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The dark art of playing world-class Scrabble

How to win at Scrabble

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

21 November 2020

9:00 AM

When the top players gathered in Torquay last year for the World Scrabble Tournament (this year’s contest should have been this week, but has been cancelled thanks to you-know-what), it was to use ‘words’ like these in their games: dzo, ch, foyned, ghi

Yep, that’s right; a whole lot of words that, let’s be frank about this, are not words.

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