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The best place to play live online Scrabble (or correspondence games if you cannot finish a game in one sitting). Built during the COVID pandemic for competitive Scrabble players around the world, it was built from scratch by Scrabble players for the players.
There's some cool ways to up your game on Woogles. Puzzle Mode is feature that will test you on finding the best plays strategically based on your current ability. You can also run the Analyzer after each game to differentiate the star plays to the blunders!
There are a range of bot levels to choose from and you can also play other Scrabble variants, ultra-blitz games, or even in other languages like French, German, Spanish! There's always a lot of players on there no matter the time of day or night, and if not, there's always a bot ready to go!
The official Scrabble app for your phone or tablet. Works on iOS or Android devices, and you start games against millions of players from around the world. Start a bunch of games, play your moves and come back later when your opponents take their turn.
Uniquely, there are optional daily challenges and arcade arena games that run around the clock against other players. Work your way up the leagues to earn extra gems, trophies and specialized tiles that you can show off during your Scrabble games! Or keep it simple and just play Scrabble at your leisure. Download here from the App Store or the Google Play Store.
Will Anderson has a huge subscriber base on YouTube and his weekly videos are amazing narratives that captivate stories and moments from Scrabble tournaments from around the world. Definitely well worth a watch, and very easy to follow for people that don't follow Scrabble.
Subscribe to Will's channel, and get that notification when his videos drop every Sunday!
Austin Shin is based in New Orleans, LA, though originally from England. He streams on Twitch twice a week (Tuesday and Thursday evenings in North America) and shows an insight into top level Scrabble play, strategic advice, game analysis and explaining candidate moves whilst playing against human or bot opponents. His streams also involve audience participation where the viewers can anagram words in real time, "betting" channel points (no monetary value!) on stream outcomes and you could even play Austin in a game too! Austin was also featured in a video with the Try Guys, who have 8 million subscribers and the video has over a million views, where he took on the YouTubers in three games of Scrabble under various handicaps - including playing blindfolded with a 300 point deficit, which is well worth checking out! Anyway, follow his Twitch channel and you'll be notified when he goes live in future!
The LetsPlayScrabble team stream live real life tournaments from around North America and around the world. These streams feature many top Scrabble players with expert commentary which adds to the top-notch viewing experience. There are numerous tournaments every year that have their tournament live streamed by LetsPlayScrabble.
Hit the subscribe button as there's always soon to be a live tournament streamed on their ever-growing channel.
Other YouTube channels
Various other YouTube channels have featured live streamed games, though more sporadically over time. Most notable channels include the NASPA YouTube channel, Scrabble VODs, Causeway TV and Dweebovision.
All worth checking out and each have large banks of streamed games over the years, and are all still actively streaming in real life tournaments in the future.
Looking to dive into tournaments? The go-to place to find rated Scrabble tournaments in North America. Cross Tables also displays career statistics for all players, results from every tournament, and yearly statistics across all active players, such as, highest win percentages, highest rating gains and players that have reached rating milestones.
You can also download the Cross Tables app (currently only available on the Apple Store).
North American and World Scrabble organizations
Check out official tournament play through the following North American Scrabble organizations at North American Scrabble Players Assocation (NASPA), Word Game Players Organization (WGPO) and the Collins Coalition (CoCo).
For World Ranking events, the official governing body is the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA) who notably organize the WESPAC (World Scrabble Championship) every two years.
The official word adjudicator in officially sanctioned tournaments around the world. Not only that, there is a very useful "Cardbox" feature that allows a user to have a bank of words to study and be tested on them over varying periods of time depending on how well the user knows them. Zyzzyva is one of the most commonly used study tools amongst tournament Scrabble players and would be the first port of call for any Scrabble player looking to get serious about word study.
If you want Zyzzyva on the go, it's also available for your phone or tablet, and you can download the app here from the Apple Store and Google Play Store.
An online quizzing site where you can pit your wits (or word knowledge, in this case), against other players from around the world. You can participate in the various daily challenges where you have to type in all the valid anagrams of specific length of words in the fastest time and with the fewest errors. You can also simply generate word lists for your own practice. Join in and see where you rank amongst their daily players!
ULU is a mobile / tablet app that combines the word search and adjudication functionality of Zyzzyva, and a very useful Scrabble timer that can be used without purchasing a physical timer.
ULU also has additional Scrabble lexicons that Zyzzyva does not currently have, such as official Scrabble lexicons in other languages and the lexicon used in the popular word game Word With Friends. Definitely well worth a download, though currently only available for Apple devices.
If you're beginner and looking for something immediate and a crash course in Scrabble word knowledge, then look no further than the Cheat Sheet.
The link will direct you to various different cheat sheets depending on which lexicon you are learning.
The Metairie Scrabble Club has a Facebook page where you can find out the latest on what's going on around the New Orleans and Metairie area.
Interested in getting started and playing competitive games monthly? Let us know! Contact Lindsay Shin at lindsay.crotty@gmail.com or 504-982-0389.