Scrabble for Beginners

New to Scrabble? Interested but don't know where to start? Well, this post might help you to know more about Scrabble. Scrabble is a board game with crossword fashion in 15x15 grids. 2-4 players can play together in one game. You form words from your tiles to score points. Whoever scores the most is the winner. That's a short brief about the game.

Scrabble is everybody's game, no age restrictions or else. It's also one of the fun way to learn English. Scrabble doesn't require good English and spelling skill, the only important thing is your desire to play Scrabble! :p 

You'll get some benefits if you play Scrabble : 

• Increase your vocabulary. There's no doubt about this since you play with words. But there's a phenomena that you only knowing the word without the meaning while you go further in Scrabble. That's normal, because the main point you play Scrabble isn't just to add your vocabularies.
• Increase your creativity. Yup, every time you play, the game will not be exactly the same.
• Mathematics. You do add and multiply the scores of your words in a game and you have to be quick.
• Strategy and tactic. Like creativity, your strategy and tactic also will be sharpened because you always have to face different situation in each game.
• Friends! Of course you'll have lots of new friends by joining Scrabble community.

Scrabble doesn't stop at casual play, the next step is tournament. Tournament is a platform to know who far you've been developing in Scrabble, to learn more, to meet new friends. Tournaments are usually held across the world.

Here are some tips to start playing Scrabble and also to start joining tournaments :

• Get yourself or your group a Scrabble board. At least you have one in your group so you can play together.

• A paper to write down your scores.
• Points below are more to Scrabble tournament. If you want to be more competitive, start playing one-by-one in one game. Most tournaments now are applying single player system (one-by-one / two players in one game).
• Get a scoresheet. Scoresheet is different with ordinary papers. It helps you to track your score and your opponent score. It also provides tile tracking. In single player system, you have to keep both your score and opponent score since there's no helper to keep your score. I'll provide more information and resources about scoresheet later, in the meantime you can ask your nearest Scrabble club to you.
• Get a Scrabble timer. You can use chess timer as the other option. Also you can download Zarf for iOS user and other Scrabble timer apps for smartphone or tablet.
• Word study. Internationally, Scrabble tournaments use CSW (Collins Scrabble Words) as the lexicon (dictionary/word source). The latest and official lexicon is CSW12. You can study CSW from Zyzzyva, an app to study Scrabble words. Download it here. 
  
• Join Scrabble community or club near to you, it'll massively help you to develop in Scrabble!

I'm looking forward to see lots of new faces in Indonesian Scrabble! :D

Take a visit to Indonesian Scrabble Federation website.

Join and interact more on our Indonesian Scrabble Facebook group  https://www.facebook.com/groups/318426386016/

Good luck! B-)