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AJSWORDS | 2 Apr 2011 11:22
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Re: Scrabble Mnemonics


The Chambers Official Scrabble Lists International 2002 contained suggested 
 mnemonic sentences for six and seven-letter stems at the time. Some of 
those  would have changed with the switch to Collins but the two examples you 
cite  haven't. I think the mnemonic needs to have some (albeit contrived or 
loose)  relationship with the keyword. 
Thus rather than ARSINE it is SARNIE with the mnemonic
'giving Josh mild pork flitch'
Thus STONIER becomes 'IN STORE' with the mnemonic
'sick crazy juveniles shopped by night'
Although I find when a stem goes with so many letters it can be easier to  
note which letters it does NOT combine with. eg STONIER with the mnemonic 
always  starting with NOT and using initial letters, eg
ORIENTS = NOT Western Xmas For Malaysian Queen

The best ones and most memorable ones will alwaays be the ones you make up  
yourself though.
Hope that's some help.

Allan

In a message dated 3/31/2011 7:35:11 PM GMT Daylight Time,  
verbalobe@... writes:

 

 
I got curious, and since I like to make my own anamonics (it helps  me
learn), here's a possible solution for ARSINE:
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Malta Scrabble Club | 2 Apr 2011 15:12
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MALTA MAY 2011 - Two International Tournaments

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John Van Pelt | 2 Apr 2011 16:16
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Re: Scrabble Mnemonics

The relationship with the keyword was one of the things I liked best about
the anamonic I provided :-)

That said -- thanks for the pointers.

Where and what is "Chambers Official Scrabble Lists International 2002"?

Thanks,
-jvp

On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 5:22 AM, <AJSWORDS@...> wrote:

...I think the mnemonic needs to have some (albeit contrived or loose)
relationship with the keyword....
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> In a message dated 3/31/2011 7:35:11 PM GMT Daylight Time,
> verbalobe@... writes:
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> ARSINE (53) Not childproof? John's kid is vomiting!
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Stephen Mooney - Pursell | 2 Apr 2011 22:31
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Re: Scrabble Mnemonics

I also like to remember 8s from 7 letter word stems. One I have for
SENATOR/SANTERO etc is --NOT the 5 HOLY powers of the santero -- which when
decoded is 'Every letter except for HOLY and the 'power' tiles ZXJKQ

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Peter | 3 Apr 2011 17:12
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Digging up the past: WSC 2003

[Posted to ozscrabble and worldscrabble]

Hi all,

The 2003 World Scrabble Championship aroused my interest recently. The
main reason being the apparent nonexistence of the finals games on the
internet. Consider this:
-Cross-Tables contains every game of every WSC final, except for 2003.
-Wikipedia provides reasonable detail on the finals games of every WSC,
except for 2003. The only information regarding the final is 'The winner
was Panupol Sujjayakorn of Thailand'.  It is a similar story with 'Total
Scrabble', an excellent ebook written by Keith Smith; details of the
2003 final are very light.

I think this can be partially blamed on the fact that when you visit
www.wscgames.com/2003, the following message is displayed: 'The original
event web site www.wsc2003.com.my closed soon after the end of the
championship. The links at left lead to partially restored web pages
obtained from the Internet Archive Wayback Machine'. These 'partially
restored' pages do not appear to contain any trace of the games. (BTW
anyone else find the website kind of eery? It's as if the photo of Wilma
and the finalists is whispering to the viewer 'this is all we have left,
the rest is lost to history or exists only in the memories of those who
were there...')

