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Club roster

2026-09-13T03:17:59Z

Judycole: /* WASHINGTON */ updated email and added note

This is a roster of all NASPA clubs in North America.

NASPA clubs are identified as a NASPA Club followed by a number and are run by a NASPA-certified director. The other clubs listed are run by a NASPA member. The accomplishments of those clubs are not eligible for official recognition.

NASPA clubs are open to everyone. It is advisable to contact a club director before attending to make sure the club is meeting as listed.

Some clubs have not resumed operations after the pandemic. In those places, we may list a director or player who is willing to be contacted by people wanting to play.

Information about registering a new club can be found at the clubs page, https://scrabbleplayers.org/w/Clubs.

To update or correct information posted here, please contact the Club/Director Committee at club@scrabbleplayers.org



=== <font color="black">ALABAMA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">''''Auburn NASPA Club #903'''''</font>
[http://www.ericharshbarger.org/scrabble/tourneys/ Club Website]

:Sunday 1 P.M. - 5 P.M. Email director to confirm meeting date
:Newspaper Reading Room in Auburn University's Ralph B. Draughon Library, 231 Mell St, Auburn, AL 36830
:Eric Harshbarger
::(334) 821-6616
::[mailto:eric@ericharshbarger.org eric@ericharshbarger.org]

=== <font color="black">ARIZONA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Scottsdale NASPA Club #405'''''</font>
:Saturday 12:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
:Coffee Plantation at the northeast corner of Scottsdale Rd & Shea Blvd in Scottsdale
:Mike Wier
::(602) 789-0337
::[mailto:mikewier@cox.net mikewier@cox.net]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Tucson/Oro Valley NASPA Clubs #800 and #565'''''</font>
[https://www.facebook.com/tucsonscrabble '''Club Facebook page''']
:Sunday 11 A.M. to 6 P.M. on Woogles
:https://woogles.io/club/tucson
:Ed Saunders
::(520) 497-7687
::[mailto:edwords@comcast.net edwords@comcast.net]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">ARKANSAS</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Mountain Home'''''</font>

:Monday, 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.
:Van Metre Senior Activity and Wellness Center
:Cooper Park, 1101 Spring St., Mountain Home, Ar. 72653
:Marie Moore
::(870) 425-7729
::[mailto:mariaverdico81@gmail.com mariaverdico81@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''West Memphis NASPA Club #801'''''</font>

:First or second Saturday of month, 10:15 a.m. (ask director for date)
:West Memphis Public Library, 500 E. Broadway
:Josephine Flowers
::(901) 413-1925
::[mailto:josephine.flowers@yahoo.com josephine.flowers@yahoo.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">BRITISH COLUMBIA</font> ===



;<font color="blue">'''''Vancouver NASPA Club #545'''''</font>
[http://www.vancouverscrabble.org/ '''Club website''']

:Thursday 7 - 10 P.M.
:1553 E. 18th Ave.
:Miriam Gregory
::(604) 736-4198
::[mailto:miriam@rainbowltd.ca miriam@rainbowltd.ca]
:Chris Williams
::[mailto:vancouverscrabble@gmail.com vancouverscrabble@gmail.com]
<BR>



=== <font color="black">CALIFORNIA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Arcata Redwood Coast NASPA Club #566'''''</font>
:Club not currently meeting
:Contact director to arrange informal sessions
:Leah Kruley
::(707) 362-7525
::[mailto:leahbkru@gmail.com leahbkru@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Auburn NASPA Club #925'''''</font>

:Thursday 5 P.M. - 9 P.M.
:Auburn Scrabble and Chess Club, 2845 Bell Rd., Auburn, CA 95603
:Arthur Braden
::(916) 768-5042
::[mailto:karthurbraden@gmail.com karthurbraden@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Escondido/San Diego North County NASPA Club #357'''''</font>
:4th Saturday 12:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
:American Legion (conference room) 230 E. Park Ave, Escondido .
:Jamie Covell  
::(760) 522-9573  
<BR>



;<font color="blue">'''''Huntington Beach NASPA Club #34'''''</font>
  [https://scrabbleclub34.wordpress.com/ '''Club website''']

