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INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
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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 an $18.00 check to: NATIONAL SCRABBLE(tm) ASSOCIATION
($20 in Canada, $25 elsewhere) PO Box 700
Greenport, NY 11944.
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]
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/
This site is run by Hussein Suleman.
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Another interactive Scrabble (tm) site is:
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~dnich/scr_intro.html
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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 It has hot
links to many of the other Scrabble (tm) sites.
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Another interesting Scrabble (tm) Web site is:
http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble.html
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The Australian Scrabble (tm) Association's maintains a Web site at:
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~aspa
This one has many, many goodies, including a clubroom, online Scrabble (tm)
and an excellent magazine.
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There are some very nicely done Scrabble (tm) - related home pages:
John Babina's site at http://quantum.cs.sunysb.edu/~babina/
John Van Pelts site at http://www.csmonitor.com/~john/scrabble/index.html
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Jim Miller has an on-line word list generating engine at:
http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~jgm/
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There is a Belgian Scrabble (tm) site at:
http://www.ping.be/~ping4087/scrabble/home.html
There is a French language Scrabble (tm) site at:
http://www.fqcsf.qc.ca
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The humorous "Dyslexic's Guide to Scrabble (tm) is at:
http://pages.nyu.edu/~ntc4296/inviso.html
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Do not forget to check the author's Web site at:
http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/
A hypertext copy of this file will be found there, as well as much other
interesting "stuff".
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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
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, and in hypertext format on his
home page, listed below.
The FAQ itself contains a plethora of information on the game, including
rules, word lists, history, and background. The FAQ supplement contains a
listing of all North American official Scrabble (tm) clubs and a run down of
upcoming tournaments. Understandably, this is 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
The home page contains the hypertext versions of the FAQ described above.
The database of newspaper and magazine article "reprints" is a wonderful
resource. It may be linked to from the home page or accessed directly at:
http://www.users.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/articles.html
Steven Alexander is the chronicler, commentator, and information clearing
house of the Scrabble (tm) community. He is the modern day Procopius of the
word game world. All information and updates on Scrabble should be forwarded
to him at his e-mail address:
stevena@teleport.com
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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. Related mailing lists are crossword-games-pro@mit.edu, for
competing tournament players (NSA members), and.........................
crossword-games-programmers@mit.edu for discussions of technical games
programming issues.
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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 (tm) or the WORDY list generating
utilities running on a second computer or in a separate window under X. The
ethics of doing so are subject to further discussion. The same issues crop up
in postal Scrabble (tm).
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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 the mathematician John Chew, an important
personage in the Canadian Scrabble (tm) community.
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A Public Domain list of all the OSPD3 (tm) words, in listable and prin