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"Hooked on Scrabble!" by Petra Pierre - Robertson

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Rules of Play: Each player competes for the highest score by utilising tiles in combinations and locations that take the best advantage of letter values and premium squares on the board. 'Star-studded tiles on a rack don't guarantee the expected outcome!' You may have valuable tiles like Q Z X and J on your rack, but without low-valued tiles like U N I, they wont land you a word - far less a seven letter word! Dropping and exchanging are in order! 'Two' many of U and I Conversely too many of U and I on a rack won't work. In fact one I and U is sufficient. U and I hardly go well together well except that lone arbitrator is on the rack with them to either QUIZ, make them QUIET, or cause them to QUIT; again dropping and exchanging are in order! Which will you exchange for the low-valued 's'? The low valued S also changes the game plan and makes the difference between a high and low score. But you will have to exchange one of your big values for the low