:Tuesday 12:00 P.M. to 5:00 P.M.
:IHOP Restaurant, 18782 Beach Blvd.
:David Poder  
::(714) 642-5604  
::[mailto:davidpoderdo@gmail.com davidpoderdo@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Laguna Woods NASPA Club #905'''''</font>
:Monday 12:45 P.M.
:Clubhouse #5 - Dining Room #1, 24262 Punta Cana
:3 Games
<BR>
:Wednesday 5:00 P.M.
:Clubhouse #7, 24222 Moulton Parkway
:4 Games
<BR>
:Paul Rickhoff  
::661-313-5870 (text preferred)  
<BR>
;<font color="blue">'''''Los Angeles NASPA Club #44'''''</font>
  [http://www.thescrabbleclub.com '''Club website''']

:In-person meetings
:Wednesday 5:45 P.M. - 9:45 P.M.
:Plummer Park, 7377 Santa Monica Blvd, Community Center -Room 4, West Hollywood 90046
:Alan Stern
::(818) 458-1976
::[mailto:lascrabbleclub44@gmail.com lascrabbleclub44@gmail.com]

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://www.woogles.io/club/losangeles|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  

:'''Online Meetings''': Playing on [http://www.woogles.io/club/losangeles woogles.io] on Wednesdays at 6 P.M. Email [mailto:homeruns@ca.rr.com homeruns@ca.rr.com] anytime before Wednesday 2 P.M. Pacific for that night's meeting to reserve a spot. Include your Woogles registered handle. An email will be sent with pairings for all four games.
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Los Angeles/West Los Angeles NASPA Club #195'''''</font>

[https://www.lascrabbleclub195.com '''Club website''']
[https://www.facebook.com/100090868605087 '''Club Facebook page''']
[https://www.meetup.com/west-la-scrabble-club-195 '''Club Meetup site''']

In-person meetings on some Saturdays, 10 A.M. to 2 P.M. Check with the director or the club's website, Facebook page or Meetup site for meeting dates
:Westwood Presbyterian Church, 10822 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90024
::Entrance and parking at the back, accessed near 10812 Ashton Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90024
:Bruce D'Ambrosio  
::(424) 227-9412 or (424) 220-0085 (cell)
::[mailto:scrabbleclub195@aol.com scrabbleclub195@aol.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Mill Valley NASPA Club #569'''''</font>
:Thursday noon
:The Lighthouse Restaurant, Harbor Point Club, 475 East Strawberry Drive
:Betty Toole
::(415) 218-8671
::[mailto:adatoole@comcast.net adatoole@comcast.net]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Redwood City Club #280'''''</font>
:Monday 5 P.M. - 8 P.M.
:Round Table Pizza, 128 Woodside Plaza, Redwood City, CA 94061
:Norases Vesdapunt
::[mailto:norases@gmail.com norases@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''San Diego NASPA Club #76'''''</font>
:Wednesday 11:30 A.M.
:Leucadio's Pizzeria, La Jolla Village or 2404 5th Ave. (recreational room of condo building) -- contact director for information
:Betty Schulman
::(619) 423-8845
::[mailto:bsatty@icloud.com bsatty@pacbell.net]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''San Francisco NASPA Club #95'''''</font>
[http://sfscrabble.com/club '''Club website''']
:Wednesday 6:00 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
:San Francisco Go Club, 22 Peace Plaza #501
:JD Rosensweig
::(408) 373-0653
::[mailto:jrosensw@gmail.com jrosensw@gmail.com]
:Edward De Guzman
::(415) 579-3372
::[mailto:edwardd@gmail.com edwardd@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">COLORADO</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''South Denver NASPA Club #824'''''</font>
[https://southdenverscrabble.org/ '''Club website''']

:Saturday 10:00 A.M. - 1:00 P.M.
:Enchanted Grounds, 8800 S. Colorado Blvd., Highlands Ranch, CO 80126
:Don Erbe
::(310) 872-9532  
::[mailto:donerbe@gmail.com donerbe@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">CONNECTICUT</font> ===

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://woogles.io/club/Brookfield|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  <font color="blue">'''''Danbury/Bethel/Brookfield NASPA Club #813'''''</font>

