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The luck factor
[edit]Everything Scrabble by Joe Edley and John D. Williams Jr., 2001, p.224, POCKET BOOKS, ISBN 9780671042189, reports that in a two-person game, their estimation is that a game outcome is based on luck 15 percent of the time and for a three- or four-person game, it is as much as 40 percent of the time.
This site reports luck is a factor 10-15% of the time:
https://www.thewordfinder.com/blog/how-much-of-scrabble-is-luck/ M.mk (talk) 18:46, 7 May 2026 (UTC)
- '04:30, 18 July 2026 Scrabbler94 talk contribs m 94,096 bytes −144 remove short, unnecessary section on luck. merged it with the club/tournament play section which references 2 player games'
- unnecessary -- interesting; by that standard, the article could perhaps be reduced by half M.mk (talk) 02:38, 29 October 2026 (UTC)
the tiny numbers on the tiles
[edit]Maybe the numbers on the letter tiles are the score, for example: A¹, E¹, I¹, S¹, O¹. Is it the score when I made the word or something? IronSculkJungle7643 (talk) 17:17, 30 May 2026 (UTC)
Conflicting claims for location of invention
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You are invited to join the discussion at Talk:History of Newtown, Connecticut § Scrabble invention claim. History of Newtown, Connecticut, Scrabble, and Alfred Mosher Butts all make different claims for the location where Scrabble was invented. Meters (talk) 10:04, 11 September 2026 (UTC) Meters (talk) 10:04, 11 September 2026 (UTC)
Prioritize Collins over North American dictionary
[edit]Competitive scrabble player here!
The Collins lexicon is the international standard for English competitive Scrabble. NWL is a local anomaly here in the US / Canada, and while it is my native dictionary, it is not for most players. Not even all North American players use it; there's a sizable and growing community of Collins players in the US and Canada, especially among experts.
So, I suggest wherever lexicons are mentioned, prioritize Collins, and then mention NWL afterwards Purpleleinad (talk) 02:09, 7 November 2026 (UTC)