the Key to Success

    Answers

    PART FOUR: MAKING THE IDEAL PLAY

    13 A Practical Guide for Choosing the Ideal Play

    14 Actual Game Positions: Your Move!

    Answers