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SCRABBLE World

A place where Scrabble lovers of all skill levels can come and share their thoughts and advice, as well as ask questions. Even if you're more fond of word games like Bananagrams and Words with Friends, feel free to join in on the fun!

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Oct 29, 2011

Pumpkins, murderers, vampires, zombies, ghosts, witches, death… these are all the subjects of last week's Scrabble Bingo of the Days, which focused on words associated with Halloween and horror movies ...

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Oct 29, 2011

BURKITEn pl. -S  a burker 63 points (13 points without the bingo) There's no better time than Halloween to have the BEJABERS scared out of you, and no better way than with a slasher flick or horror mo ...

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Oct 29, 2011

GRAMARYEn pl. -S  occult learning; magic 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Simply put, GRAMARYE is MAGIC, SORCERY, and in some cases, NECROMANCY. But overall, there is very little distinction be ...

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Oct 28, 2011

Last week's challenge brought up a good question (thanks Lisa) regarding the functionality of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 4th Edition, both online and in print form. The word TACTICAL wa ...

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Oct 26, 2011

CREMAINSn/pl  the ashes of a cremated body 62 points (12 points without the bingo) Perhaps one of the creepiest portmanteau words out there, CREMAINS combines CREMATED and REMAINS to clearly describe ...

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Oct 25, 2011

Electronic Arts (EA) and Hasbro have always been a little slow at adapting Scrabble for the cyber culture. They failed to beat Scrabulous to the Facebook market by a whole year, but managed to save fa ...

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Oct 23, 2011

CUCURBITn pl. -S  a gourd 64 points (14 points without the bingo) Halloween is just around the corner, and by now most of you have already picked up a CUCURBIT to gut and carve scary faces into. Yes, ...

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Oct 22, 2011

Halloween will be here in just over a week, which means next week these Scrabble Bingo of the Days will become more horrific. This week, there's just a few relevant Halloween seven-letter words for yo ...

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Oct 22, 2011

UTILIDORn pl. -S  an insulated system of pipes for use in arctic regions 59 points (9 points without the bingo) UTILIDOR is a portmanteau word for "utility" and "corridor" used to describe a large enc ...

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Oct 21, 2011

MIMESISn pl. -MESISES or -MESES  mimicry  MIMETICadj 61 points (11 points without the bingo) MIMESIS is just another term for MIMICRY in the world of zoology, but it's not just limited to the science ...