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Scrabble Frequently Asked Questions

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1. What this FAQ covers

2. The trademark Scrabble

3. Organized Scrabble activity
3.1. National Scrabble Association and Association of British
Scrabble Players
3.2. Clubs
3.3. Tournaments
3.3.1. North American, Canadian and World championships
3.3.1.1. Winners of the North American championships
3.3.1.2. Winners of the Canadian (English language) championships
3.3.1.3. Winners of the World (English language) championships
3.3.2. How club and tournament Scrabble differs from the rules in
the box
3.3.3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Official
Scrabble Words
3.3.3.1. Why are all those stupid/non-English/indecent words
allowed?
3.3.3.2. Words removed from OSPD 1st ed. in 2nd ed.
3.3.3.3. Current corrections to the OSPD 2nd ed.
3.3.3.4. 9-letter root words in OSPD
3.3.3.5. Current corrections to the Franklin Electronic OSPD
3.3.3.6. Expurgation of OSPD and OSPD 3rd ed.
3.3.3.7. Successor to OSPD - TWL98
3.3.4. Tournament pairings
3.3.5. Tournament ratings
3.3.6. Upcoming North American tournaments
3.4. Organizations conducting Scrabble activity outside North
America and the UK
3.5. Who plays with which dictionary and which rules?
3.6. Crossword games on the Internet
3.6.1. Crossword games servers
3.6.1.1. Telnet-based
3.6.1.2. WWW-based
3.6.2. Crossword games mailing list
3.6.3. Crossword games related homepages
3.6.4. Crossword games related newsgroup
3.6.5. Chat

4. Differences between Scrabble in North America and in the UK

5. Publications on Scrabble
5.1. Periodicals
5.1.1. Scrabble News
5.1.2. Non-North American periodicals
5.1.2.1. Onwords
5.1.2.2. ABSP Newsletter
5.1.2.3. Forwords
5.1.2.4. Scrabble Club News
5.1.3. Defunct periodicals
5.1.3.1. Letters for Expert Players
5.1.3.2. Matchups
5.1.3.3. Medleys
5.1.3.4. Rack Your Brain
5.1.3.5. JG Newsletter
5.1.3.6. Tourney News
5.2. Books and CD-ROMs
5.3. Word lists
5.3.1. Lexicons
5.3.2. Internet anagram finders and word listers
5.3.3. Printed lists
5.4. Word study/lookup software

6. Basic tactics and methods

7. Typical games
7.1. Typical scores
7.2. Frequency of bingos

8. Scrabble records
8.1. Actual
8.2. Theoretical
8.3. Blocked games

9. Scrabble variants

10. Play-by-mail games

11. Scrabble paraphernalia
11.1. Tiles
11.2. Clocks
11.3. Playing equipment
11.4. Miscellaneous

12. Computer versions of Scrabble
12.1. CrossWise (IBM PC, Windows)
12.2. Gameboy Super Scrabble (hand-held)
12.3. Maven (Macintosh, Windows)
12.4. Monty Plays Scrabble (hand-held)
12.5. Scramble/Literati (IBM PC/Windows)
12.6. Tyler (IBM PC, Macintosh)
12.7. The Scrabble Player (IBM PC, Amiga, Atari ST, Psion)
12.8. Vic Rice's Game (IBM PC)
12.9. Virgin Mastertronic (IBM PC, Macintosh)
12.10. WordsWorth (IBM PC, Windows)
12.11. STrabbler (Atari)
12.12. Unix Scrabble (Unix)
12.13. CRAB (Unix, Sun, Vax and Macintosh)
12.14. Scrabble Door (IBM PC BBS)
12.15. ScrabOut and Networdz (Windows 3.1 and 95)
12.16. X-Words (Macintosh)
12.17. Amiga Scrabble (Amiga)
12.18. Hasbro Scrabble/E-mail Scrabble (Windows, Win CE, Macintosh)
12.19. XScrabble (X Windows)
12.20. Gary's Computer Scrabble (Unix)
12.21. Ortograf (Macintosh)
12.22. dupliKta (Windows)
12.23. Vocabble (IBM PC)
12.24. PC Scrabble (Windows 95, DOS)
12.25. Psion/Sinclair Scrabble (Spectrum, Sinclair Z80)
12.26. Sanaset (Windows)
12.27. WinScra (Windows)
12.28. Niggle (Palm Pilot)
12.29. Scrabble by Strobe (Windows)
12.30. Cardwords (Linux with X Windows)
12.31. Crosswords (Palm Pilot)

13. Glossary

14. Litigation

Appendices

A0. Copyright

A1. FAQ policy

A2. Credits

[In the supplement:]
A3. Roster of clubs in the US and Canada

A4. Upcoming North American tournaments

A5. Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide

1. What this FAQ covers

This article is about competitive English language Scrabble, or more
properly, Scrabble Brand Crossword Game. It is North
American-centric (and to a lesser extent covers the UK), but
information regarding English language Scrabble played anywhere is
welcome. It is not concerned with old Scrabble sets as collectors'
items or anything else outside the competitive aspects of the game.
Even the inclusion of Scrabble-related foofaraw stretches its
intended coverage.

Although this is about Scrabble, it is not provided or authorized by
the owners of the various rights to that game.

2. The trademark Scrabble

Scrabble is a registered trademark owned in the United States and
Canada by Milton Bradley Company, a division of Hasbro, Inc., and in
Great Britain and everywhere else in the world, by J.W. Spear & Sons
PLC., a subsidiary of Mattel.

Selchow & Righter, listed as the US owner on many of your boards, was
bought -- in good health -- in 1986 by Coleco, which shortly went
into bankruptcy due to the collapse of the market for their Cabbage
Patch dolls. Coleco also led itself to bankruptcy in 1987 by losing
a fortune on the Adam home computer flop, and the unexpected (to
them) slowdown in Trivial Pursuit sales. (Trivial Pursuit was
marketed in the US by Selchow & Righter). Scrabble was sold off to
Milton Bradley, which was in turn gobbled up by Hasbro.

In North America, technically, the term Scrabble refers to any game
or related product Milton Bradley cares to label that way, while the
popular board game is 'Scrabble Crossword Game'. Most people --
including Milton Bradley's own publication -- use the term Scrabble
to refer to that game, and so will this FAQ.

The magazine Financial World (July 8, 1996, p. 65) estimated the
value of the Scrabble brand to Hasbro as $76 million, and 1995 sales
under that brand at $39 million.

3. Organized Scrabble activity
3.1. National Scrabble Association and Association of British
Scrabble Players

The National Scrabble Association ('NSA') is the only organization
running Scrabble activity in North America. It is a subsidiary of
Milton Bradley. NSA licenses tournament and club directors. Club
and tournament play, except for the national and world championships,
is sanctioned but not run by NSA. Non-members are required to join
before playing in their second tournament.

As noted, NSA is an arm of the manufacturer, not a true membership
organization. An advisory board and a rules committee are chosen by
NSA and Milton Bradley. Ad hoc committees concerning changes in the
dictionary and the ratings system also have been created.

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