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Note: apparently he's using the SOWPODS (combined british & north american) 2 letter words. The tournament word list used in north america only contains 101 2 l

• pge 15y ago
  I'd vote that memorizing a hundred 2 letter words (many of which you likely already know) is easier than memorizing 26 mnenomics. or, you can just know a bunch and guess every once in awhile, gambling that your opponents also don't know all 101 for certain and don't want to risk challenging the one you put down;)
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  • frossie 15y ago
    "many of which you already know" is the key. Humans can memorize tens of thousand of words - it is called language. Meaning is your friend. If you are struggling to master the Scrabble two-word list, just look them up in a dictionary. Learning that 'Jo' is Scottish for "sweetheart" is a lot easier to me than treating the words as a pattern of consonants and vowels. And while I am on the subject of word games, iOS users might want to give Quarrel a try. It uses the Scrabble dictionary, so it is a good training tool, but you can always make the anagram, so it is a lot less frustrating to play than looking at a rack full of consonants :-)
  • zem 15y ago
    actually, once you move to even the low-division tournament level, pretty much everyone knows all the 2 letter words.
• zem 15y ago
  it's called CSW ("collins scrabble words") rather than sowpods now, since collins replaced chambers as the dictionary publisher.