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In Israel, English language Scrabble is played in several clubs, including a very large one in Jerusalem. Play is under North American rules, and the occasional tournaments are rated under a copy of the North American system. All contact information is at
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Scrabble® (the game) is copyright J.W. Spears & Sons. They don't know about, or necessarily approve of, this online version. You can find more information about the Scrabble® board game at http://www.scrabble.com/.
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Serious Scrabble® players might consider subscribing to the "mailing list": crossword-games@mit.edu. To subscribe, send e-mail to saint@mit.edu requesting to be added to the mailing list. Related mailing lists are crossword-games-pro@mit.edu, restricted to competing tournament players (NSA members), and crossword-games-programmers@mit.edu for discussions of technical games programming issues. Of late, only the crossword-games-pro list has been active.
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The higher you climb up the Scrabble ladder, the fewer people you'll see who don't track tiles. The truth is that no matter how good your vocabulary, if you're not aware of the letters that are still in the bag, you're the one at a disadvantage. If you know the bag is vowel-heavy or that 8 E's are gone halfway through the game, you can adjust your game accordingly. If you have the last U with the Q still out, you can choose to hold it instead of playing it off. At the end of the game, knowing what your opponent has as a final rack can be crucial to winning a close game.
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Scrabble held various themed-weeks over the years, including Teen Week, College Week, Battle of the Soaps Week, and Game Show Hosts Week; the latter was actually done twice, first in 1987 and again a year later, in 1988. Participants for the first such week were Peter Tomarken, Marc Summers, John Davidson, Tom Kennedy, Bill Rafferty and Jamie Farr; the last two would return for the 1988 installment, joined by Vicki Lawrence, Jim Lange, Wink Martindale, and Jeff MacGregor. Although Farr was not tehcnically a game show host, he did sub for Tom Kennedy on Wordplay and was in fact working on a game show project titled Double Up for Reg Grundy and NBC at the time of the 1987 hosts' week, but the show never made it to air. Marc Summers acted as the substitute host during said week, when Chuck Woolery played the game and earned $12,000 for a home viewer.
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Admittedly this Scrabble example is highly contrived. Such a situation it very unlikely to occur in a real game, and if it were to do so your chances of spotting the winning move are slim to say the least. Nonetheless, it explains how high scores of several hundred are possible.
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