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- INFORMATION AND RESOURCES
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- THE NATIONAL SCRABBLE(tm) ASSOCIATION
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- 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.
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- The Association will also on request provide information about starting your
- own official club.
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- The NSA official Web link is at: http://www.scrabble.com/community/nsa.html.
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- SCRABBLE (tm) ON THE INTERNET
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- 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://yoda.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://www.seeknet.com/maplewood/sc_home.html It has hot
- links to many of the other Scrabble (tm) sites.
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- The Club #21 (Los Gatos) Web page:
- http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble.html
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- The Gainesville, Fla. Club has a site at:
- http://www.afn.org/~scrabble/
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- Club #213 (Lansing, MI) has a site at:
- http://www.geocities.com/Athens/5182/scrab.html
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- Club #427 (Mississippi) has a site at:
- http://home.teclink.net/~tjparker/scrab.html
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- Marsha and Roy Peshkin have their new site at:
- http://www.flinet.com/~peshkin
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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:
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- John Babina's site at http://quantum.cs.sunysb.edu/~babina/
- John Van Pelts site at http://www.csmonitor.com/~john/scrabble/index.html
- Big Doggy's site at http://www.best.com/~bigdoggy/
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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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- Tim & Glo's Scrabble (tm) Parlor has IRC support for Lance Frohman's Scrabout
- game: http://www.cris.com/~Tjdavis/
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- The site of the Romford Club in England is at:
- http://www.pledgor.demon.co.uk/
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- The site of the Scrabble (tm) club at St. Mary's College in Trinidad/Tobago:
- http://www.wow.net/cic/level2/scrabble.htm
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- There is a Belgian Scrabble (tm) site at:
- http://www.ping.be/~ping4087/scrabble/home.html
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- Per Starback's Swedish Scrabble (tm) is at:
- http://www.update.uu.se/~starback/scrabble.html
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- There is a German Scrabble (tm) site at:
- http://www.ruhr.de/home/wanne/games/scrabble.htm
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- There is a French language Scrabble (tm) site at:
- http://www.fqcsf.qc.ca
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- There is a Spanish language Scrabble (tm) site at:
- http://www.acoisa.es./scrabble
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- Kevin Cowtan's "Scrabble (tm) Challenge" is at:
- http://www.yorvic.york.ac.uk/~cowtan/scrabble/wsc.html
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- Bob Jackman's SOWPODS page:
- http://www.ozemail.com.au/~rjackman/
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- The "official" Milton Bradley Scrabble (tm) site is at:
- http://www.scrabble.com
- The site is crude and disappointing, but may improve in response to criticism.
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- Do not forget to check the author's Web site at:
- http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/
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- An updatedhypertext 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
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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, 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!
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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 no longer manufactured Franklin OSPD (tm) or the WORDY
- list generating utilities running on a second computer or in a separate
- window under X11. The ethics of doing so are subject to further discussion.
- Similar 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
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- The path is: /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive
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- 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.
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- These files do *not* include many inflections of legal words.
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- The files were compiled by the Canadian student, J. Chew.
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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. A similar list
- is available from some of the Web sites listed above.
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- Scrabble and OSPD are trademarks of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc., a Hasbro,
- Inc. subsidiary.
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- WORDY is not a trademark.
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