{"id":565,"date":"2007-08-21T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2007-08-21T20:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/?p=565"},"modified":"2007-08-21T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2007-08-21T20:39:14","slug":"how-to-win-at-scrabble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/2007\/08\/21\/how-to-win-at-scrabble\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Win At Scrabble"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, I&#8217;m giving away a secret but future victories will be even sweeter knowing that my opponent could have been on the same level as I am in terms of obscure word knowledge.  Courtesey of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/wired\/issue\/15-08\/\">Wired Mag&#8217;s &#8220;How To&#8221; issue,<\/a> here are recommended &#8220;words to know&#8221; from John Williams Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association:<br \/>\nazo, jo, ka, ki, qaid, qat, qi, xi, xu, za, zin and zoa.<br \/>\nAlso on the list for when you have too few or too many vowels:<br \/>\nhm, hmm and ourie.<br \/>\nWhen I pull a &#8220;zin&#8221; on someone, when he or she is complaining that it isn&#8217;t a word, I&#8217;m simply going to say &#8220;next time read my blog.&#8221;<br \/>\nVia Wired.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sure, I&#8217;m giving away a secret but future victories will be even sweeter knowing that my opponent could have been on the same level as I am in terms of obscure word knowledge. Courtesey of Wired Mag&#8217;s &#8220;How To&#8221; issue, here are recommended &#8220;words to know&#8221; from John Williams Jr., executive director of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[258,262,360,437,563],"class_list":["post-565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vocabulary","tag-games","tag-geek","tag-language","tag-nerd","tag-scrabble"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.keymasterproductions.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}