I just lost a game in the FSL because I simply didn't realise that CIDER took an A to make ACIDER. This shows how important is the value of hooks in the game. On my rack I had ACEIRTT, immediately spotted CATTIER (standard -IER), a few seconds later remembered from word study that CATTIER had two other anagrams - CITRATE and the more unusual ATRETIC.
Had I played ATRETIC, - live it would seem as if I had studied a word list and some how learned this unusual word or online, depends on the play...
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A teacher of mathematics who enjoys playing scrabble, and who has naively saddled himself with the goal of improving his game to an expert level.
