Derryn Hinch
Auteur de The Scrabble Book
Œuvres de Derryn Hinch
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1944-02-09
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- Australia (citizenship)
- Lieu de naissance
- New Plymouth, New Zealand
- Lieux de résidence
- Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
New York, USA
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Professions
- police reporter
foreign correspondent
newspaper editor
television host
novelist
vintner (tout afficher 7)
radio personality
Membres
Critiques
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 10
- Membres
- 125
- Popularité
- #160,151
- Évaluation
- 3.5
- Critiques
- 1
- ISBN
- 26
I had already worked out some of the suggested strategies for myself - such as not opening up triple word scores, and playing the high-scoring letters on bonus tiles wherever possible - but found it a very interesting read, nonetheless.
I don't play championship Scrabble, and probably never will; I'm not competitive enough, nor do I think fast enough. But I do play sometimes in real life, and frequently on Facebook, and have learned in the past year just how important it is, not just to find good words but to use good placement. Often a shorter word with high letters, well-placed, can score considerably more than a longer word.
No longer in print - there are no doubt other books of this type, and many web pages devoted to the topic of Scrabble strategy - but I enjoyed reading it, and will probably refer to it again.… (plus d'informations)