Author: Michael Lawrence
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553343069
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is a complete guide to winning Scrabble strategies that will help everyone from beginners to advanced players become Scrabble champions! More than 100 board illustrations.
The Ultimate Guide to Winning Scrabble Brand Crossword Game
Author: Michael Lawrence
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553343069
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is a complete guide to winning Scrabble strategies that will help everyone from beginners to advanced players become Scrabble champions! More than 100 board illustrations.
Publisher: Bantam
ISBN: 9780553343069
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This book is a complete guide to winning Scrabble strategies that will help everyone from beginners to advanced players become Scrabble champions! More than 100 board illustrations.
Word Freak
Author: Stefan Fatsis
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547524315
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Publisher: HMH
ISBN: 0547524315
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
This “marvelously absorbing” book is “a walk on the wild side of words and ventures into the zone where language and mathematics intersect” (San Jose Mercury News). A former Wall Street Journal reporter and NPR regular, Stefan Fatsis recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game’s strange, potent hold over them—and him. At least thirty million American homes have a Scrabble set—but the game’s most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of “living room players.” Theirs is a surprisingly diverse subculture whose stars include a vitamin-popping standup comic; a former bank teller whose intestinal troubles earned him the nickname “G.I. Joel”; a burly, unemployed African American from Baltimore’s inner city; the three-time national champion who plays according to Zen principles; and the author himself, who over the course of the book is transformed from a curious reporter to a confirmed Scrabble nut. Fatsis begins by haunting the gritty corner of a Greenwich Village park where pickup Scrabble games can be found whenever weather permits. His curiosity soon morphs into compulsion, as he sets about memorizing thousands of obscure words and fills his evenings with solo Scrabble played on his living room floor. Before long he finds himself at tournaments, socializing—and competing—with Scrabble’s elite. But this book is about more than hardcore Scrabblers, for the game yields insights into realms as disparate as linguistics, psychology, and mathematics. Word Freak extends its reach even farther, pondering the light Scrabble throws on such notions as brilliance, memory, competition, failure, and hope. It is a geography of obsession that celebrates the uncanny powers locked in all of us, “a can’t-put-it-down narrative that dances between memoir and reportage” (Los Angeles Times). “Funny, thoughtful, character-rich, unchallengeably winning writing.” —The Atlantic Monthly This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
Letterati
Author: Paul McCarthy
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1554903238
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A history of the popular board game, from 1960s New York right through to the 2004 National Championships.
Publisher: ECW Press
ISBN: 1554903238
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 325
Book Description
A history of the popular board game, from 1960s New York right through to the 2004 National Championships.
How to Play Scrabble Like a Champion
Author: Joel Wapnick
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781402770777
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A guide for improving Scrabble skills discusses how to maximize scores with bonus squares, more seven-letter plays, tile exchanges, word extensions, and well-planned endgames.
Publisher: Puzzlewright
ISBN: 9781402770777
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A guide for improving Scrabble skills discusses how to maximize scores with bonus squares, more seven-letter plays, tile exchanges, word extensions, and well-planned endgames.
Board Games Studies
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 3126
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Publishers Weekly
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1234
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