Sowpods Scrabble Tips

All the three letter words you can play just using consonants. Now these are really worth learning. BRR BYS CLY CWM DRY FLY FRY GYM GYP HMM HYP LYM MYC NTH NYS PHT PLY PRY PST PYX RHY SHH SHY SKY SLY SNY SPY STY SWY SYN THY TRY TSK TWP TYG VLY WRY WYN ZZZ

Well Scrabulous is still alive, although apparently the Internet Scrabble Club is also under threat now. Can't Hasbro and Mattel (the international owners of Scrabble) see that Scrabulous and ISC are actually creating more fans of the game? It would be interesting to know if sales of the game have been affected since the rise of Scrabulous. As Josh Quittner of Fortune suggests: "If I were an evil genius running a board games company whose product line spanned everything from Monopoly to Clue, I might do this: Wait until someone comes up with an excellent implementation of my games and does the hard work of coding and debugging the thing and signing up the masses. Then, once it got to scale, I’d sweep in and take it over. Let the best pirate site win! If I were compassionate, I’d even cut in the guys who did all the work for a percentage point or two to keep the site running." And now you really can join a Facebook group to save Scrabulous!

These are some really fab four-letter words with three vowels. ALAE AIGA AMIA ANOA ATUA AULA PAUA AKEE ALEE AWEE EALE EINA ILEA KAIE EOAN TOEA AUNE IXIA JIAO MOAI NAOI OBIA OHIA AITU HUIA KUIA UNAI OUMA OUPA URAI LUAU UNAU EIDE EMEU EUGE ONIE IURE OLEO MEOU HIOI MOOI OLIO

So you've got no vowels on your rack? Don't despair - here are some effective SOWPODS four letter words containing no vowels! BRRR BYRL CYST FYRD GYMP GYNY HWYL HYMN JYNX KYND LYCH LYNX MYTH PFFT PRYS PSST RYND SCRY SKRY SKYF SKYR SPRY SYNC SYND SYPH TRYP TYMP TYND TYPP TYPY WYCH WYND WYNN XYST YMPT

Hasbro, the manufacturers of Scrabble, are trying to shut down Scrabulous - the ninth most popular Facebook application. Invented by two brothers from Calcutta - Jayant, 21 and Rajat Agarwalla, 26, the application has 2.3 million active users as of today and 70 million pageviews in the past month. However Hasbro have warned Facebook of their intention to shut down Scrabulous. So perhaps we do need a Facebook Group to Save Scrabulous ! Watch this space. If the worst comes to the worst we'll just have to continue playing live at http://www.isc.ro

Anagrams is a board-free word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words. It is very often played 'out of hours' at Scrabble tournaments around the world. The game has various other names, in particular 'Snap Jarnac ' in the UK. The game has been sold separately as a commercial product, but at Scrabble tournaments is typically played by any number of players (typically 4-8) using two sets of Scrabble tiles of different colour. Tiles are placed face down on the table and then turned over one by one, and players form words by combining unused tiles with existing words, their own or others'. Whenever a player can form a word with the tiles in the middle of the table, possibly combined with words that he or another player has already formed, he calls out the word and uses those tiles to spell it out in front of him. If two players call out words simultaneously, the longer word prevails. All words must be at least five letters long and the new word must c

The perfect place to relax after a game of scrabble... These Scrabble Sofas are made by Stephen Reed for employees in the London offices of Bloomberg financial services. Users can make words and leave messages with the screen printed letter cushions.

Very handy for putting words alongside each other, these are all the two letter words allowable in SOWPODS Scrabble: AA AB AD AE AG AH AI AL AM AN AR AS AT AW AX AY BA BE BI BO BY CH DA DE DI DO EA ED EE EF EH EL EM EN ER ES ET EX FA FE FY GI GO GU HA HE HI HM HO ID IF IN IO IS IT JA JO KA KI KO KY LA LI LO MA ME MI MM MO MU MY NA NE NO NU NY OB OD OE OF OH OI OM ON OO OP OR OS OU OW OX OY PA PE PI PO QI RE SH SI SO ST TA TE TI TO UG UH UM UN UP UR US UT WE WO XI XU YA YE YO YU ZA ZO

A couple of handy bingos if you happen to have AEIORST are: OARIEST - like an oar OTARIES - seals with ears And nothing to do with the above, but handy nonetheless is AEROSAT - a satellite

The letters left in your rack after you play a word are called your "rack leave". As you play your game, aim to get the following six letters in your rack: R-E-T-A-I-N With these six letters you can add almost any letter of the alphabet to make a bingo - thus scoring an extra 50 points bonus! Learning the following words could help you increase your score by 50 or more points each time you play... RETAIN + B: atebrin RETAIN + C: cantier, ceratin, certain, creatin, crinate, nacrite, tacrine RETAIN + D: antired, detrain, trained RETAIN + E: arenite, retinae, trainee RETAIN + F: fainter, fenitar RETAIN + G: granite, gratine, ingrate, tangier, tearing RETAIN + H: hairnet, inearth, therian RETAIN + I: inertia RETAIN + J: jantier, nartjie RETAIN + K: keratin RETAIN + L: entrail, latrine, ratline, reliant, retinal, trenail RETAIN + M: meranti, minaret, raiment RETAIN + N: entrain, trannie RETAIN + O: otarine RETAIN + P: painter, pertain, repaint RETAIN + R: retrain, terrain, traine