“Vax,” “guac,” “subtweet” and “zeedonk” (a donkey-zebra hybrid) highlight the more than 500 newly playable words.
Scrabble can be played with any dictionary, as long as the players agree on which one they’re using. Tournament players in the United States and Canada use a separate, more frequently updated word list maintained by the North American Scrabble Players Association, but the organization will add all the words in this batch, said NASPA chief executive John Chew.
He analyzed the updated dictionary to create a list of the new words and said the group’s new list would be released in about six months, so the 500 additions will become accepted in competitive play before the next national championship in July. The addition of new words means players have to “reprogram part of their brains,” Chew said, something that some players enjoy and others may grouse about.now you’ll be able to play F in front of the word to make the wordWhile the delight for casual players may lie not in the points but in the novelty of laying down words like
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