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.
All of the problems in Bananagrams! were created by Joe Edley, the only three-time National Scrabble Champion. He's the National Scrabble Association's director of clubs and tournaments, and he's written the syndicated newspaper column Scrabblegrams and generated thousands of word puzzles for The Scrabble News. On Long Island, he lives with his family.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780671569006 |
| ISBN 10 | 0671569007 |
| Title | The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book |
| Author | Joe Edley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| 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. |
| Note | Unavailable |