Scrabble FAQ - General Information

[Steven Alexander]

Last-modified: 15 April 1994
Archive-name: games/scrabble-faq/general

Scrabble Frequently Asked Questions

This article is posted monthly to rec.games.board,
rec.puzzles.crosswords, rec.answers and news.answers.

Copies are available for anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in the
directory /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/games/board, under the
name Scrabble_FAQ_-_Club_and_Tournament_Supplement (and
Scrabble_FAQ_-_General_Information for the companion part).

If you have better information on any of these topics, please
contact me. Send all comments to ste...@cs.berkeley.edu with "FAQ"
in the subject.

1. What this FAQ covers
2. The trademark Scrabble
3. Organized Scrabble activity
3.1. National Scrabble Association and Association of Premier
Scrabble Players
3.2. Clubs
3.3. Tournaments
3.3.1. North American, UK and world championships
3.3.1.1. Did the North American 1992 champion really give his
$10,000 prize away to a literacy charity?
3.3.2. How club and tournament Scrabble differs from the rules
in the box
3.3.3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Official
Scrabble Words
3.3.3.1. Why are all those stupid/non-English/indecent words
allowed?
3.3.3.2. Current corrections to the OSPD 2nd ed
3.3.3.3. Current corrections to the Franklin Electronic OSPD
3.3.3.4. Expurgation of OSPD
3.3.4. Tournament pairings
3.3.5. Tournament ratings
3.3.6. Upcoming tournaments
3.4. Organizations conducting Scrabble activity outside North
America and the UK
3.5. Scrabble by surface mail
3.6 Crossword games on the Internet
3.6.1. Crossword games server
3.6.2. Crossword games mailing list
4. Differences between Scrabble in North America and in the UK
5. Publications on Scrabble
5.1. Periodicals
5.1.1. Scrabble News
5.1.2. Rack Your Brain
5.1.3. Non-North American periodicals
5.1.3.1. Onwords
5.1.4. Defunct periodicals
5.1.4.1. Letters for Expert Players
5.1.4.2. Matchups
5.1.4.3. Medleys
5.2. Books
5.3. Word lists
5.4. Word study software
6. Basic tactics and methods
7. Typical games
7.1. Typical scores
7.2. Frequency of bingos
8. Scrabble records
8.1. Actual
8.2. Theoretical
8.3. Blocked games
9. Scrabble variants
10. Play-by-mail games
11. Scrabble paraphernalia
11.1 Tiles
11.2 Clocks
11.3 Miscellaneous
12. Computer versions of Scrabble
12.1. CrossWise (IBM PC)
12.2. Gameboy Super Scrabble (hand-held)
12.3. Maven (Macintosh)
12.4. Monty Plays Scrabble (hand-held)
12.5. Scramble (IBM PC)
12.6. Tyler (IBM PC, Macintosh)
12.7. US Gold Scrabble (IBM PC, Amiga, Atari ST)
12.8. Vic Rice's Game (IBM PC)
12.9. Virgin Mastertronic (IBM PC, Macintosh)
12.10. WordsWorth (IBM PC)
12.11. STrabbler (Atari)
12.12. Unix Scrabble (Unix)
12.13 CRAB (Unix, Sun, Vax and Macintosh)
13. Glossary
A1. Credits

[In the supplement:]
A2. Roster of clubs in the US and Canada
A3. Upcoming North American tournaments
A4. Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide

1. What this FAQ covers

This article is about English language Scrabble, or more properly,
Scrabble Brand Crossword Game. It is North American-centric (and to
a lesser extent covers the UK), but information regarding English
language Scrabble is welcome.

2. The trademark Scrabble

Scrabble is a registered trademark owned in the United States and
Canada by Milton Bradley Company, a division of Hasbro, Inc. In
Great Britain and everywhere else in the world, by J.W. Spear & Sons
PLC.

Selchow & Righter, listed as the US owner on many of your boards, was
bought -- in good health -- by Coleco, which shortly went into
bankruptcy due to the collapse of the market for their Cabbage Patch
dolls. Coleco also led itself to bankruptcy by losing a fortune on
the Adam home computer flop, and the unexpected (to them) slowdown in
Trivial Pursuit sales. (Trivial Pursuit was marketed in the US by
Selchow & Righter). Coleco was bought up by Milton Bradley, which
was in turn gobbled up by Hasbro.

In North America, technically, the term Scrabble refers to any game
or related product Milton Bradley cares to label that way, while the
popular board game is "Scrabble Crossword Game". Most people --
including Milton Bradley's own publication -- use the term Scrabble
to refer to that game, and so will this FAQ.

3. Organized Scrabble activity
3.1. National Scrabble Association and Association of Premier
Scrabble Players

The National Scrabble Association ("NSA") is the only organization
running Scrabble activity in North America. It is a subsidiary of
Milton Bradley. NSA licenses tournament and club directors. Club
and tournament play, except for the national and world championships,
is sanctioned but not run by NSA. Non-members are supposed to be
charged an extra $5 at tournaments, but this is not consistently
done.

Membership is $15 per year in the US, $20 (US) in Canada, and $25
elsewhere, by postal money order outside the US.

National Scrabble Association
c/o Williams & Company
120 Front St Garden
Box 700
Greenport, NY 11944
(516) 477-0033

In the UK, the Association of Premier Scrabble Players ("APSP") in
the UK, an independent organization, organizes many tournaments. It
may be reached at

36 Longacre
Woodthorpe
Nottingham, NG5 4JS
United Kingdom

Membership in APSP costs #5 per year; members receive a newsletter
about six times per year. Its chairman, Graeme Thomas, may be
reached by e-mail at g...@uniplex.co.uk.

3.2. Clubs

Clubs normally play Scrabble according to tournament rules, although
sometimes accommodation for newcomers includes allowing them to refer
to lists of two- and three-letter words for their first couple of
visits.

The current roster of active North American clubs, according to the
most recent listing from the National Scrabble Association, is an
Appendix to this FAQ. Some of the listings may be out of date, so
call the person listed before trying to attend.

For clubs in the UK, contact

Philip Nelkon
J.W. Spear & Sons PLC
Richard House
Enstone Road
Enfield
Middlesex
United Kingdom

3.3. Tournaments
3.3.1. North American, UK and world championships

"National Scrabble Championships", really for North America, are held
by the National Scrabble Association in even years. North American
players will be eligible for entry in 1994 if they have played in at
least one rated tournament. Players from elsewhere may enter without
condition.

In odd years, an invitational "World Championship" is held. The 1993
World Championship was held in August in New York; Australia is the
likely location for the 1995 Championship. North American entrants
qualify by rating or performance in designated qualifying
tournaments.

In the UK, Spears runs the National Scrabble Championship. Several
regional events (apparently open only to UK residents) are used as
qualifiers for the national final.

Also in the UK, the APSP organizes a 17-game British Matchplay
Scrabble Championship held each August. It is open to all.

3.3.1.1. Did the North American 1992 champion really give his
$10,000 prize away to a literacy charity?

Yes. By pre-arrangement, since Joe Edley also is vice president of
NSA, he agreed to give away any money he won in the 1992 championship
to an appropriate charity. He presented his $10,000 prize for first
place to Literacy Volunteers of America.

3.3.2. How club and tournament Scrabble differs from the rules
in the box

Club and tournament Scrabble games are always two-player games.

Both players must keep score. A bag is used for tiles (not the box
lid). Chess clocks are used to time the game and each player is
allowed a total of 25 minutes to make all of his or her moves in the
game. If a player's time limit is exceeded, the game continues but
the player is penalized 10 points for each minute over the time
limit.

The validity of words is determined, in North America (and some other
places) by the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, and in the UK by
Official Scrabble Words. Most other places use Official Scrabble
Words, although some (including New Zealand and in most states of
Australia) use both. (These references are described in section
3.3.3.)

When a player challenges one or more words in his or her opponent's
move, the clock is stopped while a third party (usually a club or
tournament director) looks up the challenged words (which the
challenger must specify) to determine whether the move is valid. If
a challenged word is unacceptable, the play is removed and the player
loses that turn. In North American play, the maker of an erroneous
challenge loses a turn; in the UK, and most of Australia, they do
not.

There are no "house rules" that many social players use, such as free
exchange of four of a kind, or claiming blanks off the board by
substituting for them.

Once there are fewer than seven tiles left in the bag, no exchanging
of tiles is allowed. Passing is allowed at any time.

At the end of a North American game, when one player uses all his or
her tiles with none remaining in the bag, he or she receives double
the value of the opponent's remaining tiles. In the UK, as specified
in the box, that value is added to and subtracted from the players'
respective scores. Both methods result in the same spread.

Ties are not broken. (The box rules don't mention this possibility.)

If the two players take six consecutive turns without successfully
placing any tiles on the board - due to any combination of
challenges, passes and exchanges -- the game ends, and both players
lose the value of the tiles on their racks. A game in which neither
player can make a play ends this way, although the players may simply
agree that the game is over without going through all six turns.

The box rules do not mention whether one can make written notes
during the game. In tournaments and clubs, players are allowed to
write anything they wish on their score sheet. One use of written
notes is to keep track of which tiles have been played, allowing one
to know which tiles remain to be played. This is known as tile-
tracking, and players may use preprinted score sheets that show the
tile distribution as an aid to tile-tracking.

3.3.3. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Official
Scrabble Words

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary ("OSPD"), published by
Merriam-Webster, is the official dictionary used for all tournament
and club play. The OSPD first was published in 1978. It includes
all words of eight or fewer letters, and simplifies the settling of
Scrabble word arguments by specifically showing those words'
inflections (plurals of nouns, conjugations of verbs, comparatives
and superlatives of adjectives). For root words longer than eight
letters, the Merriam-Webster Ninth Collegiate Dictionary is used.
The Tenth Collegiate came out in May 1993 and will replace the Ninth
on May 1, 1994. The OSPD does include inflected forms of up to eight
letters whose roots words are longer.

In 1990, a second edition of the OSPD came out in hardcover. A
paperback of the OSPD2 came out in June 1993, but the paperback OSPD1
is still on many bookstores' shelves and should be avoided. Matchups
($1 + $1 shipping, see section 12.6) and Cygnus Cybernetics (see
section 12.1) each publish a complete list of the words added (and
the handful removed) in OSPD2.

The OSPD was created because in the 1950s Selchow & Righter sold the
right to put out Scrabble word lists to Jacob Orleans and Edmund
Jacobson, authors of Scrabble Word Guide, a 1953 book based on the
Funk and Wagnalls Dictionary. The official publication, Scrabble
News, is still circumspect about publishing word lists, tending to
print them in small chunks to conform to some idea of their remaining
rights.

Parallel to the OSPD for North America, the UK has Official Scrabble
Words ("OSW"), which lists all rules-acceptable words in the Chambers
English Dictionary ("Chambers") (known as Chambers Twentieth Century
Dictionary before the 1988 edition) whose uninflected roots have nine
or fewer letters, and words of nine or fewer letters which are
inflections of longer words. Challenges of longer words are looked
up in Chambers.

For trademark reasons, the OSPD is not sold outside North America,
and OSW is not sold in North America.

3.3.3.1. Why are all those stupid/non-English/indecent words
allowed?

The OSPD was formed according to the rules of Scrabble, allowing all
non-capitalized words without apostrophes or hyphens, which are not
designated as foreign. In a compromise between the number of words
in a standard college dictionary (such as Funk & Wagnalls, in use
before the OSPD) and an unabridged dictionary, the OSPD, 1st ed.,
included all words found in at least one of five major college
dictionaries, which in the judgment of Merriam-Webster's
lexicographers (contracted by the trademark holder to do this) met
the rules.

To some extent, this succeeds at capturing the language, not as some
set of Scrabble players would have it, but as it is -- according to
professional lexicographers.

3.3.3.2. Current corrections to the OSPD 2nd ed.

The cumulative corrections to the OSPD 2nd ed., all corrected in the
most recent printings, are:

p16 ALIYAH: -YAHS (not -YAS)
108 CLAUGHT: -ING (not -INT)
109 CLEEK: CLAUCHT (not CLAUGHT)
213 FLANKEN: pl. FLANKEN
272 HONDLE: -DLED, -DLING, -DLES (not -DLIED or -DLIES)
273 insert HOOTY adj HOOTIER, HOOTIEST
321 LEAP: add LEPT as third past
359 insert MISENROLL v -ED, -ING, -S
364 MOJO: add MOJOES
451 delete PREFROZE; insert PREFREEZE v -FROZE,
-FROZEN, -FREEZING, -FREEZES to freeze beforehand
481 delete REARMICE; insert REARMOUSE n pl. -MICE
reremouse
477 REFALL: add REFALLS
488 delete REREMICE; insert REREMOUSE n pl. -MICE a bat
(a flying mammal)
537 SJAMBOK: definition should be "to flog"
635 UNMESH: -ES (not -S)
638 UPFRONT adj
639 URB: pl. URBS
643 delete VANIR
675 insert XANTHATE n pl. -S a chemical salt

Some of these "corrections" muddy the rule that all uninflected words
in the OSPD have eight or fewer letters.

