Scrabble has since sold 100 million sets worldwide, according to the National Scrabble Association.
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In 25604, Scrabble player Alan Beale found himself displeased with the official Scrabble resources.
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"We want to build core Scrabble, but we need to build Scrabble for today's market," says O'Brien.
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Last week, Scrabble players got some good news when the Merriam-Webster Official Scrabble Players Dictionary added 300 new words.
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" Travel Scrabble "Sometimes I'll take portable Scrabble if I'm traveling with my husband and friends, especially on a river cruise.
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Nigeria is an international Scrabble powerhouse, currently home to 33 of the top-100 English-language Scrabble players in the world.
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Nigeria is an international Scrabble powerhouse, currently home to 29 of the top-100 English-language Scrabble players in the world.
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Words With Friends might be a Scrabble clone, but it brought Scrabble-like wordplay to mobile devices long before the official version got there.
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I just competed in my first Scrabble tournament, so it's nice that my clue for STAR ("Center of a Scrabble board") survived as well.
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The custom keys come in classic Scrabble colors — beiges, a soft red and blue, and baby pink — and each one of the letters sports its Scrabble value.
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That's the situation facing Scrabble pro Allan Simmons, who received a three-year ban from competitive play after the Association of British Scrabble Players leveled charges of cheating.
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Beyond their completion, in Scrabble the words themselves are not particularly important: Built on chance, risk, strategy, and calculation, Scrabble rewards the placement of letters first and foremost.
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Scrabble Fridge Magnet Set — $15 at ModCloth See Details
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The Scrabble dictionary by Collins, published on Thursday, adds to the 276,000 words already in play, making it the most comprehensive Scrabble word list ever produced, Collins said in a news release.
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"It's easy to poke fun at Scrabble, but people who play it competitively take it very seriously," Stefan Fatsis, author of the book "Word Freak," about competitive Scrabble, said at the time.
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We were big fans of the classics – Monopoly, Scrabble, Sorry!
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Styles once played scrabble with a model from New Zealand.
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That Scrabble game becomes a matter of life and death.
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Who among us hasn't cheated at Scrabble at some point?
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LONDON — Tongues are wagging across the world of competitive Scrabble.
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This is not the first cheating scandal in competitive Scrabble.
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A Scrabble board serves as the base of the tree.
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Be warned: Ms. Osnes takes her Scrabble very, very seriously.
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We like Yahtzee, Scrabble or a new obsession, Phase 10.
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TAYLOR HAS BEEN TELLING US ALL ALONG THAT TS7 WAS COMING 👀 Taylor posted a photo of her playing scrabble && national scrabble day is April 13 && today she gave us a countdown to TS7!!
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" — JIMMY FALLON "Recently, The Wall Street Journal published an op-ed under the headline, 'Sorry, Feminists, Men Are Better at Scrabble,' because 'Since the World Scrabble Championship began in 1991, all winners have been male.
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We were playing Scrabble behind the scenes, it was great fun.
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Second and third runners up will scrabble around in the walls.
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Research has shown that playing Scrabble is good for your brain.
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It helps that some states hire Scrabble players as civil servants.
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Games like Exploding Kittens, Monopoly, Scattergories, and Scrabble are longtime favorites.
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This isn't a relaxing afternoon game of Scrabble we're talking about.
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Decks of cards, including Uno, Scrabble and checkers/chess are available.
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"I am not playing Scrabble for the rest of the year."
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These are usually more educational board games like Scrabble or Scattergories.
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I grew up on word games like anagrams, Boggle and Scrabble.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Ew. Just when you've mastered enough legitimate Scrabble words to beat your bestie on the game board and twerk in victory, Merriam-Webster has released a sixth edition of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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Even the strongest players had trouble staying sharp after that much Scrabble.
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Scrabble 'Q' tile: The only time you'd ever get to play it.
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WHEN it comes to Scrabble, Nigerians are on top of their game.
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Prestigious schools have chess and Scrabble teams, and there are university tournaments.
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And, we're not only talking about the classics like Monopoly or Scrabble.
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He was previously the world Scrabble champion in 2007, 2011 and 2013.
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They're animatronic muppets from a planet with a super-high Scrabble score.
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Merriam-Webster just added 850 new vocabulary words for your Scrabble pleasure.
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"Playing with language helps: riddles, jokes, word games like Scrabble," she said.
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Customers play Scrabble and Monopoly at Nana's Ice Cream and Coffee House.
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Melania Trump's "Be Best" campaign gets a shout-out with Scrabble tiles.
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Almost overnight, manufacturers then began churning out 6,000 Scrabble sets per week.
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Sometimes we play Scrabble or Monopoly after dinner, assuming we have no homework.
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Though machines have beaten the best humans at chess, checkers, Othello, Scrabble, Jeopardy!
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He is the hard scrabble streets of New York in real estate development.
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But each of them can be found in the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
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In the mornings, players warmed up with a game of Scrabble over coffee …
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In the years that followed, machines triumphed at Scrabble, Othello, even TV's Jeopardy!
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Over at Charley's house, she and Remy are sipping wine and playing Scrabble.
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" She messaged her on a whim, saying, "I see that you like Scrabble.
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I built a deep learning algorithm that recognizes scrabble pieces through a webcam.
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Not for nothing is he known as the "Pillar of Scrabble in Africa".
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She has tattoos on her ankles of a Scrabble tile and an ankh.
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From Scrabble to sex, he's somehow roleplaying Gigi amid the ashes of America.
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The recurrent motif is Scrabble: the Commander enlists Offred in a secret game.
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Mr. Richards, 51, was the world Scrabble champion in 2007, 203 and 2013.
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Ties We were a family that had always connected over the Scrabble board.
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Modern Love "I bet you're good at Scrabble," I said to my therapist.
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"What would it look like for me to teach you Scrabble?" he asked.
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Soon after our first date, he cooked me dinner, and we played Scrabble.
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We play Scrabble, and I search for clues in the words he makes.
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Regardless, the game is not Words With Friends; it is Scrabble With Enemies.
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Words With Friends isn't just a Scrabble clone; it's a living, raging mutiny.
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"Anytime a two-letter word is added to the game, it definitely changes the strategy and the dynamics of playing," said Stefan Fatsis, a competitive Scrabble player and the author of "Word Freak," a book about the world of competitive Scrabble.
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Here's what it's like to play in the biggest Scrabble tournament in the country:
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You can learn a lot about a person from the way they play Scrabble.
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"We had to get in there and scrabble and fight for it," Baker said.
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Merriam-Webster's announced its latest updated version of the official Scrabble dictionary on Monday.
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Jessica Biel posted a picture on Instagram of she and husband Justin Timberlakeplaying Scrabble.
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Before long, I had a little scrabble-piece-recognizer program running in my browser.
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Well, turns out the answer was pretty simple — April 13 is National Scrabble Day.
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It's been roughly eight years after the Scrabble knock-off Words With Friends launched.
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In other news, I've literally never won a game of Scrabble in my life.
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"It's surrealistic," said Daniel Alonim, 54, as his friends played Scrabble atop the hulk.
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Unlike in Scrabble, there are no turns—whoever spots a word can form it.
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Then there was the spelling bee, Scrabble and the recent emergence of e-sports.
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Zim, the German Shepherd, crashed through the picture window to scrabble out after it.
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The punishment, imposed by the Association of British Scrabble Players, made headlines in Britain.
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The adjective helped Nigel Richards of New Zealand win his fourth World Scrabble Championship.
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Almost certainly, the company regretted turning down the game, which became Scrabble in 1948.
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They have a bunch of shit there, like pool and shuffleboard, Scrabble and foosball.
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They weren't the first Scrabble players to fact-check or modify the word list.
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Over the years, machines have topped the best humans at checkers, chess, Othello, Scrabble, Jeopardy!
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But the most obvious difference between tournament Scrabble and the casual game is the words.
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Other less-scientific types point to anecdotal evidence of Scrabble being good for a marriage.
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I thought hanging out with a Scrabble-playing robot would be a nice, chill time.
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The Niger Delta states and Lagos are home to many of the country's Scrabble champions.
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That Scrabble game also shows the ways Handmaid's Tale is stretching into the space allotted.
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There's nothing more threatening to Gilead's threatening regime than a handmaid who's great at Scrabble.
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The sexual politics of 1985 survive today only in distorted form, reordered like Scrabble tiles.
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Here is the scrabble of historical experience before history has laid down its narrative paths.
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In her dining room, we got a peek at her Scrabble set and farmhouse table.
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The new edition of the Scrabble dictionary is available online, and in hardcover and paperback.
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I also really enjoyed playing Scrabble growing up, as well as more general word games.
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Under Gordon Edelstein's direction, two immigrant families scrabble for a piece of the American dream.
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The only letter in Scrabble that has a unique point value — K (5 points) 7.
