What kind of people play scrabble

Such people are known to have been good with words because their vocabulary is very much vast and in real life, these people are known to be good with words and they can easily trick people with their words. Their words knowledge is very much higher than normal people and they can trick anyone with their words. Successful Scrabble players are known for their our of box thinking because these players always think out of the box.

These players have this special trait that they always think out of the box and can easily find the solution to the most difficult problems just by thinking out of the box and finding the most appropriate solution. Successful Scrabble players are known to have a sharp mind because this game boosts your brain and is considered a mental exercise. At the North American Scrabble championship, they play seven hours a day for five days straight.

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You May Also Like Grammar Girl. The Q is the most dreaded tile in Scrabble — it appears in relatively few words, usually needs to be paired with a U to be effective, and it drastically reduces your odds of making a high-scoring play. That's why one of the biggest mistakes inexperienced players make is holding on to the Q for more than one turn.

There are a couple reasons why players do this. First, because the Q is worth a game-high 10 points, they might assume that it will guarantee them a high-scoring play sometime down the road.

They also might assume that a Q needs to be paired with a U, although that isn't the case. In reality, there is a small handful of words that contain a Q with no U , many of which are loanwords from other languages.

The easiest to remember are QI the vital life force in traditional Chinese culture and QAT a shrub that is cultivated for use as a drug. When you find yourself with the Q, in many cases it's best to cut your losses and play one of those words, even if it scores poorly.

Ridding yourself of the Q reopens the door to high-scoring moves in the future. Scrabble players are allowed to use their turn to exchange some or all of their tiles for new ones. Exchanging is a strategy many casual players are afraid to try because it doesn't score any points. But expert players know that in many situations, exchanging is the right thing to do. One scenario where you'd be wise to exchange is a situation every Scrabble player has faced: a rack full of vowels.

Scrabble players are always thinking ahead. They don't just consider how many points they can score on this turn, but how each move they make will affect their ability to score on future turns. If you exchange your tiles and score zero points on one turn, but then score 25 points on the next turn with your replacement tiles, you're in better shape than having scored 10 points and 10 points.

It's not something you should necessarily do every game, but exchanging is often the difficult decision that needs to be made. According to the rules, if your opponent plays a word that you don't think is legitimate, you can challenge the word before the next player makes their move. Players then look up the words in question in an agreed-upon dictionary — if the play is valid, the challenger loses their turn, and if it's not, the tiles come off the board and the challenger goes again.

Occasionally, tournament players will even strategically play a word they know is phony if there are no appealing alternatives. If you've played Scrabble before, you know the excruciating feeling of being just one letter short of an amazing word.

As tempting as it may sound, it's almost never the right strategy to simply play your O and hope you draw an A out of the bag. Scrabble players call that "fishing," and it usually doesn't work out. For one thing, the odds are against you — even the most plentiful letter in the bag, the E, makes up just 12 of the tiles in Scrabble, and no consonant appears more than six times.

But more importantly, you're unlikely to score enough points to justify fishing.