Scrabble - Web Gangsta - Web Watch https://thewebgangsta.com Web Gangsta - Web Watch takes on pop culture, the web, and other interesting things ...since 1994. Sat, 09 Nov 2013 13:05:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.5 You have better odds of winning the lottery than you do in winning Scrabble https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/11/you-have-better-odds-of-winning-the-lottery-than-you-do-in-winning-scrabble/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=you-have-better-odds-of-winning-the-lottery-than-you-do-in-winning-scrabble Sun, 10 Nov 2013 00:00:51 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=7019 If you’ve ever played a game of Scrabble, you probably fall into one of two categories of players:  those that can always figure out a way to play a seven-letter word on a Triple Word Score (and typically win a game by more than 200 points), or you struggle determining where to place an “E” […]

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]]> What is the highest scoring Scrabble word? https://thewebgangsta.com/2013/04/what-is-the-highest-scoring-scrabble-word/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=what-is-the-highest-scoring-scrabble-word Thu, 18 Apr 2013 23:00:08 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=6147 Web Watch, as we’ve declared previously, loves playing board games with friends. There’s something about sitting around a table and taking part in a group activity – laughing, drinking – that you just can’t get from the anonymous (and cheat-filled) ways of playing knock-off word games with friends via cellphone. Is SCRABBLE the best game […]

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]]> The Scrabble rule change doesn’t affect anyone who already knows how to play https://thewebgangsta.com/2010/04/the-scrabble-rule-change-doesnt-affect-anyone-who-already-knows-how-to-play/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-scrabble-rule-change-doesnt-affect-anyone-who-already-knows-how-to-play Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:00:22 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=2268 Scrabble Champion shirt The recent announcement from Mattel concerning CHANGING THE SCRABBLE RULESET TO ALLOW FOR PROPER NAMES AND OTHER BLASPHEMY is really not that big a deal. First, some perspective.  How exactly is the game being modified? Celebrity names and other proper nouns will now be allowed.  What comprises the proper spelling of specific […]

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]]> How to Improve Your Scrabble Play https://thewebgangsta.com/2009/03/how-to-improve-your-scrabble-play/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-to-improve-your-scrabble-play https://thewebgangsta.com/2009/03/how-to-improve-your-scrabble-play/?noamp=mobile#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 08:58:15 +0000 http://beta.thewebgangsta.com/?p=508 All you need to do is learn some new 2- and 3-letter words. In what appears to be a bad case of timing from their reporters, The Wall Street Journal finally reported this week of a dramatic change in the world of Scrabble that took place in October 2005:  THE ADDITION OF NEW WORDS TO […]

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