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When words are added in Scrabble, the emphasis is on the integrity of the dictionary.
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Tournament Scrabble is played very differently than the casual living-room game, starting with the equipment.
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Each of his masterpieces uses all 100 tiles and contains only words that are Scrabble-acceptable.
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It was as if Toyota was playing scrabble and picked two random words off the board.
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Over the past twenty years, machines have topped the best humans at checkers, chess, Scrabble, Jeopardy!
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Now that he's won, the champ says he'll celebrate by taking a year off from Scrabble.
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Xylophone The only thing a xylophone is good for is using the X in Scrabble. 62.
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They play "fake word" Scrabble, coming up with the term "everythingship" to describe their perfect romance.
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And a chat—as well as a hard-fought match—with Africa's first World Scrabble Champion.
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If you're a board game aficionado, however, maybe a Scrabble keyboard is what you're looking for.
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Image: GettyAs you probably already know, the World Scrabble Championship 2016 final took place on Saturday.
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He was raised in government housing in a hard-scrabble suburb in Sydney's working class west.
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The session sounded doubly informative, because I have also never played a full game of Scrabble.
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This has led to investors demanding longer duration on new bonds in the scrabble for yield.
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It's the Scrabble equivalent of double-dipping, and a big no-no in the competitive circuit.
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Sitting down to play a game of Scrabble, while incredibly fun, can be quite time consuming.
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Fevalas can have varying levels of development; many are hard-scrabble communities dominated by criminal groups.
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Who cared what tools Facebook was experimenting with when it was used mostly to play Scrabble?
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My starting point was DIXIELAND JAZZ, a nifty seed entry with its high-value Scrabble letters.
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"I felt very lost," said Ms. Felstein, a former nationally ranked table tennis and Scrabble champion.
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And it's fitting that the game these characters play is indeed Scrabble and not, say, chess.
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The whole family can giggle through a few rounds of Would You Rather or play Scrabble.
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The late lobbying scrabble has caught the agency's attention ahead of a vote scheduled next week.
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Have you ever avoided intimacy with your partner because you're in the midst of iPhone Scrabble?
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The high-Scrabble-count letters in the theme answers ended up really constraining the grid design.
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While we play Scrabble or Monopoly out here, they're in the dining room, laughing in Chinese.
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Moxley's team found that participating in solo Scrabble practice was the best predictor of better competitive performance.
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This difference in methods of practice—solitary versus social—may explain why men outperform women in Scrabble.
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At the Waterfords, she realized she could wear Fred down by games of Scrabble and flirtatious glances.
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When most people think of Scrabble, they think of a leisurely game night in grandma's living room.
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Or maybe you were a competitive scrabble player, but now Words with Friends is your only outlet.
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It's slowly replacing Scrabble as the de facto party game for anyone who hates trivia and charades.
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GIF Battle, as Baron sees it, isn't too different from word games like crossword puzzles or Scrabble.
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Geek Out: Brett Smitheram is the World Scrabble Champion after winning with a 176-point word: braconid.
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Normally when you're making a game, you scrabble around for any crumbs of attention you can muster.
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Memorable flourishes abounded: My last name hung in oversize letters, like Scrabble tiles, near the front door.
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Diners can borrow Jenga or Scrabble to play in the backyard, partly covered by an old sail.
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And so the Cliffs Notes-like introduction is a frantic scrabble to get back into charted territory.
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It was one thing to sit in the group room and imagine him beating me at Scrabble.
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We set up a round-robin Scrabble tournament, with three boards spread across the dining room table.
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Last updated four years ago, the Scrabble dictionary contains more than 100,000 two- to eight-letter words.
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His office — with its deep mahogany tones, crackling fire, bourbon and Scrabble — is a place of comfort.
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"Moonlight" depicted a young black gay man growing up in a hard-scrabble neighborhood of contemporary Miami.
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This puzzle was a pleasure to work on, because the Scrabble theme opened up so many possibilities.
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If everyone knows where to go to play Scrabble, a quick round or two just might happen.
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"I guess I don't hate them anymore," Gage says before adding, "but I still don't like Scrabble."
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Playing Scrabble with her U.S., Italian and Russian crewmates, as challenging as that might be in weightlessness.
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You basically went to Facebook to play Farmville, Scrabble, Knighthood, and the things you guys were doing.
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Like Scrabble, it bugs me because if you get worse letters than your rivals, you can't win.
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Judge John Hodgman Elise writes: My boyfriend, Colin, is a wonderful Scrabble player and often beats me.
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Monopoly and Scrabble will come out on the rare nights we are all together for a game.
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Until now, no one had really investigated the reasons behind the gap between male and female Scrabble performance.
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Or if you are feeling reminiscent of analogue entertainment, revisit your childhood with deals on Uno and Scrabble.
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" Male baby boomers aged 55 to 64 like "Solitaire" and "Scrabble", while women lean towards "Mahjong" and "Monopoly.
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Scrabble players can now officially use the word "bitcoin" as a playable word in the Hasbro board game.
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The robot follows the official Scrabble dictionary, so it wouldn't recognize my excellently played "zen" as a word.
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But the impact of board games in Africa's most populous country goes beyond these world-class Scrabble-meisters.
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"Wouldn't be interested," he says, almost snapping, and pours from the black pouch a scattering of Scrabble tiles.
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"It's a way to keep Scrabble fun instead of contentious," said Emily Brewster, associate editor at Merriam-Webster.
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The walls are now painted in bright colors and giant Scrabble and chess sets are attached to them.
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It's less fine when you're an actual competitive Scrabble player and you're screwing over other top-tier competitors.
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The word "landskip," no longer in general use, survives as a British regionalism (and is allowed in Scrabble).
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Finally, zonular was one of the words Nigel Richards used to clinch the World Scrabble Championships in London.
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If New York overcame the hard scrabble '70s, the afterlife of Mr. Grooms's masterpiece has been more fraught.
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" Mercutio responds, "My scribble seems scrabble to thee, boy… If these be thy walls, where art thy names?
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My siblings and I grew up playing Scrabble and other word games with our parents and each other.
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A research team from the University of Miami analyzed 255 male and female players at the 2004 and 2008 US National Scrabble tournaments, handing out a questionnaire that asked them to estimate how many hours a week they spend playing Scrabble alone versus playing it as part of a group setting.
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Over the last twenty years, machines have beaten the best human players at checkers, chess, Othello, Scrabble, even Jeopardy.
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As politicians scrabble for short-term fixes—a fence here, a holding pen there—few are asking these questions.
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Another sibling has developed "really great Scrabble skills and will take anybody on and can beat anybody," he says.
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Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel keep their romance alive with quality time together and a good game of Scrabble!
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Do it enough, and your friends might start recommending Clue or Scrabble instead, which are only slightly less frustrating.
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Speaking of stuffing, that SNAX / EX-STAR crossing is decidedly not a product of unscrupulous high-value Scrabble packing.
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I have a dear friend whose idea of a busy weekend is a game of Scrabble and an errand.
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"The Last Word," a new musical inspired by Scrabble, just ended a run in the New York Musical Festival.
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Jay and his friends decide to raise money to save Paradise by entering the National Scrabble Tournament in Albuquerque.
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It didn't bother me—it had been clear right from the start that I hadn't come to play Scrabble.
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But legal discussions with Hasbro over the rights to the Scrabble phrase made that a less than ideal choice.
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The sixth edition of Merriam-Webster's "Official Scrabble Players Dictionary" includes 300 words such as twerk, beatdown and sriracha.
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By January 2017, Mr. Maxwell was whiling away weekend afternoons playing Scrabble with Ms. Thornburgh at her Philadelphia apartment.
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So to play Scrabble with OSPD and OWL as resources is essentially to play the game on Hasbro's terms.
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He'd claw and scrabble his way to the corner, only to be dragged back by a member of the Shield.
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During another, they were asked to build as many German words as possible from the scrambled letters ADEHINRSTU, Scrabble-style.
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After we eat, we play a few games of Scrabble, and then review our five-year savings plan Excel sheet.
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This boardless game is played with insect-bedecked tiles and is something like a blend of chess, Scrabble, and dominos.
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A generation of young people have been born and educated in it; now they scrabble to earn a living there.
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She's waiting for him in his office when he gets home that night, the Scrabble pieces spread out around her.
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The students then "essentially started playing scrabble" and moved around to spell different words with those letters, Newton told CNN.
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And the nation's prowess at Scrabble went global this year when a Nigerian player, Wellington Jighere, captured the world championship.
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The adjective helped Nigel Richards, who is from New Zealand and lives in Malaysia, win his fourth World Scrabble Championship.
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I played a game of Scrabble — in Afrikaans, no less — with a friendly woman named Lueen and her two friends.