3.3.3.3. Current corrections to the Franklin Electronic OSPD

additions deletions
--------- ---------
AMNIA AMNIONIA
BRITISH
CAUDILLOS CAUDILLLOS
CHEERLEADED
CHINESE
CHRISTMAS
CLUBBERS
CRACKLES CRACKLEES
CRIOLLOS CRIOLLLOS
EXPIATING
GONIONIA
GRAMS
HALAZONES
HIGGLED
HONDLES HONDLIES
HORNBEAMS
IRISH
ITALIAN
MACHES
MISEATE
OPALESCING OPALESCESCING
OUTDRAGGING
OUTEATE
OVEREATE
OVERLIT
REFALLS
S
SISSIES SIES
UNCLOGGING
UNDEREATE

3.3.3.4. Expurgation of OSPD

The NSA intends to reissue OSPD2 in September 1994 omitting those
words labelled as offensive to specific ethnic, racial or sexual
groups, such as the words "dago" and "jew". Hasbro, the NSA's
parent, gave as major reasons for the change its desire to promote
Scrabble in elementary schools using the OSPD and complaints by
offended ethnic groups.

In effect, adult players will have their playing vocabulary
restricted to those words considered safe for children. At the same
time some words (e.g. "cunt", "welsh") offend no interest group
recognized by Hasbro, and will not be removed.

This points out the incongruity of a business corporation asserting
control over the set of words acceptable for a game purportedly based
on the set of words in a natural language. In the UK, where (1) the
source of acceptable words is a dictionary (Chambers) prepared by
professional lexicographers with only lexicographic aims, and (2)
organized play is not under the sole control of the manufacturer,
this could not happen.

3.3.4. Tournament pairings

Most North American tournaments are ranked according to win-loss
record first, followed by the total of point margin in each game. A
few tournaments score according to a predetermined number of credits
for winning and for each ten points of margin. Australian
tournaments use total game score as the secondary factor.

In small tournaments or ones in where the field is sufficiently
divided, each player plays every other once. This is called a round
robin.

In all the other tournament designs, who one plays depends on where
one stands in the tournament so far. In the first round, generally
the players pre-tournament ratings temporarily stand in for the
tournament rank.

The modified form of Swiss pairing used at North American Scrabble
tournaments is best described by example. Suppose 64 players are at
the tournament. In round one, the first player plays the 33rd, the
second plays the 34th, etc., and the 32nd plays the 64th. In round
two, the same top plays middle is used for the top and bottom halves
of the tournament separately: 1 plays 17, 2 plays 18, down to 16
plays 32, and 33 plays 49, down to 48 plays 64. This continues with
groups shrinking by a factor of two at each round.

Because determining the pairings between rounds can take so long in
this method (computers are fast, but data entry can be slow), often
the field is divided into four groups, instead of two. So with 64
players, 1 17 33 49 would be grouped together, as would 2 18 34 50,
and 16 32 48 64. These groups of four then each play a round robin.

Note that this "speed-pairing" method provides the better players an
advantage. Denote the four quartiles in order as A, B, C, D. Then
the A player plays a B, C and D, while the D plays an A, B and C;
this tends to reinforce the pre-tournament estimate of the players'
strengths, and thus detracts from the aim of a tournament -- to
recognize performance, not rank. A simple improvement has rarely
been tried, to have each A player also matched against an A from
another group, etc. This models the round robin in small, and seems
inherently fairer. (If anyone has references to scholarly treatments
of the fairness of tournament design, I would be grateful to be
supplied with them, for ongoing research.)

In the UK, most tournaments are run by the (un-modified) Swiss
pairing method, in which players in blocks of decreasing size play a
random member of the next lower block.

3.3.5. Tournament ratings

Using a system based on the Elo system used in chess, North American
tournaments players get a rating in the range 500 to ~2150 which
indirectly represents the probability of winning against any other
rated player. This probability depends only on the difference
between the two players' ratings as follows:

rating probability
difference of winning
400 .919
300 .853
200 .758
100 .637
50 .569
0 .500
-50 .431
-100 .363
-200 .242
-300 .147
-400 .081

This represents the area under the standard bell-shaped curve where
200*sqrt(2) points are taken as one standard deviation. (The table
shows some sample points on this curve, adequate for good
approximations of rating calculations by interpolation, although
actual calculations use the exact curve.)

To keep current on a player's actual quality of play, the rating is
updated in every tournament played. First, the number of games one
is expected to win is calculated. Let's use as an example a two game
tournament, in which player P begins with an 1800 rating, and plays
opponents rated 1900 and 1725. P's rating is 100 below the 1900
players, so P is expected to win .363 fraction of a game; P's ratings
is 75 above the other player's, so P is expected to win .603 of a
game (halfway between .637 and .569).

So in the two games, P is expected to win a total of .966 games.
Let's say P won one game. That's .034 more than expected. P's
rating goes up some constant multiple of this number. Well, actually
it's not a constant, but depends on how many tournament games P has
ever played and how high P's rating is.

games played
Rating < 50 >=50
below 1800 30 20
1800-1999 24 16
2000 & up 15 10

The UK ratings are somewhat similar but simpler: the probability of
the better player winning is supposed to be 50% plus the rating
difference, as a percent.

The Australian rating system is the same as the North American.

3.3.6. Upcoming tournaments

For a listing of upcoming North American tournaments, see the
Appendix.

3.4. Organizations conducting Scrabble activity outside North
America and the UK

Memberships in the Australian Scrabble Players Association, which is
independent of the trademark holder, is $10 per year ($8 in some
states). It publishes 'Across the Board', which has columns on
playing, and tournament listings. It may be reached at

The Scrabble Enquiry Centre
PO Box 405
Bentleigh, 3204
Australia
(03) 510 9381

Australian Scrabble Players Association
3 Ocean St
Ormond, Victoria, 3204
Australia
(03) 578 6767

In Israel, English language Scrabble is played by several clubs.
There is a large one in Jerusalem. Tournaments are rated under a
copy of the North American system. There are occasional national
tournaments. Sam Orbaum, who once wrote a weekly Scrabble column for
the Jerusalem Post, runs the Jerusalem club, which meets at ICCY, 12
Emek-Refaim Street, Jerusalem at 7:30pm JST Tuesdays. He can be
reached at (02)767967 (H), (02)315654 (W).

The Thailand National English language Scrabble tournament has drawn
as many as 885 contestants, including some top North Americans.

Nigeria and Japan each have an active English language Scrabble
tournament scene.

For addresses of many English language Scrabble organizations and
contacts, see the Appendix.

3.5. Scrabble by surface mail

Postal Scrabble for residents of the US and Canada is conducted by
Nick Ballard (former publisher of Medleys), under the name "Letter
Getters". Letter draws are supplied in advance, but decoded upon
drawing tiles. For 2/4/6/8 game events, $13/$21/$29/$37 (+$1 per
event for Canadian entrants). Players are rated in a system based
on the North American rating system.

Nick Ballard
3814 Ashworth Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) MED-LEYS

3.6 Crossword games on the Internet
3.6.1. Crossword games server

A server dedicated to crossword games (with boards configurable by
the players) is available by telnet at next7.cas.muohio.edu, port
8888 (this means to reach it under Unix, type "telnet
next7.cas.muohio.edu 8888).

3.6.2. Crossword games mailing list

To be added to the crossword-games mailing list, write to
sa...@mit.edu, asking to be placed on crosswo...@mit.edu.
Active tournament players can be on crossword...@mit.edu.

4. Differences between Scrabble in North America and in the UK

OSW and Chambers govern Scrabble play in the UK.

In the UK, a player erroneously challenging suffers no penalty.

The UK has a second form of Scrabble play that is waning: high-score
tournaments, where only the total of one's own scores matters. Since
one's "opponents'" scores are irrelevant, play in this system aims
for open boards and encourages elaborate setups often independently
mined by the two players.

5. Publications on Scrabble
5.1. Periodicals
5.1.1. Scrabble News

This is a publication of the National Scrabble Association (see
section 3.1), and comes with the $15 annual membership.

Puzzles, contests, gossip, intermediate and advanced tactics,
official information from NSA and Milton Bradley, tournament listings
and tournament results.

5.1.2. Rack Your Brain

Subtitled "Analysis of your favorite crossword game", Brian
Sheppard's series of booklets deeply analyzes specific positions.
By the author of the program Maven, which is an important tool for
move analysis. $42 for one year, $5 each.

Brian Sheppard
296 Old Marlboro Road
Concord, MA 01742

5.1.3. Non-North American periodicals
5.1.3.1. Onwords

Billing itself as the "Scrabble Enthusiasts' Magazine", this is the
only publication substantially written by more than one person. It
features numerous columns, lists, analyses, letters and tournament
reports. Subscriptions are #6 for 6 issues in the UK, #10 elsewhere.

Allan Simmons
Onwords Magazine
Shilling House
1 Woolmer Hill
Haslemere
Surrey, GU27 1LT
United Kingdom

Onwords may merge with the APSP's newsletter within about a year.

5.1.4. Defunct periodicals
5.1.4.1. Letters for Expert Players

This letter-form publication, which ceased in December 1986, still
forms a rich mine of top expert opinion on interesting positions.
Back issues may (possibly) still be available from:

Albert Weissman
11 White Rock Road
Westerly, RI 02891

5.1.4.2. Matchups

Besides detailed tournament results, Matchups picked up from the
Letters in using a panel of experts to annotate interesting
positions. Suspended publication in July 1991. Back issues may be
available. See section 12.6.

5.1.4.3. Medleys

Probably the highlight of this well-edited, entertainingly written
monthly were the game annotations. One game per month was annotated
in full. Three interesting positions were analyzed by readers, with
quotes. Word lists, study techniques, anecdotes, humor and opinions
rounded out the publication. The only drawback was a long-running
two page tournament advertisement in this 12 page newsletter.

For the 12 issues of 1991 and 1992, $34 each; for 1993 (available
February 1994), $36; plus $2 shipping ($3 US in Canada).

Also, compiled from the pages of Medleys, "The Art and Science of
Anamonics" [a memory-efficient method for studying which letter 6-
and 7-letter sets anagram to make words with; e.g., the letters of
SLANDER make an 8-letter word with those in CALL GOD A PIOUS CHUMP]
and "Complete 7+1 Anamonics #1-2100" (available March 1994).

$5 and $29 respectively; plus $0, $2 shipping.

"Expert Analysis -- Consensus Game" #1, #2, #3, #4, and "Expert
Analysis -- Consensus Extras" vol. 1, vol. 2, $29 each; plus $2
shipping. Available Aug. and Sept. 1994, respectively.

The second and subsequent least expensive items are charged half the
above shipping costs.

Nick Ballard
3814 Ashworth Ave N.
Seattle, WA 98103
(206) MED-LEYS

5.2. Books

How to Win at Scrabble, Jacob Orleans & Edmund Jacobson. 1953,
Grosset & Dunlap. Out of print.

The Champion's Guide to Winning at Scrabble, Joel Wapnick. Best for
advanced players, with sophisticated analyses of many positions and
good study techniques. Out of print.

The Ultimate Guide to Winning Scrabble, Michael Lawrence & John Ozag,
(Bantam). Good for beginners to intermediates; covers many of the
basic approaches to analysis. Out of print, but may be available
from Edward R. Hamilton, a mail-order remainder bookseller.

Scrabble Tournament Success, a booklet focusing on the thought
processes which can help intermediate players improve. Available
from the author, an excellent player, for $7 + $1 shipping.

Darrell Day
Marketing Concepts
5 Westglen Place
Plano, TX 75074

World Championship Scrabble, Gyles Brandreth & Darryl Francis,
(Chambers). Twenty-two annotated games from the 1991 World
(English language) Scrabble Championship, which was played using
words in OSW or OSPD. In bookstores, or $7.95 + $3.50 shipping from
Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1.

The Word Game Power Workout, Rita Norr & Audrey Tumbarello (Perigee,
Putnam Publ.) (new, Oct 1993). Endeavors to teach words "through
trivia, word meanings, riddles, mnemonics, and geography." This book
appears useful for breaking the reader through to thinking in terms
of anagrams, hooks, prefixes, suffixes and extensions. Also includes
four pages of well thought out, dense suggestions for better Scrabble
play. In bookstores, or $10.95 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus
Cybernetics, section 12.1.

British Scrabble books:

Official Scrabble Words, Chambers
Comprehensive listing of 2- to 9-letter words in the official
Scrabble word reference, the Chambers dictionary.
Championship Scrabble, Alan Richter
Play Better Scrabble, Michael Goldman
Scrabble, Darryl Francis
The Scrabble Book, Gyles Brandreth
covers both British & North American Scrabble
available, $5.99 + $4 shipping, from Cahill & Co., (800) 755-8531
The Scrabble Puzzle Book, Gyles Brandreth
Scrabble World Championship, Gyles Brandreth and Darryl Francis

5.3. Word lists

Numerous lists and other items are available from Cygnus Cybernetics
(see section 12.1).