:Wednesdays 6 - 9 P.M. in Bethel
:Email the director for location and directions.
:Cornelia Guest
::(203) 244-5324
::[mailto:CorneliaSGuest@gmail.com CorneliaSGuest@gmail.com]
:Cheat Sheets for newer players.
<BR>

<font color="blue">'''''Southern Connecticut NASPA Club #935'''''</font>

:Second and fourth Tuesdays 6 P.M. to 8:45 P.M.
:North Haven Barnes & Noble, 470 Universal Dr., North Haven, CT 06473
:David B. Lewis
::(203) 560-1094
::[mailto:david_b_lewis@yahoo.com david.b.lewis@yahoo.com]
:Bob Lichtenstein
::[mailto:blichtenstein6@gmail.com blichtenstein6@gmail.com]
<BR>

<font color="blue">'''''West Hartford NASPA Club #134'''''</font>

:1 P.M. Every other Tuesday (call director to confirm date)
:Panera, 2542 Albany Ave., West Hartford CT 06117
:Beth Mix
::(860) 328-8654
::[mailto:bethmixerson@gmail.com bethmixerson@gmail.com]
:: Beth Mix may also be contacted on Facebook
<BR>

=== <font color="black">DELAWARE</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Wilmington NASPA Club #599'''''</font>

  [http://sites.google.com/site/delawarescrabble/home '''Club website''']


:Tuesday 6:10 P.M.
:First Unitarian Church, 730 Halstead Rd.
:Room 25, (upstairs in the back on the 2nd floor)
:Nancy Hanley
::(302) 792-1183
::[mailto:QZJXhanley@verizon.net QZJXhanley@verizon.net]
:Richard Popper  
::(302) 562-8758
::[mailto:rjapopper@verizon.net rjapopper@verizon.net]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA</font> ===

;<span style="font-size:2em">💻</span> <font color="blue">'''''Washington NASPA Club #171'''''</font>
         [http://media.wgvc.com/w/DC_Scrabble_Club_171 '''Club website''']

:Tuesday 5 P.M. - 9:45 P.M.
:Skip's restaurant, 5540 Connecticut Ave., N.W., 2nd floor (private room)
::Ted Gest
::(202) 744-3011
::[mailto:gestted@aol.com gestted@aol.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">FLORIDA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Casselberry/Orlando NASPA Club #438'''''</font>

  [http://orlandoscrabble.com '''Club website''']
:Monday 7:00 P.M.
:Casselberry Recreation Center, 200 N Triplet Lake Dr., Casselberry, FL 32707, near Orlando
:Art Moore
::(407) 733-2095
::[mailto:art@randomations.com art@randomations.com]<BR><BR>


;<font color="blue">'''''Fort Myers NASPA Club #508'''''</font>

:Club not currently meeting. Message or call director to arrange meeting time.

:Jennifer Tomlinson
::(239) 464-7200
::[mailto:jentom0404@gmail.com jentom0404@gmail.com]
:John Dalida
::(239) 694-6097
::[mailto:dalida@ksu.edu dalida@ksu.edu]
<BR>
;<font color="blue">'''''Gainesville'''''</font>
:Friday 1 - 5 P.M.
:Senior Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd.
:Tony Palmieri
:(352) 231-2966
::[mailto:palmieri@cop.ufl.edu palmieri@cop.ufl.edu]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Lake City'''''</font>
[https://www.facebook.com/groups/779217973661381 '''Club website''']

:Second Tuesday of the month 6:30 P.M.
:Gateway Art Gallery, 168 N. Marion Avenue, Lake City, FL 32055
:Club sometimes meets at Halpatter Brewing Co. Check website for latest information.
:Sheila Carr
::(386) 697-9424
::[mailto:sdcarr9424@gmail.com sdcarr9424@gmail.com]
<BR>



<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Orlando (see Casselberry)<BR><BR>'''''</font>


