Luyk: Baguio City takes 1st place in BFF scrabble tourney
THE "9th Panagbenga Open Scrabble Tournament" ended last night with a somewhat unexpected win for Baguio! Roger Parchamento was back to playing tournament scrabble and expected to do well, so was first timer in Baguio, Orak Suma, who recently ended 8th in the World Youth Scrabble Championships...
Luyk: Losing a game: often your own fault!
It seems strange to talk about losing a game of scrabble, isn’t it more fun and encouraging to talk about winning? Of course, winning is more fun than losing! I have seen though, that first time tournament players tend to lose most if not all of their games. There are exceptions of course!...
Luyk: Finding the highest scoring play possible 3
MANY of the words we have worked with on the different boards and racks were words without the blank tile. Today we will look at what to consider in finding the highest score possible using a blank (represented by a?). The blank, of course, is the most desirable tile in the bag: you may choose...
Luyk: How to find the highest score possible
HAPPY New Year to all! I hope you all will have a great year ahead: make good things happen! It probably took you a while to figure out the solutions to the different puzzles of last week, Here are the solutions:
Luyk: Some puzzles with the J, Q, X and Z
DID you solve the puzzles I presented last week? The answer to the first one is ZINC played at square G7, to make also the words ZAX and IN, for a score of 58 points. The second question is a bit harder. This kind of situation shows up more than you think in a game and you should recognize the...
Luyk: Playing with heavy weights Z, X and J!
WE’RE back from our short trip to the Netherlands and I’ll resume our column with a discussion of the letters Z, X and J. But first the solution to my previous question: Your opponent opened with BATON.
Luyk: Snapbacks
HI. Grandpa has been called away to Holland and will be gone 'til next week. We grabbed this chance to take over his column for the week and share with you something called "snapbacks".
Luyk: Grandpa Plays Scrabble
LAST week's questions should not pose to big a difficulty if you solved them using the easy to hard list of letters I gave you last week. Check the letters that are closest to the beginning: these are the letter s you like to keep on your rack after playing your word. The letters EINORSY are...
Luyk: Bingo!
A “BINGO” is a word that uses all seven letters from the players rack to make a seven letter or eight letter word.
Luyk: Playing the ‘Q’
WHEN you were learning English in high school, your teacher at one point ex-plained that after a letter “Q” in a word, always follows a “U”, as in the word “QUALITY” for example. Checking out the dictionary or the scrabble™ word list, you find however, that your teacher was wrong!
...
Luyk: Look for the ‘hot spots’
WERE you able to solve last week’s question?
The common anagrams of AEPRS are: SPARE, RAPES, PEARS, SPEAR, APERS, PARES, REAPS and PARSE. The four not so common words are: PRASE – a mineral; PRESA – a musical symbol; ASPER – Turkish money and APRES – after.
...
Luyk: Busy weekend with Baguio tournament
A WEEK goes fast! Since I will be busy with the “Baguio Day Scrabble Tournament” this weekend, this column was written on Thursday. It looks like we will have a great tournament this weekend, with over 25 people from outside (for the “Open”) having signified their intention to play! This...
