Known as front and back extensions. You can catch your opponent off guard if you think the word takes the prefix out in front of it. The beginning players will challenge a lot of your words and you’ll get more free turns.
I improved my game by playing against a friend who was much better than me and continually beat me at Scrabble. I eventually learned all her strategies and now we each win 50% of the time.
As far as I remember, the following Words have the potential to get you a lot of Points. Quiz Squeeze Jinx Jukebox Jumpy Juicy Jackets Jelly Aquarium Quadruple Aquatic Zodiac Quicksand Quagmire Earthquake Hazy Cozy Frenzy Crazy Freezer Frozen Wizards Wizardry Inequality Equality Quality Qualify Amazing Quizmaster Quietly Quickly
Once you have the basics down and know a lot of words, the following tip really raised my game. Look at your rack and try to remove letters that are bad for making 7 and 8 letter words. Conversely, keep letters that are good for long words (S; blank etc.). Look to reserve common prefixes and suffixes (ING; ATE; etc.). Arrange prefixes and suffixes on your rack where they are likely to appear in words that you play, this will help you spot longer words quickly. Often, this will mean that you have to sacrifice several points on a few turns, but I think you'll be surprised by how often you can score a bingo once you get a feel for this strategy.
An even more advanced tip: ING is *not* a good leave when the board is not open enough for 8-letter bingos. 7s with ING are really difficult to play due to the pattern of vowel-consonant-consonant, which is hard to overlap, coupled with the fact that G can only make AG, GI, GO, GU#, UG#
Especially QI, ZA, XI, XU, JO. Another thing to know is that if you know all of those two letter words, not only can you score a lot of points without really opening up anything for your opponent, but you can hook your bingos easier. And you could draw a challenge from a very weak player.
I’m only on tip number one and already I’m like “gooooood tip” 😍 it’s good because if I get a word in my head (spelled out with my tiles) I now realise that it’s then difficult to see beyond that word, it acts like a block to coming up with words that will actually fit in the board 👍🏽 ha ~ I’m loving this, I haven’t played in years but my son has agreed to start having a scrabble night with me once a week and I’m definitely not competitive 😜 I’m just brushing up 😝 haha I bet if my son had time he’d be ‘brushing up’ 😉😉 as well.
What a joke. Anyone who's not a Scrabble amateur who draws the (admittedly very low probability) rack of ACIKQRU and spots an open 'E" would immediately play 'QUACKIER'.
00:54 Just play QUA (A next to the L of LIME) or QI adding the I to the Letter B making QI and BI.. both are more points that QUAIL. Getting rid of the Q is important. But at the very least get your Highest point score for the Q if you can.
I am professional scrabble player and i found your video recently and yea it was good explained for the beginners but there was few mistakes i would like to explain more. For the first tip it might be better to play words like quick when you necessarily want to play high points letter with no value words which is by itself not the good option when you are looking for more points in long term. You are absolutely right with the tactic, i would personally choose something like Rack added to Beagle to make Beagler you know and save Q for double letter tactic with qi on double word button for example.
Aargh!!! QUAI(L) for 24 points when 76 was available for QUACKI(E)R or 58 for (BEAGLE)R / QUARK (BEAGLER, QUARK and QUACKIER are all valid in both the North American lexicon and the international one) He even has QUACKI_R spelt out on the rack. I wonder if he was planning to show that and decided not to.
Thank u so much for uploading this! I’m going yo join a scrabblr contest in our school and I’m just a beginner. This tips are helpful and I will surely apply this on my next practice.
Download 'Scrabble Go' from the app store cuz it's really good, the best game. And watch this video of me playing the Word Drop game from the Arena part of the game as I truly am God at it.. Learn all of the 2 letter words if you want to win at Scrabble btw, that is the greatest tool you can have.. th-cam.com/video/daNKCuNDNLU/w-d-xo.html
There are definitely more tips than those three. You definitely want to learn the two letter words and the three letter words acceptable in Scrabble. you also want to know a lot of eight letter words. Using the S wisely is definitely important. Trying to put high scoring tiles on triple letter scores. If you get the opportunity, try to find a word that covers multiple bonus squares and the same turn. For example you can cover a triple letter score and a double word score on the same turn, especially if you can find a word that has Q and Z on those squares.
I play alone. I try to beat own my high score and use only one rack. I apply modified tournament for solo. ( Time limit is 50 minutes.(Excluding recording time. Only includes thinking and placing time.) Three consecutive zero scoring turn ends game immediately. All words should be valid. Unplayed tile penalty subtracts all tiles not played including tiles in the bag.) Any thoughts?
COS is the lettuce. COZ or CUZ is like short for cousin. The more two and three letter words you know, the better your chances of hooking your seven letter Bingos easier.
