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Although OSPD bears the name Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, no country’s competitive organization lists the OSPD as its official dictionary; the NASPA Word List is the official word list for tournament Scrabble in the United States, Canada, Thailand and Israel. [2] Merriam-Webster markets the OSPD as ideal for school and family use.
The decision to bowdlerize the OSPD's third edition by removing a large number of possibly offensive words necessitated a separate, unabridged word list for tournament use. The first edition of OWL was created by the NSA Dictionary Committee, chaired by John Chew, and took effect on March 2, 1998. To avoid controversy, it was available for sale ...
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon .
The score of 20 for a K is the highest known point value for any letter in any Scrabble score distribution worldwide. The fourth distribution, which uses U instead of V, and includes Y, is as follows: [32] 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×10, A ×9, I ×9, S ×9, T ×9, U ×9; 2 points: M ×6, N ×6, O ×6, R ×6; 3 points: C ×4 ...
This list of all two-letter combinations includes 1352 (2 × 26 2) of the possible 2704 (52 2) combinations of upper and lower case from the modern core Latin alphabet. A two-letter combination in bold means that the link links straight to a Wikipedia article (not a disambiguation page).
I think the two and three letter combination lists should stay, but I would very definitely agree with you about lists for n > 3. -- The Anome 12:12 10 Jul 2003 (UTC) Plus it might be good for Scrabble players :) Dmsar 12:14 10 Jul 2003 (UTC) And if you turn your monitor 68 degrees right - or is it left? - and filter out the red letters with 3 ...
Collins Scrabble Words (CSW, formerly SOWPODS) is the word list used in English-language tournament Scrabble in most countries except the US, Thailand and Canada, [1] although Scrabble tournaments in the US and Canada are also organized with divisions that use Collins Scrabble Words as their lexicon, some under the auspices of organizations such as the Collins Coalition.
The changes from standard Scrabble in Super Scrabble are summarized by the latter's tagline, "More spaces, more tiles, more points—add to your fun!" The board is larger; (21×21 or 441 squares vs. 15×15 or 225 squares); there are more premium squares (going up to quadruple letter and word score spaces); there are 200 tiles, twice as many as a normal Scrabble set.