The Blank Book, 2nd ed., Alan Frank
Shows all letters with which each set of six and seven letters
anagrams to make a word. Also specifies whether more than one word
can be formed. Spiral bound. $20 + $3 shipping from Matchups,
section 12.6.

The Olde-Fashioned Anagram Book, Alan Frank
All 2- to 8-letter words anagrammed according to their alphabetized
letter sets. Spiral bound. $15 + $3 shipping (or $32.50 + $4.50
shipping together with the Blank Book 2nd ed. above) from Matchups,
section 12.6.

The Weird Book, Alan Frank
Features such retrograde lists as words with weird trigrams, high
probability racks forming 7- and 8-letter words with only one low
probability tile, and words displaying all ways of forming plurals
(e.g. LIKUTA MAKUTA, ZLOTY ZLOTYCH). $10 + $3 shipping from
Matchups, section 12.6.

The Complete Blankbook, Mike Baron & Jim Homan
Lists all 6- and 7-letter sets forming 7- and 8-letter words and
all bingos formed. In US, postage paid: $42.50/39.98/39.95/38.00
each when ordering 1/2/3-9/10. In Canada, add $5 per address,
elsewhere $10. Wordbooks & Listmats, P.O. Box 2848, Corrales NM
87048-2848.

All Words, Jim Homan
All 2- thru 9-letter words accepted in North American play. $12 +
$3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1.

Back-Words, Jim Homan
All 2- thru 9-letter words accepted in North American play
alphabetized from the back. $12 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus
Cybernetics, section 12.1.

9-Letter Hooks and Anagrams, Jim Homan
Shows what letters extend 8- to 9-letter words, and letter sets
forming all 9-letter words. $10 + $3.50 shipping from Cygnus
Cybernetics, section 12.1.

High Probability Bingos, Jim Homan
The 1000 most likely 7- and 8-letter words to draw to an empty
rack. Also, the 1000 7- and 8-letter words most often played by
a computer in a substantial sample of games. $3.25 + $3.50
shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1.

JQXZ Bingos, Jim Homan
7-, 8- and 9-letter words containing the four top tiles. $3.25 +
$3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1.

The Family Bingo Tree
Similar to the two above, it groups together all 7- and 8-letter
words formable from each 6-letter set. Contact Randy Hersom
(section 5.4).

Double List Word Book, Ethel Cannon Sherard
OSPD1 based, alphabetically by word length and by last letter. Has
numerous omissions. Gwethine Publishing Co, P.O. Box 41344, Los
Angeles, CA 90041.

The Scrabble Word-building Book, Saleem Ahmed; $5.95
Inconsistent in inclusion of new OSPD2 words; numerous errors.

The Official Scrabble Word Finder
This is useless for Scrabble.

Official Scrabble Word Guide. Grosset & Dunlap
This 1953 book, still found in stores, is based roughly on the Funk
& Wagnalls dictionary then current.

Official Scrabble Lists
For the UK; lists based on OSW; many useful playing hints.
Available in the same places as OSW.

Word List 1993
Lists based on OSW + OSPD, listing all words up to 8 letters in
length.
Geoff Wright
11 Peter St
Box Hill North
Victoria 3129
Melbourne, Australia

Official Scrabble Words on Compact Disk
This is supplied for Sony's Data Diskman. Search facilities are
reportedly poor.

Official Scrabble Players Electronic Dictionary
Produced by Franklin, this credit-card sized device contains the
OSPD2. It does anagram queries and queries with blanks in fixed
position. Some proper nouns have crept in as acceptable words,
apparently from careless scanning of the printed OSPD2. Available
for $48.00 + $5.00 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics (see section
12.1; this is the only supplier that ships each device with a card
listing all the current corrections -- for which, see section
3.3.3.3), or $59.99 from Radio Shack.

Late rumor suggests that the Franklin OSPD may be withdrawn because
of wrangling between Franklin and Milton Bradley about the
proceeds.

5.4. Word study software

Word Study System, $99 at last information, is at least a bit
difficult to configure, but a very effective study system.

Jeff Widergren
19397 Zinfandel Ct.
Saratoga, CA

LexAbility, besides a anagram study system, includes a feature
allowing play of Scrabble by modem. $50 postpaid in US and Canada.

Randy Hersom
115A Rhyne St
Morgantown, NC 28655
rhe...@delphi.com

Puzlpack, $20

Chuck Fendall
Recroom Recware
P.O. Box 307
Pacific Grove, CA 93950

Anna, $99, quizzes on anagrams, emphasizing words missed over time,
allows custom lists as well as functioning as an anagrammer

Mary Rhoades
2325 Shady Grove Dr.
Bedford, TX 76021
(817) 545-3216

6. Basic tactics and methods

Rack Balance

Some groups of letters combine well, others poorly. Most
obviously, racks full of vowels or of consonants are usually hard
to play. Also, racks with duplicate letters -- even "good" letters
(except most often S and sometimes E) -- reduce flexibility.
Therefore, give weight in evaluating possible plays to how well the
leave combines.

As a corollary, also consider what replacement tiles you're likely
to draw. For example, if the choice between playing FARM and FORM
is otherwise indifferent, and there are many "A"s unplayed but few
"O"s, use the A to minimize the likelihood of duplication on the
next rack.

The simplest application of attending to leave is attempting to
keep good tiles. On average, S, E, R, and so on form words most
flexibly, and are particularly conducive to bingos. Choices
between letters lower down also matter: P is better than B. But
racks with Z or X tend to score high without playing long words.
Which type of "good" letter is best to keep varies.

In applying all these ideas, consider the board situation. If
there is a prime spot for a T, not used by the candidate plays, but
none for an S, prefer to play off the S. If the letters available
to be played through are mostly consonants, lean further toward
keeping vowels.

Tile-tracking

Since the set of tiles in a game is always the same, knowing what
is left is as useful to the Scrabble player as to the card-counting
blackjack player -- only easier. While some find tracking hurts
their concentration, after practice, most do it without disruption.
Others count only when they see a specific need.

Tracking allows better rack balancing: knowing there are many more
"A"s than "O"s outstanding allows one to lean toward playing an A.
It keeps one aware of whether the Q is outstanding, and of the risk
and opportunity in other tiles which fit particularly well or
poorly with the board.

Finally, once no tiles remain in the bag, tracking determines what
exactly is on the opponent's rack. Just before the bag is empty,
it allows fairly confident guessing what the opponent has. These
allow all kinds of end-game play: set-ups, plays to assure the
opponent cannot go out and enable one to throw out all rules of
thumb and simply analyze cases for how to win.

Challenging

One of the tactical considerations for challenging is not special
to Scrabble. If the only way you can lose is to challenge your
opponent's word, refrain. If winning requires a successful
challenge (plus perhaps some further luck) and there is any chance
the word is phony, challenge.

It is generally best not to challenge a bingo if an alternative
bingo was playable. I once played (P)SCHENT for several fewer
points than CH(A)STEN because I knew my opponent would be outraged
that I'd try such a stupid word on him. He should have calmed his
emotions and considered my alternatives. Of course, had he found
the over ten point better play, he might have inferred I had missed
it, and challenged.

Consider the possibility that you are better off with the
(possibly) phony word on the board. If it creates a lucrative
opening for you, makes especially good use of your rack, or wastes
your opponent's blank, offset the point benefit to you against the
benefit to opponent of not losing this turn. Weight this
calculation using your degree of certainty as to whether the word
is good.

Use your right to challenge all words formed. Since the director
gives only one ruling on the acceptability of all challenged words,
your opponent may be uncertain which word was phony and try the bad
word again.

Study

The great variety in learning styles prevent any definitive
recommendation of study methods, but there are some principles.

Study the words most likely to occur. Know the two-letter words
cold, since they are essential to common parallel plays. On the
way to learning the three-letter words solidly, learn all front and
back extensions for the twos. Learning the part of speech and the
meaning of the two-letter words helps many people assimilate this;
it is a technique that allows many to derive dual benefit from all
kinds of study.

Also extra likely to occur because of the reward, as well as worthy
of special study simply because of the reward, are the seven- and
eight-letter words. Many techniques are possible.

One top player has memorized an ordered list of these words each of
which is the first element of one of a set of subsidiary lists
which encompass the entire set of bingos. That method is only for
the very dedicated. Practice anagramming by matching the remaining
letters to a common suffix or prefix. Some claim success in
extending this technique to allow recognition of words which, for
example, contain the letters ING but form only a non-"-ING" word,
such as LINGOES.

Unless you have a photographic memory, try to learn words in small
enough sets that you can master them to the point that you
recognize both when you can and cannot anagram to one of them. For
example, learn the list of all eight letter words containing
exactly the vowels EEIIO (EOLIPILE and others). Then the phony
OLEINIZE will not get by you, nor will you try it yourself.

Practice anagramming at any time there are words around you whose
meaning you do not need to concentrate on. This will soon take
over your life so that even reading the newspaper, SENATOR will
translate to TREASON and ATONERS, deeply affecting your world-view.

For some very effective techniques, see back issues of Medleys
(section 5.1.2).

7. Typical games
7.1. Typical scores

In a 27 game, 194 participant tournament in 1988, the average score
was 368.6, standard deviation 60.6 and the distribution of scores:

180 2 420 214
190 1 430 165
200 2 440 141
210 5 450 101
220 26 460 100
230 27 470 58
240 19 480 63
250 56 490 53
260 78 500 34
270 101 510 24
280 137 520 19
290 185 530 12
300 205 540 6
310 257 550 6
320 309 560 4
330 325 570 7
340 336 580 1
350 345 590 1
360 325 600 2
370 331 610 0
380 325 620 0
390 328 630 0
400 276 640 0
410 225 650 1

7.2. Frequency of bingos

In the 1983 national championship among 32 selected players, players
got 2.9 bingos per game between them in games that happened to be
annotated.

8. Scrabble records
8.1. Actual

The following records are for sanctioned (that is, in an official
club or tournament) North American play.

The high combined score and the high individual score were both
obtained in a 1993 California tournament by Mark Landsberg, who
scored 770 against his opponent's 335.

The high margin of victory including phonies was by Ken Lambe of
Michigan, who scored 716 versus his opponent's 147, using a single
phony.

The high single turn, 302 points, has been achieved by both Jeff
Clark of Michigan and Ron Manson of Canada.

Longest consecutive opening sequence of bingos by one player:
Jeremiah Mead of Massachusetts played five in a 1989 North American
championship tournament game.

8.2. Theoretical

These records allow words only from the OSPD (only the 1st ed.
happens to be used) or the Webster's 9th Collegiate Dictionary.

The highest single scoring play, found by Kyle Corbin, shown with the
hooked words:

A1 OXYPHENBUTAZONE 1458
1A OPACIFYING 63
2A XIS 10
4A PREINTERVIEWED 26
8A BLADDERLIKE 57
11A AFORETHOUGHT 18
12A ZONETIME 29
15A EJACULATING 63
+bonus 50

The highest combined score, using the OSPD 1st ed. and Webster's 9th,
found by Steven Root of Massachusetts:

H2 LANKEST 74
8F METRICAL 60
8A GRAVIMETRI(C)ALLY 293
2F SULTANA(S) 61
1E HE, ES 7
1E HEN, NU 8
1I UT, UT, TA 6
1I UTA, AN 5
1M ON OS 3
L2 AR 2
L2 ARF 12
1A OXYPHENBUTAZONE,
BLANKEST, ZARF 1576
5E GINKGOES, ZARFS 123
B1 XI 18
O7 PYRUVATE 67
N14 WE, WE 20
D8 VERDITER 76
13B DIT 8
B13 DE 6
B13 DEI 4
15D ROT 3
G14 OE, ROTE 6
13G JOE, JO 35
I13 BA, JOB 22
I13 BAH 8
14I AI 4
K14 LI, AIL 5
11D DEADWOOD 106
15A MICROTECHNIQUES,
IN, PYRUVATES 1264
+2 times "F" 8

8.3. Blocked games

The position from which no play is possible no matter what tiles are
held, which is reached with the fewest plays and tiles (found by Jim
Geary of Arizona) is:

(K)
K E V
V O X
(X)U

Without using blanks, the smallest, found by Rick Wong of California,
is:

F
HUP
FUCI
PIU

9. Scrabble variants

In Anagram Scrabble (Clabbers, to some), where in the usual game, a
word in the dictionary may be used, the adjacent tiles need only
anagram to such a word. If there is a challenge, the challengee must
come up with a single word to which the challenged set of letters
anagram. Tiles are still fixed in position once placed.

In an idea being discussed in Medleys, called New Scrabble, the role
of luck in the draw of blanks is reduced in that both players have
one blank, not in the bag, which they may use to replenish their rack
once during the game. No known tournaments have been run with this
variation.