I think there are some versions of Scrabble where you can play up to nine letters on your rack. But the common rule is 7. You don’t have to make a seven letter word to get a bingo. You have to use all seven of your letters on your rack.
OK I have a question . if a player made a word eg ear and the "e" has a double word beneath it and then I place a "y" to make year so will I also add the points of the double word beneath "e"?
@@zacharygarza9720 First things first: you don't want to go into the game blind. You need to know beforehand what exactly you are aiming for. Try and get a "universally winning score". 400 points is probably the magic number, meaning if anyone reaches this in a two player game, they are very likely to win. Although that may not be the case among experts, keep in mind that the board can only yield so many points given the amount of special tiles and high scoring letters. I believe the average combined score in a game is 750 points, which illustrates this notion. So once you grant that 400 points is the goal, you need to know how to get there. Let's break every move down to its most basic part. On average, you will get right around 16 plays a game. Simple math would dictate that averaging 25 points per play would get you there (400/16). Even more fundamental though, given that each player would average 50 tiles a game (out of the 100 total), that would amount to right around 8 points per tile used (400/50). Now 8 points per letter is an average, but that can be skewed when you are using both the high scoring tiles and low scoring tiles. You cannot expect to consistently perform to such a level, so here is a more useful approach and general rule to play by: There are 187 total value points in the game. That is: the sum of the values of all 100 tiles. That means that each tile is worth 1.87 points on average. Since you want to average 8 points per tile played by the end of the game, the best way to ensure this is to score 4.27 (8/1.87) points per value of each tile played. For the sake of simplicity you can estimate this as x4 the value of the tile you are playing. For example, if you only played one tile worth 2 points, make sure that the word it creates nets 8+ points. An example would be using just the letter 'G' on a double letter score to create the word "Go" both horizontally and vertically. Or if you are say only playing the 'Z' or the 'X', the word created should be at least 40 points (and much higher if using multiple tiles to create a word). So basically, just try to maintain each goal: 4x value of each tile played and try to use 50 tiles or more, which involves an average of at least 3 tiles used per turn (50 tiles divided by 16 expected turns).
OR....don't become good at scrabble because then no one will want to play with you and when they do, they accuse you of cheating. It really does take the joy out of it. I play online and people are so nasty and say horrible things when I get on a roll. I know they are just being poor losers, but it makes it less enjoyable.
Eat a whole Dictionary.
Tip #4!
This will really save me from making my head big by banging my head on the wall XD
They're TASTY!!
Thanks man 👍
It wouldn't work
Another tip:
Always add affixes or suffix to lengthen your word and gives you more points
Yes! Love those extra points!
Known as front and back extensions. You can catch your opponent off guard if you think the word takes the prefix out in front of it. The beginning players will challenge a lot of your words and you’ll get more free turns.
Wait you can use suffix and prefix?
wait wut in your scrabble game, suffixes are allowed??? not fair even nouns aren't allowed
@@hiiliekmusic807 Nouns are allowed, I think you meant proper nouns.
I improved my game by playing against a friend who was much better than me and continually beat me at Scrabble. I eventually learned all her strategies and now we each win 50% of the time.
Awesome! So glad we helped your game 😁
As far as I remember, the following Words have the potential to get you a lot of Points.
Quiz
Squeeze
Jinx
Jukebox
Jumpy
Juicy
Jackets
Jelly
Aquarium
Quadruple
Aquatic
Zodiac
Quicksand
Quagmire
Earthquake
Hazy
Cozy
Frenzy
Crazy
Freezer
Frozen
Wizards
Wizardry
Inequality
Equality
Quality
Qualify
Amazing
Quizmaster
Quietly
Quickly
Mark Heying and “the”
thanks, about to compete in a scrabble competition in an hour haha
Queened
Xenon
Xerox
Kex
Thank you for this list! Super helpful!
Long words like these aren't really frequent. Two and three letter words are what makes a difference.
Once you have the basics down and know a lot of words, the following tip really raised my game.
Look at your rack and try to remove letters that are bad for making 7 and 8 letter words. Conversely, keep letters that are good for long words (S; blank etc.). Look to reserve common prefixes and suffixes (ING; ATE; etc.). Arrange prefixes and suffixes on your rack where they are likely to appear in words that you play, this will help you spot longer words quickly.
Often, this will mean that you have to sacrifice several points on a few turns, but I think you'll be surprised by how often you can score a bingo once you get a feel for this strategy.
An even more advanced tip: ING is *not* a good leave when the board is not open enough for 8-letter bingos. 7s with ING are really difficult to play due to the pattern of vowel-consonant-consonant, which is hard to overlap, coupled with the fact that G can only make AG, GI, GO, GU#, UG#
I just memorize all of the two letter words, and it works brilliantly. It pisses both of my parent :)))
I did the exact same thing.
