True Gs know that, when it comes to competitive games, you're not really there to beat your opponent. You're there to beat yourself, specifically, the version of yourself that played last time.
Getting good takes time and focus; that's true of every hobby from aquascaping to zymurgy. Protip: those are both really good Scrabble words. But, as hobbyists of every kind know well, there's no feeling quite like the quiet satisfaction of knowing, not just feeling but knowing for certain, that you're getting better at something you love.
For more reasons to put time and energy into the world's most popular word game, check our our 5 reasons to play Scrabble. Good luck and have fun! Matt Salter has been a professional writer for over 10 years. He is a gaming and technology expert, and world-class word nerd. To unpracticed players, Scrabble can feel like a game of extremes. The bag doles out letters at random. Opportunities appear or disappear. That perfect chance to put an X on a triple word score never happens.
It's luck, right? If you want to get good at Scrabble and its siblings, you need to start thinking average. Bringing up your average score by letter, word and game is how you achieve steady, serious improvement in play.
What Is an Average Score? That's easy! The average score in a typical game of Scrabble is to total points. Beat the Average Not hardly. But, if you work to maximize these three averages, you will earn that most prestigious of titles: Good at Scrabble Points Per Letter It is a universally acknowledged truth that Scrabble puts a hard limit on how many chances you have to score.
An alternate set, proposed by Scrabble3D along with the official set, [31] was proposed to have these tiles:. Note that H is not in this set because it is only used at the beginning of the words starting with vowels, which is against the rules there.
Note: This set uses the old orthography. In the new orthography, the dotted letters are replaced by the digraph of the letter without the dot followed by H. Shortly after, the Scrabble3D distribution underwent a major revision [31] still has tiles :. Italian-language Scrabble originally sold in Italy as Scarabeo , but that became a different game applied a special rule that when a player exchanges tiles on his turn, he could request opponent to pass his turn.
Both players have one chance each for one game. The sets consist of these tiles:. Diacritic marks are ignored. The letters K , W , X , and Y are absent since these letters do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, although they are sometimes used in loanwords. J which only used in dialects of Italian, is non included.
Another set uses these tiles:. Scarabeo is an Italian variant of Scrabble that is much more popular in its native country than the original game. A more popular set by Scrabble3D uses these tiles: [34] [35] [36]. The marks are included to make the letter distribution smaller. L , Q and X are absent as they do not exist in Japanese. V does exist though, created to be used in loanwords, is absent because of its rare frequency, can be used for a blank with 20 points reward for each play.
Romaji scrabble games consist of all 3 scripts used in Japanese language - Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji in romanized form. This version does not use the long vowel '-'. The - for long vowels and the V tile are optional not in the standard set. You can use the blank as a V tile. The letter tiles may show Klingon symbols pIqaD , their renderings in the English alphabet, or both.
This is not an official version of the game, although Hasbro did create their own licensed 'Star Trek Scrabble' game in which players can receive bonus points by playing Klingon words. There are three kinds of Latin-language Scrabble sets developed by three authorities in the language. The first distribution, developed by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto, uses these tiles:. An extension of the first distribution for Latin Paleography, developed by the Centre for Medieval Studies of the University of Toronto, uses these tiles:.
The second distribution below was made 'in conjunction with scholars from the University of Cambridge and elsewhere, together with the Cambridge Schools Classics Project. However, with this set, according to the rules, if a blank is used as a Y it is worth 10 points, if a blank is used as a Z it is worth 15 points, and if a blank is used as a K it is worth 20 points.
Each of those letters are so high in points, because they are used only in borrowed words. The score of 20 for a K is the highest known point value for any letter in any Scrabble score distribution worldwide.
Y is absent in all sets except the paleographic extension of the first set because it is rare in Latin. K and Z are also absent in all sets because they are rare in Latin, while J is not considered separate from I in all sets except the third one, in which it is not included because it is rare in Latin.
W is also absent in all sets because it did not exist in ancient times, and is used only in modern borrowed words. Y , which is also used in some dialects of Latvian, is not used in the standard language, so is not included. Q , W , and X are absent, because they are not used in Latvian. F and H are present only in loanwords, but are considered part of standard Latvian, so they are included.
Marketed as L33t Tiles by the now defunct Wiremelon, LLC, editions of an English-L33tspeak variant of Scrabble contain letter tiles in the following distribution: [41] [42] [43].
The letters Q , W and X are absent, because they are not used in Lithuanian. Arguably F and H do not exist in Lithuanian either, but they are included as they are sometimes used for borrowed words. The combination XO is absent as it is only used in 7 words binxo , ganxo , jerxo , sirxo , xogji , xotli , and xo'u. The combination ZO is absent as it is only used in 7 words brazo , kinzo , zo'a , zo'e , zo'i , zo'o , and zo'u.
The combination 'Y is absent as it is only used in 1 word. The letter. Blanks can be used to represent any of the above letters including.
The letter ' occurs in Lojban, but only in digrams and never as one letter. The letters H , Q , and W are absent, because these letters are not used in Lojban. Q , V and X are absent because they are only present in loanwords. So are F and Z , but these two are not so rare. Diacritical Marks are ignored. This set is made for educational purposes and is not an official version by Mattel.
The letters Q , X and Z are absent since these letters are rarely used in Norwegian. This is a handmade set and not an official edition by Mattel. The 7 is included in the set because it is an actual letter in Nuxalk. It is used to replace ' if you don't have a tile ending with '. Arguably H and 7 do not exist in Nuxalk, but they are included as they are used for borrowed words, or in the case of 7 , optionally at the beginning of a word.
This set has been used since The letters Q , V and X have always been absent since they are used in foreign words , and blank tiles cannot be used to represent these.
K , W , and Y are absent, since they are only present in loanwords in Portuguese, and were not even official letters until Some amendment applied in updated version. Previously, the B was worth 8, and the O was worth 1. Both distributions lack K , Q , W and Y , since they are only used in foreign words.
You can still use a blank to play these letters. Arguably X does not exist in Romanian either, but it is included as it is used for borrowed words. Russian-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, contain tiles using this distribution:. In Erudit , only nominative singular and pluralia tantum nouns are allowed.
The distribution was modified a bit Dropping NG because it is too rare, but adding more A , E , and I tiles, and changing the number of tiles to The role of chance is obviously greater when each player has a smaller sample of the pool.
Save my name, email, and website in this browser for the next time I comment. The following panel shows a concise summary of our games click to enlarge : The graphic display has the following features: You can see the score after each turn. You can see the number of turns in each game 16— The average slope of the line indicates the average number of points per word about 14 points. The gap between the curves shows the difference in scores at each turn. In particular, you can read off some important plays for each game: In Game 1, I was losing the entire game.
I almost caught up with a point play at Turn 16, but it was too little, too late. In Game 2, the lead changed hands five times, as seen by the crossing of the curves. In Game 3, I was holding my own until Mom crushed my hope with a point word on Turn In Game 4, I cruised to victory after playing a point word in Turn 4. Tags Data Analysis Statistical Graphics.
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