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"We spent a week last summer debating this," said John Chew, co-president of the North American Scrabble Players Association.
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Was this, playing Scrabble for $200 a pop in the middle of a workday, all there was left to do?
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"Your Scrabble tactics sound familiar," I said after we talked through my next play: "lox" on a double-word score.
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"I will rise above this issue and get on with more important things in life than playing Scrabble," he said.
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Ew. Last year it would have been against the rules for casual Scrabble players to use any of those words.
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Almost certainly the company regretted turning down the game, which became Scrabble in 1948 after an individual investor got involved.
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The young men staying there play scrabble or lie quietly on camp beds, grateful that the worst seems behind them.
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It seems his Scrabble strategy involves aggressive rule bending in order to win a game against a high school-age opponent.
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If Hasbro sold an immersive room kit like this for Scrabble, I bet kids would suddenly be pretty excited about spelling.
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Hear us out: Board games no longer need to be relegated to lackluster rounds of Yahtzee or exhaustive bouts of Scrabble.
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The competition was open to players of all ages, so long as they're members of the North American Scrabble Players Association.
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It's like mobile gaming – you can play Scrabble or you can play Angry Birds or you can play tower defense games.
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She won the Scrabble game, and the next morning before I took off, she assured me that all had been resolved.
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"Don't play Scrabble or Words with Friends with Diana Rigg, she'll beat you every time," says Rigg's Thrones costar Natalie Dormer.
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It's time to throw away your outdated dictionary and dust off those tiles, baby, because Scrabble is getting some new words.
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Old Scrabble tiles, beads, and dominoes are more creative solutions, especially if there's a Sharpie on hand to write the numbers.
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I had started playing Scrabble with my new husband, and, to my surprise, he was trouncing me by dozens of points.
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The afternoon of the appointment, I sneaked past my boss's office with a Deluxe Scrabble set sticking out of my bag.
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Merriam-Webster announced on Monday it had added more than 300 words to the latest edition of its official Scrabble dictionary.
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In one story in Groff's "Florida," two young girls scrabble to survive, left to fend for themselves on an uninhabited island.
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For clueing, I use an unabridged dictionary, a crossword dictionary, a Scrabble dictionary, and the back of the crossword answer book.
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Finally the two reveal clues tell you that it's a SCRABBLE game, and that there's a MIXED BAG in the middle.
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Here are some odd Scrabble words for the bot, in no particular order: djibbah, mycetoma, chitling, telsonic, viduity, aplanat, haftarah, qajaq.
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A Scrabble board in the base of the tree spelled out some key positive words associated with the "Be Best" campaign.
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Words With Friends 2, which is similar to the board game Scrabble, is available at the App store and Google Play.
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Zynga has steadily worked to reverse that development and has created something that Scrabble lacks: a sense of limitless, riskless exploration.
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Playing a transgressive game of Scrabble is an acceptable risk for her, because it gives her power she can exploit elsewhere.
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Machines have topped the best humans at most games held up as measures of human intellect, including chess, Scrabble, Othello, even Jeopardy!.
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As a teen, he'd run between floors at board-game competitions to compete in simultaneous bouts of chess, scrabble, poker and backgammon.
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There are three battles in this episode of The Handmaid's Tale: They involve a birth, a game of Scrabble, and a cookie.
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And of course, LinkedIn had a game room, complete with a giant chess board, Scrabble board, bean bag chairs, and pool table.
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Their members were irascible boozers and partiers from the dirty, hard-scrabble South who just happened to be good at their instruments.
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Even for a decorated Scrabble whiz, Mr. Richards, who is from New Zealand and lives in Malaysia, has a way with words.
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" In a Twitter post after the finals on Sunday, Mr. Day described Mr. Richards as the best Scrabble player "of all time.
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Last week, "ew" also became an acceptable word in Scrabble (along with another two-letter word, "ok," opening up new strategic possibilities).
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Working with Hasbro in North America and Mattel globally, the launch of Scopely's new Scrabble game was two years in the making.
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We're playing SCRABBLE today, as the revealer says at 31D, and the first thing we have to do is set our racks.
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This game, which decided the Scrabble World Championship in 2016, has a 176-point word in a nonuple position — it's powerful stuff.
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Whereas Hasbro updates OWL to keep Scrabble current, Zynga updates the Words With Friends list to keep the game meaningful to players.
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They range from "aa", a stream or waterway (try that in Scrabble), to "zymome", "that constituent of gluten which is insoluble in alcohol".
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Her nerves twitched and jerked as she struggled not to scrabble on the ground for a fist-sized rock or a sharpened stick.
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Scrabble bot's official name is actually the Intelligent Vision System for Companion Robots, made by Taiwanese research company ITRI (Industrial Technology Research Institute).
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IN THE hot, golden light of an Abuja afternoon two men spin a rotating Scrabble board, oblivious to the flies buzzing around them.
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Words With Friends 2 is out now and it brings a few new features that set it apart from its Scrabble-inspired predecessor.
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A few years ago, he played Scrabble on a corporate jet with a friend's daughter, who was in high school at the time.
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Russian media reported that the victims were poor residents of Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow.
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But this is Scrabble, an enduringly popular board game with an ardent fan following, and the new list was not without controversy, O.K.?
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I like my name — it's not super common but not weird, usually not misspelled and has an 8-point Scrabble letter in it.
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To mark the 2008 Beijing Olympics, they held a seventy-two-hour blowout on Howard Street, complete with Scrabble tournaments and astrological readings.
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When Offred slyly asks Fred for a translation of the line during their Scrabble match, the inscription soon gains totemic power for her.
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Like a Scrabble player going all out for the triple word score, he seems to be banking everything on a strong Tuesday showing.
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Even inside the four-day, 60,000-attendee Lisbon Games Week, giant international brands reign supreme while a few local developers scrabble for recognition.
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Real frigate birds swoop down to steal fish from other birds; in Frigatebird, you steal words made of Scrabble tiles from your opponents.
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"Scrabble has been a game night staple for 70 years, and we're excited to bring the game into its next decade," added Berkowitz.
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On one wall, oversized Scrabble tiles spelled out "CHICAGO," except that the "A" had been carefully drawn on an index card in Sharpie.
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The tea dispenser's orange light reminds us: they're in the dining room, laughing in Chinese while we play Scrabble or Monopoly out here.
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Because women have better things to do than endlessly sit alone, practicing their anagram clusters—they play Scrabble for fun because… It's a game.
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As the first day of competition got underway, the room was nearly silent, save for the sound of thousands of rattling plastic Scrabble tiles.
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This was my first Scrabble tournament in several years, and my rating put me in Division 3, the 52nd seed out of 89 players.
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"Why not make them dinner and then give them a game like Scrabble or table-top basketball that you can play together?" she recommends.
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Merriam-Webster, based in Massachusetts, issued the first Scrabble dictionary in 1976 and since then has put out updates every four to eight years.
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Over the weekend I decided to go to a session called "Understanding Blockchains with Scrabble" at the 2018 Our Networks conference in Toronto, Ontario.
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"OK is something Scrabble players have been waiting for, for a long time," Peter Sokolowski, Merriam-Webster editor-at-large, told The Associated Press.
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By the end of the round, I had clawed back $250 of my Scrabble debt from my friend, who accused me of hustling him.
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Well, except for Spencer and Toby (Keegan Allen), instead of a steamy night of sex, the two former lovers spend the night playing scrabble.
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"He lived a hard-scrabble life in a rusty steel town," begins a gravelly voiced narrator akin to those in pick-up truck commercials.
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And, on top of all that, none of the letters with a Scrabble value of 2 or more points went beyond the fivefold mark.
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New Delhi (CNN)Mohammad Mujabir works hard tilling his scrabble patch of a field on the banks of the Yamuna River in New Delhi.
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Scrabble, restaurant-prep, my children's brown-bag lunches — whatever she enjoys, she enjoys with a drive to excellence that would wither the casual player.
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Those were two of the highly obscure words that helped Nigel Richards clinch the finals of the World Scrabble Championships in London on Sunday.
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He remembers the day well: He was playing Scrabble, in French, at a friend's house when he first caught a glimpse of Ms. Lukoji.
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New words are added to the Merriam-Webster Scrabble dictionary if they are found in a standard dictionary, in particular, Merriam-Webster's collegiate dictionary.
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The latter (in theaters April 17) is a whimsical British dramedy starring a Scrabble-obsessed Bill Nighy on a hunt for his estranged son.
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The birthplace of Scrabble was Mr. Butts's fifth floor walk-up in Jackson Heights, Queens, where the inventor cut 100 plywood tiles by hand.
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Though I'm a lifelong fan of Scrabble and word puzzles, I wasn't really bitten by the crossword bug until a year or so ago.
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I wasn't much of a crossword person growing up, preferring Scrabble, Boggle and pretty much anything in Games Magazine other than the crossword puzzles.
