Patty Hocker/North American Scrabble Players Association
The author at the 2017 North American Scrabble Championship.
- I'm a nationally ranked Scrabble player who's played in tournaments across the United States.
- Inexperienced Scrabble players tend to make the same basic mistakes, and eliminating them from your game will take your skills to the next level.
- The mistakes include playing too fast, holding on to the Q, and wasting the best two tiles in the game.
Scrabble is an easy game to learn, but an extremely difficult game to master.
Take it from me - I've been playing in Scrabble tournaments since I was 16 years old, and I've competed in the past two North American Scrabble Championships. My official ranking puts me among the top players in New York City.
If you're looking to improve your skills, a good place to start is working on your strategy. I see inexperienced players make the same basic mistakes all the time, so if you can eliminate them from your game, you'll stand a great chance at your next game night.
Here are the 7 biggest mistakes inexperienced Scrabble players make, and what you should do instead.