{"id":27,"date":"2001-07-10T20:00:36","date_gmt":"2001-07-11T03:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stefangeens.com\/?p=27"},"modified":"2001-07-10T20:00:36","modified_gmt":"2001-07-11T03:00:36","slug":"scrabble-checklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/2001\/07\/scrabble-checklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrabble checklist"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a checklist of what I need to do to get better at Scrabble:<\/p>\n

[x] Learn all 96 2-letter<\/a> words. (AA, AB, AD, AE, AG, AH…)<\/p>\n

[x] Read Stefan Fatsis’s book Word Freak<\/i><\/a> to get an idea of what’s in store.<\/p>\n

[_] Learn all 1,000-odd 3-letter<\/a> words. (AAH, AAL, AAS, ABA, ABO, ABS…)<\/p>\n

[_] Move on to even weirder<\/a> word lists.<\/p>\n

[_] All the way up to 7-word lists and beyond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

[Mon 15:19] The King<\/b> (email<\/a>) Stefan — I couldn’t agree more with your statements regarding what needs to be done to get better at Scrabble. I find myself falling behind young Livni in recent weeks with dramatically unexpected results. I invite you to a Scrabble forum in St. Mary’s in August. <\/p>\n

[Tue 08:56] Bingo King<\/b> (email<\/a>) Learn to get your bingos man. 20, 20, 20, BINGO. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a checklist of what I need to do to get better at Scrabble: [x] Learn all 96 2-letter words. (AA, AB, AD, AE, AG, AH…) [x] Read Stefan Fatsis’s book Word Freak to get an idea of what’s in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7eNhC-r","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stefangeens.com\/2001-2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}