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Words Spelled at Least Three Ways (H-P)

2010 August 21
by admin

These are words that begin with the let­ters H-P and that can be spelled at least three dif­fer­ent ways (2 of 3 files).  This list is based on a list com­piled by Amit Chakrabarti and posted on the Seattle Scrabble Club web­site: http://​www​.seat​tle​scrab​ble​.org/​s​t​u​d​y​.​php.

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Words Spelled at Least Three Ways (A-H)

2010 August 19
by admin

These are words that begin with the let­ters A-H and that can be spelled at least three dif­fer­ent ways (1 of 3 files).  This list is based on a list com­piled by Amit Chakrabarti and posted on the Seattle Scrabble Club web­site: http://​www​.seat​tle​scrab​ble​.org/​s​t​u​d​y​.​php.

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The BE Words

2010 August 10
by admin

BE is a great pre­fix. Funny how words like BEFUDDLE are famil­iar (but their roots are not: FUDDLE). These are just really cool words (206 of them):

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Words that are Verbs & Adjectives

2010 August 10
by admin

These are words, between 2 and 8 let­ters in length, that func­tion as both verbs AND adjec­tives (that fol­low the –ER, –EST pat­tern).  There are 189 of them (if you find any that aren’t on the list, please let me know):

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Club Minutes — August 8, 2010

2010 August 9
by admin

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NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
08/08/2010 (Sunday)

Next Meeting: Sunday, September 12, at 3:00 pm, at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX, 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX,  75961, (936) 559‑9350.  We will meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.

Attendees: Brent D. Beal & Heather Olson Beal (with daugh­ter, Marin Beal), Sudeshna Roy (with daugh­ter, Trishala, and son, Josh), Phillip Collier, Krystal Roach, Laura McKinney, Nathan Woodward, Christine Hennessey.

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Club Update — August 07, 2010

2010 August 8
by admin

UPDATE
NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
08/07/2010 (Saturday)

Our next meet­ing is TOMORROW, Sunday, August 08, at 3:00 pm, at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX, 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX,  75961, (936) 559‑9350.  We will meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.

Hope to see every­one there.  Bring a friend and a Scrabble Brand Crossword Game.

Brent

Brent D. Beal
brent@​thebeals.​net
225 – 802-7015

Y, ER, EST Words

2010 August 8
by admin

I think this is a pretty neat list.  These are the words, 2 to 8 let­ters in length, that take a Y (e.g. AIR => AIRY), with the new word fol­low­ing the –ER, –EST adjec­tive pat­tern (e.g. AIRIER, AIRIEST).  There are 338 of them (let me know if you run across any I’ve missed).   Note that many of the orig­i­nal words are also verbs [-ED, –ING, –ES] and that some have addi­tional forms (e.g. BALM => BALMLIKE).  Most of these words are fairly easy to learn and they give you a lot of bang for the buck.

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ER or OR Words

2010 July 29
by admin

Here are 118 are words from 2 to 8 let­ters in length that end in both ER and OR.  In most cases, the mean­ing is the same.  I believe this is an exhaus­tive list:

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Letters

2010 July 29
by admin

Quite a few let­ters are three-letter words.  From the THREES list:

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Club Minutes — July 11, 2010

2010 July 24
by admin

MINUTES
NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
07/11/2010 (Sunday)

Next Meeting: Sunday, August 8, at 3:00 pm, at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX, 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX,  75961, (936) 559‑9350.  We will meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.

Attendees: Brent D. Beal (with daugh­ter, Marin Beal), Phillip Collier & Krystal Roach.

We need more peo­ple – tell your friends and drag them to the next meet­ing (on August 8). read more…

Club Update — July 10, 2010

2010 July 10
by admin

UPDATE
NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
07/10/2010 (Saturday)

Hey every­one, it is now offi­cial – we have a NASPA-approved Scrabble club in Nacogdoches TX.  Here’s the link to a list of all the offi­cial Scrabble clubs in Texas: http://​www​.scrab​ble​play​ers​.org/​w​/​C​l​u​b​_​r​o​s​t​e​r​#​T​E​XAS.  We are Club #803.

Our next meet­ing is TOMORROW, Sunday, July 11, at 3:00 pm, at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX, 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX,  75961, (936) 559‑9350.  We will meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.

Hope to see every­one tomor­row.  Bring a friend and a Scrabble Brand Crossword Game.