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This is disappointing in some sense: A steady but opaque trickle of new words precludes the kind of exhaustive preparation that competitive Scrabble demands.
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A gender gap does exist in the world of competitive Scrabble: According to the researchers, all of the last ten world champions have been male.
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Last year, ahead of their four-year wedding anniversary, Timberlake revealed they keep their romance alive with quality time and a good game of Scrabble.
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According to Sorrentino's friends and costars Pauly "DJ Pauly D" DelVecchio and Vinny Guadagnino, the pair have already become friends in prison, playing Scrabble together.
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"Atlanta," created by and starring actor-singer Donald Glover, is set in a hard-scrabble community on the margins of the city's hip-hop culture.
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In the wake of Salvini's theatrical performance, the scrabble for power — or at least political relevance — has grown increasingly frenetic among his rivals and enemies.
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Ellis said that in addition to Schneider he's seen a lot of other people make their own variations of his Scrabble comment, which he appreciates.
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The noun "bitcoin," described by the dictionary as "a digital currency," would be worth at least nine points in Scrabble, based on the game's scoring.
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If you hear "board games" and nothing but pained memories of hours-long Monopoly and Scrabble battles fill your brain, you're in for a treat.
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The game closely resembles Scrabble, with two players trying to create words on a grid with random letter tiles, scoring points for spelling out words.
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The Scrabble game gets offered like a gift—like a connection—and as the wash of letters overwhelms her, he gazes at her and smiles.
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She shows the reporter around her Beverly Hills home, which has awards in every room and a Scrabble board reading "Hello Vogue" ready and waiting.
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For instance, you're probably familiar with soap cutting ASMR videos, which sound like a xylophone, or emptying a bag of Scrabble letters onto a table.
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The threat of women gaining access to words was planted even earlier in Season 1, when June uses their Scrabble games to manipulate Commander Waterford.
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Most of that hour is a sharp exploration of Offred's airless circumstances: she plays Scrabble; she flirts with Nick; her doctor offers to impregnate her.
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On top of that, Kimmel made his very own Scrabble board, except it's called "Scrabull" and the only words you can use are Trump-isms.
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For others, it's become a daily ritual, which is why the natural successor to Scrabble has continued to be so popular, nearly a decade later.
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Three years later, The Canadian Press reported, he said he had no interest in writing fiction and spent his time playing Scrabble on the internet.
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In 2015, his mother, Adrienne Fischer, told The Guardian that he did not pick up Scrabble until he was 28, and only at her request.
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After the eight-minute ferry ride to their campsite, they simply plopped down their bags, turned off their phones and played a game of Scrabble.
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Their friendship began entirely at random when Words With Friends, a Scrabble-like phone game, assigned the two strangers to play each other last summer.
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By day they discuss "vibes" and analyze where the boys' "heads are at"; after dark, night-vision cameras watch their bodies scrabble rhythmically under duvets.
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Q and k, along with j, x and z, are known as power tiles in Scrabble lingo because they carry more points, Mr. Fatsis said.
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The challenge in constructing a pangram is to accommodate the high Scrabble value letters without using answers that otherwise wouldn't be allowed in the grid.
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The program works by allowing members to post online something they want help with: guitar lessons, a Scrabble partner, a ride to the doctor's office.
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Each of three grids represents an unfinished Scrabble game with only one possible board, assuming you use only (and all of) the letters beneath it.
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One set of Scrabble pieces on the tree in the Red Room spells out "Be Best," the name of the first lady's child wellness initiative.
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These differences from Scrabble resonate every time I play Words With Friends, but the most fundamental distinction between the games is within the gameplay itself.
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But it's hard not to accept this approach—a benevolent, but firm proprietary vice grip—as a fun deviation from the arcane ciphers of Scrabble.
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"It's like taking the scrabble tiles for my name and your name and mixing them in a bowl to pull out hundreds of names," said Hampikian.
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I'm one of those few, and last month, I flew to New Orleans to compete in the North American Scrabble Championship with 400 fellow word nerds.
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"My original comic was influenced by a sign I saw at the 2017 Women's March, which I re-contextualized and added the Scrabble angle," Ellis said.
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Both men are members of the triumphant Nigerian team that last month won the World English-language Scrabble Players Association championship for the second time running.
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Then there was the scrabble of a key at a lock, and the other door, the one facing him, that led to the free world, opened.
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"It was just fantastic," Coelho told Reuters after being cheered incessantly by about 200 badminton-playing children and fans from his hard-scrabble neighborhood of Chacrinha.
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London's Brett Smitheram captured the 2016 World Scrabble Championship by playing the word BRACONID for a whopping 176 points against his rival Mark Nyman on Sunday.
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Radically different, and far less sophisticated, are "Tink!" and "The Last Word," both of which use familiar brands — Peter Pan and Scrabble, respectively — as starting points.
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The Scrabble average often suffers in grids like this because the friendliest letters in the open areas tend to be the ones with the lowest scores.
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We continued playing Scrabble, as we'd always done, and I held out hope that her acuity with words was evidence that her forgetfulness was perhaps temporary.
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While we grub and scrabble and claw at one another chasing these tiny pellets of self-esteem, the bug-brooch barons still pocket the actual cash.
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Some people would show up at Scrabble club events only to be challenged on the word "zen," then leave and never come back, Mr. Chew recalled.
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These days, I start the morning with a round of The New York Times' mini crossword puzzle, then a few more rounds of online Scrabble before bed.
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It uses a combination of AI, 3D vision, and hand-eye coordination to pour its opponent a cup of coffee, and then mercilessly crush them at Scrabble.
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Players can see the letters on mempool tiles, and as tiles get used, more are randomly pulled from the Scrabble tile bag and put into the mempool.
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I had just started a new job in a new city, where my only friend was a fellow gambler who once took me for $2,500 in Scrabble.
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Mr. Smitheram said his victory was particularly sweet because he had outmaneuvered Mr. Nyman, a four-time British Scrabble champion who won the world title in 1993.
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Los Angeles-based mobile gaming company Scopely unveiled its newest game, Scrabble GO, now available for pre-order on Android and coming to iOS later this year.
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My friends came to our house after school because my mother would let us play with her makeup; we didn't care that she beat us at Scrabble.
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This week's reset may be the perfect time to wonder whether it makes sense to reset the Scrabble board of letters that Larry and Sergey left behind.
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In 2015, Nigerian Wellington Jighere became the first African to win a Scrabble World Championship, and will be leading his country's team at the week-long tournament.
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Scrabble breaks up most friendships anyway, so seeing as my opponent was a robot with unlimited access to a dictionary, I probably won't be playing with it again.
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As competitive as they can get, the best thing about classic games like Monopoly, Clue, and, yes, Scrabble, is that they bring people together around a single board.
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But as the video notes, Scrabble is probably off the table with the man who finishes less than half of his sentences and thinks "euphanism" is a word.
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In a video she posted on Instagram Friday, Clarkson arranged a series of Scrabble letters to discover that she would spend her birthday at a then-unknown location.
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Realizing they're in trouble, the hard-scrabble Malolos go idol hunting, and male model Michael finds the hidden immunity idol – one of James Clement's unplayed idols from China.
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Led by software engineers Sarah Friend and David Wolever, the session broke down the basics of blockchains and explained them with "Scrabits," the creators' modified version of Scrabble.
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There's a reason people still buy and play physical copies of board games, even though we obviously have the technology to play Monopoly or Scrabble on a computer.
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In addition to playing Words With Friends, a Scrabble-like online game, on his iPad, Mr. Obama turns up the sound on the television for big sports games.
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Modern Love Her OkCupid profile mentioned that she was really good at Scrabble, so I sent her a message challenging her to a game of Words With Friends.
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But then, so might yours be if called upon to bark wooden dialogue and names that seem concocted by a desperate Scrabble player who's run out of vowels.
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You may have heard the clicks and clacks of the Cherry MX switch that's enough of a cultural phenomenon that even the makers of Scrabble have taken notice.
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Risk infantry represented players, Trivial Pursuit wedges = medium NPC's, Scrabble tiles = large NPC's, Trial Pursuit pie holders = Huge NPC's, and a peanut butter jar lid became a Colossal.
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The notion of a theme that was inherently Scrabbly appealed to my inner Scrabble fanatic, and building a puzzle around double-X words seemed like an interesting concept.
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Calhoun tells PEOPLE that Ace's entrance was like something "out of a movie," which began when Chrissy's water broke during a family game of Scrabble and "unbearable contractions" began.
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Take a break and download some games so you can kill some time with Scrabble, Sudoku, or rack your brain trying to complete the latest New York Times crossword.
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"Carly is brilliant and capable and, yet, she experienced the hard-scrabble world of being a woman professional in a business world that extracts a price," Cruz said Wednesday.
