Scrabble in my life

I am a pretty serious Scrabble® player, by which I mean I like to play not just with words in my vocabulary but with the full battery of words deemed "acceptable" by the Official Word List (OWL), which is almost but not quite equivalent to the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (OSPD). For more on officialness of word lists, see this page.)

Am I alone? No, there are tens of thousands like me, all over the English-speaking world who share this passion for unusual words and anagramming ability. Visit the websites of the North American SCRABBLE Players Association (NASPA) and the World English-language Scrabble Players' Association (WESPA) Also, read what others like me have to say about the game and its culture.

I am fortunate to be living in the United States, which has a highly active organized Scrabble® scene. There are hundreds of Scrabble® clubs all over the country and several Scrabble® tournaments held at all times of the year. And there's real money to be won at these tournaments, if you have the word power to win them!

My tournament career summarized

I have summarized my performances at official NSA Scrabble® tournaments. I also have summaries of my records against every one of my opponents at these tournaments. Wouldn't you like to become a tournament player and get on that webpage someday? [Note: I stopped updating these two pages in 2003. There is little reason to do so, because (most of) this data is available at the excellent stats website cross-tables.com.]

The idea of making pages like this comes from Joey Mallick, another diehard (but more obsessed than I am and a much better player).

My contributions to tournament Scrabble®

Word lists

Software

I designed a JumbleTime-style quiz program for use with plain text terminals. This was done primarily for my own sake, because I loved the JumbleTime quiz concept and wanted to be able to do such quizzes offline. You might want to use this nifty script to create input files for the quiz program.

You'll need Perl and the modules Term::ANSIScreen and AnyEvent to run the program and your terminal will have to support ANSI escape sequences (it very probably does).

My scoresheet

There are lots of designs for Scrabble® scoresheets that I've seen but I've always had some problem or the other with each of them. So one day I decided to design my own. Here's the result as a GIF image and as an Adobe PDF file. To view the PDF file, you may need the Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for free.

The scoresheet is designed for letter paper.

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