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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.
The Association will also on request provide information about starting your
own 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]
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/
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
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!
Steven Alexander also has a WWW home page. Its address is:
http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~stevena/faq.html
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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
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.
These files do *not* include many inflections of legal words.
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.
WORDY is not a trademark.