Especially QI, ZA, XI, XU, JO. Another thing to know is that if you know all of those two letter words, not only can you score a lot of points without really opening up anything for your opponent, but you can hook your bingos easier. And you could draw a challenge from a very weak player.
I’m only on tip number one and already I’m like “gooooood tip” 😍 it’s good because if I get a word in my head (spelled out with my tiles) I now realise that it’s then difficult to see beyond that word, it acts like a block to coming up with words that will actually fit in the board 👍🏽 ha ~ I’m loving this, I haven’t played in years but my son has agreed to start having a scrabble night with me once a week and I’m definitely not competitive 😜 I’m just brushing up 😝 haha I bet if my son had time he’d be ‘brushing up’ 😉😉 as well.
This guy is amazing! You should have him in more of your videos! Thanks for the awesome tips, I'll make sure to use them in my next game of Scrabble!
Thanks for watching! Head over to our other channel (Manhattan Prep GRE) for dozens of videos featuring our instructor Logan!
What a joke. Anyone who's not a Scrabble amateur who draws the (admittedly very low probability) rack of ACIKQRU and spots an open 'E" would immediately play 'QUACKIER'.
00:54 Just play QUA (A next to the L of LIME) or QI adding the I to the Letter B making QI and BI.. both are more points that QUAIL. Getting rid of the Q is important. But at the very least get your Highest point score for the Q if you can.
I am professional scrabble player and i found your video recently and yea it was good explained for the beginners but there was few mistakes i would like to explain more. For the first tip it might be better to play words like quick when you necessarily want to play high points letter with no value words which is by itself not the good option when you are looking for more points in long term. You are absolutely right with the tactic, i would personally choose something like Rack added to Beagle to make Beagler you know and save Q for double letter tactic with qi on double word button for example.
Aargh!!! QUAI(L) for 24 points when 76 was available for QUACKI(E)R or 58 for (BEAGLE)R / QUARK
(BEAGLER, QUARK and QUACKIER are all valid in both the North American lexicon and the international one)
He even has QUACKI_R spelt out on the rack. I wonder if he was planning to show that and decided not to.
Thank u so much for uploading this! I’m going yo join a scrabblr contest in our school and I’m just a beginner. This tips are helpful and I will surely apply this on my next practice.
That's fantastic, so glad our video help! How did you do in the contest?
Manhattan Prep I won 2nd place 😊
@@maryjeanorque6494 Congratulations! That's amazing!
Download 'Scrabble Go' from the app store cuz it's really good, the best game. And watch this video of me playing the Word Drop game from the Arena part of the game as I truly am God at it.. Learn all of the 2 letter words if you want to win at Scrabble btw, that is the greatest tool you can have.. th-cam.com/video/daNKCuNDNLU/w-d-xo.html
Wait can you add (ed,er,or,etc) at the back of the word? Like titled,sailor,teacher
Today I have a competition of scrabble, thanks for helping bro!
Thank you so much!❣️
Very useful!😍❣️
Love it! We won!
Congrats! Glad our tips helped!
@@manhattangmat 😊
There are definitely more tips than those three. You definitely want to learn the two letter words and the three letter words acceptable in Scrabble. you also want to know a lot of eight letter words. Using the S wisely is definitely important. Trying to put high scoring tiles on triple letter scores. If you get the opportunity, try to find a word that covers multiple bonus squares and the same turn. For example you can cover a triple letter score and a double word score on the same turn, especially if you can find a word that has Q and Z on those squares.
For sure - there are tons of important strategies and tips! The ones you mentioned here are awesome 😁
The video is called "3 Scrabble Tips for Beginners", not, "There are Only 3 Scrabble Tips".
I play alone. I try to beat own my high score and use only one rack. I apply modified tournament for solo.
( Time limit is 50 minutes.(Excluding recording time. Only includes thinking and placing time.) Three consecutive zero scoring turn ends game immediately. All words should be valid. Unplayed tile penalty subtracts all tiles not played including tiles in the bag.) Any thoughts?
Thank you I'm learning from you ❤ I'm from malaysia I play scrabble
Hi - Which 2 letter words can be pluralised ((based on Collins Dictionary) please?
Worth a like, really good tips!
Quackier, real word gives you a bingo +50 on the count. Under beagles for the multiple words you could play shift and get quails eh and a better word
thank you
Thanks for these useful tips!
I’m addicted to scrabble. It’s becoming a problem.
I'd say that's not a bad addiction to have :P
@@manhattangmat same
Thanks for your tips.. i hope i can win next time in scrabble hehe
Thank you so much for tips
You could have put Quackier.
Yes! Even more points!
Quail doesn't seem right to gift the q and a triple word
I'm fairly good at doing crossword puzzles, wordles, quordles, octordles and most word games, but for some reason I never enjoyed playing scrabble
Thanks brother
this was so helpfull
What about laying down 'QUACKIER", running it through the "E" at the end of BEAGLE?
my boyfriend and i have started playing a lot of scrabble and he always win. so thank you
We're rooting for you Kade!!!