So are the details of the best-of-five finals games between Pakorn and
Panupol accessible online or are they possibly lost to history? After
scouring Google with no luck, I was alerted by Chris May that the games
do exist and may be played through on ISC, by typing 'library wsc2003'.
These are an important part of Scrabble history, not to be forgotten. So
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igho fregene | 4 Apr 2011 02:04
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Re: Scrabble Mnemonics

I'm a big fan of  the mnemonics section in OSL 2002. It is perhaps the  one reason I've not moved on to the Collins
version. I've been able to accommodate the Collins words by some very uncreative alterations to the
original Francis-Simmons template. Examples:ABRIDE-next, a clustered new gem;ALBERT-showiest man
wanted;DARERS-goy, go lie on cowpat;ARMIES-my bullets left the mugwump unnerved;OVERSE-writable
muck cleared;CERTAIN-I gave club's gold to tax; GAROTED-punish Ben with wire;DESPAIR-we get poor
English education;HASTIER-Fred sped away in our car;OESTRAL-tests verify much puzzled bug. 
For keywords without mnenomics(because there are no vowels in the combining letters), I've borrowed a "u"
to construct mine while keeping in mind that DEASOIL, ANEROID, ENRAISE and GENITOR are the only keywords
with mnemonics having a "u" as the only vowel. Some of my less forgettable creations:ANERGIA-stud funds
gun club;LEADIER-dumb putz lust turns rum;IDEATES-dumb Mrs Bush luvs fun n' jus.
The fact that I'm not a household name in any household(to quote Hasim Rahman)  should indicate that I've
never been able to put these excellent practice aids to practice at exams...er.. tournaments.
Oh well, another WSC is around the corner. Better start mastering those damn fours.

Igho Fregene

On Sat, 02 Apr 2011 10:22 BST AJSWORDS@... wrote:

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>The Chambers Official Scrabble Lists International 2002 contained suggested 
> mnemonic sentences for six and seven-letter stems at the time. Some of 
>those  would have changed with the switch to Collins but the two examples you 
>cite  haven't. I think the mnemonic needs to have some (albeit contrived or 
>loose)  relationship with the keyword. 
>Thus rather than ARSINE it is SARNIE with the mnemonic
>'giving Josh mild pork flitch'
>Thus STONIER becomes 'IN STORE' with the mnemonic
>'sick crazy juveniles shopped by night'
>Although I find when a stem goes with so many letters it can be easier to  
>note which letters it does NOT combine with. eg STONIER with the mnemonic
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Bob Jackman | 4 Apr 2011 14:35
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WESPA Results and Ratings - Ashland WCWCWC 2011

Results and ratings: 27-03-2011 West Coast World Championship Wordlist
Challenge
following bethesda on 20110320

      20 games
       W     M                       Old  Chg  New
  1   17 +1636 David Wiegand        2059  +21 2080
  2   14 +1610 Nathan Benedict      2055   -9 2046
  3   13  -407^John Chew            1613 +227 1840
  4   12 +1232 Geoff Thevenot       1961  -21 1940
  5   11  +852^Chris Grubb          1934  -43 1891
  6   11  +158 Steve Polatnick      1980  -33 1947
  7   11    +3 Nick Ball            1966  -47 1919
  8   10  +274 Travis Chaney        1812   -7 1805
  9   10  +220^Carl Johnson         1958  -86 1872
 10   10  -727 Sam Kantimathi       1998  -63 1935
 11  9.5  +260^Ron Gideons          1610  +67 1677
 12  9.5  +120*David Whitley                  1770
 13    9  -393 Stu Goldman          1605  +43 1648
 14    9  -613^Sandy Nang           1616  +48 1664
 15    8  -157 Tapani Lindgren      1555  +38 1593
 16    8 -1069^Randall Thomas       1622  +71 1693
 17    6  -718 Ruth Hamilton        1695  -68 1627
 18    2 -2281*Scott Portocarrero             1311

High game: David Wiegand 629

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the_evil_blue_budgie | 4 Apr 2011 15:32
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WESPA website update: Word of the Week & Anagram Power


I've updated the WESPA website with the latest Word of the Week (CUDBEAR) and Anagram Power puzzle. You'll
find them here:

http://www.wespa.org/features/index.shtml

Craig

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LJ | 8 Apr 2011 01:19
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New South African website

The South African Scrabble website has been relaunched.

www.zascrabble.com

Llewellin

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