Ecology Scrabble allows recycling blanks, as alluded to in section
3.3.2.

In Duplicate Scrabble, players all play the same board, competing for
high score on each move. Duplicate tournaments are held in France.

10. Play-by-mail games

Open-book Scrabble by snail mail is run by Medleys. (See section
5.1.2 for its address.) Medleys charges $5 for a round, plus $3 per
game in a round; players participate in from 2 to 8 simultaneous
games.

In the UK, the Postal Scrabble Club is very active. See the Appendix
for a contact.

11. Scrabble paraphernalia
11.1 Tiles

The NSA (see section 3.1) will replace individual lost tiles from in-
print sets sold by in North America without charge.

Standard-issue tiles are "braillable", that is, particular letters
(and especially blanks) can be distinguished inside the bag by feel,
and "false blanks" may be played, since the back of all tiles is the
same as the front of a blank. Protiles, which are preferred
according to tournament rules, prevent this. They are long-lasting,
and the seller replaces lost tiles without charge. Available for $18
+ $3.50 shipping from Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1, or for $18
per set (10% off for 10 or more) from

Robert Schoenman
Box 408
Lake Oswego, OR 97034

11.2 Clocks

Chess clocks, used to time games at clubs and tournaments, are
available where chess paraphernalia is sold, but avoid those analog
models on whose faces the individual minutes past zero are not
marked.

Analog quartz clocks are sold by Cygnus Cybernetics, section 12.1,
for $45 (or $52 for a see-through case) + $5 shipping, and also by
Matchups, $67.50 + $5 shipping, section 12.6. Wind-up clocks are
sold by Matchups for $37.50 + $5 shipping.

A digital model well suited to Scrabble, having very large (1 inch)
numbers and a slanted face is sold for $135 + $3 shipping is sold by

Sam Kantimathi
Box 5236
El Dorado Hills, CA 95762-1236

11.3 Miscellaneous

Braille Scrabble is sold in North America by Milton Bradley. Blind
players do play in tournaments, bringing their own braille sets,
which have visible printed letters.

The Franklin Mint sells a Scrabble set (complete with a copy of the
OSPD, 2nd ed.) for $495. No serious tournament player I know owns
one, except for the winner of a Franklin-sponsored tournament set up
to promote this garish item. This set is also available in the UK at
an even higher price.

A cover of light plastic mesh for the Deluxe edition of Scrabble
allowing collecting tiles from the board all at once is available
from

Mary Lou Thurman
2627 24th St
Lubbock, TX 79410
(806) 744-7702

Cygnus Cybernetics supplies a device called TopSpin to make your
supposedly freely turning deluxe Scrabble set turn better. It is
really just a pair of ball-bearinged metal plates stuck to the
base and top of the board with two-sided thick tape, available at
hardware stores. From Cygnus (see section 12.1), it is $7.50 +
$3.50 shipping/handling.

12. Computer versions of Scrabble

There are (1) Scrabble-playing programs licensed in the US and UK;
(2) "crossword game" programs which can be configured to play
Scrabble; and (3) programs which ignore the trademark and copyright
issues. All are represented below.

For a citation to a publication on efficient Scrabble move finding,
see section 12.13.

12.1. CrossWise (IBM PC)

A ridiculously fast player which plays at the highest level, twice
having won the international Computer Olympiad at Scrabble. Highly
configurable, with a professionally programmed interface. Contains
all OSPD2 words, but no others over eight letters. (An augmentation
of the dictionary to cover all words up to 15 letters is $12.50.) No
setup capability; hinting ability is "limited" to showing all moves
in score order. $35 + $4.50 shipping/handling.

Cygnus Cybernetics Corporation
2013 Weathertop
Fort Collins, CO 80526
(303) 490-1288
(303) 493-5370 fax
in...@cygcyb.com

A UK variant of CrossWise is described in section 12.7.

Note that the shipping charge for orders of multiple items is $3.50
for the first $29.99 of merchandise, plus $.50 for each $10.00 up to
a maximum of $6.00.

12.2. Gameboy Super Scrabble (hand-held)

Based on American Heritage Dictionary, not OSPD. Unknown whether
still available.

12.3. Maven (Macintosh)

An extremely strong and intelligent player. Maven costs $75 (+$5
for non-US shipment). The program keeps track of various statistics
about the registered player, so orders must include the name of the
player, and (if available) their current rating.

Sheppard Company
60 Thoreau Street #187
Concord MA 01742-9116
(508) 287-0055

An IBM PC version should be coming out later this year.

12.4. Monty Plays Scrabble (hand-held)

Ritam Corporation. Originally available for the IBM PC and Apple II,
since 1987 only as a hand-held unit. Comes with 20,000 words from
OSPD1, upgradable to about 40,000, which is still incomplete.
Deplorable strategy. The hand-held version requires scrolling around
a small screen to find the board area of interest. Reportedly
sometimes changes the letter represented by a played blank.
Apparently no longer licensed by Milton Bradley, its current
availability is unknown.

12.5. Scramble (IBM PC)

This is a very pretty game. But note this from the documentation:
"Q. How come I can see my opponent's rack? Shouldn't it be hidden?
A. You must be thinking of some other crossword game. This is
Scramble. In Scramble, you get to see your opponent's rack." The
machine player plays for high score on each turn. While substitution
of a user-provided dictionary for the quite incomplete one supplied
is provided for, this slows down an already slow game.

Ted Gruber Software
P.O. Box 13408
Las Vegas, NV 89112

12.6. Tyler (IBM PC, Macintosh)

Written for the IBM PC and ported to the Macintosh (not very
smoothly, I am told), this version is distinguished by a complete
OSPD2 and Merriam-Webster dictionary up to 15 letters, with a UK
dictionary also available, by good strategy and by good setup and
hint facilities. (I regularly use it to automatically critique my
tournament games.) Unfortunately, the latest version, 3.04 is flaky,
and the author has not been upgrading as frequently as he had been.
$50.

Matchups
35 Gardner St
Arlington, MA 02174
(617) 661-1007
a...@world.std.com

12.7. US Gold Scrabble (IBM PC, Amiga, Atari ST)

Licensed for sale in the UK, this is essentially similar to CrossWise
(section 12.1), but comes with the complete contents of the OSW.
Reviews in the APSP newsletter say "a splendid opponent ... speed is
quite astonishing ... graphics and facilities are excellent." Cost
is around #30.

12.8. Vic Rice's Game (IBM PC)

This goes under the name "Scrabble" but for clarity, I'm denominating
it according to its author's name. Available from

Vic Rice
4026 Bayou Grove Dr.
Seabrook, TX 77586

and from the bulletin board system (BBS) where the author resides:

Ed Hopper's PC Board
(713) 782-5454

12.9. Virgin Mastertronic (IBM PC, Macintosh)

Licensed for sale in the US. Sold in three versions, about $15, $25
and $35. The standard version has about 20,000 words from the OSPD1.
The two deluxe versions have the complete OSPD1 with some errors. In
the IBM PC program, the deluxe version adds VGA graphics. The $35
version is the deluxe for Windows, which stops running when in the
background. Reportedly plays at the level of a middling tournament
player, but with no discernable strategy. Also reportedly very slow,
with the deluxe versions, holding the full OSPD1, taking two to three
minutes per move on a 386/33.

12.10. WordsWorth (IBM PC)

Shareware version, available at mirrors of the comp.binaries.ibm.pc
archives, uses a US English dictionary of only 15000 words, all of no
more than six letters. Registration brings two 65000+ word
dictionaries (US English and UK English). Currently in version 1.1.
Registration costs 75 S. African Rand, $25 US or #20.

Graham Wheeler
P.O. Box 15525
Vlaeberg
Cape Town 8018
South Africa
gr...@sun-2.cs.uct.ac.za

12.11. STrabbler (Atari)

Shareware, it is available for anonymous ftp from
atari.archive.umich.edu in the directory /atari/Games). It requires
an Atari with at least 1MB of memory. Words are played by click-and-
drag using the mouse. The program plays solely for high score. It
contains a 45000 word editable and browsable dictionary.

12.12. Unix Scrabble (Unix)

Available by anonymous ftp from ftp.doe.carleton.ca in the directory
/pub/scrabble. This program, by James A. Cherry, has to be compiled
for the target machine. It comes with an American Scrabble
dictionary, for which a single word file in simple ASCII may be
substituted. Currently in version 1.31. The player faces from one
to three computer opponents which play for highest score at each
move.

12.13 CRAB (Unix, Sun, Vax and Macintosh)

Based on their article in a research journal:

The World's Fastest Scrabble Program
Andrew Appel and Guy Jacobson
Communications of the A.C.M. v.31 no.5, May 1988

this product from Jacoppel Enterprises (the Unix, Sun, Vax version of
which is currently in version 1.3) appears primarily designed to
demonstrate the speed of their move-finding method, but does permit a
real, player-versus-machine game to be played. Their method is no
longer the fastest (their timings on more sophisticated machines are
far outdone by CrossWise on a lowly IBM PC), but illuminating
nonetheless. The Mac version is available at any mirror of the
Info-Mac archive, in the file crab.hqx.

13. Glossary

Bingo: A play that uses all seven of a player's tiles, earning a
50-point bonus. Good tournament players average one to two such
plays per game. The unlovely term "bingo" is used by North American
players. British players say "bonus play" or just "bonus".

Double-Double, Triple-Triple: A play that covers two double word
scores, or triple word scores, respectively, scoring quadruple or
nonuple ("hey, it's in Chambers") the raw score of the word.

Exchange: A turn in which a player trades letters rather than
playing on the board. This is allowed only when at least 7 tiles
remain in the bag.

Hook: A play adding one letter to one end of of a word already
played, while creating a main word perpendicular to the extended
word.

Parallel Play: A play making several words perpendicular to the main
word by extending existing words or inserting letters between
existing tiles.

Pass: A turn in which a player does nothing. Compare with exchange.

Phony: A word played that is not in the official dictionary or
dictionaries.

A1. Credits

Many thanks to Jim Homan for numerous corrections and improvements.
Also to Graeme Thomas, particularly for information on Scrabble
outside of the US and Canada, and to Barry Harridge and Philip F.X.
Ryan for information on Australia. Thanks also to Edith Berman, Gary
Dismukes, Steven Gordon, Adam Logan, Maggie Morley, Larry Sherman and
Harriet Strasberg for helpful comments.

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Steven Alexander
Comp Sci grad student ste...@cs.berkeley.edu

[Steven Alexander]

Last-modified: 15 April 1994
Archive-name: games/scrabble-faq/supplement

This article is available for anonymous ftp from rtfm.mit.edu in the

directory /pub/usenet-by-hierarchy/rec/games/board, under the name
Scrabble_FAQ_-_Club_and_Tournament_Supplement (and
Scrabble_FAQ_-_General_Information for the companion
part).

A2. Roster of clubs in the US and Canada

CANADA

No. 3 TORONTO, ONT
Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
Earl Bales Park Comm Ctr
Bathurst St, S of Sheppard Av W
Mike & Lynda Wise (416) 225-3535
37 Rockland Dr
Willowdale, ONT, M2M 2Y8

No. 83 MONTREAL, QUE
Mondays @ 7:15 PM
Centennial Park Chalet
Call for information
Bernard Gotlieb (514) 484-0824
5770 Hudson Av
Cote St Luc, QUE, H4W 2K6
Fran Silver (514) 481-2813

No. 177 VANCOUVER, B.C.
Call for information
Robert Fancett (604) 325-9940

No. 193 BRANTFORD, ONT
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
St. Marks Anglican Church
155 Memorial Dr
Glenn Dunlop (519) 752-2242
55 Brunswick St
Brantford, ONT N3T 1E9
Tammy Humphreys (519) 759-6035

No. 202 KIRKLAND, QUE
Thursdays @ 7:30 PM
Eccestone Park Chalet
Call for information
Marie Desjardins (514) 695-0336
143 Meridian Blvd
Kirkland, QUE H9H 3Y5
Janice Miozzo (514) 695-6042
Diane Illing (514) 697-5897

No. 252 HAMILTON, ONT
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
Synagog Ohav (Peter & Hess Sts)
Barry Spinner (416) 528-3776
V Minden (416) 628-2888

No. 264 MOOSE JAW, SASK
Tuesdays & Fridays
Call for information
Dorothy L Evans (306) 693-5949
971 Coteau St W, #5
Moose Jaw, SASK S6H 5G1
Jean Button (306) 692-9880

No. 267 WHITEHORSE, YUK
Call for information
Roland Boone (403) 667-6552
29 Aishihik Rd
Whitehorse, YUK Y1A 3R6

No. 277 ST. WILLIAMS, ONT
Call for information
Dorothy Kitchen (519) 586-3859
RR#3
Simcoe, ONT N3Y4K2

No. 293 OAKVILLE, ONT
Alternate Fridays @ 7:30 PM
Grace Lutheran Church
Call for information
Jean Meyer (416) 844-7262
1205-1297 Marlborough Ct
Oakville, ONT L6H 2S1