@@manhattangmat I FINALLY WON A ROUND!
0:57 ... If the other dude has UIZ in his rack, that move is gonna BLOW some SERIOUS GOATS to the tune of 66 points
Bruh quackier at the start gave you 76 points, you missed the point of bingos
You Sir are a national treasure
Great tips
Glad you enjoyed our video!
Thank you Very Much!Keep it up😀
Thanks for watching!
it great not learning new words coz there are so many, but 2 and 3 letter words are very important. COZ is a type of lettuce and ABO is a fish
Yes definitely, it's helpful to have a dictionary by your side :)
COS is the lettuce. COZ or CUZ is like short for cousin. The more two and three letter words you know, the better your chances of hooking your seven letter Bingos easier.
Can i use yeet?
Thank you for your tips. I haven't win over my husband and my son yet. It's either 2nd or 3rd. 😀
You'll get there! Keep practicing!
Scrabble is played with 8 starter letters . Well good job on vid
Noob King you play scrabble with 8 tiles on your rack?
I think there are some versions of Scrabble where you can play up to nine letters on your rack. But the common rule is 7. You don’t have to make a seven letter word to get a bingo. You have to use all seven of your letters on your rack.
I saw “quackier” lol
Para que lo traducen, la lógica del español es diferente a la del inglés
He didn’t do quacker
That would have also been an option!
OK I have a question . if a player made a word eg ear and the "e" has a double word beneath it and then I place a "y" to make year so will I also add the points of the double word beneath "e"?
No
No, because it's not your tile
Yes
Only the person who physically covers that square gets the bonus.
How can we play from mobile phone
Download 'Scrabble Go' from the app store, it is a great game.
I’m sure if he was an expert player, he would know that CLIME is an acceptable word, and he could've played QUACK that way for tons of points.
49 points. Nice. But 58 points for (BEAGLE)R/QUARK are available or even better QUACKLI(E)R for 76.
I came here for the app scrabble lmao
Quail. Not qual
I still lose...
is it me or did he just drop a c and a k for an I and an l.......!!!!
Quake
you should have put "QUICKER" and score 38 points
Nice one 🙂
I have a strategy to basically "rig" the game. Going to keep it a secret though.
INTJerk Please tell ive lost to my friend 5 times
@@zacharygarza9720 I might have to delete this post if I say.
@@zacharygarza9720 First things first: you don't want to go into the game blind. You need to know beforehand what exactly you are aiming for. Try and get a "universally winning score". 400 points is probably the magic number, meaning if anyone reaches this in a two player game, they are very likely to win. Although that may not be the case among experts, keep in mind that the board can only yield so many points given the amount of special tiles and high scoring letters.
I believe the average combined score in a game is 750 points, which illustrates this notion.
So once you grant that 400 points is the goal, you need to know how to get there. Let's break every move down to its most basic part.
On average, you will get right around 16 plays a game. Simple math would dictate that averaging 25 points per play would get you there (400/16).
Even more fundamental though, given that each player would average 50 tiles a game (out of the 100 total), that would amount to right around 8 points per tile used (400/50).
Now 8 points per letter is an average, but that can be skewed when you are using both the high scoring tiles and low scoring tiles. You cannot expect to consistently perform to such a level, so here is a more useful approach and general rule to play by:
There are 187 total value points in the game. That is: the sum of the values of all 100 tiles. That means that each tile is worth 1.87 points on average. Since you want to average 8 points per tile played by the end of the game, the best way to ensure this is to score 4.27 (8/1.87) points per value of each tile played. For the sake of simplicity you can estimate this as x4 the value of the tile you are playing.
For example, if you only played one tile worth 2 points, make sure that the word it creates nets 8+ points. An example would be using just the letter 'G' on a double letter score to create the word "Go" both horizontally and vertically. Or if you are say only playing the 'Z' or the 'X', the word created should be at least 40 points (and much higher if using multiple tiles to create a word).
So basically, just try to maintain each goal:
4x value of each tile played and try to use 50 tiles or more, which involves an average of at least 3 tiles used per turn (50 tiles divided by 16 expected turns).
Thanks so much man.
Thanks for this great tip, can't wait to use it!
Become Eminem
Qual isn’t a word, it’s the name of an animal unfortunately
which is a word…
also it’s quail
OR....don't become good at scrabble because then no one will want to play with you and when they do, they accuse you of cheating. It really does take the joy out of it. I play online and people are so nasty and say horrible things when I get on a roll. I know they are just being poor losers, but it makes it less enjoyable.
It helpful..●_●
Awesome, glad our video helped!
@@manhattangmat thank you very much cause this video i will join the competition
Buy google and put it in your brain
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