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Versus non-Scrabble players, individuals that did play the puzzle game used memory and visual perception centers instead of the language centers of the brain to solve the task.
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The keyboard also sports Cherry MX Brown switches, which give a tactile bump when pressed, so you can really be reminded of the clacking from placing down Scrabble tiles.
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He is seven votes short of an absolute majority in the 350-strong Congress, meaning he must scrabble for approval from other opposition parties to push legislation through parliament.
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To be truly great at Chess or Scrabble, you pretty much have to study (online or other players) or have a dictionary out with you (which is totally cheating).
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The problems at the mine highlighted the challenges facing miners in Chile as they scrabble through far-flung locations now as more accessible deposits have largely been tapped out.
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Mastermind entered a young, fast-growing "adult games" market, where new favorites Scrabble and Monopoly vied with Chess and Go for pole position atop sales charts and coffee tables.
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At Mom's, we always played on the same Scrabble set we had used since we were kids, its maroon-edged board as creaky and familiar as a favorite chair.
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We also have a story about South Korean grandmas enrolling in school to learn how to read and write, above, and Scrabble finally O.K.'d, "OK" (for six points).
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Learning all of the eligible two- and three-letter words is one of the best-known ways to improve your Scrabble score, especially when the board starts getting full.
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"Before, what we would have had to do is scrabble through piles of papers and reports," said Dave Lynch, BP's vice president for reservoir development in the North Sea.
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And next week, eight of its elite players will represent the country at the 2017 World English-Language Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) Championship in Kenya from November 8-12.
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Zynga likely will not ever release the full Words With Friends word list and generally seems disinterested in the high-stakes, probability-oriented play that occurs in competitive Scrabble.
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Words With Friends, the Scrabble-like game developed by Zynga, added more than 50,000 words to its dictionary on Tuesday, including modern-day slang like bestie, turnt, and hangry.
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"We can play scrabble for 10 hours and enjoy each other's time, we can play darts, pool, anything, we can watch TV for 12 hours and enjoy each other's company."
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Uno Cards Was £6.99, now £4.16 Hot Wheels 5-Car Gift Pack Was £11.99, now £42.003 Scrabble Original Board Game Was £19.99, now £10.49 Hozelock Auto Reel with 40m Hose.
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Get Competitive You can challenge each other to board games at a café, pinball at an arcade, or darts at a bar — or break out your Scrabble board at home.
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The faux-naif mixed-media painting depicts what looks like the Wicked Witch of the West with Scrabble tiles for hair, holding a little mustachioed male figurine in her palm.
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Last year, Gizmodo reported on a study from Canada's University of Calgary that found Scrabble players used a different part of their brains to perform a certain language-related task.
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The word game, a touchscreen take on Scrabble that once got Alec Baldwin kicked off a plane, first launched in 2009 and has been one of mobile's most enduring hits.
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The game that would eventually be called Scrabble was invented by Alfred Butts, a jobless architect during the Depression, in his apartment in the Queens borough of New York City.
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And then I shoot upright, scrabble for my phone, punch the home button to awaken the calming backlit glow—2:33 am, Sunday, January 8—and crumple into my pillow.
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WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — Some solvers — myself included — feel that when a crossword contains a plethora of high-score Scrabble letters, it's objectively more exciting than crosswords that use only common letters.
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Even Elizabeth Warren, conspicuously placed center stage, used part of her closing statement to explain that she grew up in hard-scrabble circumstances dreaming of becoming a public school teacher.
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Scrabble was invented during the Great Depression by Alfred Mosher Butts, an unemployed architect, who conjured up the game from his fifth-floor walk-up apartment in Jackson Heights, Queens.
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But critics say the move would enrich a few private companies, and would limit prisoners to the catalogs' paltry, price-inflated roster of TV dinners, potato chips and Scrabble dictionaries.
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In this case, 39 of the puzzle's 68 words are either debuts, or unusual enough to be against the law in Scrabble (again, I know, but these are the rules).
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It's crunchy when it has a range of high-count Scrabble letters in it (today's puzzle lacks only a Q, although I don't give much value to pangrammatic puzzles either).
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I took a break from it for a while to take up competitive Scrabble, but now I have two kids, so it's really hard to play in clubs and tournaments.
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When I first arrived over a decade ago, I was shocked to see men playing cards, dominos, and Scrabble at the steel tables, or holding quiet conversations while they smoked.
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Per Barton: Here are Rich's suggestions for tactics that work well in naming a successful company: High-point scrabble letters: "You get more points if you use rare letters," Barton says.
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I think it was over a game of Scrabble and a glass of wine that me and Jad got talking about making an album with Teenage Fanclub with him providing vocals.
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At protests in southern Bolivar state, a professor gave a lecture on politics while some people sat down to play Scrabble and others cooked soup over small fires in the streets.
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Like many players, I got serious about the game after reading "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis, a journalist who explored the underground Scrabble scene and eventually became an expert-level player.
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Obsidian's latest sees the studio return to a formula they excelled at in 2010's Fallout: New Vegas, shifting setting and theme from hard-scrabble post-apocalyptica to intrepid space operatics.
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In a Tana French book, to commit a crime is to scrabble desperately for power in a system designed to render you weak and helpless, and to keep you that way.
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Scrabble points are transformed into "Scrabits" (essentially bitcoins) that players rack up when they spell a word, which is the in-game equivalent of mining a block of Bitcoin transaction data.
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Normal Scrabble points would be tallied (in this case, 1, 1, 1, 1) and thanks to a double word score, he earns eight points) and Nakamoto would now have 58 points.
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They can just screw around with the entry-level content until they pick up the basics and not be restricted by the immediate stringent goals of games like Chess or Scrabble.
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Let's meet Mr. Elkins and say hello to Ms. Michaels: Joel Elkins: Andrea (the "Queen of Mondays") and I know each other from L.A. Scrabble before she moved to Northern California.
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It would be less embarrassing if he was posting videos where people pissed in his mouth or making sly pro-Trump allusions to reporters or taking 125th place in Scrabble tournaments.
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Trenton Charlson uses left-right symmetry to offer us a Scrabbly grid and sprinkles some of those high point Scrabble letters in a place that reminds us of a popular band.
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The official international Scrabble dictionary has updated its list of approved words for the first time since 2015, opening up an additional 2,800 words to players at tournaments and at home.
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The new list applies to international players, from English-speaking countries like Britain and Australia to places, like Thailand and Pakistan, where English-language Scrabble is popular among school-age children.
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Under the auspices of Electronic Arts, which had developed the earlier versions of Scrabble for mobile phones, hundreds of thousands of users had signed up to play the popular word game.
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While Mr. Sanders and Senator Elizabeth Warren scrabble for the progressive Democratic base, Mr. Buttigieg is showing up mainly in counties that voted for Mr. Obama before flipping to Mr. Trump.
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In this scene, one plucky iguana was set upon by a swarm of snakes, only to miraculously wriggle free and scrabble up the surrounding rocks, serpents nipping fruitlessly at its heels.
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In Scrabble, one player might start off with a strong rack filled with high-point "power tiles," while the other might start off with, say, a horrible "Old MacDonald" rack: EIEEEIO.
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The summer before senior year of high school I got it into my head that making a crossword must be something I can do — it's basically the same as playing Scrabble!
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My mother and sister have long been puzzle-solving companions, and Zach also benefits from the zealous Scrabble players on his father's side of the family — they are a ruthless bunch.
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Whether they are doing it to flex their brains, work on their relationship, or just wind down from their busy celebrity lives, a friendly game of Scrabble seems like a perfect choice.
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Words With Friends is not a new, headline-snatching phenomenon like the live game show HQ, nor is it especially groundbreaking: It's been around since 2009, and is very similar to Scrabble.
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When building our scrabble detector, I did have some teething difficulties (not feeding the system enough data was the main one), but it was nothing a bit of idle tinkering couldn't solve.
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A whopping 300 new words have been added to Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, including a few that are sure to satisfy millennials and aggravate everyone else: Bitcoin, emoji and botnet.
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Published globally by Scopely, the new Scrabble GO game was developed in partnership with PierPlay game studio and joins a gaming portfolio that has amassed more than $1 billion in lifetime revenue.
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Three months later, he stepped into the mountains, where he would slip on narrow paths and scrabble up rockfaces, stopping at night in hiker huts to share meals and bedrooms with strangers.
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"Moonlight," which follows a young black man growing to adulthood in a hard-scrabble Miami neighborhood, received six nominations in all, including best film, best director Barry Jenkins and for Jenkins' screenplay.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Malaysian teenage Scrabble protege Tengku Ariff Shah can spell more English words than most adults in the Western world, but he doesn't always know what they mean.
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It turns out that this probably should have been a warning sign — that and the fact that any Scrabble player can attest to the abject horrors of a rack laden with I's.