Brent

Brent D. Beal
brent@​thebeals.​net
225 – 802-7015

THREES Anagram Groups

2010 June 29
by admin

Here are groups of three-letter words that are ana­grams of each other.  There are 41 groups of three words, 2 groups of 4 words (AHS & ASP) and 1 group of five (ATE):

 ALB– a long-sleeved vest­ment [n –S]  as
–BAL– a bal­moral (a type of shoe (a cov­er­ing for the foot)) [n –S]  deklms
–LAB– a lab­o­ra­tory [n –S] bfs s

–ABO– an abo­rig­ine (an orig­i­nal inhab­i­tant) — an offen­sive term [n –S]  s
 BOA– a large snake [n –S]  rst
–OBA  a hered­i­tary chief in Benin and Nigeria [n –S] s s

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Club Update — June 25, 2010

2010 June 25
by admin

UPDATE
NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
06/25/2010 (Friday)

Two issues:

1) I just received a ship­ment of new Scrabble equip­ment from www​.sam​timer​.com.  Michelle hap­pened to be at my house when it arrived, so she was for­tu­nate enough (or unfor­tu­nate enough, depend­ing on how you look at it) to see it shortly after it arrived.  I’ve included a pic­ture below (as you can see, I now own a tour­na­ment board, an offi­cial timer, a tile bag and addi­tional tiles).  We will do a bet­ter job of tim­ing games at our next meet­ing (Sunday, July 11, 3:00 pm at Java Jacks).

2) Does any­one want to meet on SATURDAY instead of Sunday?  I’m not propos­ing a sched­ule change (at least not right now) – I just want to know if there is any inter­est in meet­ing on a Saturday to SEE if we should change some of the sched­uled dates to Saturdays.  How about SATURDAY, July 3, 10:00 am at Java Jacks (2 – 3 games, mostly infor­mal), just to try it out?  If I get a few com­mitt­ments for Saturday, July 3, 10:00 am, I’ll post a con­fir­ma­tion of the time and place here on the site.  PLEASE RESPOND BY LEAVING A COMMENT BELOW.

NOTE: This DOES NOT affect the sched­uled Club meet­ing on Sunday, July 11, at 3:00 pm.

Drilling the TWO-to-THREE Hooks

2010 June 25
by admin

778 of the 1015 three-letter words can be formed by adding a let­ter to a two-letter word.  Specifically, 528 words can be formed by adding a let­ter to the left (or front), and 539 words can be formed by adding a let­ter to the right (or back).  Eliminating dupli­cates yields 778 unique words (i.e. some three-letter words can be formed either way, e.g. HOS can be formed by either adding an H to OS, or adding an S to HO).

The grids I’ve attached below are designed for drilling these 778 three-letter words:

1) Grid — Filled In: THREES Hook Grid FILLED

2) Grid — Blank (with counts): THREES Hook Grid BLANK

3) Grid — Bank (with­out counts): THREES Hook Grid GRID ONLY

NAME Words

2010 June 18
by admin

This is an inter­est­ing list of “names” that are accept­able plays (240 at last count).  Let me know if you have a word/name to add to the list. read more…

Aero Words

2010 June 18
by admin

117 “AERO” words: 

 AERO  per­tain­ing to air­craft (any machine or device capa­ble of fly­ing) [adj]  
 AEROBAT  one that per­forms feats in an air­craft [n –S]  s
 AEROBATIC  [adj]  s
 AEROBATICS– [n]  
 AEROBATS– AEROBAT, one that per­forms feats in an air­craft [n]  
 AEROBE  an organ­ism that requires oxy­gen to live [n –S] : AEROBIC [adj]  s
 AEROBES– AEROBE, an organ­ism that requires oxy­gen to live [n]  
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Club Update — June 17, 2010

2010 June 17
by admin

UPDATE
NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
06/17/2010 (Thursday)

Couple items:

1) I passed the NASPA Club Directors Exam, which means I am now an appren­tice direc­tor.  Until I know what I’m doing, I’ll be work­ing with Judy Newhouse, the Director of the Houston Scrabble Club (NASPA Club #359).  I plan on attend­ing the Houston club a few times this sum­mer (http://​deb​bieweb​bie​.com/).  They play on Sunday after­noons.  If any­one would like to accom­pany me, let me know.

2) I bought some Protiles (http://​www​.pro​tiles​.net/​c​u​r​r​e​n​t​.​php).  The pic­ture below is of a game I played with my mid­dle daugh­ter (Marin, also known as Marinskarooni around the house)  using my new Plum Crazy Purple tiles.  The tiles even came with a Gizmoid (check out the web­site if you want to know what a Gizmoid is).  I’m a happy customer.

Club Minutes — June 13, 2010

2010 June 15
by admin

MINUTES
NASPA Scrabble Club #803 Nacogdoches
www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com
06/13/2010 (Sunday)

Next Meeting: Sunday, July 11, at 3:00 pm, at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX, 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX,  75961, (936) 559‑9350.  We will meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.

Thanks to every­one that helped the Nacogdoches Scrabble Club get off to a good start.

