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The Dover Scrabble Club (Delaware) has always played a
vocabulary-based, regular-dictionary style of Scrabble. At first, it was
basically conventional Scrabble with an added 3-letter minimum requirement. Later,
it was Scrabble II with an extended board and 8-tile rack. Now it's
Scrabble III with a 6-letter minimum requirement.
At your convenience, please look over the suite of
Scrabble For Word Lover games (see link at top).
Here, we'll focus just on how the Q gets used in the two styles of Scrabble. Here we have side-by-side lists. Perhaps you would be satisfied with just a list of all the Q-words played in the Dover Scrabble Club. (Very impressive!)
What you see here are just the Q-words that ended up on the final boards, as distinguished from what was played in a turn. For example, someone may have played QUA (not in Scrabble III !), which was later turned into QUAD.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Words in red would not be acceptable in the Dover Scrabble Club. Generally, this means that the word is not recognized by the American Heritage dictionary.
In mid-2016 I finalized all four games in the Scrabble For Word Lovers suite. In the introduction page for each game, Scrabble O through Scrabble III, I used the 5-game playoff of the 2015 North American Scrabble Championship as a basis for comparison. Part of that comparison involved a specific look at the vast gulf in JQXZ usage. Now, here is just the Q usage extracred from that study.
The National Champs:
QUERN
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Us (regular people):
EQUIPMENT
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Here are all the Q-words formed on the "Table 1" games of the National Scrabble Championship, held in Buffalo, New York, in August 2014. There were 31 rounds.
Accordingly, I chose 31 consecutive Scrabble III games played in the Dover Scrabble Club showing a Q from the same time frame.
The National Champs:
SQUOOSH
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Us (regular people):
QUESTIONABLE
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Here are all the Q-words formed in the 42 recorded games of the 2013 World Scrabble Championship held in Prague, Czech Republic in December 2013. These would be the equivalent of the "Table 1" games in the regular rounds, plus the playoff rounds.
Accordingly, I chose 42 consecutive Scrabble III games showing a Q played in the Dover Scrabble Club from the same time frame.
The World Champs:
DAQUIRIS
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Us (regular people):
AQUATICALLY
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble III vs. the 2013 World Scrabble Championship.
Here are all the Q-words formed on the "Table 1" games of the National Scrabble Championship, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in August 2013. There were 31 rounds.
Accordingly, I chose 31 consecutive Dover Scrabble III games showing a Q from the same time frame.
The National Champs:
QUARTERING
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Us (regular people):
INEQUALITIES
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble III vs. the 2013 National Scrabble Championship.
Before stepping up to Scrabble III, the Dover Scrabble Club played Scrabble II, which is basically conventional Scrabble with a regular dictionary, a 3-letter minimum, an extended board, and an 8-tile rack. Along with the 8th tile, Scrabble II offers stepped bonuses for Big Plays of 6, 7, and 8 tiles. For more information, see the Scrabble For Word Lovers link at the top.
Here are all the Q-words formed in the featured games of the National School Scrabble Championship, held in Orlando, Florida, in April 2011. There were 7 rounds plus one play-off game.
Accordingly, I chose 8 good Dover Scrabble II games showing a Q from the same time frame.
School Champs:
QADI
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Dover Club:
BANQUETS
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Am I nuts? Do those "words" look like anything school kids should be expending their brain power on? Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the 2011 National School Scrabble Championship.
Here are the Q-words formed on the "Table 1" games of the National Scrabble Championship, held in Dallas, Texas, in August 2010. There were 31 rounds.
Accordingly, I chose 31 consecutive Dover Scrabble II games showing a Q from the same time frame.
The National Champs:
EQUITES
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Us (regular people):
QUAINTEST
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the 2010 National Scrabble Championship.
Here are all the Q-words formed on the "Board 1" games of the World Scrabble Championship, held in Malaysia in November 2009. There were 24 rounds, followed by 4 play-off games to determine the champion.
Accordingly, I chose 28 consecutive Dover Scrabble II games showing a Q from the same time frame.
The World Champs:
AQUIFERS
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Us (regular people):
QUARTZITE
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the 2009 World Scrabble Championship play-off games.
Here are all the Q-words formed on the "Table 1" game boards of the National Scrabble Championship, held in Dayton, Ohio, in August 2009. There were 31 rounds.
Accordingly, I chose 31 consecutive Dover Scrabble II games showing a Q from the same time frame.
The National Champs:
CLOQUES
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Us (regular people):
REQUESTING
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the 2009 National Scrabble Championship.
Here are all the Q-words formed in the tournament games selected for annotation by Scrabble News, the newsletter of the National Scrabble Association. It came out 8 times a year, and each issue presented an "Annotated Game", presumably a good game played in a recent tournament.
I gathered up a year's worth of these annotated games from 8 consecutive issues essentially covering 2009, and ending with the February 2010 issue.
Accordingly, I chose 8 good Dover Scrabble II games showing a Q from the beginning of 2010.
Scrabble News:
QANAT
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Dover club:
SQUATTEST
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the 2009 Scrabble News annotated games.
Here are all the Q-words formed on the "Table 1" games of the 28 rounds of the National Scrabble Championship held in Orlando, Florida, in July 2008.
Accordingly, I chose 28 consecutive Dover Scrabble II games showing a Q from the same time frame.
The National Champs:
SEQUOIA
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Us (regular people):
BANQUETS
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the 2008 National Scrabble Championship final four "Table 1" games.
In late 2008, the Columbia Scabble Club (Maryland) graciously and bravely took up my invitation to pit its finished Scrabble boards against ours. They submitted three games, presumably among their best of the evening. Hence, I selected three games from the Dover Scrabble Club session from the same week.
Columbia:
QUITE
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Dover:
DISQUIETS
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Here's a fuller comparison of Scrabble II vs. the Columbia Scrabble Club.
If you made it down this far, I mention again that you might be interested in viewing the very impressive list of Q-words played in the Dover Scrabble Club.
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