How to Win at Scrabble: Learning Words

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Will Anderson

Will Anderson

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@ArsonFan
@ArsonFan Жыл бұрын
Reading the comments before watching the video prepared me to actually learn the word zyzzyva as a word
@BLSKYZ
@BLSKYZ 3 жыл бұрын
Great timing on this video! ZyyZyva was just recommended to me, so your introduction, explanations, and suggestions have been most helpful. Thanks !
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
So glad to hear this!
@incherestingly
@incherestingly 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Will! I've been trying to understand Zyzzyva for a while now.
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
Uh oh... watch out Scrabble world!
@cynicalad
@cynicalad 3 жыл бұрын
Hallelujah! The video all us noobs have been waiting for. Cheers Will.
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks - more to come in this vein!
@Dfcameron13
@Dfcameron13 2 жыл бұрын
This was excellent; Will takes the time to explain things slowly and completely. I've never used Zyzzyva. I was introduced to Aerolith by a top player named Scott Appel when I started club Scrabble in mid-2017. I've become so used to the Aerolith interface; that I'd find Zyzzyva unintuitive. I would never argue with Will on his assessment comparing the two, with best uses though. If you're starting fresh, seems Zyzzyva is a great way to go. Yet, I've learned a decent amount through Aerolith - but still have a long way to go!
@kylecobb9982
@kylecobb9982 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks Will, been looking forward to this one!
@mapeus
@mapeus 4 ай бұрын
Nice to see spaced repetition systems being utilized in scrabble well too
@javierrodrigo1009
@javierrodrigo1009 Жыл бұрын
Hi Will! Thank you so much for making these videos - I've just started to get into Scrabble and they've been helping a lot, though it looks like you've sort of abandoned this series after the first two videos which is a shame. Could you maybe consider doing a video on board dynamics next, such as how to choose where to place your words specially in the early game to maximize your chances of scoring well while also preventing your opponent from doing so. Thanks again for bringing this beautiful game to the public eye!
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
I hope to revisit some videos of this type sometime. Really appreciate your comments!
@DanielDugovic
@DanielDugovic 3 жыл бұрын
I just assumed Aerolith would have this, but 2s with blanks, 3s with blanks, etc. sound more beginner-friendly than simply recalling a word list.
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
You can simulate this by doing a word list recall quiz with the parameter Anagram Match: A? to quiz yourself on the 2 letter words containing an A in either position, or Pattern Match: A? to quiz yourself on the 2 letter words starting with A. It's maybe a little unwieldy to keep making new quizzes repeatedly, but could still be useful.
@Firefly256
@Firefly256 Жыл бұрын
3s are really hard for me for some reason, I can do anagrams of JQXZ 4s, vowel heavy and high prob bingos, but recalling 3s without anagrams has always been hard, how do memorize better?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
I used to play the game Boggle to help learn these - you see the short words over and over again.
@johnwilder4789
@johnwilder4789 3 жыл бұрын
Nice! Been using Zyzzyva for a while and didn’t know about the “Word List Recall” feature - that’s great. The only thing I’d add is that you can also set your Quiz settings to “Anagram + Hooks” instead of just “Anagrams,” forcing you to recall the hooks as well. I think getting into the habit of learning words with the hooks is helpful, not just because you’ll learn new words but because sometimes it’ll show you hooks that you may not have thought of, despite knowing the words (a back -O to FLAMING, for example). Would you say then based on your chart, that in terms of learning the 4s, learning the “4s with Scoring Tiles” is more important than learning the 3s -> 4s (I.e, all the hooks for the 3s)?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
It's really hard to say definitively - 3s to make 4s are a really helpful list of words to know too. I very likely have a bias here from my background in Boggle, which is extremely good training to not only learn hooks, but to teach yourself the instinct to look for them consistently. Drilling this set of words was never a major issue for me, but it might be smart to break words like that out into their own group and give them higher priority.
@frankieporter1889
@frankieporter1889 3 жыл бұрын
Senarii is probably a very good bingo because 1. It gets rid of 2 I's 2. It's a bingo, so obviously it's good 3. It follows the retains rack (Retains, you can have 6/7 of the word, but any letter but Q and Y can make a bingo)
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
It's definitely one of the highest probability bingos that most people wouldn't already know from everyday language.
@frankieporter1889
@frankieporter1889 3 жыл бұрын
@@wanderer15 because it's Latin/Greek
@empowers67
@empowers67 Жыл бұрын
Recently have started getting into Scrabble and I've been loving your videos, especially the Scrabble History series and your Better Know a Letter vids. Question: would you recommend starting by learning the CSW lexicon, or should I learn the NWL first, then worry about CSW later? I'm mainly playing on International Scrabble Club which uses NWL, but not sure if it's best to start small and work up or if I should just start with CSW since it's a more expansive list. (Also, if you can recommend online Scrabble websites that use CSW, let me know!) Thanks in advance for your help!
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for the nice comments! Regarding lexicon, it’s a tough choice, but it mostly depends on how interested you are in playing players from all around the world. If you’re North America-based, you’ll be just fine with NWL. Playscrabble.com is a licensed Scrabble site offering CSW, and woogles.io is another good alternative offering all major lists.
@mvshroomelleYT
