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Linkin' Tunnel

Do you have wanderlust? An itch for SCRABBLE® on a business or convention trip? Just eager to see who'd link to here?

• cross-tables.com - THE PLACE for tournament player stats, history, and upcoming tournaments
• www.scrabbleplayers.org - The website for NASPA, the North American SCRABBLE® Players' Association
• Crossword Games Pro - Scrabble trash-talking, game analysis, and other topics on this mailing list.
• Internet SCRABBLE® Club - The best place to play scrabble online.
• www.wordgameplayers.org - Word Game Players' Association (WGPO)
• Steven Alexander's Scrabble FAQs - Lots of helpful info and links.

Other Clubs

• West Seattle SCRABBLE® Club
• Vancouver SCRABBLE® Club #545
• Victoria SCRABBLE® Club #402
• Tacoma SCRABBLE® Club #679
• Portland/Lake Oswego SCRABBLE® Clubs
• Calgary SCRABBLE® Club #374
• NSA Club 21 - San Jose, CA
• NSA Club 244 - Los Gatos, CA
• Tucson Scrabble - Tucson, AZ
• NSA Club 42 - Minneapolis/St.Paul
• NSA Club 195 - West Los Angeles

Study Tools & Word Lists

• Verbalobe - Lots of excellent study tools & articles on approaches to improving your game
• Quackle - Game analysis tool (you can also play against it)
• www.zyzzyva.net - Word study program by Michael W Thelen
• Check out our Study Tools Page for more tools and links.

OWL2 Word Lists

• Cheat Sheet [Word doc] - New 2s, 3s, 4s, JQZX, expurgated, Type I+II 7 & 8's
• Fives to Tens [Word doc] - New 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s, K words
• Combined new words [Word doc] - New 2s, 3s, 4s, JQZXK, expurgated, Type I+II 7 & 8's, 5s, 6s, 7s, 8s, 9s, 10s
• Mike Wolfberg's Lists - Lots of OWL2 word lists, with definitions, hooks, etc.
• Toronto Club Word lists - OWL2 changes with definitions
• [NSA] New 2's and 3's with definitions - OSPD3/OSPD4 (expurgated)
• Check out our Study Tools Page for more tools and links.

Equipment

Tiles

• Protiles - Your home for tournament & club tiles
• IncredibleTileBags.com - a bazillion different tile bags available
• How to make a Tile Rack from LEGO Bricks - Courtesy of Eric Harshbarger
      [Buy the LEGO for your special rack at the Lego Factory Pick-a-Brick Store]

Note: tiles and tilebags should be cleaned on a regular basis.

Boards

• Seattle clubmember George Bissonnette has been making deluxe folding boards for several years now.
• Custom SCRABBLE® Boards - Peter Manzolillo's custom boards

Timers, etc.

• Adjudicator - (Gene T) Clocks, boards, racks, etc.

Score Sheets

There are lots of different score sheets available, yet some folks get by using just a blank piece of paper. If you want to track tiles or record your racks, having a pre-printed score sheet is a big help. Experiment with different ones, pick one you like, or design your own. Whichever you choose--once you've become accustomed to one design you should see your game improve because tracking and scoring will become second nature.

• Horizontal Score Sheet [pdf] (formatted 2 games per page; print double-sided for 4 games per sheet)
• Vertical Score Sheet [pdf] (formatted 2 games per page; print double-sided for 4 games per sheet)
• NSA Score sheet [pdf] (formatted 1 game per page; includes board diagram)
• Ottawa Club Score sheets (about 8-10 different score sheets)
• Forest Lake Scrabble Club (click on Downloads to access 18+ different score sheets)

Tournament Forms

Some forms that Tournament Directors might find useful:

• Tally Slips [pdf] (formatted 4 per page, includes blank desgination)
• Challenge Slips [pdf] (formatted 8 per page)
• Blank Designation Slips [pdf] (formatted 8 per page)
• John Chew's Forms (wide variety of score sheets, tournament forms, etc.)
• Other NSA Forms:
  
  • NSA 20 game CSC page 1 and NSA 20 game CSC page 1
  • NSA 31 game CSC page 1 and NSA 31 game CSC page 1
  • NSA Blank and Challenge slips
  • NSA Blank slips
  • NSA Challenge slips
  • NSA Full Board Diagram

Director Stuff

Software for Directing Tournaments:

• Director! by Marc Levesque
• tsh by John Chew

Other Links

• Find a Player's Rating - on NASPA website
• New Rating Calculator - UPDATED for 7 Jan 2009 Rating Formula Change
• Spreadsheet Rating Calculator - UPDATED for 7 Jan 2009 Rating Formula Change
• Babble game -- Boggle/Scrabble online game

About SCRABBLE®

See also: News Page for links to articles about Scrabble, players, etc.

Movies/Video

• [video] 100 Tiles - Short video about competitive Scrabble®
• [movie] Word Slingers - CBC documentary on Canadian players at the 2001 World Championship in Las Vegas
• [movie] Scrabylon - award-winning documentary on "the cutthroat world of tournament SCRABBLE®"
• [movie] Word Wars - Emmy-nominated documentary "Tiles and Tribulations on the SCRABBLE® circuit"
• [video] Death by Scrabble - Film adaptation of Charlie Fish's story
• [video] The Big Snit - Animated Short (you can also watch it below)

Written

• [book] Word Freak -- NY Times Bestseller by Stefan Fatsis   + 10th anniversary (updated) edition out Aug 2011
• [short story] Death by Scrabble -- short story by Charlie Fish
• [book] Letterati: An Unauthorized Look at SCRABBLE and the People Who Play It by Paul McCarthy, is a very interesting look into the history of tournament Scrabble®.
• [article] YOUR WORDS AGAINST MINE -- SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, 18 Dec 1995
See also: Links to articles in the press

Audio

• [podcast] The Meaning of Scrabble - Slate: Lexicon Valley (podcast w/Stefan Fatsis)

Other Links about Words

The following links are not specific to SCRABBLE, but are of interest to those who like words.

• [podcast] The Allusionist - Small Adventures In Language With Helen Zaltzman
• [podcast] Lexicon Valley - Slate's podcast about language and words
• [podcast] A Way with Words - A public radio program about language examined through history, culture, and family
• [podcast] Says You! - Word Game Show

The Big Snit by Richard Condie, National Film Board of Canada

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