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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 NEW website for the new 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)
• National SCRABBLE® Association - the Offical site (until Dec 2009) for Club and Tournament SCRABBLE®
• Steven Alexander's Scrabble FAQs - Lots of helpful info and links.
• Verbalobe - Lots of excellent study tools & articles on approaches to improving your game

Other Clubs

• Tacoma SCRABBLE® Club #679 - meets SECOND Saturday of the Month!
• Victoria SCRABBLE® Club #402
• Vancouver SCRABBLE® Club #545
• Portland/Lake Oswego SCRABBLE® Clubs
• Spokane SCRABBLE® Club #589 - Newly Reactivated. Welcome back!
• 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
• JumbleTime - Jumbled Words, Anagrams, Time, Play
• MetaGrams - Anamonics, words, etc.
• LAMPWords - Paul Sidorsky's anagrammer & word judge for your PALM device
• 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)
• [NSA] List of OSPD3/OSPD4 changes (does NOT include expurgated words, or new trademarks that have been added)
• Check out our Study Tools Page for more tools and links.

Equipment

• ProTiles - Your home for tournament & club tiles
• Ossie Mair Boards - Custom oval, folding, and star boards
• Custom SCRABBLE® Boards - Peter Manzolillo's custom boards
• SamTimer - (Sam K) Clocks, boards, racks, etc.
• Adjudicator - (Gene T) Clocks, boards, racks, etc.
• Seattle clubmember George Bissonnette has been making deluxe (folding and round) boards for a few years now.
• 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]

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) [More forms at the NSA website]
• Ottawa Club Score sheets (about 8-10 different score sheets)
• Forest Lake Scrabble Club (click on Downloads to access 18+ different score sheets)
• Hasbro Game Score Sheets (someone reproduced the little score sheets that come with the store-bought game)
• Game Score Sheets (another version of a full-page score sheet)
• Winston-Salem Scrabble Club (click on Downloads for a half dozen or so 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)
• John Chew's Forms (wide variety of score sheets, tournament forms, etc.)
• Other NSA Forms (score sheets, tournament forms)

Other Links

• SCRABBLE® Meetup (Seattle) -- not a club, but an informal Scrabble group
• Find a Player's Rating - on NSA website
• Babble game -- Boggle/Scrabble online game
• New Rating Calculator - UPDATED for 7 Jan 2009 Rating Formula Change
• Spreadsheet Rating Calculator - UPDATED for 7 Jan 2009 Rating Formula Change
• Calculate your new Rating [using pre-2009 formula]
• Links to this and other local club, word list, SCRABBLE® sites.
• Quadplex.com -- get your Web-based crossword game on here

About 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"
• [book] Word Freak -- NY Times Bestseller by Stefan Fatsis
• [short story] Death by Scrabble -- short story by Charlie Fish
• [video] Death by Scrabble -- Film adaptation of Charlie Fish's story
• [article] YOUR WORDS AGAINST MINE -- SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, 18 Dec 1995
• [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®.

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