{"id":144,"date":"2013-01-15T09:45:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T09:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/?p=144"},"modified":"2013-01-15T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T09:45:29","slug":"have-scrabble-tile-values-just-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2013\/01\/15\/have-scrabble-tile-values-just-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Have Scrabble tile values just changed?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you keep up to date with the news, you might have just come across a disturbing story!<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-20984707\">the BBC news<\/a>, the value of all the Scrabble tiles have just been changed!<\/p>\n<p>Woah!\u00a0 Really?<\/p>\n<p>No, not really.\u00a0 Not so fast BBC.<\/p>\n<p>What they are reporting is a piece of research that says the values <em>ought<\/em> to be changed, if they were to reflect which letters are in most common usage in English.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.useost.com\/2012\/12\/30\/valett\/\">actual research<\/a> is in fact fascinating, and well worth a read \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Of course, we all know (or should know!) that the points value of a tile doesn&#8217;t have much being on its actual <em>worth<\/em>.\u00a0 For example &#8216;S&#8217; and the blank tile are worth far more than all the others, because they enable you to play other words more easily!<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just one of the tips you&#8217;ll find in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/ebook\/?a=bptiles\">my Scrabble book<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you keep up to date with the news, you might have just come across a disturbing story! According to the BBC news, the value of all the Scrabble tiles have just been changed! Woah!\u00a0 Really? No, not really.\u00a0 Not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/2013\/01\/15\/have-scrabble-tile-values-just-changed\/\">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-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","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=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":147,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wordhelper.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}