;<font color="blue">'''''Tampa Bay NASPA Club #699'''''</font>

:First and third Saturday 12 noon - 5:00 P.M.
:Message director for location or check tampabayscrabble.com
:Chauncey Patton
::[mailto:tampabayscrabbleclub@gmail.com tampabayscrabbleclub@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Tampa Bay/Pasco/North Pinellas County'''''</font>
:For information, please contact Joan Knobelsdorf
:(727) 935-4616
::[mailto:knobelhaus425@gmail.com knobelhaus425@gmail.com]

=== <font color="black">GEORGIA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Atlanta Metro NASPA Club #392'''''</font>

:Saturday noon twice a month
:Get in touch with director for dates and locations
:Cynthia Seales
::(470) 225-7133
::[mailto:cseales@comcast.net cseales@comcast.net]
<BR>



=== <font color="black">HAWAII</font> ===

<font color="blue">'''''Honolulu'''''</font>
:Wednesday 6 - 9 P.M.
:Kahala Mall Shopping Center
:Darren Seu dseu777@gmail.com
:Claire Durham (808) 429-8493
:cdurham@hawaii.rr.com
<BR>

=== <font color="black">ILLINOIS</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Charleston NASPA Club #601'''''</font>

[http://www.charlestonscrabbleclub.com/ '''Club website''']

:One Saturday per month 11:00 A.M. - 6:00 P.M.
:Contact director for information.
:Marty Gabriel
::Home (217) 348-9230 Mobile (217) 549-5360
::[mailto:daivamart@mchsi.com daivamart@mchsi.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Chicago NASPA Club #340'''''</font>

[http://www.scrabbleclub340.com '''Club website''']

:Thursday 1 - 5:00 P.M.
:212 N. Sangamon St., Chicago
:Don Rathberger
::(312) 446-4842
::[mailto:rathb24@gmail.com rathb24@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Schaumburg NASPA Club #518'''''</font>

:Sunday Noon - 5 p.m.
:Schaumburg Township District Library, 130 Roselle Road, Schaumburg, Il.
:Don Rathberger
::(312) 446-4842 text preferred
::[mailto:rathb24@gmail.com rathb24@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">INDIANA</font> ===


;<font color="blue">'''''Evansville NASPA Club #275'''''</font>

:Second Sunday of the month, 1 to 5 p.m. and fourth Monday, 3:30 to 7:30 p.m.

:Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library, Central branch, 200 SE Martin Luther King Jr. Bl., second-floor Group Room
:Beth Palmer
::[mailto:at1024@hotmail.com at1024@hotmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Fort Wayne NASPA Club #469'''''</font>

:1st and third Saturdays, 1 - 3 P.M.
:New Haven branch, Allen County Public Library, 648 Green St., New Haven, In. 6774
:Contact directors to confirm dates and time, or check Facebook FW Scrabble Meet-Up
:Kathleen Long
::(260) 450-3494
::[mailto:katalong@hotmail.com katalong@hotmail.com]
:Curtis Nash
::(260) 444-6883
::[mailto:curtis.j.nash48@gmail.com curtis.j.nash@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Indianapolis NASPA Club #444'''''</font>
[http://www.indyscrabblers.com/ '''Club website''']
:One Saturday each month - check website or email director for next meeting information.
:Restoring Hope Community Church, 4650 W. 62nd St
:Troy Thompson
::(765) 482-6019
::[mailto:ScrabbleTroy@gmail.com ScrabbleTroy@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">IOWA</font> ===
;<font color="blue">'''''Greater Des Moines NASPA Club #658'''''</font>

:Tuesday, Merle Hay Mall Food Court
:Contact director to confirm time
:Pat Boddy
::(515) 669-1099
::[mailto:patriciaboddy@gmail.com patriciaboddy@gmail.com]
<BR>



=== <font color="black">KENTUCKY</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Bluegrass NASPA Club #637'''''</font>
[http://lexkyscrabble.blogspot.com/ '''Club website''']
:Sunday 2:00 P.M. - 6:00 P.M.
:3600 Palomar Centre Drive, Lexington, KY 40513
:Fred Morlan
::[mailto:fredmorlan@gmail.com fredmorlan@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Louisville NASPA Club #443'''''</font>

:Call or message director to find out about or arrange meetings.
:Glenn Brownstein
:(502) 551-8124
:[mailto:scoopmit@twc.com scoopmit@twc.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">LOUISIANA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Lafayette NASPA Club #90'''''</font>