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Stefan Fatsis, an expert Scrabble player and author of Word Freak, a thrilling account of Scrabble's tournament scene, history, and various strategies, makes no mention of definitions when I speak with him.
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In my early 20s, I developed a gambling problem that I've since learned to spread out over a variety of low-stakes games — Scrabble, pitch-and-putt golf, my stock profile on ETrade.
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Katyal told me the "overwhelming enthusiasm" for Hawaii's travel ban opposition was a far cry from his scrabble for amicus support in challenges to Guantanamo Bay policies during the George W. Bush years.
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Massdrop has collaborated with Hasbro to create this delightful Scrabble keycap set that comes paired with an entry-level tenkeyless keyboard (a keyboard without a number pad) from WASD, as spotted by Gizmodo.
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In this engaging mix-and-match game — which is somewhat like a blend of Scrabble and dominoes, but without words or numbers — players gain points by joining tiles matched by shape or color.
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The Handmaid's Tale "The Handmaid's Tale" is very good at imbuing simple and quiet moments — a trip to the gynecologist, Serena Joy pruning her rose garden, a game of Scrabble — with high suspense.
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It's happy hour so I order two vodkas with ginger ale and lime (I really did not want to pay the extra $3 for ginger beer in each drink), while we play Scrabble.
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Food abbreviations are also abundant -- "marg" for margarita, "guac" for guacamole and "avo" for avocado won't help much in Scrabble, but they will make it easier to write a grammatically correct grocery list.
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Afraid to go inside The scene on the ground in Palu is beyond chaotic as Indonesia's emergency services scrabble to restore access as well as food and water supplies to the remote communities.
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But the Lego bricks, which have built-in mainstream appeal and offer the chance to play around with words, or even play a makeshift game of Scrabble, seem to have a unique appeal.
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Instead, try this Scrabble tile rack desk lamp that lets you spell out seven-letter warnings like 'GO AWAY', 'NOT NOW', or other, blunter messages if your office lets you get away with it.
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Photo: FireboxThe glowing tiles included with the Scrabble lamp each feature a pair of metal electrodes on the bottom that make contact with charged metal strips when placed on the oversized wooden tile rack.
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The $40 lamp also includes 60 reusable letter stickers that can be applied, and re-applied, to the tiles to expand your glowing vocabulary, even beyond what the official Scrabble dictionary approves of.[Firebox]
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The dictionary publisher, which maintains the game's official set of acceptable words, updated its sixth edition of the Scrabble Dictionary to include 300 new words — with "bitcoin" making the cut for the first time.
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The mobile structure is covered in Bouhamidi's paintings that incorporate Moroccan design motifs, and surrealist drawings by his father, a self-taught artist, as well as scrabble tiles that spell out lines of verse.
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Despite lacking traditional thriller tropes and featuring a rather cheery Ted Danson, this movie has a final act that made me wish Moss would sprint back to the Waterfords' for a game of Scrabble.
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The mass poisoning in Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,413 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow, is the worst of its kind in recent years and has prompted nationwide soul-searching and condemnation.
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I reckon with one outstretched leg I could tip it over on its side, and it will scrabble and struggle to get up—like literally every robot in the first season of Robot Wars.
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While we spoke about the medical facts of her illness during that glorious first week, mostly we chatted, sharing memories of our childhood, played Yahtzee and Scrabble, watched movies contending for Oscars and laughed.
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While Scrabble-y letters can be great since they're generally rarer in crosswords, if I were making this puzzle today, I would prioritize smoother fill over including the last few letters of the alphabet.
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We spoke candidly about topics ranging from Starbucks store design, to his ex-girlfriend (with whom he spent two years Starbucking around the world), to his passion for competitive scrabble, to his mother's dementia.
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"We couldn't imagine better partners in world-building than Nichelle and Malcolm, who have impressed us for a long time with their wit, their imagination and their Scrabble-playing skills," Beinoff and Weiss continued.
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That he would apply the same logic to a game of Scrabble is not necessarily surprising, even if it does seem more than a tad quixotic (that's a word worth 75 points, if you're counting).
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Scrabble players commit hundreds of hours to memorizing obscure words from all corners of the English language, from "aa," a word of Hawaiian origin referring to a type of lava, to "zyzzyva," a tropical beetle.
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The app suggests grabbing a drink and food and "snapping away" at this Instagrammable part of the bar, which also features a bowling alley, a giant Scrabble board and a wall of fake shipping containers.
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All these years after the Jetsons went off the air, we're right on the verge of having access to robots that drive and fly us around while we sit and play Scrabble on our phones.
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"The one good thing about life in a fear-based regime is getting to play Scrabble with your Commander, and we were denied even that," Bee said in yet another a perfect Handmaid's Tale reference.
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When he's not overseeing his own Lobster Boy imprint, taking his warehouse-ready record bag round the world, or working with the likes of Raekwon, Mobb Deep, or Tink, he's probably honing his Scrabble abilities.
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"Moonlight," which follows the life of a young black man growing to adulthood in a hard-scrabble Miami neighborhood, received six nominations in all, including best film, best director Barry Jenkins and for Jenkins' screenplay.
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Over the next two years, she would often run into him around town, or playfully connect with him online, where they would engage in some intense games of Scrabble or chat about music or photography.
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Woolfers in New York City began meeting in person, as Ms. Collins led field trips to Toys in Babeland, the sex accessories emporium on the Lower East Side, and hosted Scrabble tournaments and clothing swaps.
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It's more of a crossword term, but this acrostic is a pangram, meaning all 26 letters appeared in the passage, which meant that we got some nice Scrabble words like ABJECT, EXTOL, AGONIZE and ELOQUENT.
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Scopely, the mobile gaming publisher behind titles including Marvel Strike Force, Scrabble Go, Yahtzee with Buddies and Star Trek Fleet Command, has added another $200 million to its hoard of cash for mergers and acquisitions.
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Mr. Simmons, a former British Scrabble champion who has written several books about the game, was accused of putting a hand with freshly drawn letter tiles back into a bag to draw more favorable tiles.
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In the standard dictionary, "it used to be entered only as 'OK' or 'okay,'" Ms. Brewster said, noting that the capitalization of "OK" prevented it from being used as a Scrabble word in the past.
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Carrie endeavors to make a film about her best friend, rock star St. Vincent — but in her downtime, the mysterious star is just Annie: an ordinary person who plays Scrabble and does regular ab workouts.
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On what appears to be a Christmas tree themed to children's board games, a collection of Scrabble letters spell out the two words, placed among the tree branches surrounded by dominos, playing cards and dice.
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At first, I demurred, messaging back that I had tried another app, Scrabulous, and hadn't liked it; too much like Scrabble (a game I've always found frustrating because letter-luck plays too big a part).
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VICE News caught up with Jighere at a Nigerian national level tournament ahead of the world championships, to learn about the tactics that make Nigeria one of the most formidable forces in the Scrabble world.
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In their downtime, other players stretched their brains with a variation of Scrabble known as "Clabbers," in which any string of letters is valid as long as it can be re-arranged into a valid word.
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If bracnoid has inspired you to add some more high-point words to your Scrabble list, try the other words used in the final round: periagua, a canoe; variedly; sundri, a tree; and gynaecia, a flower.
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Maybe the heady glow of feeling like a hard-scrabble disruptor wasn't more important than the reality of the spaces those innovators created, and how they could be weaponized, particularly against its most at-risk inhabitants.
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If you ask it to tell you what an "astronaut" is, it will not only give you the definition, but it tell you how many points the word "astronaut" is worth in the board game Scrabble.
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On a Thursday night in October 217, Simon Brooks packed his belongings and drove west toward Silicon Valley, thinking he was on his way to creating the next Scrabble app, a word game he called Gadzookery.
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At one point, Melania's seen sprinkling snow on the tree's branches, and the ornaments include red, white and blue flags and ribbons ... and Scrabble tiles spelling out "Be Best" -- the name of her anti-bullying initiative.
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Anyone who's played a game of Scrabble knows you can't look up words in the dictionary before playing them (according to Scrabble's official rules, players are only allowed to use the dictionary when challenging another player's word).
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Prince Anthony Ikolo, the coach of Nigeria's national Scrabble team, estimates that 4,000 Scrabblers play in more than 100 clubs around the country (compared with around 2,000-13,500 members in 152 clubs in America and Canada together).
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There was sherry and Scrabble and late at night, when everyone had gone to bed and you were left alone with a crate of Stella and an episode of Dad's Army, an almost overwhelming sense of sadness.
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So if you're on the hunt for handmade wedding tidbits — a Scrabble-tile cake topper, customized mirror seating charts, hand-painted globes, Gatsby headpieces, and the rest — you now have one more rabbit hole to go down.
