Archives for: "June 2021"
Scrabble Card Box Guide (part 3)
June 30th, 2021Card Box Searches This is the final post in the three part series on Scrabble Word Study using card boxes. This section illustrates how you would do some of the searches that you want to add to your card boxes. You may also want to just do these… more »
Scrabble Card Box Guide (part 2)
June 30th, 2021Card Box Strategies When beginning to study word lists for Scrabble, it's useful to know what to start with and how to create useful card box databases. There are many guides to what words to learn and most are useful, so you can choose one and adjust… more »
Scrabble Card Box Guide (part 1)
June 30th, 2021Background This is a 3 part post is about card boxing in the Hoot word study app, and the alternate Hoot for Collins. It expands on Using Hoot Card Boxes, a previous post. While this is an extensive coverage of the subject, getting started is really as… more »
Creating Useful Pattern Searches in Hoot
June 20th, 2021Hoot has many search options/types including Length, Anagrams, Prefixes, and Contains. With the exception of anagrams and the like, you can use a pattern search to execute those searches. The app help file has some help and the online pattern has an… more »
Hoot Settings
June 17th, 2021Hoot is an Android app that assists in searching Scrabble word lists, and studying words for competition. Hoot can be simple to use but it also has a lot of features and options. As you navigate the different menus you can check them out. Before you get… more »
Site Maintenance
June 12th, 2021After a recent update the blog does not properly display the profile picture with each blog post. I've been trouble shooting it for days, with some help from others, with no success. Fortunately the images within each post continue to work okay, you… more »
Hoot and the Android 11 debacle
June 9th, 2021A couple weeks ago I discovered that Hoot, my word study app, was not working when accessing files in Android external storage. After some quick research I discovered that Android 10 and 11 don't allow access to external storage using the standard File… more »