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Official Sites

Hasbro Scrabble Site - General info, history of Scrabble, word builder, dictionary lookup, and a glossary of game-related terminology, also check out EA Hasbro for info on video game versions and platforms

Mattel Scrabble Site - Official site for countries outside the U.S. and Canada

National Scrabble Association - NSA membership info, tournament listings, club roster, "WordGear" shopping site for Scrabble equipment, books, etc.

North American Scrabble Players Association - From the site: "As of 2010-01-01, Hasbro will no longer be providing regular funding to SCRABBLE clubs and tournaments. As a result, over the course of 2009, the NSA will transfer responsiblity for clubs and tournaments to the newly formed NASPA, leaving the NSA to concentrate on developing new markets for SCRABBLE in areas such as School SCRABBLE."

Commercial Sites

Adjudicator 3000 - Clocks, game boards, and other game accessories

Archive:  Two Word Game Classics - Commercial site featuring two important Scrabble publications on CDRom

Blank Word Game - From the site: "This new game is ideal for a fan of crosswords: cryptic crossword puzzles, easy crosswords and word searches." Unlimited number of players, unique letter-selector, fill in the blanks and extend beyond to create words, similar in appearance to columnar format crossword puzzles

Board Game Central - General info, links to commercial sites, various Scrabble-related links

Bob's Bible:  Words, Anagrams, and Hooks - Commercial site featuring a book that lists all 2-8 letter words along with their front hooks, back hooks, and anagrams

Brow-Raisers: A User Friendly Guide to Building a Winning SCRABBLE Vocabulary - Commercial site featuring a book designed to help you systematically learn key Scrabble words

Crossword Man - Developer of "TEA & Sympathy" software for word gamers. From the site: "We sell a range of Windows software for solving and compiling crosswords and other word puzzles."

Custom Scrabble Boards - Custom-made, round, deluxe Scrabble boards affixed to a swivel base

Four Star Word Study Program - From the site: "Four Star is a word study program for Windows computers which will help you to learn the most essential four-letter words. "

Handmark Scrabble for Mobile Devices - Scrabble software for handhelds

IncredibleTileBags.com - A wide variety of Scrabble tile bags. From the site: "Made for word lovers by word lovers."

Onwords Ltd - For SOWPODS players, features ONWORDS magazine for Scrabble enthusiasts, free sample copy, Scrabble-related cartoon excerpts

Protiles - Molded plastic tiles with smooth surface

Sam Timer Site - Clocks designed specifically for competitive Scrabble

Sass Brown Designs - Scrabble and other game-related jewelry

Scrabble Bags - Leather bags for Scrabble or other games

Scrabylon - From the site: "Scrabylon is a documentary on the cut-throat world of tournament Scrabble."

ScoreCard for Scrabble iPhone App - Electronic score keeping app. From the site: "Before today, whenever you wanted to play a word game such as Scrabble... you needed a pen, you needed some paper, you needed a calculator, and you needed to spend 5 mins at the end of each game to tally up each players' scores. That was then..."

TildeTech Word Games - Inexpensive word games for both PCs and Windows Mobile Devices, custom dictionary functionality allows you to create Scrabble-specific word lists for use with these games

Tommy and the Magical Words - Have fun creating paths of words to help Thomas reach the end of the book. Includes a full dictionary of words (based on the ENABLE2K word list)

Trevor Johnson's SCRABBLE Bonus Word Techniques - Electronic book focusing on 1,315 of the easiest and most commonly played bonus words

Word Wars Movie - Documentary which delves into both the tournament world and the Scrabble "underground" in New York's Washington Square Park. From the site: "This is NOT your grandmother's Scrabble."

Gaming Portals

Internet Scrabble Club - From the site: "The best place to play Scrabble on-line." Though this site is based in Romania, it offers a variety of options for online play, TWL and SOWPODS dictionaries are both available

Jumble Time - Hone your skills at this anagram puzzle site; single player games, multiplayer games, and daily anagram challenges are available here; player stats are automatically recorded

OSPD Scrabble Challenge - A cooperative Scrabble game that gets updated every 12 hours, best plays are featured as well as high-scoring players

PixiePit - Find opponents through the PixiePit forum, 2-4 players

Pogo Scrabble - Play as a guest or register for free, includes various playing options

Scrabble Cubes - Game variant which includes free and paid versions, prizes possible

ScrabbleON - Site for playing on IRC channels using NETWORDZ

Personal and Miscellaneous Pages

Asheville Scrabble Club - Asheville, North Carolina club page. From the site: "Mountains of fun with words! The place to play your favorite word game in the Blue Ridge Mountains."

