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 Useful and Fun! August 24, 2005
Jokie X Wilson (San Francisco, California United States)
91 out of 101 found this review helpful
Beyond being useful for playing Scrabble, this book is fun. It might be nice to just have a list of new words, but the reality isn't so bad: you can spend some relaxing time just peeking through the book to find new words and what they mean. This book is worth it just for identifying the first acceptable two-letter Q/Q-without-U word, Qi. No longer must you be able to spell just Qat when you get stuck with the Q at the very end of the game without an accompanying U.
For those folks who want the "dirty" words as well, it can always be agreed in advance to use the current Webster's dictionary or whatever in addition to this book. You need to do that anyway for words with more than eight letters.
From the Board Games Editor at BellaOnline.com December 8, 2005
Megan Romer (Ithaca, NY)
19 out of 21 found this review helpful
Whether or not you agree with the inclusion of many of these words, the fact of the matter is that OSPD4 is now the official dictionary for Scrabble tournament play. If you wish to play in a Scrabble tournament, you must learn them, or you will most certainly lose.
If you don't like "Scrabblese", maybe Scrabble isn't the right game for you. There are plenty of other great games out there. Try Wildwords, it's like Scrabble except it has "blank" tiles which can stand for not just one letter, but a whole string of letters. That game uses a regular old-fashioned collegiate dictionary as its word source, so you won't have to know qat, qi, or jo to play.
must have for scrabble players July 15, 2006
JT (San Jose, CA United States)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought this Scrabble Dictionary paperback from Amazon. If you enjoy playing Scrabble like me and you have a hillbilly father-in-law like me that makes up words then this book is a must. We play that any word can be challenged and it must be in the book. After I disqualify all my father-in-laws crazy words I like throwing my own words down like "za" that he challenges and then curses when he finds it in the book. Thumbs up.
New Dictionary August 3, 2005
Double Lee Farm (Missouri, USA)
16 out of 18 found this review helpful
For many years, I have been an avid Scrabble player; my previous Scrabble dictionary is very well used!! I've been waiting for a long time for a newer version and this one is just terrific!!!
Great Improvement in OSPD July 27, 2005
Buboncatmeow (Israel)
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
For about 50 years, I have been a veteran Scrabble Player and have participated in many tournaments, as well as playing on line, internationally.
The updated edition of OSPD is excellent, because they separated special sections with prefixes, making it much easier to find your way around.
The only complaint I have is that the delivery charges were much higher than the book, forcing me to rely more on local or second-hand books.
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