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"Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being the first player to slam the board shut and upset all the letters over the floor."
Craig Brown

 

Scrabble: The Defensive and Offensive Moves

Scrabble is more than just a word game that needs an expansive vocabulary and rich word bank. You need to master the strategic moves aside from knowing by heart the fundamental word tips to get a high score from high-scoring words. One of the most important tricks you need to know is on how to make those offensive and defensive moves. Placing the tiles on the board is not just putting them there and counting your scores.

 

 

Tactics on Opening the Board Up

The most attractive and effective way to open up the board is hitting a Bingo. However, if you cannot launch a bingo, then a five- to the six-letter word is as good as you can get. Moreover, longer words also offer more opportunities and great spots on the board where you can build on your next words. Some beginners utilize a Scrabble word finder to help them come up with the right high-value words. This tool also helps you find words that are legitimate according to the Scrabble dictionary. A good way to open up the board is a double-edged sword, however, because as much as it gives you better options to work with, your opponent gets the same privilege. Thus, be very careful with your initial placement.

Tactics on Closing the Board

You can also find Scrabble help for closing the board using diverse techniques, including words that start with j. This means you are not giving your opponent an opportunity to build on words especially on the bonus squares. You need to close the board so that your opponent could not make Bingo words simply because they find it hard to find a spot on the board where they can build from. Closing the board works the same way for you but the best Scrabble cheat is to close the board only if you have a barrage of vowels or you have no high-value letters to work with.