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Her every move and action, even playing what may or may not be an innocent Scrabble match with the Commander, is part of a life-and-death game she's forced to play as she dreams of liberation.
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Surprisingly, Mr. Sullivan does not make much of Scrabble itself — unlike, say, William Finn's musical "The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee," which swiftly incorporated the intricacies of the English language and a competition's built-in suspense.
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It isn&apost a bank — rather the sell is that users don&apost have to scrabble in their wallets for various physical debit and credit cards, and instead rely on one neat payment solution on their phone.
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Caroline: There's still so much we could touch on — one-eyed Janine's development, driver Nick's betrayal, the illicit pleasures of owning men at Scrabble — but they're mostly things that will inevitably keep coming up as the season progresses.
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While old standbys like Monopoly and Scrabble have always sold well, most of the fuel in the board game fire is coming from newer hobby board games that millennials love, such as Catan, Pandemic, and Ticket to Ride.
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Once past that stretch, the boys' escape route forks east at a T-junction, and they must scrabble over some diverse terrain including giant boulders, sand and slippery rocks with sudden cliff-like drops and further submerged passageways.
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It was a revelation to me that constructors were real people several years ago, when I saw a familiar name in the byline, a competitor of mine at the San Francisco Scrabble club (I live in Portland now).
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"Men spent more time analyzing their games and reviewing their games, looking at anagrams by themselves," explains Moxley, saying that men and women tended to spend the same amount of time a week playing Scrabble, but in different ways.
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You know the scene in This Is 40 when Leslie Mann's character barges in on Paul Rudd's in the bathroom only to find him not going to the bathroom and instead playing a game of Scrabble on his iPad?
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The poisoning in Irkutsk, a hard scrabble city around 2,600 miles (4,000 km) east of Moscow, is one of the worst such cases in recent years in a country where up to 12 million people use cheap surrogate spirits.
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While the PD held almost 300 seats in the outgoing lower house, polls predict it will win between 130-170 this time around, meaning there was a desperate scrabble amongst lawmakers to secure safe spots on the party lists.
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Having an explicit, smooth mastery and progression curve — and initial ramp — is critical to a long-lasting game, and in cases like Chess or Scrabble players may be paralyzed by the options and not know which move to make.
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Sherrilyn Ifill, Ms. Ifill's cousin and the president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, shared memories of playing dominoes and Scrabble together and of spending Thanksgiving with families deeply interested in politics and justice.
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We share nerdy, glasses-wearing interests — like Disney-sing-alongs, Scrabble, reading — and Katy has absolutely no idea who any celebrity or standup comic or twitter personality is, which definitely helps me keep my choice of career in perspective.
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I like the idea of having a complete board game constructed within a grid, and the addition of some of the higher count Scrabble letters in their puzzle (like Xs and Zs) was a nice nod to the game.
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Neighborhood Joint Earlier this year, when New York was still in the middle of a deep freeze, a heated game of Scrabble was unfolding between Amy and Eric McAllister, a married couple, in a cozy bar with loud music.
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Even when I see the best options within my scrambled tiles, I aimlessly reconfigure them on the board out of curiosity in a way that I couldn't in Scrabble (placing tiles down discloses your possible moves to your opponent).
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"Introducing… Ruth Ray De La Luz Leonard ✨ (aka Ruthie Ray)," she wrote alongside an adorable newborn shot, captured by Kinda Arzon, of the baby curled up next to a Scrabble letter holder with the "Baby Ruth" spelled out on it.
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"Introducing… Ruth Ray De La Luz Leonard ✨ (aka Ruthie Ray)," she wrote alongside the shot, also captured by the same photographer, featuring the baby curled up next to a Scrabble letter holder with the "Baby Ruth" spelled out on it.
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If for you, the Thanksgiving holiday is less about loading up on green bean casserole and playing Scrabble with your Uncle Eddie for five-hour stretches and more about hitting the mall for marathon shopping sessions, well, we support that.
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Winning Solutions is responsible for some of the most stunning versions of games like Scrabble and Monopoly you've ever seen, and the latest version of the classic real estate investment simulator was given a Miami makeover by pop artist Romero Britto.
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In reading Absolutely on Music, we are taken aback by Murakami's encyclopedic knowledge about classical music but hardly surprised: Japan is no longer a land of hard-scrabble upstarts like Ozawa, but ground zero for obsessive approaches to Western culture.
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"If you're inviting me to a hotel room to hang out with another man and a girlfriend of mine, it's very easy for you to believe there's going to be more going on than playing cards or Scrabble," Evans told Kelly.
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"You Bring the Summer," by Andy Partridge of XTC, turns into a Beach Boys homage, as does Mr. Schlesinger's "Our Own World"; "She Makes Me Laugh," by Rivers Cuomo of Weezer, harks back to the Byrds (and mentions playing Scrabble).
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Customers at "Harry" - a play on the animal's name in Japanese - have been lining up to spend time at a bright room in the Roppongi entertainment district where 20 to 30 hedgehogs of different breeds scrabble and snooze in glass tanks.
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It might be hard to imagine where, outside a Scrabble game, an American might drop gofer (Welsh for overflow from a well) and smeuse (Sussex dialect for the gap in a hedge left by the regular passage of a small animal).
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While many Championship owners are maddened by the smell of money which wafts tantalisingly from the top flight – and scrabble desperately to get there as a consequence – Fernandes seems philosophical and reasonable about what the club should be looking to achieve.
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The new words approved by Collins, the publisher behind the Collins English Dictionary in Britain, come after some of the same terms were approved last year by Merriam-Webster, which oversees the Scrabble list for the United States and Canada.
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Said constructor has chosen to present a dissertation in the "Constructor Notes" section below, so I'll take no more of your time except to say that this grid is brimming with personality, and entries that would not be legal in Scrabble.
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Mr. Charlson's entries were great — he made ample use of high-scoring Scrabble letters, giving us that crazy 2 x 2 square of Zs on the upper left (which included the adorable NZZL) and QCKBRWNFX, which was really just brilliant.
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But residents in the region's hard-scrabble towns said it is mainly the avocado producers who have grown richer, and that many of the jobs they have created are short-term employment, not the steady work locals had hoped for.
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What's more, every new round begins with someone shaking a bag full of them and drawing new ones to place into the bins — and as anyone who's ever played Scrabble will tell you, shaking the bag full of tokens is the best part.
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"Rather than scrabble around in one of the many programs you've mentioned, anyone can come to our Science and Society page, which details a host of programs and organizations we work with to cater through every scenario where somebody wants access," Hersh says.
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Since he started picking up ocean plastic as a child, McPherson has amassed a shocking collection of objects: fragments of dentures, false finger nails, Lego heads, assorted doll limbs, plastic fruit swords, Scrabble pieces, computer keys, pencil sharpeners and ice cream spoons.
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In addition, Massdrop's Scrabble keyboard comes with some fun extras — one star, two triple word score keycaps, and two double letter score keycaps — so you can swap out some of your keys to give yourself a few bonuses as you type away.
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As U.S.-backed forces surround the last square mile of Islamic State territory, preparing for a final assault on the eastern Syrian village of Baghouz, people who have escaped describe a desperate scrabble for survival in the dying days of the statelet.
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Wordplay WEDNESDAY PUZZLE — The term "Scrabbly" has been applied to certain crosswords that make prolific use of the high-value Scrabble letters, like J, K, V, Q, W, X and Z, but today's puzzle by David C. Duncan Dekker is Scrabbly on steroids.
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There is much less actual Scrabble playing in this book — which is told in alternating chapters, over nearly a week — than the reader might infer from looking at the book's cover, with its oversize letter tiles floating on water like life rafts.
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We've got ANYONE LISTENING, IT'S NOT FAIR, HIGH SIERRA, SHIRLEY CHISHOLM, TAYLOR SCHILLING (who plays Piper Chapman on HBO's "Orange is the New Black"), THE PLOT THICKENS, IN THE CROSS HAIRS and TRIPLE WORD SCORE (shout-out to our Scrabble brothers and sisters!).
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The Official Word List (OWL) and the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary (OSPD) omitted known words, excluded words with more than 8 letters, and generally lacked the thoroughness their assured titles projected (many words lacked their plural forms or had weird, arcane pluralizations).
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And as I've begun to play Words With Friends more often than I play Scrabble, I've found myself looking up more words and focused more on improving my "unique words played" stat, which tracks how many words I've played (5604, for the record).
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His credits include winning the European Monopoly Championship, organizing the British National Scrabble Championship, serving as president of the Oscar Wilde fan club (and writing a series of Oscar Wilde-themed mystery novels), and serving as a Conservative member of British Parliament in the 1990s.
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Since it's Scrabble, uncrossed letters are fine; that made it look too wide open for me to believe there was only one solution, but I worked away at them and then checked next week's magazine answer key (the power!) and we totally matched up.
