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- THE NATIONAL SCRABBLE(tm) ASSOCIATION
-
- Membership in the National Scrabble(tm) Association includes an official
- membership card, a listing of local Scrabble(tm) Players Clubs, two word lists
- that help improve playing skill, and a one-year subscription to SCRABBLE(tm)
- NEWS. This newsletter includes information about clubs and tournaments in
- local areas, special word lists and hints for better play, and playing
- quizzes and puzzles.
-
- To join send a $15.00 check to: NATIONAL SCRABBLE(tm) ASSOCIATION
- PO Box 700
- Greenport, NY 11944.
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- The Association will also on request provide information about starting your
- own official club.
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- SCRABBLE (tm) ON THE INTERNET
-
- There are Scrabble(tm) players group on the Internet. The Telnet addresses
- are:
- next7.cas.muohio.edu [port 8888]
- eel.st.usm.edu [port 7777]
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- To "telnet" to the first of the above sites, you must type:
- telnet next7.cas.muohio.edu 8888
- Of course, your Internet connection must have telnet capabilities.
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- Scrabble (tm) may now be played on the World Wide Web. The address is:
- http://elf.udw.ac.za/scrabble/
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- Helga Williams of Victoria, B.C., Canada maintains a Scrabble (tm) homepage
- on the Web at: http://vvv.com/maplewood/sc_home.html
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- There are 2 excellent Scrabble(tm) FAQ's available for download from:
- rtfm.mit.edu.
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/general
- /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/supplement
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- These were created by Steven Alexander, who does a monthly update on them,
- which he posts on about the 15th of each month on the rec.games.board and
- rec.games.crossword newsgroups on the Usenet.
-
- They contain a plethora of information on the game. A must for all serious
- players!
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- Steven Alexander also has a WWW home page. Its address is:
- http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~stevena/faq.html
-
- Steven Alexander is the chronicler, commentator, and information clearing
- house of the Scrabble (tm) community. He is a modern day Procopius of word
- game players. All information and updates on Scrabble should be forwarded to
- him at his e-mail address:
- stevena@interport.net
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- All serious Scrabble (tm) players should subscribe to the "mailing list"
- crossword-games@mit.edu
- To subscribe, send e-mail to saint@mit.edu requesting to be added to the
- mailing list.
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- There is a Scrabble(tm)-playing "robot" program that is sometimes available
- via Telnet. ACBOT is an extremely strong opponent that will test the skills
- of all but the top Scrabble players. For more info, e-mail James Cherry:
- jac@doe.carleton.ca
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- Playing Scrabble (tm) by modem makes it possible to "cheat" by using help
- devices, such as the Franklin OSPD or the WORDY list generating utilities
- running on a second computer. The ethics of doing so are subject to more
- discussion.
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- Lists of "legal" OSPD2 (tm) words (from 2 to 8 letters) are downloadable on
- the Internet from the following ftp site: gatekeeper.dec.com
-
- The path is: /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive
-
- The files are named:
- words.2.Z words.3.Z words.4.Z words.5.Z words.6.Z words.7.Z words.8.Z
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- These files have been compressed. To convert them to ASCII, use the
- UNCOMPRESS or GUNZIP utilities under the Unix (or Linux) operating system. I
- have been informed that there is also a DOS-based utility to do this, but do
- not know its name.
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- These files do *not* include many inflections of legal words.
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- These files were compiled by John Chew, an important person in the Canadian
- Scrabble (tm) community.
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- A Public Domain list of all the OSPD3 (tm) words, in listable and printable
- format, is part of the WORDY game study system by the author.
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- Scrabble (tm) and OSPD (tm) are trademarks of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc., a
- subsidiary of Hasbro, Inc.
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- WORDY is not a trademark.
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