{"id":120,"date":"2012-08-17T12:01:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/?p=120"},"modified":"2012-11-16T17:38:30","modified_gmt":"2012-11-16T17:38:30","slug":"scrabble-cheat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/scrabble-cheat\/","title":{"rendered":"Scrabble Cheat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard the news that a junior Scrabble player has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/hostednews\/ap\/article\/ALeqM5h26uZJ6b-ORfwT0dQ-k8FdMmk_4A?docId=b0ee79844f2a4317831ae3715cad0e68\" target=\"_blank\">ejected from a tournament in Florida for cheating<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What amazing strategy did he use to cheat over his opponent?\u00a0 He hid 2 blank Scrabble tiles in his hand after the previous game, so that he could use them in his next game!<\/p>\n<p>Hardly the most devious strategy, and not surprising this young Scrabble cheat got caught.\u00a0 The competitor who spotted his cheating got a standing ovation at the tournament \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Of course, true players like us know that the best way of &#8216;cheating&#8217; at Scrabble is simply to get better at playing Scrabble!<\/p>\n<p>And what better way to improve than using <a href=\"http:\/\/wordhelper.org\/\">Word Helper<\/a> to train your mind to spot the best words?<\/p>\n<p>And to take yourself to the next level, try out our <a href=\"http:\/\/wordhelper.org\/ebook\/?a=bp_cheat\">Scrabble Strategy book<\/a> to improve even more rapidly.<\/p>\n<p>Happy Scrabbling, and remember: don&#8217;t cheat &#8211; improve!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just heard the news that a junior Scrabble player has been ejected from a tournament in Florida for cheating. What amazing strategy did he use to cheat over his opponent?\u00a0 He hid 2 blank Scrabble tiles in his hand &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2012\/08\/17\/scrabble-cheat\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":124,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120\/revisions\/124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}