No. 307 COURTENAY, B.C.
Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
16-1440 13 St
Courtenay, B.C.
Edward Skalazub (604) 338-6619

No. 374 CALGARY, AB
Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
Riverview United Church
824 Imperial Way SW
Siri Tillekeratne (403) 281-2459
16 Cedarwood Pl SW
Calgary, AB T2W 3G6
Margory Gross (403) 245-0554

No. 402 VICTORIA, B.C.
Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
Helga Williams (604) 380-9962

ALABAMA

No. 9 MOBILE, AL
Tuesdays & alt. Saturdays @ 7:00 PM
Recreation Center
2301 Airport Blvd
Bel Air Mall
Sarah Fields (205) 473-2633
453 W Creek Circle Dr
Mobile, AL 36617

No. 45 HUNTSVILLE, AL
Various Tuesdays & Sundays
Call for information
Patti Reny (205) 881-4325
9015 Randall Rd, SW
Huntsville, AL 35802

No. 165 PRICHARD, AL
1st & 3rd Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
John Langham Auditorium
435 Main Blvd
Sara Fields (205) 473-2633
453 W Creek Circle Dr
Mobile, AL 36617
Caranell Lott (205) 452-2745

No. 362 BIRMINGHAM, AL
Mondays @ 6:00 PM
Sharpsburg Manor Clubhouse
Call for information
Althea Huber (205) 942-2422, or 879-4943
912 Aspen Dr
Birmingham, AL 35209

ALASKA

No. 110 JUNEAU, ALASKA
Thursdays @ 5:00 PM
Zach Gordon Youth Ctr
Call for information
Becky Bryant (907) 780-4395

ARIZONA

No. 123 PHOENIX, AZ
Wednesdays @ 6:00 PM
Jerry's Restaurant
5202 N Central
Barbara Van Alen (602) 993-7535
2437 W Willow Av
Phoenix, AZ 85914
Steve Cheseborough (602) 257-8038

No. 231 SUN LAKES, AZ
Mondays @ 1:00 PM
Club House
25601 N Sun Lakes Blvd
Call for information
Ruth Sturrus (604) 895-1250
9316 N Cactus Ln
Sun Lakes, AZ 85224

No. 241 SCOTTSDALE, AZ
Mondays @ 6:30
Swensons
NE corner, Shea-Scottsdale Rd
Call for information
William Webster (602) 488-9447

No. 303 TUCSON, AZ
Fridays @ 7:00 PM
Clubhouse, Villa Serenas Resore Apts
8111 E Broadway
Tucson, AZ 85720
Naurlene Canterman (602) 886-9258

No. 390 TUCSON, AZ
Call for information
Lewis Saul (602) 623-3957
1263 S Bison Dr
Tucson, AZ 85713

No. 405 SCOTTSDALE, AZ
Tuesdays @ 6:00 PM
Scottsdale Pima Motel
7330 N Pima Rd
Bonnie Rudolph (602) 946-5326
Lillian Goldfine (602) 860-0890
Florence Ziegler (602) 994-1172

ARKANSAS

No. 249 JONESBORO, AR
1st & 3rd Tuesdays @ 1:30 PM
Mercantile Bank
300 South Church St
Jonesboro, AR
Billie P Garver (501) 486-5857
Eunice Czapla (501) 932-6212

No. 336 NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS, AR
Mondays @ 10:30 AM
Nettie's Cafeteria College Plaza
Mountain Home, AR
Marie Moore (501) 425-7729

No. 368 FT SMITH, AR
Call for information
Ruth Walker (501) 646-2632
1609 Savannah Dr
Ft Smith, AK 72901

CALIFORNIA

No. 21 SAN JOSE, CA
Saturdays @ 10:00 AM
St James Senior Ctr
199 North 3rd St
Bess Sloanaker (408) 292-3328
Rick Wong (408) 287-3563
1022 Summermist Ct 074
San Jose, CA 95122-3360

No. 34 HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA
Thursdays @ 6:00 PM
Home Fed Savings & Loan
2111 Main St
Penny Baker (909) 683-0989
Helen Tieger (714) 969-0043

No. 40 OAKLAND, CA
Saturdays @ 12:15 PM
Montclair Park Clubhouse
Mountan Blvd betw. that & Moraga, near Thornhill
Victor Havens (510) 482-1109
1517 MacArthur Blvd #5
Oakland, CA 94602

No. 44 LOS ANGELES, CA
Call for information
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Westside Jewish Comm Ctr
Rm 203, 5870 Olympic Blvd
Ruth Sparer (818) 951-1745
10000 La Canada Way
Sunhand, CA 91040

No. 69 SAN FERNANDO VALLEY, CA
Mondays @ 6:45 PM
N Valley Jewish Comm Ctr
16601 Rinaldi St (at Hayvenhurst)
Granada Hills, CA
Deborah Sapot (818) 702-9218 (H)
22814 Av San Luis
Woodland Hills, CA 91364

No. 78 SAN DIEGO, CA
Mondays @ 6:30 PM
Home Savings of America
University Town Ctr
Mary V Small (619) 535-1518
2913 Ducommun Av
San Diego, CA 92122
Betty Schulman (619) 423-8845 (H), 238-0303 (W)

No. 85 LAGUNA HILLS, CA
Mondays @ 1:00 PM
Leisure World Clubhouse #5
Geraldine Wenk (714) 837-7223
3459-A Bahia Blance
Laguna Hills, CA 92653
Mrs Sylvi Gruzen
2518-Q Via Mariposa E
Laguna Hills, CA 92653

No. 176 LAGUNA HILLS, CA
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
California Federal S & L
Moulton Pkwy & El Toro Rd
Laguna Hills, CA
Gina du Mez (714) 586-2378
Joan Gendelman (714) 380-7730

No. 183 RIVERSIDE, CA
Saturdays @ 12:15 PM
Olive Grove Senior Resort
7898 California Av
Jerrold & Penny Baker (714) 683-0989
1235 Via Pintada
Riverside, CA 92507
Joyce Palmer (714) 943-2667

No. 195 LOS ANGELES, CA
Saturdays @ 10:00 AM
Felicia Mahood Senior Ctr
11338 Santa Monica Blvd
Don Knutzen (213) 838-3928
3822 Prospect Av
Beth Fliescher (310) 330-7570
Lou Block (310) 836-3173
Bruce D'Ambrosio (310) 641-2879

No. 235 SANTA ROSA, CA
Call for information
Fred Holden (707) 538-4874
1342 Rivera Ct
Santa Rosa, CA 95409

No. 242 LONG BEACH, CA
3rd Sundays @ 1:00 PM
Fidelity Federal Bank
13820 Seal Beach Blvd
Seal Beach, CA 90740
D Sapot (818) 702-9218

No. 244 SAN JOSE, CA
Sundays @ 6:00 PM
Call for information
Johnny Nevarez (408) 379-0113
4804 Bannock Circle
San Jose, CA 95130

No. 271 SANTA BARBARA, CA
Jason Sommer & Sherry Schaff
P.O. Box 20298
Santa Barbara, CA 93103

No. 329 EAGLE ROCK, (LOS ANGELES), CA
2nd & 4th Wednesdays @ 6:45 PM
Yosemite Senior Ctr
1840 Yosemite Dr
George Heussenstamm (818) 248-0537
5013 Lowell Av
La Crescenta, CA 91214
Gwen Bishop (213) 258-6667
Al Medrano (213) 254-3766

No. 348 SAN JACINTO, CA
Fridays @ 6:30 PM
Valley Wide Rec & Park Dist
901 West Esplanade
San Jacinto, CA
Doug or Bonnie Houlihan (714) 658-0751

No. 357 LACOSTA, CA
Saturdays @ 10:30 AM
Stagecoach Park Rec Ctr
3420 Camino De Los Coches
Carlsbad, CA 92009
Sue Kaye (619) 942-9922
2625 Pirineos Way #222
Carlsbad, CA 92009
Stan Rubinsky (619) 483-1313
Mary V Small (619) 535-1518
Ellis Willson (619) 454-4684

No. 377 FRESNO, CA
Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
Farmer's Market
2736 Divisadero
Fresno, CA 93721
Cherri Buchanan (209) 445-1567 (H), 439-2222 (W)

No. 380 PALM SPRINGS, CA
Wednesdays @ 5:30 PM
Palm Springs Senior Ctr
480 S Sunrise
Palm Springs, CA
Stan Rubinsky (619) 321-8090

No. 383 SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, CA
1st & 3rd Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
Santee Fire Sta
8950 Cottonwood Av
Santee, CA
Sandee Reynoldson (619) 448-6837

No. 384 SANTA CRUZ, CA
Call for information
Bryan Goolsby
(408) 663-5863

No. 397 SANTA BARBARA, CA
Call for information
Elisabeth Jordan (805) 562-6556

No. 406 HAYWARD, CA
Sundays @ 11:00 AM
Hayward Senior Ctr
22325 N Third St
Kate Mendell (510) 783-6576

COLORADO

No. 185 DENVER, CO
1st, 3rd, and 5th Tuesdays @ 6:30 PM
Kirk of Bonnie Brae
1201 S Steele
Laura Scheimberg (303) 979-0167
Susan Moon (303) 388-8577

No. 351 BOULDER, CO
Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
St Aldanta Episcopal Church
2425 Colorado Av
Dennis Kaiser (303) 447-8393
Box 28
Jamestown, CO 80455

CONNECTICUT

No. 103 GREENWICH, CT
Call for information
Dr Irving Samuels (203) 531-8224
10-D Weavers Hill
Greenwich, CT 06831

No. 112 MANCHESTER, CT
1st Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
Community Baptist Church
585 East Center St
Ann D McClain (203) 643-7549
64 Holl St
Manchester, CT 06040

No. 134 WEST HARTFORD, CT
Thursdays except 1st one @ 7:00 PM
& Jewish religious holidays
Emanuel Synagogue
160 Mohican Dr
Harry F Leonard (203) 667-3971
Dave Carlson (203) 940-6814

DELAWARE see WASHINGTON, DC

FLORIDA

No. 18 MAIMI, FL
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Stephen Clark Comm Bldg
1650 NW 37th
Robert Mulet (305) 531-1254
Carl Stocker (305) 270-3388

No. 109 NORTH MIAMI, FL
Call for information
Marianne Kassel (305) 865-7007
375 Fairway Dr
Maimi Beach, FL 33141
Eda Aminoff (305) 861-2319

No. 131 BOCA RATON, FL
Thursdays @ 6:45 PM
2000 W Yamato Rd
Jack Rhoda (407) 433-1817
P.O. Box 15243
West Palm Beach, FL 33416
Florence Behl (407) 499-5575
15980 Loch Katrine Tr
Delray Beach, FL 33446

No. 197 ORLANDO, FL
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
Linda & George Lennos (407) 366-5724

No. 240 COCONUT GROVE, FL
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
Wynmoor Club House
Howard M Cohen (305) 971-2289
1335 SW 4 St
Miami, FL 33135

No. 276 LAUDERHILL, FL
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Veteran's Park
7600 NW 50 St
Sandee & Bob Gosin (305) 741-1997
Ann Robin (305) 484-4559

No. 295 OLD TOWN, FL
3rd Sundays @ 2:00 PM
Call for information
Eleanor Baynard (904) 542-7878
Trading Post Rd, P.O. Box 1116
Old Town, FL 32680
Bernice Fleischman (904) 376-4508

No. 310 NORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL
Call for information
Murray Fishman (305) 940-6810
1750 NW 191 St Bldg 292
N Miami Beach, FL 33179
Judy Croudo (305) 962-6486
Hugh Williams (305) 927-0663

No. 314 JACKSONVILLE, FL
Wednesdays @ 1:00 PM
Quincy's Restaurant
3814 University Blvd W
Jean Goodman (904) 733-1565

No. 330 SARASOTA, FL
Call for information
Elspeth Abbate (813) 426-2333
John Janis (813) 923-1788

No. 335 SUNRISE, FL
Call for information
Larry Gradus (305) 748-4306

No. 353 FT PIERCE, FL
Tuesdays @ 7:15 PM
Call for information
Doris Ripp (407) 489-2314
2430 Harbour Cove Dr
Ft Pierce, FL 34949

No. 354 SUNRISE, FL
Call for information
Irvin Berkowitz (305) 748-6704
Sunrise, FL

No. 369 GAINESVILLE, FL
Books
114 NW 13 St
Call for information
Phil Haisley (904) 374-4241

No. 372 VERO BEACH, FL
Thursdays @ 6:45 PM
Vero Beach Highlands Clubhouse
625 Highland Dr, SW
Bob Lipton (407) 778-4176
760 23rd Pl, SW
Vero Beach, FL 32962
Joann Staszewski (407) 567-5755

