Having the five vowels on your rack is no the ideal situation to be in. The first time, from my recollection this happened to me, I concluded that there was a conspiracy against me and it was never-ending. Being a novice, I play scrabble from words I learn through the course of playing or in my natural interaction through reading. 

For very important reasons, this is a bad idea if you intend to develop and challenge the far more clued up scrabble players on the competitive scene. I cannot over...
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Is it possible to study word lists and then remember them during a game just like that? Some players do have the unusual ability of a super memory. Once words go into the system, it remains there and comes out at the perfect time for maximum scores. But how many of us have this inhuman skill or blessing? Very few, I must admit, and certainly not me. So how does one overcome this resource deficit in the heat of battle against a computer-brained scrabble scoring anagramming genius without using...

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