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Photo: MassdropWe've covered a few of Massdrop's unorthodox keyboard upgrades over the years, but none as lovely as this officially-licensed Hasbro Scrabble keyboard that puts every letter of the alphabet at your disposal, instead of just seven you randomly grab at the start of a game.
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All I have to look forward to is playing Scrabble in pubs where a pint and a roast dinner come to £22, afternoons in B&Q, and a solidly slow descent into a few years of being left alone by my loved ones and pissing myself.
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The simple answers to that question have already been observed — the British pound plummets to a record low in value, the economy contracts, and the country's political parties scrabble around in the wreckage of the current Conservative government to dial back on ridiculous promises they made.
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The New Yorker excels at bouying its narrative profiles with bright, colorful anecdotes, and Osnos' tales of Zuckerberg's board-game dominance are delightful: A few years ago, he played Scrabble on a corporate jet with a friend's daughter, who was in high school at the time.
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The 70-year-old board game will be putting out the sixth edition of Merriam-Webster's The Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary this fall, and although not all of the words are exactly new to the English-American lexicon, they're certainly new to the competitive word game.
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Just last year, Texas Republicans voted on whether to include an endorsement of independence in their party platform (they didn't); this year, there have already been three attempts in California at a "Calexit," though it's probably more viable as a Scrabble word than a political objective.
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I briefly considered placing a HIT rebus in each of these squares, but decided on X's to represent hits instead, figuring that I could only push my luck so far, and it doesn't hurt that I have a soft spot for the high value Scrabble letters.
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Coogee Pavilion, located right on the beach a few miles outside the center of town, is a multilevel, family-friendly destination with a good seafood and pizza selection, a spacious rooftop bar, and entertaining novelty games appropriate for all ages (giant magnetic wall-mounted Scrabble, anyone?).
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Though Zuck provides many of the same flavors of responses we've come to expect from him — saying fake news on Facebook isn't as common as most people think, for example — one of the most illuminating episodes is about a game of Scrabble he once played against a friend's daughter.
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The custom keys feature the same muted color palette as an official Scrabble board, and if you're a touch typist who doesn't need to hunt and peck for letters, the keyboard also includes additional triple/double word/letter score keycaps you can swap in to boost your points.
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What struck me while reading it is how the origins of so many games stem from someone being bored (as in the case of Clue) or being laid off from work (Scrabble), so they set about tinkering and end up with a game that later explodes in popularity.
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The newest dictionary for Scrabble, the popular board game in which players use lettered tiles to spell words, includes more than 300 new entries, including "ew," defined as an expression of disgust; "bestie," a best friend, and "twerk," which is a dance that involves shaking your buttocks while squatting.
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Looking like pieces in a Scrabble game, it spells out the meanings of such seemingly haphazard initials as CHAP - or Common Humanitarian Action Plan - RIMLG - or Regional Integration and Multi-Level Governance - WEEE - or Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment and UNSSSS - the U.N. Security and Stabilization Support Strategy.
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Output at the project has been behind schedule since it started producing in May 2014 in the arid mountains of northern Chile, and its problems highlight the challenges facing miners in the country as they scrabble through far-flung locations now more accessible deposits have largely been tapped out.
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FRIDAY PUZZLE — Everyone — well, me at least — gets excited when new words or phrases debut in the New York Times Crossword, and for good reason: It's fun to see a crunchy word or phrase, particularly one with high scoring Scrabble letters, emerge for the first time in a grid.
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There won't be dragons or White Walkers in this series, but we are creating a world, and we couldn't imagine better partners in world-building than [Nichelle Tramble Spellman and Malcolm Spellman], who have impressed us for a long time with their wit, their imagination and their Scrabble-playing skills.
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When August Wilson's play Fences premiered at Yale Repertory Theater in May 1985, two years before its Broadway debut, Frank Rich reviewed it for the New York Times: For the slum dwellers of "Fences," scraping out a hard-scrabble existence amid the Eisenhower boom, there is nothing to sing about.
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" When the news of the ban broke on Monday in The Times of London, Elie Dangoor, a leading figure in the Association of British Scrabble Players, said in a statement that Mr. Simmons had been "a huge part of the game's development," adding, "There's no one person bigger than the game.
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But history shows that exhibition diplomacy can be fraught; in 2012 a show at the British Museum (BM) about the haj almost fell apart when the Turkish government refused at the last moment to allow loans from the Topkapi Palace in Istanbul, forcing the BM to scrabble around elsewhere to fill the gaps.
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For June, the scene plays like an echo of the first time the Commander brought her into his study last season and asked her to play Scrabble with him: the look of veiled delight on her face as she allows herself to consider written words, to have access once again to mental stimulation.
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I found my way into the crossword community through a lifelong love of word games and puzzles (I grew up playing Scrabble and Boggle with my mom, as well as solving Sudoku and Ken Ken before bed), but didn't really get into crosswords until college, where I met my collaborator, Ryan McCarty.
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He probes the language of elites as they scrabble to keep up with events: One tycoon tells him that revolution is a sickness and that intervention is necessary to prevent it, just as "one would intervene to cure a sick child" — a foreshadowing of the infantilizing rhetoric adopted by successive Egyptian leaders.
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A small man with a wide grin and a monkish buzz cut, he is an autodidact and former engineer and the reason educational PBS is on the TV. He provides Scrabble and discussions on Thomas Paine for a slew of regulars ranging from English expat investment bankers to restaurant deliverymen ending their shifts.
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The new words include an array of coinages that reflect modern life, like terms about gender identity (such as "genderqueer" and "cisgender"), online slang ("bae" is now on the table) and words related to political and cultural controversies ("antivaxxer" is as potent on the Scrabble board as in real life, with a whopping 19 points).
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"On publication of the last list, I was personally accosted by two irate elderly gentlemen who were fans of figgy pie and couldn't believe that 'figgy' wasn't allowed," Philip Nelkon, a four-time Scrabble champion in Britain, wrote in a foreword for the updated dictionary, noting that the word "figgy" had now been approved.
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The high-Scrabble-value-letter pileup around the bottom middle was kind of an accident — when I was putting in all the Z's and Q's, it was under the impression that I wouldn't be able to fill the rest of the grid with those letters in place, but it would be cool if I could.
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Of course, this is nothing like the thrill of playing Scrabble with a pen, pad, and dictionary within arm's reach, digging through a worn cloth bag filled with those smoothed wooden letter tiles, my mom eyeing me while she connives her next move, the two of us flitting between trash talk and family gossip.
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This year's Gates Letter – the annual mission statement of Bill and Melinda Gates — is shaped as a call to high school students to center their studies and careers on energy innovation and other ways to boost prospects for more than a billion people whose energy poverty locks them into an unhealthy and time-sapping scrabble for existence.
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And, after Susan Shumsky, the well-meaning organizer of this group (and other similar cruises) did her best to gently and genuinely calm the room and maintain the media's right to be onboard (we had all paid for our tickets, after all) I gathered with her and a friend in her cabin for one last game of Scrabble.
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I liked the fact that Ms. Luttrell made an effort to get some high Scrabble count letters into her puzzle (K, X, W, V, Z, etc.) and the basic design of her grid allowed for an impressive placement of the theme entries for a beginner (two Across and two Down, as opposed to the usual all Across entries).
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I could never be president because I pour the bag of almonds directly in my mouth and forget to pick up the ones that fall for 6 months The report also revealed that the president also takes advantage of his solitary late-night hours by reading, watching sports and playing Words With Friends, a Scrabble-like mobile game.
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Mr. Harrison also stayed away from the wall unit, which holds Ms. Osnes's very special property: 10 binders of Playbills (arranged chronologically, starting with the "Man of La Mancha" Broadway revival she saw during a trip to New York as a high school student in 2003) and a selection of board games, including Yahtzee, Life, Sorry, Scrabble and Clue.
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The camera pans between the small room where handmaid June Osborne (Elisabeth Moss) was imprisoned, the study where she bonded with her captor, Commander Fred Waterford (Joseph Fiennes), over tense games of Scrabble, and the master bedroom where he repeatedly raped June with the goal of producing a baby that his wife, Serena (Yvonne Strahovski), could claim as her own.
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And yet one also observes, with every step, evidence of the human: The most popular (allegedly two-hour-long) path that cuts through the woods is a trail of scarred and rutted stones, slippery with moss so that your hands scrabble over wet tree roots for purchase, that was laid around 400 years ago, back when the forest was regularly plundered for timber to make shingles.
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In fact, without knowing it, we've already helped out the next set of constructors: The harder letters (think high Scrabble scores, like J, Q or Z) in our theme answers are tucked away, which means we can deal with them more easily — it would be much more constraining if both Z's of PUZZLE PIECE were in the middle of the grid, where they would interact more with other theme entries.
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