@mvshroomelleYT 3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tips! These help a lott! :)
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
My pleasure!
@16_rafi44
@16_rafi44 11 ай бұрын
Hey uhh i tried zyzzyva on mobile but i didnt see variables that gives me top order 1-50 word, is it different than pc?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 11 ай бұрын
Yes, the mobile app may be a bit different than desktop.
@ณฐโชคฯ
@ณฐโชคฯ 2 ай бұрын
In Zyzzyva is there a twl06 or owl2 dictionary?
@g4_61
@g4_61 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tutorial; this was a big help for someone looking to get started. One question that has been nagging at me, however: why do Scrabble players tend to learn 7-letter bingos with 6-letter roots instead of 8-letter bingos with 7-letter roots? Unless I am mistaken, most instances of playing all seven tiles require attaching them to an eighth letter somewhere else on the board, no? Thanks again
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
It's a good question. I think there are a couple reasons that come to my mind. First, learning 7 letter words is already a bit of a shock to most players' systems - it's hard, and takes practice. Adding an 8th letter is an extra degree of difficulty that becomes easier once you have a base of 7 letter word anagramming in place. Also, for entry-level players, you're less likely to see those sprawling, wide-open boards that two elite experts often generate. For more tightly compacted boards without a tile to play through, 7-letter words are going to comprise more of the words that you'll realistically be able to play.
@anewfuture
@anewfuture Жыл бұрын
It's basically like learning a foreign language.
@omi3211
@omi3211 3 жыл бұрын
How do you associate the alphagram to the word? Is it really just rote memorization done everyday with spaced repetition?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
Yes, many people (myself included) find this method very effective! Of course, it's most effective for words that don't follow "traditional" word forms - you can still use normal anagramming techniques for a lot of words.
@yeahmangamer
@yeahmangamer 3 жыл бұрын
Our profile pictures are very similar (great video btw!)
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
Disembodied heads ftw
@carteryott7710
@carteryott7710 3 жыл бұрын
Is it necessary to study the hooks? I’ve know about 1000 7s and 8s but I’ve been learning them with their hooks.. should I keep doing this or is it not that important?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
Something I like to do with hook recall is - if I can anagram a word and remember its hooks correctly, I let it advance to the next cardbox. If I can anagram a word but can't recall its hooks, I manually move it down back to the original cardbox or maybe even down one. If I can't anagram a word at all, it drops back down to 0. Hooks are surely important, but we all only have so many hours in the day to work with...so if you find it's slowing you down from moving on to more bingos, I think it's okay to cut corners slightly.
@repacharge6318
@repacharge6318 Жыл бұрын
I cant for the life of me find words to actually put in zyzzyva. Do I have to manually type in every 2 letter word into the program just for it to work? Are there any spreadsheets or something like that full of words that I can use to practice? Why is this so difficult?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
Zyzzyva should come preloaded with some lexicons. Clicking the magnifying glass to start a search and seeing what you have in the lexicon field is a good start.
@randomguy9084
@randomguy9084 Жыл бұрын
Is there a logical Or operator in Zyzzwa as in I want to search 4 letter words that include either J or Q or X or Z, or do I just have to generate 4 seperate lists
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
I would do 4 separate lists, but then try to combine in one document, and then do a new quiz, set the field to In Word List, click Edit List, then Open File and find your combined list.
@randomguy9084
@randomguy9084 Жыл бұрын
Thanks!@@wanderer15
@jakeh4745
@jakeh4745 9 ай бұрын
what is the difference between " JXQZ 4s" and "4s with scoring tiles?"
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 9 ай бұрын
Not too much, really. I happen to define JXQZ as "power tiles" and the 3 and 4 point tiles as "scoring tiles."
@iwersonsch5131
@iwersonsch5131 Жыл бұрын
Is there also a quiz feature for spotting the short words in a 7 letter rack?
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
If you start a Zyzzyva quiz with Quiz Type "Anagrams" and Search Specification "Subanagram Match" and enter the 7 letter rack you'd like to quiz on, it'll let you type all the shorter words in a 7-letter rack. If you want to specifically quiz only short words from that rack, you can hit the plus sign under Search Specification and add a new parameter of "Length, Min 3, Max 3" or whatever lengths you'd like to be able to enter.
@iwersonsch5131
@iwersonsch5131 Жыл бұрын
@@wanderer15 Can I quiz randomly generated racks too? I.e. picking a word from the quiz list and filling the rack with random other letters?
@debblez
@debblez Жыл бұрын
anyone else watching this at 2 am knowing full well they will never spend a minute studying scrabble words
@Ascension721
@Ascension721 Жыл бұрын
cant blame you
@Joseph-j9r7g
@Joseph-j9r7g 8 ай бұрын
Or just have all the important words tattooed on your arms.
@doorotabanasik1929
@doorotabanasik1929 8 ай бұрын
Can you help me find a triple triple? My rack is TRLOG?I. And the 7th letter must be a P.
@jaycarmine-l4y
@jaycarmine-l4y 2 ай бұрын
For some reason the online scrabble will not let me spell down and across but Zoey can do it. The game cheats!
@jellomochas
@jellomochas 3 жыл бұрын
0/10 not enough trolling
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 3 жыл бұрын
At least I had several RETINAS
@davisgollert4241
@davisgollert4241 Жыл бұрын
Is there a way to exclude letters on zyzzyva? I’d like to practice the Q words without a U
@wanderer15
@wanderer15 Жыл бұрын
Anagram Match: *Q (that's asterisk Q), Includes Letters: U, check the box next to "not"
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