What are some tricks for mastering Scrabble?
Scrabble experts build up a knowledge of unusual words (such as addax, heaume, jaboty, xoanon, zemstvo) which help them get rid of unwanted letters. It is useful to know words with a lot of vowels (e.g., aioli) or words with a lot of consonants (crwth, cwm, nth, tsktsk) when one wants to get rid of letters. Many Scrabble players learn hundreds of acceptable two-letter and three-letter words, using special Scrabble dictionaries and guides. Knowing abstruse and obsolete words can really help, as well as words starting with high-scoring q, but which do not require it to be combined with u.