:First and third Saturday, noon to 4:30 p.m.
:South Regional Library, 6101 Johnston St.
:Contact director to confirm date
:Jeff Moore
::(337) 852-5491
::[mailto:jeffmoore42@gmail.com jeffmoore42@gmail.com]
:Elaine Livers
::(337) 356-3554
::[mailto:livers@louisiana.edu livers@louisiana.edu]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Metairie NASPA Club #541'''''</font>
  [https://www.facebook.com/MetairieScrabbleClub/ '''Club Facebook page''']

:Wednesday 5 P.M.
:Contact director for this week's location
:Lila Crotty
::(504) 982-0386
::[mailto:liliuokalani_q@yahoo.com liliuokalani_q@yahoo.com]
:Lindsay Shin
::(504) 982-0389
::[mailto:Lindsay.shin@gmail.com Lindsay.shin@gmail.com]
:Austin Shin
::(504) 208-8083
::[mailto:Austinho712@gmail.com Austinho712@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">MANITOBA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Brandon NASPA Club #507 '''''</font>

:Wednesday 1:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
:Brandon Public Library (Board Meeting Room), 710 Rosser Avenue, Unit 1 (NE corner of the Town Centre)
:Carol Enns
::(204) 726-1117
::[mailto:carolenns31@gmail.com carolenns31@gmail.com]
:Debby Lee
::(204) 282-3203
::[mailto:deblee111@gmail.com deblee111@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Winnipeg NASPA Club #498'''''</font>

[http://winnipeg.scrabbleclub.org/ '''Club website''']

:Thursday 6:30 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
:Canadian Mennonite University - 600 Shaftsbury Blvd., South Campus, Room C09
:Julie Kading
::(204) 257-4742
::[mailto:jkading@shaw.ca jkading@shaw.ca]
:Linda Pearn
::(204) 253-8978
::[mailto:lpearn@mts.net lpearn@mts.net]

=== <font color="black">MARYLAND</font> ===


;<font color="blue">'''''Baltimore NASPA Club #50'''''</font>

:Thursday 6:30 P.M.
:Call for location
:Diana Grosman
::(410) 371-7137
::[mailto:dianarose@aol.com dianarose@aol.com]
:David Engelhardt
::(443) 506-9327
::[mailto:daveengelhardt4@aol.com daveengelhardt4@aol.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Bowie NASPA Club #501'''''</font>

:Monday 5:30 P.M. to 9:30 P.M.
:Bowie Senior Center, 14900 Health Center Dr.
::The club will not meet on Federal holidays
:Linda Stephanides
::(301) 390-6751
::[mailto:lstephan1@verizon.net lstephan1@verizon.net]

=== <font color="black">MASSACHUSETTS</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Fairhaven NASPA Club #930'''''</font>

[https://sites.google.com/view/scrabbleclub/fairhaven-ma-scrabble-club '''Club website''']

:Second and Fourth Tuesdays 5:30 - 9:30 P.M.
:The Armoury, 67 Huttleston Ave., Fairhaven, MA 02719
:Megan McMahon
::[mailto:meganmcmahon01@gmail.com meganmcmahon01@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Florence NASPA Club #531'''''</font>

[https://sites.google.com/view/scrabbleclub '''Club website''']

:See club website for information.
:Ben Greenwood
::[mailto:florencescrabbleclub@gmail.com florencescrabbleclub@gmail.com]
<BR>

<font color="blue">'''''Great Barrington'''''</font>

[https://www.cross-tables.com/bsc.php '''Club website''']

:Wednesday 5:30 - 9:30 P.M.
:Barrington Brewery, Hayloft Room, 420 Stockbridge Road, Great Barrington, MA 02130
:Seth Lipkin
:(508) 308-3570
::[mailto:berkshirescrabble@gmail.com berkshirescrabble@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Greenfield'''''</font>

:First and Third Tuesdays 4:30 - 6:30 P.M.
:Greenfield Public Library, second floor, 412 Main St.
:Michael Fleck
:(413) 773-3682
::[mailto:mikeafleck@gmail.com mikeafleck@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Lexington NASPA Club #108'''''</font>

