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Today I was thinking about Scrabble and a comment left after my previous post find a word for scrabble saying that Scrabble is kind of boring game. I was wondering if this game was getting old and needed some fresh new ideas to extend the life of the game (even though I think this board game will never die). So just for the fun of it, I started listing a few new game element they could add to the board game. The first thing I came up with is kind of a scrabble cheat, that would let you reuse a word a bit like we do with hooks but instead of adding letters a the end or at the beginning of the word, you would add a scrabble letter on top of another one to form a new scrabble word. The scrabble word cheat Ok the name is not that hot, but images will show my idea better. So let's say we have the word "MUG". You could transform this scrabble word into "BUG". This (This word worth 6 points) (This new word would also worth 6 points) This example above is only the m...

Find a word and a strategy The main thing you do when playing a Scrabble is to find a word that will give you the highest amount of point. Well, I don't fully agree with my last sentence. When I play Scrabble, yes I try to find THE word that will empty my tray but most of the time, this is just impossible. So we need a little Scrabble strategy to prevent other players from scoring big. When you look at the Scrabble game board you can see the "special" square that gives more points when used. When it's your turn and you don't have anything good to put on the board, you need to play in a way that you will steal some precious spaces. So when you try to find a word for scrabble, always keep in mind that you might score big, but your opponent might score bigger if you don't think in advance. Don't let another player put an easy hook on a bonus square. What that means is if you're about to make a word that ends up one bonus square short and that it is easy ...