The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book

The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book
by Joe Edley

The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book
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Book Summary Information

Author: Joe Edley
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1997-11-01
ISBN: 0671569007
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Pocket

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Book Review: Scrabble Puzzle Book Review
Summary: 4 Stars

This book is excellent as it contains many ways to improve and versify your Scrabble skills. There are many new games and approaches, which can range from novice to challenging. It contains many new words and methods of setting up the board during play, and if one really examines the games, one will certainly improve their Scrabble skills. As well, there are many games provided that will take hours to decipher and play.

Summary of The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book

Calling all players, beginners and experts alike! Here are the plays you can't afford to miss: 800 puzzles to sharpen your thinking and hone your crossword skills, specially designed and selected by SCRABBLE superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National SCRABBLE? Championship and coauthor of Everything SCRABBLE?.

Learn how to:

  • "Read the board" and see where you can score the most points -- and where you can't.
  • Increase your word game skills with 97 must-know two-letter words
  • Build knockout numbers with bonus squares, two-letter words and parallel plays
  • Score with the high-point tiles: J, Q, X, and Z
  • Balance your rack by playing off weak three-, four-, and five-tile combinations
  • Find the key to success with bingos and seven-letter plays
  • Find the Ideal Play -- eight questions to ask yourself, plus the Ideal Play on computer
  • Win at SCRABBLE -- six key factors
  • Find the best play in real game action -- fifty actual games re-created in this book, complete with the author's analysis and computer simulation results.

    National champion Joe Edley aims to enhance your SCRABBLE-playing skills. Discover tips, shortcuts, and special plays in actual game situations, and a battery of increasingly complex puzzles as you learn to play with the pros.

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