                        INFORMATION AND RESOURCES



                
                    THE NATIONAL SCRABBLE(tm) ASSOCIATION

Membership in  the National Scrabble(tm)  Association   includes  an  official
membership card, a listing of local Scrabble(tm) Players Clubs, two word lists
that help improve playing skill,  and  a one-year subscription to SCRABBLE(tm)
NEWS.    This newsletter includes information  about  clubs and tournaments in
local areas,  special  word  lists and hints for   better  play,  and  playing
quizzes and puzzles.

To join send an $18.00 check to:    NATIONAL SCRABBLE(tm) ASSOCIATION
($20 in Canada, $25 elsewhere)      PO Box 700
                                    Greenport, NY 11944.

The Association  will also on request provide information about starting your
own official club.


                       
                       SCRABBLE (tm) ON THE INTERNET

There are Scrabble(tm) players group on the Internet.    The Telnet addresses 
are:
                        next7.cas.muohio.edu  [port 8888]
                        eel.st.usm.edu [port 7777]

To "telnet" to the first of the above sites, you must type:
              telnet next7.cas.muohio.edu 8888
Of course, your Internet connection must have telnet capabilities.

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Scrabble (tm) may now be played on the World Wide Web. The address is:
                 http://elf.udw.ac.za/scrabble/
              This site is run by Hussein Suleman.
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             Another interactive Scrabble (tm) site is: 
            http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~dnich/scr_intro.html

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Helga Williams of Victoria, B.C., Canada   maintains a Scrabble (tm) homepage 
on the Web at:       http://vvv.com/maplewood/sc_home.html         It has hot
links to many of the other Scrabble (tm) sites.

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           Another interesting Scrabble (tm) Web site is:
             http://www.yak.net/kablooey/scrabble.html

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   The Australian Scrabble (tm) Association's maintains a Web site at:
                   http://www.ozemail.com.au/~aspa 
This one has many, many goodies,  including a clubroom,  online Scrabble (tm)
and an excellent magazine.

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    There are some very nicely done Scrabble (tm) - related home pages:

John Babina's site at   http://quantum.cs.sunysb.edu/~babina/
John Van Pelts site at  http://www.csmonitor.com/~john/scrabble/index.html

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      Jim Miller has an on-line word list generating engine at:
               http://www.umcc.umich.edu/~jgm/

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             There is a Belgian Scrabble (tm) site at:
          http://www.ping.be/~ping4087/scrabble/home.html

         There is a French language Scrabble (tm) site at:
                        http://www.fqcsf.qc.ca

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       The humorous "Dyslexic's Guide to Scrabble (tm) is at:
              http://pages.nyu.edu/~ntc4296/inviso.html

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           Do not forget to check the author's Web site at:
              http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/
A hypertext copy of this file will be found there, as well as much other 
                           interesting "stuff".





    There are 2 excellent Scrabble(tm) FAQ's available for download from:
                                 rtfm.mit.edu.
            /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/general
            /pub/usenet/news.answers/games/scrabble-faq/supplement

These were created by Steven Alexander, who does a monthly update on them, 
which he posts on about the 15th of each month on the rec.games.board and 
rec.games.crossword newsgroups on the Usenet, and in hypertext format on his 
home page, listed below.

The FAQ itself contains a plethora of information on the game, including 
rules, word lists, history, and background. The FAQ supplement contains a 
listing of all North American official Scrabble (tm) clubs and a run down of 
upcoming tournaments. Understandably, this is a must for all serious 
players! 

         Steven Alexander also has a WWW home page. Its address is:
              http://http.cs.berkeley.edu/~stevena/faq.html
The home page contains the hypertext versions of the FAQ described above.

The database of newspaper and magazine article "reprints" is a wonderful 
resource. It may be linked to from the home page or accessed directly at:
     http://www.users.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/articles.html

Steven Alexander is the chronicler, commentator, and information clearing 
house of the Scrabble (tm) community. He is the modern day Procopius of the 
word game world. All information and updates on Scrabble should be forwarded 
to him at his e-mail address:
                            stevena@teleport.com
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All serious Scrabble (tm) players should subscribe to the "mailing list"
                     crossword-games@mit.edu
To subscribe, send e-mail to saint@mit.edu requesting to be added to the 
mailing list. Related mailing lists are crossword-games-pro@mit.edu, for 
competing tournament players (NSA members), and......................... 
crossword-games-programmers@mit.edu   for discussions of technical games 
programming issues.
 
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There is a Scrabble(tm)-playing "robot" program that is sometimes available 
via Telnet. ACBOT is an extremely strong opponent that will test the skills 
of all but the top Scrabble players. For more info, e-mail James Cherry: 
                                                         jac@doe.carleton.ca

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Playing Scrabble (tm) by modem makes it possible to "cheat" by using help 
devices, such as the Franklin OSPD (tm) or the WORDY list generating 
utilities running on a second computer or in a separate window under X. The 
ethics of doing so are subject to further discussion. The same issues crop up 
in postal Scrabble (tm).




Lists of "legal" OSPD2 (tm) words (from 2 to 8 letters) are downloadable on
the Internet from the following ftp site: gatekeeper.dec.com 

The path is:       /pub/micro/msdos/misc/crossword-archive

The files are named:
words.2.Z  words.3.Z  words.4.Z  words.5.Z  words.6.Z  words.7.Z  words.8.Z

These files have been compressed. To convert them to ASCII, use the 
UNCOMPRESS or GUNZIP utilities under the Unix (or Linux) operating system. I 
have been informed that there is also a DOS-based utility to do this, but do 
not know its name. 

These files do *not* include many inflections of legal words.

These files were compiled by the mathematician John Chew, an important 
personage in the Canadian Scrabble (tm) community. 



A Public Domain list of all the OSPD3 (tm) words, in listable and printable 
format, is part of the WORDY game study system by the author. This list is 
also available from some of the Web sites listed above.


Scrabble and OSPD are trademarks of the Milton Bradley Co., Inc., a Hasbro, 
Inc. subsidiary.

                        WORDY is not a trademark.



Comments:

                  M\Cooper
                 PO Box 237
         St. David, AZ 85630-0237
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