How to Play Scrabble : Using the Triple Word Square in Scrabble

[ahpetrification]

Note that this guide is for beginners and not for experts. This is a pretty good tip for beginners, but of course if you are really serious about Scrabble then you need to do something better than this. :)

[AxianInc]

This guy is crap and only understands the basics of scrabble.

[deberics]

Sorry.What is a Bingo? Regards from Finland

[LoudCitizen]

@deberics A "bingo" is a play which uses all 7 of your tiles. You get a 50-point bonus for this, and it is how champion Scrabble players achieve extremely high scores. Learning how to play bingos is a skill you can develop by knowing the right base words (words which form a high number of words by adding one letter); managing your rack, and, of course, using blank tiles wisely -- which sometimes means hanging on to them until you can make a high-scoring word or bingo.

[TheScrabbleKing]

All living room Scrabble players, refer to this guy for tips. All Scrabble players who actually want to win, ignore this man's balderdash.

[alvyronson]

This guy is full of bad tips and in no way represents an expert view

[TheScrabbleKing]

If you're going to brainwash Scrabble players into anything, brainwash them into buiding towards a coherent rack so they can bingo. TWS, as you said, can give you (on average) 20 points, but bingos can give you 50+ points. Even a beginner like you can see the absurdity of such an obsession with a triple word score square when there's sometimes a play better (as empasized by TheWall812).

[TheWall812]

Dude...you had YONIS for 32 pts (even without seeing what your other 3 tiles were).

The TWS isn't "all that".

It's a *beginner's* mistake to obsess over hitting it at all costs.

[Jhclatter]

@TheWall812 while this guy IS a terrible teacher, sometimes it's right to take the lower point value to stop your opponent from getting a chance at the tws

[TheWall812]

@Jhclatter Yes, sometimes a low-scoring play (or block) of an open TWS is correct (esp with dangerous tiles unseen, or when you're holding a vulnerable lead on an otherwise fairly dead board).

BUT the mistake of *unnecessarily* jumping on the TWS with an inferior play is far more common than the mistake of passing up the TWS in cases when you actually DO need to block it. And this video just reinforces the more common of the two mistakes.