No. 373 SARASOTA, FL
Call for information
John Janis (813) 923-1788

No. 381 MELROSE, FL
Tuesdays @ 1:00 PM and
1st Thursdays @ 1:00
Friendship Bible Church (W Wing)
Keystone Heights, FL 32666
Lorayne Pate (904) 475-2724
Rte #1, Box 1212
Melrose, FL 32666

No. 384 FORT LAUDERDALE, FL
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Tiffany House
2900 Riomar St
Tim Wise (305) 938-9935
Annette Phillips (305) 764-3914

No. 388 SATELLITE BEACH, FL
Wednesdays @ 6:00 PM
Village Inn Restaurant Hwy A1A
Satellite Beach, FL
Mady Garner (407) 676-0815
170 Allan Ln
Melbourne Beach, FL 32951

GEORGIA

No. 84 ATLANTA, GA
Saturdays @ 2:00 PM (Sept/May)
Call for information
Gloria Blackwell (404) 378-2066
2426 Glenwood, SE
Atlanta, GA 30317
Barbara Jordan (404) 522-1484

No. 237 ATLANTA, GA
Write for information
Jerri Bergeron
989 Fairburn Rd, NW
Atlanta, GA 30331

No. 292 ATLANTA, GA
Call for information
Douglas Toni (404) 874-6508

HAWAII

No. 145 HILO, HI
2nd & last Sunday @ 1:00 PM
Ken's Pancake House
1730 Kam Av
Wednesdays @ 9:00 AM
Ainaloa Long House
Jeanne Martin (808) 966-8370

No. 341 HONOLULU, HI
Mondays @ 9:15 AM
Call for information
Peg Chesley (808) 923-9060
2937 Kalakaua Av #37
Honolulu, HI 96815
Mary Ellen Lester (808) 923-6063

IDAHO

No. 386 BOISE, ID
Call for information
Evelyn Mull
2705 Palouse St
Boise, ID
Ronald Barker (208) 343-4741
1493 Shenandoah Dr
Boise, ID 83712

ILLINOIS

No. 51 CHICAGO, IL
Mondays @ 6:30 PM
Chicago Chess Mates (312) 262-9100
1261 W Loyola Av
John Ryan (312) 743-0947
6807 N Sheridan Rd
Chicago, IL 60626
Bruce Dawson (312) 326-3156

No. 259 CHICAGO, IL
Fridays @ 6:00 PM
Community Room, 1st Floor
170 West Oak
Call for information
George G Stone (312) 787-6723
170 West Oak, #3-D
Chicago, IL 60610

No. 340 DEERFIELD, IL
Call for information
Robert Denn

INDIANA

No. 132 MARION, IN
Call for information
Chuck Chapman (317) 668-8683
Chris Miller (317) 662-3807

No. 275 INDIANAPOLIS, IN
Tuesdays @ 6:00 PM
Brookside Park Recreation Center
3500 Brookside Pkwy S Dr
Jerry Miller (317) 736-7472
719 S Home Av
Franklin, IN 46131

No. 360 ELIZABETH, IN
1st Saturdays @ 1:00 PM
New Albany Floyd County Library
180 Spring
New Albany, IN
Daniel Bibb (812) 969-2728
R# 1 Box 46-2
Elizabeth, IN 47117

No. 376 HAMMOND, IN
Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
Public Library
1212 172 St
Hammond, IN 46324
Carol Colman (312) 374-3042

No. 382 WINCHESTER, IN
Call for information
Beth Bankert (317) 584-2419
422 S Main St
Winchester, IN 47394

IOWA

No. 385 ??, IA
Bergeron Sharon (319) 396-9234
2516 30 St SW
Cedar Rapids, IA 52404

KANSAS

No. 186 WICHITA, KS
Saturdays @ 1:00 PM
Indian Hills Clubhouse
2740 W 13 St N
Call for information
LaGene Murphy (316) 942-3351
Ruby O'Connor (316) 942-6855
Connie Servis (316) 685-3790

KENTUCKY

No. 161 DRY RIDGE, KY
Call for information
Robert Schoenman (606) 824-5840
P.O. Box 156
Dry Ridge, KY 41035

No. 256 LEXINGTON, KY
1st Sundays @ 1:30 PM
University of Kentucky
Dickey Hall/Faculty Lounge
Charles Faber (606) 223-1650
3569 Cornwall Dr
Lexington, KY 40503

No. 302 DANVILLE, KY
2nd Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
Elaine Jacobus (606) 236-5704
835 Boyd Av
Danville, KY 40422
Virginia Porter (606) 236-5758

No. 342 ELIZABETHTOWN, KY
1st Mondays @ 7:00 PM
3rd Saturdays @ noon
Call for information
Ted Blevins (502) 862-4722
Dorine Geeslin (502) 531-2443

LOUISIANA

No. 90 LAFAYETTE, LA
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
David Johnson (318) 981-3489
404 Guilbeau Rd #E-128
Lafayette, LA 70506
Priscilla Fournet (318) 235-8153

No. 188 GONZALES, LA
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
Call for information
Gloria Simoneaux (504) 647-6424
42226 Bayou Narcisse Rd
Gonzales, LA 70737
Josephine Hatchell (504) 665-5337

No. 322 ALEXANDRIA, LA
Every other Monday @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
Dorothy Hathorn (318) 442-4203

MAINE

No. 254 YARMOUTH, ME
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
Yarmouth Comm House
57 East Main St
Gay Hoyt (207) 829-5744
85 Sligo Rd, N Yarmouth
Cumberland Center, ME 04096
Lyn Clarke (207) 846-4480

MARYLAND

No. 7 BALTIMORE, MD
Mondays @ 6:00 PM
Furley Recreation Center
Furley & Sipple Av
Helen Harrison (301) 485-6160
4308 Southern Av
Baltimore, MD 21206

No. 50 BALTIMORE, MD
Call for information
Joanne Cohen (301) 922-1297
2723 Mendoza Rd
Randallstown, MD 21113
Daniel L Pratt (301) 987-9510

No. 172 COLUMBIA, MD
Mondays @ 7:30 PM
Call for information
Janice Beck (301) 964-0136
10105 Windstream Dr, #5
Columbia, MD 21044

No. 320 STEVENSVILLE, MD
Fridays @ 7:00 PM
Call for information
Keith Hilderbrand (301) 754-5079
Rte #3, Box 288
Federalsburg, MD 21632

No. 378 CROFTON, MD
Call for information
Mary Lou Goetz (410) 798-4627
1548 Patuxent Manor Rd
Davidsonville, MD 21035

MASSACHUSETTS

No. 59 BOSTON, MA
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Allston-Brighton Police Station
301 Washington St
Brighton, MA
Call for information
Hilda Siegel (617) 323-9889
123 Kittredge St
Roslindale, MA 02131
Michel Cohen (617) 628-3213

No. 108 Lexington, MA
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
1st Parish Church
Harrington St
Judith Swank (603) 888-9114
4 Louisburg Sq, #3
Nashua, NH 03060
Ellen Miller (617) 484-6366
40 Greybirch Park
Belmont, MA 02178

No. 194 HYANNIS, MA
Wednesdays @ 12:00 noon
New World Bank/Comm Room
Hyannis Airport Rotary
Cliff McGauley (508) 362-1326

FALMOUTH, MA
Mondays @ 7:00
Stop & Shop (upstairs)
Jones Rd
Call for information
Lee Cooper (508) 548-6687

BOURNE VILLAGE, MA
Alternate Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Call for reservations
Edie Miller Berman (508) 759-2561

YARMOUTH, MA
1st Wednesdays @ 11:45 AM
Senior Ctr
528 Forest Rd
(508) 790-3480
Cliff McGauley (508) 362-1326

NEW BEDFORD, MA
Tuesdays @ 1:00
Council on Aging, Police Bldg
Acushnet, MA
Ruth Rivard (508) 993-8087

ORLEANS MA
Thursdays 2:30-4:30
Council on Aging
Rock Harbour Rd
Edie Miller Berman (508) 759-2561
Cliff McGauley (508) 363-1326

No. 200 STOUGHTON, MA
Mondays @ 5:45 PM
S Area Jewish Comm Ctr
1044 Central St
Elaine Patterson (617) 784-2951
5 Williams Rd
Sharon, MA 02067

No. 221 SPRINGFIELD, MA
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Foster Memorial Church
1234 Parker St
Avalon Newell (413) 782-0494
32 Spikenard Circle
Springfield, MA 01129
David Slauenwhite (508) 544-7354

No. 226 FRAMINGHAM, MA
Tuesdays @ 6:30 PM
Saint Andrews Episcopal Church
Buckminster Sq (Maple & Union)
Marjorie Pond (617) 655-7218
19 Mill St
Natick, MA 01760

MICHIGAN

No. 49 SAGINAW, MI
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Saginaw Villas Club House
2759 Samuel Dr
Teresa Maynard (517) 777-5676
2832 Gemini St
Saginaw, MI 48601
Irene Garrison (517) 777-1781
Naoma Ellis (517) 893-9681

No. 104 PORT HURON, MI
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
St Claire County Comm Coll
323 Erie St
Margaret Spalding (313) 325-1778
3250 Garlick Rd
Goodells, MI 48027

No. 115 LIVONIA, MI
Tuesdays @ 6:45 PM
Fire Station
10800 Farmington Rd
Livonia, MI
Florence Laatz (313) 386-8416
Bonnie Stover (313) 291-3843

No. 178 GRAND HAVEN, MI
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Grand Haven Comm Ctr
417 Columbus Av
Grand Haven, MI
Patricia Prentice (616) 788-4997
796 S Taffy Ln
Muskegon, MI 49442

No. 192 BAY CITY, MI
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
The Texan
3000 Center Avenue Rd
Essexville, MI
Peggy Lemay (517) 893-3087
212 South Warner
Bay City, MI 48706
Marthe St Laurent (517) 893-7288

No. 213 LANSING, MI
1st & 3rd Saturdays @ 11:00 AM
Friendship Manor
Friendship Circle
Call for information
Doris Munro (517) 351-0816
Vince Houiston (517) 393-2281

No. 222 BIRMINGHAM, MI
Mondays @ 6:45 PM
Call for information
Patricia L Pilling (313) 644-5929
31308 Huntley Sq, E
Birmingham, MI 48009
Esther Norber (315) 559-7157

No. 317 FLINT, MI
Sundays @ 2:30 PM
Ramada Inn (I-75 at Peirson Rd)
Mary Ellen Raleigh (517) 770-4178

No. 350 UNION LAKE, MI
Call for information
Gary Moss (313) 360-0140

No. 371 GRAND RAPIDS, MI
Call for information
Sandra Peters (616) 452-4521

MINNESOTA

No. 42 MINNEAPOLIS, MN
Tuesdays
Call for information
Carol Dustin (612) 331-1593
905 E Malcolm Av #1
Minneapolis, MN 55414 (ph. & address good thru April '93)

No. 199 BEMIDJI, MN
2nd Tuesdays @ 7:15 PM
Polly K Scotland (218) 751-7916
P.O. Box 1327
Bemidji, MN 56601

No. 327 MINNETONKA, MN
2nd Mondays & other times
Call for information
Jeff & Colleen Prentiss (612) 933-8740
10100 Minnetonka Blvd #302
Minnetonka, MN 55305-4521

MISSOURI

No. 198 MAPLEWOOD, MO
2nd & 4th Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Maplewood Comm Ctr
7550 Lohmeyer Av
James Barrow (314) 727-2962
6627 Alamo
Clayton, MO 63105
Tom O'Bannon (314) 524-1703
Ron Lyss (314) 569-2679
Ron Burton (314) 352-2429

NEVADA

No. 328 LAS VEGAS, NV
Tuesdays @ 6:00 PM
Call for information
Gerald Greenside (702) 454-0620
3047 Zane Circle
Las Vegas, NV 89121

No. 349 LAS VEGAS, NV
Sundays @ 1:00 PM
Breuner's Furniture
4450 Spring Mountain Rd
Las Vegas, NV
Gay Burch (702) 873-8854
4517 Del Oro Dr
Las Vegas, NV 89102

No. 391 LAS VEGAS, NV
Sundays @ 1:00 PM
Call for information
Dorothy Halprin (702) 256-3220
2804 Golfside Dr
Las Vegas, NV 89134

NEW HAMPSHIRE

No. 108 NASHUA, NH
Call for information
Judith Swank (617) 486-8664
3 Hall Av
Nashua, NH 03060

No. 331 MERRIMACK, NH
Mondays 7:00 PM
Call for information
Clubhouse at Merrimack Rte 3a
Merrimack, NH
Stella Russell (603) 622-9332

NEW JERSEY

No. 67 PARK RIDGE, NJ
1st Tuesdays @ 7:30 PM
Park Ridge Station Comm Rm
Ted Von Zwehl (914) 623-3137
13 Inwood Dr
Bardonia, NY 10954
Mitchell Darer (914) 356-1765
28 Lawrence Pl
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977

No. 251 TEANECK, NJ
Thursdays @ 7:30 PM
Teaneck Town Hall
Forest Av/Teaneck Rd
Selig O Wassner (201) 836-1949
P.O. Box 2157
Teaneck, NJ 07665

