NEOScrabble.com is the online presence of North American SCRABBLE® Players Association sanctioned clubs in Northeast Ohio.  This website provides information about club and tournament play of SCRABBLE® Brand Crossword Game.  We invite you to explore the site and learn more about the world of competitive word play.

If you are new to club and tournament SCRABBLE, please visit the link at the left entitled "Newcomers - Start Here."  This will give you a brief overview of club and tournament play, and help you know what to expect at your first club or tournament SCRABBLE session.

The Resources link at the left contains forms, word lists, and other items that the SCRABBLE enthusiast may find useful or of interest.

Also at left is the Links page, with links to SCRABBLE-related websites.
 

As many of you may be aware, Hasbro (the owner of the SCRABBLE trademark in the U.S. and Canada) has decided to terminate funding for adult club and tournament play of SCRABBLE effective January 1, 2010.  As a result, while the National SCRABBLE Association is working cooperatively and providing certain resources to help in the formation of a new organization, it has decided that it will only organize and support school SCRABBLE going forward.

To enable club and tournament play to continue in an organized fashion, several players have worked together under the leadership of Chris Cree and John Chew to form the North American SCRABBLE Players Association, or NASPA.  NASPA will be responsible for sanctioning SCRABBLE tournaments and clubs, maintaining membership rolls, and certifying Directors, effective July 1.

This means that, if you wish to play in sanctioned SCRABBLE tournaments on or after July 1, 2009 in the U.S. or Canada, you must be a member of NASPA.

NASPA membership can be obtained by mail or online.  For more information about NASPA, or to apply for membership online, please visit www.scrabbleplayers.org.  If you would like to mail in your membership, you may download and print out the membership form below.

Effective February 1, 2009, sanctioned SCRABBLE clubs and tournaments will play under a revised set of rules.  The new rules have been designed to provide greater clarity and simpler organization of information, and also to address many situations that had been considered incompletely addressed under the previous rules.  The National SCRABBLE Association has made the rules available in an online format, which you can access by Clicking Here.
 

Kyle Corbin discovered that the rack ABEOPYZ could be used to make the word OXYPHENBUTAZONE and score 1,776 points.  Northeast Ohio tournament player Dan Stock later modified Kyle's theoretical game somewhat to increase the total score for the play to 1, 778 points.  Arian Smith later modified Dan's theoretical game somewhat to increase the total score for the play to 1,780 points.  Click Here to read a blog entry about the revised play.

The longest-running tournament series in Northeast Ohio is the Summit Open tournament, directed by Christopher Sheppard.  The Summit Open provides a unique tournament structure.  It is an open tournament, allowing players of all abilitites to compete against one another in the early rounds, leading to match play among the players with the best records, and then a best of five match against the winners of the match play rounds.

Click here for more information and tournament rules.