Ann Sanfedele's Home Page - Tournament player's site, includes photos of tourney winners, calendar, Scrabble memory lane, poetry, and more, Ann's merchandise page is here

Association of British Scrabble Players - From the site: "The ABSP was formed in 1987 under a special agreement with JW Spear & Sons Limited, the Scrabble trademark holders, to promote matchplay Scrabble tournaments with cash prizes and to seek sponsorship for these events. "

Bad Scrabble Hands - Quote from the site: "The following pages are real, unmanipulated examples of Scrabble-tile-chooosing ineptitude, hands so mind-bogglingly unfair in their horribleness that pictures just had to be taken."

Badqoph's Scrabble Blog List - List of blogs by both NSA and ISC players

Board Gaming Info - Free information and latest videos on popular board games, site includes rules and origin of Scrabble

Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia - Just what it says, palindromes, uncommon words, you name it

Crossword Games Pro (CGP) - Unofficial mailing list for competitive players

Cross-Tables - Your source for Scrabble tournament statistics.

ECS Scrabble Club - Evangelical Christian School Scrabble Club, has a word of the day feature, and a link for custom-made boards

The Elusive QUETZAL - Mike Waugh's Scrabble blog, from the site: "I am beginning Scrabble player who hopes one day to be an expert. This weblog details my journey to reach that goal."

Eric Harshbarger's Scrabble + Logology Site - From the site: "...My mind occupied with the game, I began thinking about how closely Scrabble and logology are related. Specifically, I started to think of some recreational questions which are both 'wordplay' in nature and unique to the Scrabble game, its letter distributions, point values, and board layout." Check out Eric's Applet Depot site too, awesome applets!

Jim's Scrabble Page - Scrabble site of tournament player, Jim Geary

John Chew's Scrabble Page - Tournament info, how to start playing on the DOoM networks, you may also want to check out the BobGrid program for playing on the MarlDOoM server, word lists and general info are also available at this site

Joyce's Scrabble Mania - Info for playing on Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone; assorted word lists, including a nice variety of bingo stem lists; Scrabble-related links

Lampwords - From the site: "LAMPWords is an anagramming and word-finding program for Palm-compatible handheld computing devices."

LeXpert Word Study Program - Free software program for word game enthusiasts.

Lorrainefeather.com - Lyricist and jazz singer whose new album, "Ages" contains a song about (and entitled) "Scrabble". You can find the lyrics (imagine working OXAZEPAM into a song) here. You can download this song (in MP3 format) for free here.

Mark's Scrabble Stuff - Free "Scrabble Tool" software for board setup and analysis, custom dictionary for version one of the Hasbro CDRom game, anagram dictionary file, assorted word lists

Metagrams - From the site: "Metagrams.com was originally founded in 2001 as a source for various lists, games, and tools related to Scrabble."

Mike Wolfberg's Page - Scrabble site of tournament player, Mike Wolfberg

Musa's Scrabble Page - Word lists, word of the day, puzzles, score sheet, links

Newbie's First Scrabble Lesson - Written by international expert, Joel Sherman, also has a few good links

Prop Rod's Scrabble Stop - Links, tips, tricks, and resources for Scrabble players.

Quackle Software - From the site: "Free crossword game artificial intelligence and analysis tool that rivals the best players in the world!"

San Jose Scrabble Club - Lists with definitions, list of words added and deleted from TWL98

ScrabbleLinks.com - Huge, categorized directory of Scrabble-related resources

Scrabble Club: The World of Competitive Scrabble - General information, links, resources for purchase of game equipment

Scrabble FAQ - Loads of Scrabble information

Scrabble Source Code - A resource of the word game programmers egroup, this page has some interesting info on the development of Scrabble for electronic media

Scrabble Tile Anagram Poem - Web home of Mike Keith; the site includes a poem constructed of Scrabble tiles (using one complete set of tiles per stanza)

Scrabble Tile Tracker - An online tile-tracking system. From the site: "Type in the letters that are on your Scrabble board and in your rack below, and we'll tell you which tiles are left."

Scribble - Scribble is a cooperative word game based on the Scrabble brand crossword puzzle

Steve Trussel's Scrabble Page - Help for beginner's, proper names listing, Japanese word listing, Greek and Hebrew alphabets, general info

Verbalobe: Your Brain on Scrabble - From the site: "Words are your playthings. Learning them is the task. Word-game mastery is the dream. Welcome to verbalobe."

Wonderhowto Worlds Scrabble - From the site: "Love SCRABBLE? Want to learn more about it? How to play? Tricks to winning? Join the SCRABBLE World! Share your SCRABBLE thoughts with everyone, ask and answer questions in the forum, and keep up to date with tenebrism's latest blog entries."

Word Up: A Scrabble Podcast - Sundry topics related to the game of Scrabble, also contains info for "The Weekly Scrabbler" podcast on iTunes

Zone Scrabblers - Pictures of players from the MSN Gaming Zone

Zyzzyva - Word-study software. From the site: "Zyzzyva's OWL2+LWL lexicon is 100% accurate as verified by the metrics available on the NSA Dictionary Committee's website."