Now let's look at 20 words that every Scrabble player should know. And always look for what players call a "bingo," the 50 extra points you get for using all your tiles on one play. Remember to make use of the double and triple squares to leverage your score on almost any word. You can impress - and even beat - your friends by blitzing them with high-scoring words, or by sneaking in common but strategic words that get rid of unwanted letters. But casual players can improve their games by learning just a handful of useful entries. Scrabble aficionados, like the ones we just mentioned, may memorize long lists of unusual words to win their bragging rights. He renamed the game Scrabble and by 1952, it had become a sensation. But in the 1940s, another game maven, James Brunot, took over. If an opponent challenges an unusual word, it had better be in the dictionary, or you'll have to remove it and lose a turn.īutts' game didn't meet with much success initially. Each letter scores specific points that roughly go along with how hard it is to fit the letter into a word. He spent several years tinkering before settling on the rules, now familiar to all Scrabble players: You draw seven letters and try to make words on a board with a 15-by-15 grid. In 1931, out-of-work architect Alfred Mosher Butts came up with a game that he first called Lexiko, then Criss Cross Words. Not bad for a pastime invented during the Great Depression. Even Queen Elizabeth II is reported to enjoy a royal game of Scrabble.
Late author Vladimir Nabokov, famous for his novel "Lolita," was a skilled player. So is actor Daniel Radcliffe, who once had a spirited real-life battle with Harry Potter's nemesis Draco Malfoy (aka Tom Felton). Former president Richard Nixon was an avid player. "It's his favorite game to play," then-White House communications director Robert Gibbs said in a 2008 interview with The Independent.Īnd Obama's not the only famous Scrabble devotee. Even former President Barack Obama, one of United States' most high-profile Scrabble enthusiasts, isn't above boasting about his wins. You can say you don't care if you win or lose at Scrabble, but you may very well be in the minority. Jonathan Brady/PA Images via Getty Images It still might be a minute before you're dusting your opponents with words like these from the 2018 Scrabble World Championship though. Learning just a few useful words might give you the edge over your friends in Scrabble.
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