Comments on: What word lists should I study next to improve my Scrabble skills? http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills The Best Thinking & Techniques for Your Success Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:01:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 By: joseph_strummer http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills/comment-page-1#comment-1245 joseph_strummer Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:35:01 +0000 http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills#comment-1245 First off, stem 7's are overrated. For every stem set (say SATINE), you do get a few indispensable bingos like ATONIES and ISATINE - but much of the rest is fluff. Do you really need to know ANESTRI if there are (without studying) 3 or 4 anagrams you'd see anyway? Stem groups are full of wasted memorization. Like buying a CD for 1 good song, and the other 14 songs do nothing for you. If you analyze a strong computer program's bingos, only 38% of them are 7's. About 60% are 8's. Learn high probability (well, preferably high *playability*) 8's...the best 3 are AERATION, AEROLITE and INERTIAE. 4's and 5's, yeah, they're pretty essential. Especially how they hook (and conversely, make special note of the safe hookless ones, or downright weird ones like GARDA that hook only as GARDAI). I'd advise not to learn huge chunks at once. Learn 20 4's, then learn 20 5's, then 20 8's, then 20 more 4's etc. Mix it up. Variety makes it more interesting (and anything that makes such a dull exercise as memorizing words more interesting is a good thing). First off, stem 7′s are overrated. For every stem set (say SATINE), you do get a few indispensable bingos like ATONIES and ISATINE – but much of the rest is fluff. Do you really need to know ANESTRI if there are (without studying) 3 or 4 anagrams you’d see anyway? Stem groups are full of wasted memorization.
Like buying a CD for 1 good song, and the other 14 songs do nothing for you.
If you analyze a strong computer program’s bingos, only 38% of them are 7′s. About 60% are 8′s. Learn high probability (well, preferably high *playability*) 8′s…the best 3 are AERATION, AEROLITE and INERTIAE.
4′s and 5′s, yeah, they’re pretty essential. Especially how they hook (and conversely, make special note of the safe hookless ones, or downright weird ones like GARDA that hook only as GARDAI).
I’d advise not to learn huge chunks at once. Learn 20 4′s, then learn 20 5′s, then 20 8′s, then 20 more 4′s etc. Mix it up. Variety makes it more interesting (and anything that makes such a dull exercise as memorizing words more interesting is a good thing).

]]> By: Kunal A http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills/comment-page-1#comment-1244 Kunal A Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:34:54 +0000 http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills#comment-1244 try looking in the dictionary thats what helped me ;-) try looking in the dictionary thats what helped me ;-)

]]> By: bookbasha4life http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills/comment-page-1#comment-1243 bookbasha4life Wed, 14 Apr 2010 01:24:34 +0000 http://learnhowtostudy.com/what-word-lists-should-i-study-next-to-improve-my-scrabble-skills#comment-1243 You have already done the basics so now I would recommend you learn the list of high frequency 7 and 8 letter Scrabble words. I also suggest you play Scrabble with a computer / robot to learn words you can never learn by observing players. I play Scrabble with robots at Scrabulous - http://www.scrabulous.com - and it helped me a lot to increase my vocabulary. I am a total geek so I go through the entire word list of TWL. If you have that stamina, download the TWL word list or dictionary from http://www.scrabulous.com/twl_dictionary.php You have already done the basics so now I would recommend you learn the list of high frequency 7 and 8 letter Scrabble words. I also suggest you play Scrabble with a computer / robot to learn words you can never learn by observing players. I play Scrabble with robots at Scrabulous – http://www.scrabulous.com – and it helped me a lot to increase my vocabulary.

I am a total geek so I go through the entire word list of TWL. If you have that stamina, download the TWL word list or dictionary from http://www.scrabulous.com/twl_dictionary.php

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