Just memorize all the two letter words.
The Greek alphabet has won me so many games.
I don’t know what the fuck xu means, but I’ve gotten 50+ points with it many times
You also gotta keep up with the Scrabble patchnotes and look out for new 2 letter words that are added to the dictionary.
The day “ok” was added was crazyyy
Don’t forget the bluffing aspect
At one stage the “French Scrabble” world champion came from New Zealand, spoke no French, but had memorised the dictionary.
This dude: Non-French Nigel
Looks like he also won the Spanish one.
Me: “I can’t have caught the family autism gene; my language skills are too good.”
Older me: “so apparently hyperlexia is just another autism presentation…”
My brother recently told me that, if he turned out to be autistic, it’d probably be okay because he likes figuring out the rulesets of complicated systems.
The inability to leverage the board against a player with a larger vocabulary is a skill issue.
Skill in anything depends on your upbringing, free time, and innate desire to git gud.
I learned that from Slumdog Millionaire.
… because it’s true 😪
