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From Novice to Expert with Scrabble World Champion David Eldar

Forcing Function Hour

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Poker and Scrabble Are Both Games of Imperfect Information

In poker, you don't know the cards your opponent has in their hand. In scrabble, a lot of strategy is trying to infer what your opponent could have. David: If someone plays an s off for one point, then the chances are they're sitting on another s. Using that logic and taken to an extreme, you can start to figure out what tiles your opponent might have.

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