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The former executive director of the National SCRABBLE® Association describes the inner-workings of tournaments and the top players, provides a list of words that were once banned from the game and discusses the dearth of allowable vowel-less words. Illustrations.
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John D. Williams Jr. served as the executive director of the National SCRABBLE Association, acting as the official national spokesman for the game, and is the coauthor of the best-selling Everything SCRABBLE(R). He lives in Greenpoint, Long Island.
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