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Title: The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (Third Edition) by Merriam-Webster ISBN: 0-87779-915-6 Publisher: Merriam-Webster Mass Market Pub. Date: January, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (52 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Toss up...But go for it
Comment: First off, if you don't have a Scrabble dictionary and play Scrabble, you NEED TO buy this book. But let's say that you're like me and you have an older edition. Well the older editions had separate sections that listed all those nifty two letter words that can rack up big points (ex: aa, ae, xi, em, jo, etc). But you can find all of those words in the new one, just not listed separately. However, if you're like me and want to use all the new-fangled words like zit then you won't find them in any edition but the new one. I'm sure that there are many other new words in this edition, zit is just the only one that I've noticed so far. It's a trade-off, yoúr choice: the convenience of common-word lists in the older editions or the proff that newer words exist in the new version. I have both; maybe that's your best bet.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Companion for Any Scrabble Player
Comment: I have enjoyed playing Scrabble for many years, but it can also get very frustrating when you get a rack of tiles that seem totally useless (like mostly consanants or mostly vowels). Since purchasing the Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary, I may still get frustrated at times, but now I have a much better resource for figuring out what I can do with seemingly useless tiles. (This dictionary has been especially useful when I want to place a word parallel to an existing word on the board and create one more more two- to three-letter extra words in the process.)
The font used in the dictionary is very easy to read. Words defined may be limited to between 2 and 8 letters, but at over 100,000 entries (including unusual words not defined anyplace else, like "brr"), this dictionary cannot be beat for playing Scrabble.
I spent a little more money to buy the hardback edition instead of the paperback one: it's much easier to inspect the pages of a dictionary when you don't have to fight the binding to keep the book open to one place.
You might need other useful resources when playing Scrabble, but none are as good as the Offical Scrabble Player's Dictionary. I give it a rating of 5 stars!
Rating: 4
Summary: Helpful, but technically not official
Comment: If you play scrabble around the home, this is a fun, helpful book to have around.
The National Scrabble Association web page on May 2004, has a tournament rules list that is dated May 2002. In these tournament rules, the reference section is as follows:
a) Official Tournament & Club Word List
Official Tournament & Club Word List (OWL) contains the only 2- to 9-letter words acceptable for club and tournament play, published by Merriam-Webster, Inc.
b) Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition (MW10)
For words of more than nine letters, the OWL is consulted first. If a longer word (more than nine letters) is not listed in the OWL, to be judged acceptable it must appear as a main entry or inflected form or alternate spelling in bold print in (MW10). It must not be capitalized, hyphenated, contracted, foreign or listed only as part of a multi-word phrase.
Words of fewer than 10 letters listed in MW10 but not in the OWL are not acceptable, nor are inflections of main entries of fewer than 10 letters. Any word used in the definition of another word but not listed itself is not acceptable.
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Title:Scrabble - Deluxe Edition ASIN: B00000IWH9 Publisher: Parker Brothers Comparison N/A, buy it from Amazon for $31.99 |
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Title: SCRABBLE WORD BUILDING BOOK : SCRABBLE WORD BUILDING BOOK by Saleem Ahmed ISBN: 0671734563 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 1991 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Everything Scrabble by Joe Edley, John Williams ISBN: 0671042181 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Official Scrabble® Word-Finder by Robert W. Schachner ISBN: 0028621328 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Pub. Date: 16 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players by Stefan Fatsis ISBN: 0142002267 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 30 July, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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