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Most experienced players know the sets of words that you need to know to improve in Scrabble. There are many separate guides but they are pretty similar. Players can know how good an opponent is by how far down the list you've gone. To get an edge, it… more »

Last week, Wellington Jighere, a notable Scrabble player mentioned HALFWAY in a post in Scrabbleverse, being a word that does not take any hooks and cannot be combined with any other letter to form a word. For some time I've referred to words formed by… more »

Card 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 »

Card 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 »

Background 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 »

Hoot 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 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 »