Featuring a complete history of the popular board game, an updated handbook for improving Scrabble skills discusses how to maximize scores with bonus squares, make more seven-letter plays, and increase scoring average using two-letter words, and includes a step-by-step guide to board strategy. Original.

Everything Scrabble

Humor & Entertainment

Edley, Joe

Williams Jr., John D.

Puzzles & Games

Pocket

Calling all players, beginners and experts alike! Here are the plays you can't afford to miss: 800 puzzles to sharpen your thinking and hone your crossword skills, specially designed and selected by Scrabble superstar Joe Edley, the only two-time winner of the National Scrabble® Championship and coauthor of Everything Scrabble®. Learn how to: "Read the board" and see where you can score the most points - and where you can't. Increase your word game skills with 97 must-know two-letter words Build knockout numbers with bonus squares, two-letter words and parallel plays Score with the high-point tiles: J, Q, X, and Z Balance your rack by playing off weak three-, four-, and five-tile combinations Find the key to success with bingos and seven-letter plays Find the Ideal Play - eight questions to ask yourself, plus the Ideal Play on computer Win at Scrabble - six key factors Find the best play in real game action - fifty actual games re-created in this book, complete with the author's analysis and computer simulation results. National champion Joe Edley aims to enhance your Scrabble-playing skills. Discover tips, shortcuts, and special plays in actual game situations, and a battery of increasingly complex puzzles as you learn to play with the pros.

The Official Scrabble Puzzle Book

GALLERY BOOKS

Updated and Revised edition. For beginners and pros alike. The only book authorized by the National Scrabble Association.

Everything Scrabble (Updated and Revised)

Williams, John D. Jr.

Pocket Books, New York, NY

Official Scrabble Puzzle Book

Barnes&Noble

The Official Scrabble 2001 Calendar: 365 Words, Games, Plays and Tips

Williams, John D.

Workman Publishing

Get obsessed! Based on 2009's Game of the Year—and Bananagrams! The Official Book—Bananagrams! is a brand-new calendar packed with hundreds of ingenious and fast-paced anagram challenges. Written by Joe Edley, the only three-time National Scrabble Champion, the puzzles—15 different varieties—strike the perfect balance of toughness, creativity, and entertainment. They range in difficulty from an easy one banana to the sweat-inducing four banana. For crossword and other word game lovers, this is the next big thing. Answers are on the reverse side of each page.

Bananagrams! Calendar 2011

Workman Publishing Company

Joe Edley, the wordplay genius who created the puzzles in Bananagrams, now steps it up in More Bananagrams! by creating eight new joyously mind-bending puzzle types, and adding another level of difficulty―puzzles with a five banana (super hard!) rating. In all, there are over 500 original new anagram puzzles, including Banana Splits (solve letter substitution scrambles in rapid-fire fashion), Banana Peels (add new letters to words and rearrange to spell something new), Banana Boats (evolve a chain of words, one new letter at a time), intersecting words, vowel replacements, adjacent letter scrambles, and much more. The puzzles are rated one banana (simplest) to the fiendish new five banana, and enriching supplementary material is featured, including fun banana facts, helpful word lists, and, yes, an answer key.

More Bananagrams!: An Official Book

Everyone loves Bananagrams! And everybody loves instant gratification. Putting the two together, master puzzle maker Joe Edley offers 10-Minute Bananagrams!― over 500 all-new puzzles that are designed to be solved in ten minutes or less. This is lickety-split Bananagrams, perfect for the train, the bus, waiting rooms, bank lines, for carrying wherever and whenever a Bananagrammer has just a few minutes to indulge the obsession. With two difficulty levels―the easier one-half banana and trickier one banana―these bite-size puzzles are quick to solve and highly addictive. Ten lively, mind-bending puzzle types are featured, including Banana Peels (add letters to words, then anagram); Banana Pudding (extend two-letter groups into six-letter words); Bunch of Bananas (anagram one word into two smaller words); plus the brand-new Banana Bites, in which the solver anagrams a group of letters to complete a word. Supplementing the Bananagrams are fun banana facts, helpful word lists, and, of course, an answer key.

10-Minute Bananagrams!

Children's Books

Activities, Crafts & Games

Bananagrams is on a roll. Now introducing Bananagrams! The On-the-Go Edition, a Bananagrams! book in the bestselling chunky 4 by 6–inch format. It’s an appealing puzzle-book format that’s perfect for on-the-go play—to be pulled out of a purse, messenger bag, or knapsack. And just like crosswords, Sudoku, and word searches, Bananagrams! are the kind of puzzles best for when commuting or in the waiting room, or to play before bed—whenever there are a few minutes to challenge and stretch the brain. On-the-Go offers a total of 575 original puzzles in three levels of difficulty and sixteen lively and varied puzzle types, including two created exclusively for this book. Plus there are Weords (weird words that are fun to play), lists of common two- and three-letter words to improve your game, fun facts about bananas and monkeys, and (of course!) an answer key.

Bananagrams: The On-the-Go Edition: More Than 600 All New Puzzles

For the millions of SCRABBLE™ fans out there:
Here’s how to stay at the top of their game! 
To play SCRABBLE™ better takes practice—and these two clever volumes give players a chance to improve even when they don’t have an opponent to challenge them. Every page features an entire Scrabble board covered by the letters of a game in progress. Below the board are three sets of seven tiles as well as the highest possible score for each of these “racks.” The object of the game: to figure out how to place those three groups of letters on the board to achieve those winning scores. (They’re all designed to use the most up-to-date Scrabble dictionary, too.) Created by three-time national Scrabble champion Joe Edley, who knows the game better than almost anyone, these collections are sure to be a hit!
SCRABBLE, the distinctive game board and letter tiles, and all associated logos are trademarks of Hasbro in the United States and Canada and are used with permission. © 2007 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. Licensed by Hasbro.

SCRABBLE™ Puzzles Volume 1

Puzzlewright

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