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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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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I have decided to devote the rest of my gaming life to improve my scrabble. I have played a bit of chess but alas no improvement. To be fair, I struggle to remember the variations and always missed tactical moves even novices find easy. So after years of buying chess books and watching chess videos and joining ICC and playchess.com, I gave up - for now...

Aerolith.org was first introduced to me by the scholarly ebook - The Scrabble Players' Handbook- a masterful collection of important insight...
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