The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book by Joe Edley

The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book by Joe Edley

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 SCRABLE superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National SCRABLE(R) Championship and coauthor of Everything SCRABLE(R).
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 SCRABLE -- 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 SCRABLE-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.

Edley, Joe: - Joe Edley, the only three-time National Scrabble Champion, is the creator of all the puzzles in Bananagrams! and More Bananagrams! Additionally, he is the author of The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book, Everything Scrabble, and Scrabble Puzzles Volumes 1-4. Director of clubs and tournaments for the National Scrabble Association, he's created thousands of word puzzles for The Scrabble News and writes the syndicated newspaper column Scrabblegrams. He lives with his family on Long Island.

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ISBN 13	9780671569006
ISBN 10	0671569007
Title	The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book
Author	Joe Edley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Pocket Books
Year published	1997-11-01
Number of pages	272
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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