There is no secret behind the interjections in word games. You can be as clever as the pros and just learn them. The list of 2-letter-words in English is rather short, but already contains some useful interjections.
Just keep in mind that the US list is a bit shorter due to the stricter handled use of the TWL word list. With the time, you will get used to not only the short interjections, but also other short words. This is a huge strategic advantage to find a place to attach your word to, play parallel words, dump high value tiles on bonus squares or clear your rack from either too many vowels or consonants.
But be prepared when you apply this knowledge again to a family game of Scrabble. When I started to play interjections, my opponents where first surprised, but later started to build interjections out of the blue followed by an example on when they used or heard it lately.
Its good to have a printed Scrabble dictionary or our Scrabble Helper at hand to check if a word is actually valid. Do not multiply words if tiles on DW or TW spaces were used from a previous turn. It is possible to create multiple words with the same play. In this case, score each new word separately, including bonuses, and sum all of the new words together. The game ends when one player plays every tile in his rack, and there are no tiles remaining to draw from.
The game could also end if three successive turns have occurred with no scoring and as long as the score is not zero-zero. After the last tile is played, the opposing player will lose points equal to the sum of the value of his remaining tiles.
EST, which is right out as "short for estimate" or "acronym of Eastern Standard Time," is playable as a meditation technique. Abbreviations are a living part of language. The simple act of shortening a word for ease of use shows that speakers and writers expect to use it.
As noted above, many common words in conversational English are abbreviations in one sense or another. A little bit of reading and some lateral thinking will set you up with legal abbreviations in Scrabble.
Finally, there's one more trick to playing abbreviations in Scrabble: don't play Scrabble. If you don't mind getting digital, its close cousin Words With Friends allows a much wider array of abbreviations to play. Take a look at our slang you can use in Words With Friends to get started.. While trendy initialisms might make for good marketing material, purists raised on Scrabble might balk at the additions.
The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, first published in , has followed those instructions to the letter. According to Gurpreet Singh, the product director of Words With Friends, the new Social Dictionary is one way that the game is responding to player feedback.
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