If the author wishes to correct his next edition, here are the locations for his spelling errors: I liked that he employed a good illustrator, David Hopkins, to draw dozens of Scrabblish terms such as a hoopoe, nailset and a teiid. I am such a Scrabble nerd that I did not need to read the accompanying vocabulary lists to decipher what the stories meant. The author ended the book with cutesy stories and tongue twisters to highlight each letter of the alphabet. None of those even needs one of the five unique tiles to score higher. Two-letter words that have a K (at the time of publication, only ka and ki were acceptable) score merely six points each, whereas three other words: by, hm and my each score seven. That is a double-triple and they never happen.īukszpan gave a list of the highest-scoring two-letter words yet limited the list just to words utilizing the five unique tiles, JKQXZ. A double-triple (a term which I have heard) only applies in the most unlikely of cases where a player misses the centre star on his first play and his opponent allows the word to stay on the board to enable his own placement of a word to cover the star and a red triple-word-score square. Its score is multiplied by nine, so it may also be called a nine-timer. A word that spans two premium red squares is known as a triple-triple. No one in the competitive Scrabble community calls a word that covers two triple-word-score squares a double-triple. "If placed across two Triple Word Scores-known as a double-triple." I wonder who in the competitive Scrabble community Bukszpan was talking to or what books he was reading to come up with this: 112 (misspelling it as Watnick) but fixt it in the end Sources section. To add further insult to members of the Scrabble royal family, he got Joel Wapnick's name wrong on p. He did get it right later in the book but then flipflopped back to Stephen. Let's start with the Acknowledgments page, where he misspelled the first name of Word Freak author Stefan Fatsis as Stephen. I can only blame sloppiness and poor editing for all the mistakes within. Bukszpan had the official Scrabble word sources at his disposal, and even cited definitions from them verbatim. It is an embarrassment that I had to take note of so many. Oddball words they may be, yet they are a second language to me, and while a casual reader about the game of Scrabble might not be able to tell if such a word was misspelled or not, I can spot a misspelled dorky Scrabble word in a second.
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Since I am a Club and Tournament player I know very well what Bukszpan was writing about and in a book like this, where knowing how to spell words correctly is the object of the game, you can't afford to print typos. Oddball words they may be, yet they are a second language to me, and while a casual reader about the game of Scrabble might not be a Is That a Word? From AA to ZZZ, the Weird and Wonderful Language of SCRABBLE® by David Bukszpan was a homorous take on the quirky lexicon of Scrabble. Is That a Word? From AA to ZZZ, the Weird and Wonderful Language of SCRABBLE® by David Bukszpan was a homorous take on the quirky lexicon of Scrabble.
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