No. 316 LINDEN, NJ
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Linden Library
Sunnyside Branch
Orchard & Melrose Terr
Leonard E Heller (201) 815-1270
12 Eastham Ct
Scotch Plains, NJ 07076
Robert Weisinger (201) 486-6037

No. 398 SICKLERVILLE, NJ
Call for information
Betty C McDaniel
(609) 728-9446
11 Pinewood Ln
Sicklerville, NJ 08081

NEW MEXICO

No. 129 ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Cornucopia Restaurant
San Mateo & Central St
Call for information
Michael Baron (505) 843-7279
P.O. Box 2848
Corrales, NM 87048-2848
Grace E Cummins (505) 899-9646
Patty Wayne (505) 877-6646

No. 332 RIO RANCHO, NM
Closed Club
Call for information
Meadowlark Senior Ctr
(505) 892-7798
Tommie Evans (505) 892-4002
861 Navajo
Rio Rancho, NM 87124

No. 397 ALBUQUERQUE, NM
Wednesdays @ 6:00 PM
Goody's Restaurant
5555 Zuni NE
Stan Miranda (505) 256-3850
1109 Georgia St NE
Albuquerque, NM 87110

NEW YORK

No. 8 YONKERS, NY
1st & 3rd Sundays @ 1:00 PM
777 Mclean Av (Sept thru May)
Call for information
Howard Dunn (914) 592-6189
7 Rumbrook Rd
Elmsford, NY 10523

No. 23 PITTSFORD, NY
Mondays @ 7:15 PM
Lincoln Av Comm Ctr
35 Lincoln Av
Ted Rosen (716) 244-2189
517 University Av, #203
Rochester, NY 14607

No. 28 BROOKLYN, NY
Call for information
Alan B Hecht (718) 252-2161
1481 E 21 St
Brooklyn, NY 11210

No. 32 MASSAPEQUA, NY
Wednesdays @ 12:00 noon
Massapequa Reform Church
Merrick Rd at Ocean Av
Call for information
Thelma Baker (516) 799-0598
105 Beach Rd
Massapequa, NY 11758

No. 56 NEW YORK CITY, NY
Tuesday @ 7:15 PM
Beverly Bridge Club
130 E 57 St, 3rd fl
New York, NY 10021
Call for information
Susi Tiekert, Ron Tiekert (212) 689-4046
Mike Martin (212) 787-1260

No. 67 PARK RIDGE, NJ-NY Director
1st Tuesdays @ 7:30 PM
Park Ridge Station Comm Rm
Ted Von Zwehl (914) 623-3137
13 Inwood Dr
Bardonia, NY 10954
Mitchell Darer (914) 356-1765
28 Lawrence Pl
Chestnut Ridge, NY 10977

No. 125 SCHENECTADY, NY
Sundays @ 5:00 PM
Call for information
Norma Shelly (518) 346-3773
1639 Eastern Pkwy
Schenectady, NY 12309

No. 157 RIVERSIDE, NY
Alternate Wednesdays & Fridays
Call for information
Carol & Ed Halper (212) 792-4367
Maris Greenwald (212) 884-0688

No. 147 SHIRLEY, NY
Thursdays @ 7:30 PM
Call for information
Ginger White (516) 399-2579
10 Huron Rd
Shirley, NY 11967

No. 284 BROOKLYN, NY
Sundays @ 3:00 PM
Call for information
Shirley Zacot (718) 837-8239
8301 Bay Pkwy, #304
Brooklyn, NY 11214

No. 323 JAMAICA, NY
Sundays @ 4:00 PM
Rochdale Village Comm Ctr
169-65 137 Av
Call for information
Dionne Wells (718) 723-3228
134-19 166 Pl
Jamaica, NY 11434
Mildred Cuff (718) 276-0466

No. 324 NEW HARTFORD, NY
Call for information
Don Drumm (315) 853-3192
P.O. Box 151
Clinton, NY 13323

No. 347 NANUET, NY
58 East Rte #59
Nanuet, NY 10954
Robert Hertz (914) 623-2081

No. 355 MASSAPEQUA, NY
Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
88 Boston Av
Massapequa, NY
Ed Ugarte (516) 796-5737, 798-8181
Violet Ditommaso (516) 798-8181

No. 389 MANHATTAN, NY
Sunday PM
Beverly Bridge Club
130 E 57 St, 3rd fl
New York, NY 10021
mostly for players below 1200/unrated
Susi Tiekert (212) 689-4046

No. 404 ALBANY, NY
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Jewish Comm Ctr
340 Whitehall Rd
Albany, NY
David Goodman (518) 433-9639
Kurt Kopitz (518) 237-8782

NORTH CAROLINA

No. 136 RALEIGH, NC
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Call for information
Ann Hay (919) 846-8073
11924 Appaloosa Way, E
Raleigh, NC 27612
John Attamack (919) 929-6508
Charles Smith (919) 490-0239

OHIO

No. 62 FREMONT, OH
1st & 3rd Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Call for information
Flossie Swint (419) 334-2746
2994 Darr Rd
Fremont, OH 43420
Betty Ochs (419) 332-2771

No. 88 CINCINNATTI, OH
4th Tuesday @ 6:45 PM
Star Bank Bldg
6240 Glenway Av
Mady Garner (513) 941-1700 (WK) 941-6679
8206 Bridgetown Rd
Cleves, OH 45002

No. 154 STOW, OH
2nd & 4th Thursdays @ 7:00 PM
Adell Durbin Park
Call for information
Walter Konicki (216) 526-4677 (H), 524-8100 (W)
381 E Sprague Rd
Seven Hills, OH 44131
Kevin McCaffrey (216) 929-2454 (H), 379-1425 (W)

No. 217 TOLEDO, OH
Call for information
Claudia Finn (419) 893-8153 (H), 891-9919 (W)
616 W Broadway
Maumee, OH 43537

No. 294 DAYTON, OH
2nd & 4th Monday Evenings
Main Dayton Public Library
215 E 3 St
Dayton, OH 45402
(513) 227-9500
Call for information
Nancy Mills (513) 278-9730
4523 Bluehaven Dr
Dayton, OH 45406

No. 313 CINCINNATI, OH
Wednesdays @ 6:45 PM
Heritage Savings
Call for information
Julie Wilson (513) 353-2423
7215 Creekview Dr
Cincinnati, OH 45247
Tamara Obercorn (513) 729-4922

No. 364 CINCINNATI OH
Call for information
Altha Stewart
Cincinnati, OH

No. 379 CINCINNATI, OH
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Drake Center
151 W Galbraith Rd
Cincinatti, OH 45216
Phyllis Prather (513) 761-0304

OKLAHOMA

No. 243 OKLAHOMA CITY, OK
Call for information
Gary Creager (405) 340-0570
2812 NW 159 St
Edmond, OK 73013

OREGON

No. 308 PORTLAND, OR
Mondays @ 6:45 PM
Lake Oswego United Church of Christ
1111 SW Country Club Rd
Lake Oswego, OR
Karen Merrill (503) 635-7424
01680 SW Radcliffe Rd
Portland, OR 97219
Elizabeth Wood (503) 636-9798
Ruth Hamilton (503) 697-3939

No. 370 PORTLAND, OR
Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
Lyons Restaurant
1215 NE M L King Blvd
Portland, OR
Ruth Hamilton (503) 697-3939
Karen Merrill (503) 635-7424

PENNSYLVANIA

No. 55 READING, PA
Tuesdays @ 6:00 PM
Schlegel Park Field House
Call for information
Doris Carney (215) 373-0505
918 N 12 St
Reading, PA 19604
Laura Brader (215) 375-6241
Carrie Kline (215) 944-7888

No. 141 WARMINSTER, PA
2nd & 4th Fridays @ 7:30 PM
Warminster Township Library
1076 Emma Ln
Raymond Rauanheimo (215) 674-0447
189 Newtown Rd
Warminster, PA 18974-5219

No. 270 YEADON, PA
Mondays @ 7:30 PM
Nettie Ruth Davis (215) 623-5880
600 Parkview Blvd
Yeadon, PA 19050

No. 214 PHILADELPHIA, PA
Write for information
Shirley Blyther
515 N 63 St
Philadelphia, PA 19151

No. 230 HAMBURG, PA
1st & 3rd Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Village of Moselem
Rte 662
Call for information
Carrie Kline (215) 944-7888
RD #2, Box 584
Hamburg, PA 19526

No. 333 EXTON, PA
Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Call for information
Phyllis Patukas (215) 269-1723
Teri Gillstrom (215) 358-1268
Mary Alice Lyons (215) 857-5950
Steve Oliger (215) 284-2274

No. 352 PITTSBURGH, PA
1st Wednesdays @ 7:00 PM
Saturdays @ noon
Northland library
300 Cumberland Rd
Pittsburgh, PA
Luise Shafritz (412) 935-5896
2703 Timberglen Dr
Wexford, PA 15090

No. 358 SHARON HILL, PA
1st & 3rd Mondays @ 7:00 PM
Call for information
Marilyn Everett (215) 586-8488

SOUTH CAROLINA

No. 296 CAMDEN, SC
Call for information
Lewis Chapman (803) 432-5678
1915 Lyttleton St
Camden, SC 29020

SOUTH DAKOTA

No. 361 SIOUX FALLS, SD
Call for information
Mark Oppenheimer (605) 332-8404 evenings
4704 Pasque Circle
Sioux Falls, SD 57105

TENNESSEE

No. 238 MEMPHIS, TN
2nd & 4th Mondays @ 7:00 PM
McDonald's Restaurant
2073 Union Av
Memphis, TN 38104
Major A Blanchard (901) 743-3487
2453 Werdun
Memphis, TN 38114
Herman McNeil (901) 774-4363

TEXAS

No. 71 ABILENE, TX
Mondays @ 6:00 PM
1st Methodist Church
South 2nd & Butternut St
Mary L Couey (915) 692-6565
1958 S 20 St
Abilene, TX 79602
Hildagard Powell (915) 572-3318
Margie Tacker (915) 692-4926

No. 124 LUBBOCK, TX
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
John Knox Club House
1717 Norfolk St
Lubbock, TX
Mary L Thurman (806) 744-7702
2727 24th St
Lubbock, TX 79410
Marion Wooten (806) 744-0326
Dennis Major (806) 793-3918

No. 234 AUSTIN, TX
Call for information
Fridays @ 6:30 PM
Austin Rec Ctr
1301 Shoal Creek Blvd
Caesar Jaramillo (512) 441-8306 (H), 892-2564 (W)
3908 Run of the Oaks, #D
Austin, TX 78704

No. 248 BEDFORD, TX
Thursdays @ 6:30 PM
Heartland Health Ctr
2001 Forest Ridge Dr
Mary Rhoades (817) 283-1282
2325 Shady Grove
Bedford, TX 76021
Donna Beachamp (817) 468-5184
Al Weber (214) 253-6408

No. 270 SAN ANTONIO, TX
Mondays @ 6:45 PM
Jason's Deli
25 NE Loop 410
T A Sanders (210) 379-8464
P.O. Box 669
La Vernia, TX 78121
Nancy Scott (210) 658-2994

No. 319 DALLAS, TX
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Shoney's Restaurant
2310 Stemmons Trail
Dallas, TX
Call for information
Michael L Willis (214) 349-2078 (H), 637-1500 (W)
Jeff Reeves (214) 340-1451

No. 321 CISCO, TX
Thursdays @ 6:00 PM
Olney Savings & Loan/Comm Room
701 Conrad Hilton Av
Gloria Turner (817) 442-4808
P.O. Box 867
Cisco, TX 76437

No. 334 HOUSTON, TX
Call for information
Dorothy Gauvin (713) 785-4711

No. 359 WEST HOUSTON, TX
Sundays @ 2:00 PM
Call for information
Stephen Fierros (713) 957-2997

UTAH

No. 173 WEST VALLEY CITY, UT
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Peter Piper Pizza
2200 S Highland Dr
Call for information
Jim Fischer (801) 363-4420
P.O. Box 11891
Salt Lake City, UT 84147
Kim Barr (801) 486-4260
Jane Larkin (801) 272-2725

WASHINGTON

No. 253 SEATTLE, WA
Tuesdays @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
Ann Ferguson (206) 771-5483
5504 220 St, SW #C-301
Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
Toby Cozens (206) 937-7872
Ken & Starlite Clark (206) 854-5636

No. 364 KENT, WA
Call for information
Starlite Clark (206) 854-5636

WASHINGTON, DC

No. 143 WASHINGTON, DC
Thursdays @ 6:00 PM
Langdon Park Rec Ctr
20th St & Rhode Island Av NE
Call for information
Robert Kilpatrick (202) 583-7586
4314 Bowen Rd, SE
Washington, DC 20019

No. 171 WASHINGTON, DC
Tuesdays @ 6:00 PM
Chevy Chase Comm Ctr
5601 Connecticut Av, NW
Call for information
Harold Rennett (301) 681-3958
2413 Dexter Av
Silver Spring, MD 20902
Joseph P Voith (202) 686-9670

