Scrabble isn’t a game of who can get the best 6 letter words. It’s a game of points and squeezing 2 letter terms into corners. Mehal Shah takes us through clean (and sometimes dirty) ways to win at Scrabble.

Some of his tips include:

• Thinking of Scrabble as a numbers game, instead of a word game
• Learning how to double the value of every tile you play
• Shutting down the board and holding on to every point you can get
• Learning how to bluff effectively
• Learning how to fake a bluff effectively
• Using your opponents knowledge to trick them
• Using foreign languages to psych out your opponent

About Mehal Shah

Mehal Shah is a software engineer at Amazon.com. You can find Mehal on his blog, on Twitter and his photos on Flickr. Mehal did a great post about his experience speaking at Ignite.

(Note: most of this post was gratuitously copied and pasted from Brady’s post on Ignite.orielly.com)

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Love these tips!

It’s got to be the laziest, most minimal form of communication possible, but apparently a Facebook poke can count as harassment.

A woman has been arrested for poking another user of Facebook, after police decided it breached a protection order.

Friends don’t poke other friends.

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I had to share this. It’s funny cuz it’s true.

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