Attendees: Brent D. Beal, David Carrington, Karen Shelton, Nathan Woodward, Chrissy Hennessey (and two addi­tional “acci­den­tal” atten­dees: Phillip Collier & Krystal Roach). read more…

TWOS Last Letter Repeated

2010 June 12
by admin

Here is a list of all the two-letter words that can be made into three-letter words by repeat­ing the last let­ter (30 of the 101, to be exact).  This list is a good source of sur­prise hooks.  In some cases, the def­i­n­i­tion changes, in oth­ers, it doesn’t:  read more…

THREES Last Letter Repeated

2010 June 12
by admin

Here is a list of all the three-letter words that can be made into four-letter words by repeat­ing the last let­ter (91 of the 1015, to be exact).  This list is a good source of sur­prise hooks.  In some cases, the def­i­n­i­tion changes, in oth­ers, it doesn’t: read more…

FOURS Last Letter Repeated

2010 June 12
by admin

Here is a list of all the four-letter words that can be made into five-letter words by repeat­ing the last let­ter.  This list is a good source of sur­prise hooks.  Note that 30 of the 101 two-letter words are valid three-letter words with the last let­ter repeated (nearly 30%).  91 of the 1015 three-letter words fol­low this pat­tern (approx­i­mately 9%).  In the case of four-letter words, the per­cent­age drops to approx­i­mately 1% (39 out of 4030).  In some cases, the def­i­n­i­tion changes, in oth­ers, it doesn’t: read more…

First Meeting Reminder

2010 June 10
by admin

Hey folks, we are meet­ing THIS SUNDAY, at 3:00 PM, at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX: 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX 75961 – 4482, (936) 559‑9350.  We will meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.

Here is the schedule:

3:00 — 3:15 — Introduction to the club (brief dis­cus­sion of club, goals, rules, etc.) and other issues (where to meet, etc.)

3:15 — 4:00 — Round 1

4:00 — 4:45 — Round 2

4:45 — 5:30 — Round 3

5:30 — 6:00 — Socializing

Pairings in Round 1 will be done by skill level (more or less).  Pairings in Round 2 and Round 3 will be based on pre­vi­ous rounds (win­ners with win­ners, losers with losers).

EVERYONE is wel­come.  Please come and enjoy some Scrabble.  You can play it online, but it’s bet­ter in person.

Brent

Brent D. Beal
225 – 802-7015
brent@​oldtownscrabble.​com

2010 Club Meeting Schedule

2010 May 13
by admin

The Nacogdoches Scrabble Club (www​.old​town​scrab​ble​.com) meets on the sec­ond Sunday of each month (for now, at least) from 3:00 to 6:00 at Java Jacks in Nacogdoches, TX: 1122 North Street, Nacogdoches, TX 75961 – 4482, (936) 559‑9350.  We meet upstairs.  Click HERE for a map.  Here are the dates through the end of the year:

June 13
July 11
August 08
September 12
October 10
November 14
December 12

For those inter­ested in get­ting involved in run­ning the club, please con­tact me – although I don’t know what will be involved yet.  A few comments:

1) Purpose of the Club: To pre­pare mem­bers for tour­na­ment play, even­tu­ally host a tour­na­ment here in Nacogdoches, start a Scrabble team and/or club at the local mid­dle schools and/or high school, make friends, have some fun play­ing Scrabble, etc.

2) Club Rules: 25-minute chess clock, record scores, bin­gos and inter­est­ing plays, loose tour­na­ment match­ing – we will play three rounds, pos­si­bly four if time per­mits, win­ners will be paired with win­ners in each con­sec­u­tive round when pos­si­ble; high scores, bin­gos, inter­est­ing plays, and unde­feated play­ers will be announced in a club newslet­ter or post on this site after each meet­ing – see http://​old​town​scrab​ble​.com/​1​3​/​0​5​/​e​x​a​m​p​l​e​-​n​e​w​s​l​e​t​t​er/ for an exam­ple newslet­ter).  Things will be pretty loose the first few times we meet.

3) Dues & Equipment: No dues until January 2011, bring your own equip­ment (if you can), I’ll bring extra boards (but the extra sets are cheap and arten’t suit­able for com­pet­i­tive play).

I’m look­ing for­ward to meet­ing everyone.

Brent

Brent D. Beal
brent@​oldtownscrabble.​com
225 – 802-7015

Example Newsletter from Club #359 (Houston)

2010 May 13
by admin

Scrabble Club #359 eNews

4/20/10

To unsub­scribe just ask!  Contact jnhouse@​aol.​com

Club Website

http://​deb​bieweb​bie​.com/

Check out the Incredible Tile Bags under “Cool Stuff.”

We meet again — on April 25, 2010!

Beverage Policy at Georgia’s

Please give $2.00 to the direc­tor if you help your­self to bev­er­ages.  Refills are included.

The direc­tor will pay the cashier at the end of our session.

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Article in Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel

2010 May 13
by admin

Here’s a link to an arti­cle about the Nacogdoches Scrabble Club from the Daily Sentinel:

http://​dai​l​y​sen​tinel​.com/​l​i​f​e​_​a​n​d​_​e​n​t​e​r​t​a​i​n​m​e​n​t​/​a​r​t​i​c​l​e​_​0​b​e​c​b​1​c​c​-​5​a​3​5​-​1​1​d​f​-​a​8​5​7​-​0​0​1​c​c​4​c​0​3​2​8​6​.​h​tml.