WISCONSIN

No. 247 MADISON, WI
Wednesdays @ 6:30 PM
Call for information
Bonnie Rudolph (608) 276-8444
325 S Yellowstone Dr, #120
Madison, WI 53705
Richard Lauder (608) 233-2617

No. 265 MILWAUKEE, WI
1st & 3rd Saturdays @ 1:00 PM
Y-NOT II
706 East Lyon St
Call for information
Charlotte Morris (414) 541-2833
3653 S 75 St
Milwaukee, WI 53220
Dolores Heron (414) 332-1332

No. 318 WAUWATOSA, WI
Call for information
Warren Kaminsky (414) 786-0345
1619 S Conrad P
New Berlin, WI 53151

No. 363 MILWAUKEE, WI
Tuesdays @ 7:00 PM
Gas Lite N
60th & North Av
Pat Krohn (414) 282-5626

U.S. VIRGIN ISLANDS

No. 190 ST THOMAS, USVI
Thursdays @ 6:00 PM
Cafe Havensight
Call for information
Virginia Monsanto (809) 776-2035
25A Dronninges, Suite 5
Gade, St Thomas 00802

No. 286 CHIRSTIANSTED, ST CROIX
Call for information
Hermione Golden (809) 773-1194
P.O. Box 1404
Christiansted VI 00820

PHILIPPINES

No. 345 PHILIPPINES
Gil Domalaon
Write for information
26 P Alcantara St
San Pablo, Laguna
Philippines 4000

A3. Upcoming North American tournaments

Apr 16-17, Alexandria, LA
Sat 12:30 pm
10 gm, 3 div DA 1600/1300
EF $25, $20 by 4/5
Best Western Motel, 2720 W MacArthur Dr, Alexandria, LA,
(318) 445-5530
Info: Dorothy Hathorn, (318) 442-4203

Apr 22-24, Williamsburg, VA
Fri 8:30 pm
12 gm, 3 div
EF $100/25/25, $35 commuters by 4/7
Ramada Inn, US 60, Williamsburg, VA
HR $83
Info: Tim Maneth, 116 Bourbon Ct, Baltimore, MD 21234,
(410) 529-4053

Apr 23, Berlin, NJ
Sat 9:30 am
6 gm RR
EF $25 by 4/5
Berlin Baptist Church, 90 E Broad Av, Berlin, NJ
Info: Betty C McDaniel, 11 Pinewood Ln, Sicklerville, NJ
08081, (609) 728-9446

Apr 23-24, Livonia, MI
Sat 10 am
11 gm, 3 div
EF $30
Shelden Ctr, 10800 Farmington Rd, Livonia, MI
Info: Florence Laatz, 6831 Norwood, Allen Park, MI 48101
(313) 386-8416

Apr 23-24, Tucson AZ
Sat 10 am
11 gm RR
EF $25
8111 E Broadway, Tucson, AZ
Info: Naurlene Canterman, 7701 E Calle de la Escarpa,
Tucson, AZ 85715, (602) 886-9258

Apr 23-24, Sioux Falls, SD
Sat 9 am
12 gm, 3 div DA 1600/1200
EF $35/35/25
register by 4/10
Best Western Town House Motel, 400 S Main Av, Sioux Falls,
SD 57102, (800) 888-2594
HR $38 for 1, $48 for 2
Info: Mark Oppenheimer, 4704 Pasque Circle, Sioux Falls, SD
51105, (605) 332-8404

Apr 30-May 1, Estes Park, CO
Sat 10 am
10 gm RR
EF $30/25
Estes Park Ctr, Wind River Lodge
HR $80
Info: Laura Scheimberg, 8001 S Yarrow St, Littleton, CO
80123, (303) 979-0167

Apr 30-May 1, Jonesboro, AR
Sat 10 am
10 gm RR
EF $25/20
Wyatt's Cafeteria, Indian Mall (Caraway & Highland Dr)
Info: Billie P Garver, Rt 2, Box 256, Leachville, AR 72438,
(501) 486-5857 or Monette, (501) 486-2728

Apr 30-May 1, Euless, TX
Sat noon
10 gm, 3 div DA 1650/1350
EF $30 -$5 if by 4/15
Ramada Inn-DFW/Euless, 2155 Airport Fwy, Euless, TX 76040,
(817) 283-2400
HR $54 by 3/31
Info: Mary Rhoades, 2325 Shady Grove, Bedford, TX 76021,
(817) 283-1282 or 545-3216

Apr 30-May 1, New Hartford, NY
Sat 9:30 am
10 gm, 2 div
EF $36 ($40 at door)
Ramada Inn, 141 Campion Rd, New Hartford, NY
Info: Don Drumm, P.O. Box 141, Clinton, NY 13323, (315)
853-3192

May 1, Oakland, CA
Sun 1:30 pm
6 gm RR
EF $15
Village Restaurant, 273 East 18th St, Oakland, CA
Info: Stu Goldman, 1055 Fell St #2, San Francisco, CA 94117,
(415) 864-2463 or Cynthia Pughsley (510) 839-4090

May 7, Lansing, MI
Sat 10 am
7 gm RR
EF $15 ($18 at door)
Gier Comm Ctr, 2400 Hall St, Lansing, MI 48906
Info: Gary Jacob, (517) 483-4313

May 13-15, Hackensack, NJ
Fri 6:45, Sat 9:45 am, Sat 6:45 pm, Sun 9:45 am
4 separate 4 gm tournaments, 2 div DA 1300
EF $15 per, $25 for two
Oritani Motor Hotel, 414 Hackensack Ave, Hackensack, NJ
(201) 488-8900
HR $60
Info: Selig Wassner, P.O. Box 2157, Teaneck, NJ 07665,
(201) 836-1949

May 21-22, Milwauke, WI
Sat 10 am
11 gm, 2 or 3 div
EF $30 +$5 after 5/10
Country Inn, 2810 Golf Rd, Pewaukee, WI
HR $55
Info: Pat Krohn, 7925 W Denver Av, Milwaukee, WI 53223,
(414) 353-4152

May 21, Long Island, NY
Sat 9:30 am
7 gm RR
EF $35
Holiday Inn, 3845 Veterans Mem Hwy, Ronkonkoma, LI, NY
Info: Ginger White, 10 Huron Rd, Shirley, NY 11967, (516)
399-2579

May 21-22, New Orleans, LA
Sat 12:30 pm
10 gm, 3 div DA 1600/1300
EF $25 ($20 if by 5/10)
Airport Holidome, 2929 Williams Blvd, Kenner, LA 70062, (504)
467-5611
HR $57
Info: Pat Holzenthal, Aline Jeansonne, 4501 N Turnbull Dr,
Metaire, LA 70002, (504) 456-2247

May 28-29, Montreal, QUE
Sat 10:15 am
10 gm, 3 div
EF $25 ($22 US)
Centennial Park Chalet 1, 6975 Mackle Rd, Cote St-Luc
Info: Bernard Gotlieb, 5770 Hudson Av, Cote St Luc, QUE,
H4W 2K6, (514) 484-0824

May 28-29, Durango, CO
Sat noon
19 gm, 3 div DA 1700/1300
EF $35/25/20 -$5 if by 5/10
Tamarron Resort, 40292 US Hwy 550 N, Durango, CO, (800)
678-1000
HR $75
Info: Roberta Sageser, 2609 N College Dr, Durango, CO
81301

May 28-29, Santa Clara, CA
Sat 9:30 am
21/19/19 gm modified Swiss, 3 div DA 1700/1400
EF $75/60/45 by mail until 5/22, + $10 at door
Howard Johnson Motor Lodge, 5405 Stevens Creek Blvd, Santa
Clara
Info: Johnny Nevarez, 4804 Bannock Circle, San Jose, CA 95130
(408) 379-5845

May 28-29, Seattle, WA
Sat 9:30 am
12 gm, 3 div DA 1700/1300
EF $60/40/30 +$5 if after 5/25
Shoreline Senior Ctr, 18560 First Av NE, Seattle, WA 98155
Info: Ann Ferguson, 5504 220 St, SW #C301, Mountlake Terrace,
WA 98043, (206) 771-5483

May 28-30, Elizabethtown, KY
Sat 9:30 am
17 gm RR
EF $40
Nolin Rec Bldg, 612 E Dixie Av, Elizabethtown, KY
Info: Ted Blevins, 349 Methodist St, Cecilia, KY 42724,
(502) 862-4722

May 28-30, Twin Cities, MN
Sat 9:30 am
15 gm, divisions of 12-14
EF $45 ($15 first-timers) by 5/21
Har Mar Mall Auditorium, N Snelling & Co Rd B, Roseville, MN
Info: Steve Pellinen, 7400 Hwy 7 #225, St Louis Park, MN
55426, (612) 938-5915 (H) or 829-0700 (W)

Jun 4, New York City, NY
Sat 5:30 pm
6 gm 2 div DA 1650
EF $25 + $5 late entry
Beverly Bridge Club, 130 E 57th St, 3rd fl
Info: Ron or Susi Tiekert, 152 E 35 St #4E, NY NY 10016,
(212) 689-4046

Jun 12, Eagle Rock, CA
Sun 9:30 am
6 gm, 4 div DA 1700/[2 other places], Swiss pairing
EF $30 by 6/1
Yosemite Rec Ctr, 1840 Yosemite Dr, Eagle Rock, CA
Info: George Heussenstamm, (818) 248-0537, or Gwen Bishop
(213) 258-6667

June 17-20, Los Angeles to Baja Cruise
Fri 7:30 pm
14 gm RR
EF $40 included in $499 fare, $100 dep by 5/1
Info: Paul Terry, 4414 Sparta Way, N Las Vegas, NV 89030
(702) 656-7570

June 18-19, Lubbock, TX
Sat noon
10 gm, 3 div DA 1650/1300
EF $25 (-$5 by 6/5)
Lubbock Inn, 3901 19 St, Lubbock, TX 79407, (800) 545-8226
HR $50
Info: Mary Lou Thurman, 2727 24th St, Lubbock, TX 79410,
(806) 744-7702

June 25-26, Calgary, CAN
Sat 9 am
12 gm, 4 div DA 1500/1100/800
EF $12 (CAN) or $10 (US)
Wildwood Comm Ctr, 4411 Spruce Dr SW
Info: Siri Tillekeratne, 16 Cedarwood Pl SW, Calgary, AB T2W
3G6, (403) 281-2459

June 24-26, Baltimore, MD
12 gm, 2 div DA 1600
EF $25
Tremont Suite Hotel, 222 Saint Paul Pl, Baltimore, MD 21202
EF $129.50 by 5/24
Info: Tim Maneth, 116 Bourbon Ct, Baltimore, MD 21234,
(410) 529-4053 (after 10 am)

Jul 7-10, Reno, NV
Thu 6 pm
21/18/18 gm, 3 div DA 1700/1400
EF $100/80/60 by 7/4
Sands Regency Hotel/Casino, Reno, NV
HR $49/night
Info: Johnny Nevarez, 4804 Bannock Circle, San Jose, CA 95130
(408) 379-5845

Aug 13-18, Los Angeles, CA
Sat 6 pm
27 gm, 3 div
National Scrabble Championship
must have played in one rated event before
27 gm, 3 div DA 1700/1400
EF $75/60/50
Universal City Hilton and Towers, Hollywood Hills
Info: see Scrabble News #103 and subsequent issues

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Key to abbreviations:
EF=entry fee, DA=divided at, div=divisions, gm=game(s),
HR=hotel rate, pz=Prize(s), RR=Round Robin, tnmt=Tournament

A4. Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide

John Holgate
64 Paine St
Marouba 2035
Sydney
Australia

Shiraz Amith
Bahrain Scrabble League
P.O. Box 20725
Bahrain

Lorton Graham
Claybury
St John
Barbados

Jeff Grant
Waipatu Settlement Rd
RD2
Hastings
New Zealand

Femi Awowade
P.O. Box 20307, U.I.
Post Office
Ibadan, Nigeria

Candido Filio
4 Matimtiman St
Teacher's Village
Diliman, Quezon City
Philippines 1101

Tony Sim
Block 27 Marine Crescent
#09-07 Singapore 1544
Singapore

Larry Benjamin
P.O. Box 891189
Lyndhurst Tvl. 2106
Republic of South Africa

Trevor Duke
405 Majestic Gate
38 Empire Rd
Parktown, Johannesburg
Republic of South Africa

Amnuay Ploysangngam
645/1 Petchburi Rd
Phayathai
Bangkok 10400
Thailand

Robin John
23 Schneider Gardens
Petit Valley
Trinidad and Tobago

Diane Pratesi
Postal Scrabble Club
33 Amberley Rd
Leyton
London, E10 7ER
United Kingdom

Missaka Warusawitharana
11 De Silva Rd
Kaluboloila
Sri Lanka