SCRABBLE DETECTIVE

In an effort to internationalise the game, a group of nutcases periodically revise the allowed vocabulary. Scrabble vocabulary developed into a bizarre jargon claimed to cover words from other languages. If you only play with friends, use any dictionary without the word "Scrabble" on its cover. This blog is primarily concerned with competitive Scrabble and the incompetence of some of its custodians..

Saturday, March 14, 2020

CORONA ON A ROTATING BOARD

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The Coronavirus is a strain of the common flu virus. It has been developed by the biological warfare laboratories of the USA . For the...
Saturday, February 1, 2020

HALF SOLUTIONS ARE BETTER THAN NO SOLUTIONS (PART 2)

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I still maintain that half solutions were better than no solutions, but only marginally better so far. To prove my assumption, I will rela...
Saturday, November 16, 2019

MISTAKES WILL HAPPEN

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Mistakes will always happen, no matter how much you try to avoid them. Here is an  example: Click on this link to go to the ...
Sunday, October 13, 2019

ANOTHER COLLINS FUNNY

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Kalium is the Latin scientific name of the element potassium (K). It exists in the blood of humans within a specific range. If it goes muc...
Monday, October 7, 2019

A HEARTFELT THANK YOU

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For many years, I have been a regular guest at most South Australian Scrabble tournaments ( 101 tournaments in 10 years) . The probl...
Wednesday, August 28, 2019

HALF SOLUTIONS ARE BETTER THAN NO SOLUTIONS

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It is a well-known fact that not-for-profit associations are riddled with problems of power struggle and frequent aberration from logical ...
Saturday, August 3, 2019

WESPA SENIORS TOURNAMENT AUGUST 2019

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Having seen the inappropriate laxity of bag and tile handling by ASPA players, even at my local club in Greensborough, I find it appropria...
Friday, August 2, 2019

ROTATING RUMOURS AND HEARSAY

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A rumour is spreading fast among Victorian scrabblers, that NI is coming forward as a candidate for president of ASPA(Vic). But old chooks...
Saturday, July 20, 2019

A BID FOR SALVATION

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While sifting through older comments, I found the following interesting one: Anonymous said... Why all the love for JH? As I've sai...
Saturday, July 6, 2019

OLD MEMORIES OF HARRY

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Below is an excerpt of comments on an old post. I laughed after   many years when I   read Harry's last line, "5) and tell them Har...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019

HARRY WAS A BRAVE MAN

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I dug this post from my archives. It made me regret my low level of contact with Harry before he abruptly left our world. Yes, he was a brav...
Monday, May 13, 2019

FREQUENT VOCAB ADDITIONS AND DELETIONS

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In order to come up with the new CSW19, the total number of words added to CSW15 was 2862, while deletions made were 29. Had WESPA or ...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

HARRY MALCOLM

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Rest in peace away from them all MALCOLM. Harry Neville Late of East Warburton. Aged 63. Passed away peacefully 7th May 2019. Private...
Thursday, May 2, 2019

DAVID MORE IN THE NEWS

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Scrabble veteran banned from playing board game in Queensland Yahoo News Australia 12 April 2019 A die-hard Scrabble player has b...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

DAVID MORE IN HOBART?

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I will not shy away from privately or publicly supporting David More, even though I am in his bad books at present. My resolve is emanatin...
Saturday, April 6, 2019

HOW TO RULE SCRABBLE RULES

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Some heated discussions do flare up every now and then, about whether to adopt WESPA rules in totality or to keep on patching up our Aussie...
Thursday, February 28, 2019

THE DAVID MORE SAGA

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According to David More, he had voluntarily refrained from participating in any tournaments since December 2015. I managed to convince him ...
Friday, February 8, 2019

ANOTHER SCRABBLE SCANDAL SIMMERING

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My Comment: I thought the stupidity of scrabble committees was a monopoly confined to WA and VIC . I attempted to have a ser...
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