Exciting Year Ahead

It is only the second session of the year but a lot of pupils have shown great promise.

Settling down and getting ready for the test.

Hong Wei playing HAS, CH, LA and IS for 33 points! :)

Jian Shun playing the nice no-vowel word CWM.

Lots of parallel plays on this board!

A nice 3 by 3 square!

Can you see the bingo?

Mr Suhaimi's favourite play of the day! David added the word WHIRL in front of POOL to form a 9-letter word WHIRLPOOL for a total of 48 points! :) Well done David!

Yi Wei with a nice find of the 8-letter NICOTINE for 83 points!

Jian Shun forming 5 words in a single move! (although ADE* is not valid!)

Can you spot the bingo?

Min Ru manages to find SMILERS for 68 points!

Nice parallel play of RAKE!

Lots of parallel plays here as well!

Caleb missed a bingo! Can you find it?

Sean with a nice parallel play too!

29 Jan 08

Today, the pupils learnt 3-letter words and had a short test on 2-letter words. :)

"Scrabulous" asked to shut down

The famous Scrabulous application on Facebook will soon not be available. Read here to find out more.

Sad but true.

Scrabble Club 2008

Our first session went smoothly. Rules, procedures and expectations were laid out so that everyone is clear of our roles and responsibilities. We have lots of new faces in Scrabble Club this year. The first tournament for the year is coming soon so stay sharp!

1st Scrabble Session

Scrabble begins on 15th January.

It will be every Tuesday from now on.

Please meet in the canteen at 3.30pm.

The Scrabble Wiki

Ben Wilson (UK) writes:

I am delighted to announce the launch of a major new Scrabble project, the Scrabble Wiki. This is an attempt to build up an online encyclopaedia about Scrabble using the same principle as Wikipedia, namely that anyone at all can edit any of the pages at any time.

The address for the wiki is: http://wiki. centrestar. co.uk

Over the past few days Stewart Holden and I have been creating very basic starter pages on some Scrabble articles. You can see a complete list by going to 'full list of articles' on the front page, or try entering a subject in the Search box on the left hand side. At the moment the existing content is mainly UK-oriented although John Chew and Edward Okulicz have also made small contributions (see NSA and ASPA pages).

We strongly encourage everyone looking at this to realise that YOU can contribute anything to the encyclopedia simply by clicking Edit at the top of a page. This allows you to change or add to what is already there. If you search for a subject and find that it doesn't have a page yet, you will be able to create one. Be BOLD with your editing - any mistakes can be easily changed and the more people get involved the better. This has the potential to be a useful mine of information about Scrabble all over the world, so get stuck in!

Although it would be nice if every tournament player had an article about themselves, in reality this isn't realistic and would take up too much space (this is an encyclopedia of articles, not CrossTables! ). So for the moment please stick to making articles about major tournament winners in any country, or other notable figures in Scrabble past and present (e.g. John Chew, Michael Tang, Graeme Thomas, etc.).

Good things to contribute would include:

- brief biographies of notable players, particularly mentioning major tournament wins
- information on tournaments, both large and small
- terminology (brief explanations) , e.g. bonus stems, probability, benjamins, etc.
- information on Scrabble books, magazines and documentaries (past and present)
- Scrabble associations (information and history)
- Scrabble variants
- And anything else you think would be appropriate!

Happy reading and happy contributing!

YRERM THRISSMAC!

And a happy new year! :)