[http://www.wolfberg.net/scrabble/lexington/ '''Club website''']

:Thursday 7:00 P.M.
:Follen Church, 755 Mass Avenue
:Jake Bergmann
::[mailto:jakebergmann4@gmail.com jakebergmann4@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Northampton NASPA Club #667'''''</font>

[https://www.facebook.com/NorthamptonScrabble/ '''Club Facebook page''']

:Monday 4:30 P.M.
:(Meets on Monday holidays even when the library is closed, except Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Eve)
:Community Room at the front of Lilly Library, 19 Meadow St, Florence, MA.
:Brett Constantine
::(413) 387-9678
::[mailto:NohoScrabble@gmail.com NohoScrabble@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Worcester NASPA Club #600'''''</font>
:Tuesday 5 P.M. - 8 P.M
:Nu Kitchen, 335 Chandler Street

:Megan McMahon
::[mailto:meganmcmahon01@gmail.com meganmcmahon01@gmail.com]
:Jeffrey Scranton
::[mailto:jeffrey.scranton@gmail.com jeffrey.scranton@gmail.com]
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=== <font color="black">MICHIGAN</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Flint NASPA Club #317'''''</font>

:Last Thursday of the month 2 p.m.
:Taboon Restaurant, G3326 Miller Rd., Flint, Mi. 48507
:Margaret (Miki) Sutherland
::(810) 653-0152
::[mailto:dragonlady317@charter.net dragonlady317@charter.net]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Lansing'''''</font>

[https://www.lansingscrabbleclub.com '''Club website''']

:Thursday 6 p.m.
:Escapes Unlocked, 1831 Newman Rd., Okemos, Mi. 48864
:Gary Skowronski
::(517) 281-2986
::[mailto:gary.skowronski@gmail.com gary.skowronski@gmail.com]
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=== <font color="black">MISSISSIPPI</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Mississippi NASPA Club #427'''''</font>

:1st & 3rd Saturdays 10:00 A.M.
:Jackson Medical Mall, 350 W. Woodrow Wilson Avenue, Jackson, MS 32913
:5th Saturdays 10:00 A.M.
:Beulah Land Baptist Church, 505 Ridge Road, Yazoo MS 39194
:Sandra Grant
::(601) 400-0621
::[mailto:sandfajackson@aol.com sandfajackson@aol.com]
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=== <font color="black">MISSOURI</font> ===



;<font color="blue">'''''St. Louis NASPA Club #164'''''</font>

:2nd and 4th Tuesdays 4:30 P.M. - 8 P.M.
:St. Louis Bread Company, 14123 Clayton Road
:John Fultz
::(217) 979-7299
::[mailto:jfultz@wolfram.com jfultz@wolfram.com]
:Brian Summers
::(314) 807-7579
::[mailto:BrianScrabbleSTL@yahoo.com BrianScrabbleSTL@yahoo.com]
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=== <font color="black">NEBRASKA</font> ===

;<span style="font-size:2em">💻</span>  <font color="blue">'''''Omaha NASPA Club #582'''''</font>

         
[http://sites.google.com/site/ralstonscrabbleclub/ '''Club website''']

:'''Online Meetings''': Meeting online Tuesdays at 7 P.M. Message Kirk Troutman at the address below to participate
<br>
:Tuesday 1:00 P.M.
:Jones Bros. Cupcakes, 2121 South 67th St.
:Kirk Troutman
::(402) 216-5571
::[mailto:ralstonscrabble@gmail.com ralstonscrabble@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">NEW BRUNSWICK</font> ===

<font color="blue">'''''Quispamsis'''''</font>
:Kennebecasis Public Library, 1 Landing Court (off Hampton Road)
:Quispamsis, New Brunswick, Canada (near Saint John)
:Wednesday 1:30 P.M. - 3:30 P.M.
:Chuck Abbate
::(506) 647-8748
<BR>

=== <font color="black">NEW HAMPSHIRE</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Manchester NASPA Club #510'''''</font>

:Wednesday 3:30 P.M. - 11 P.M.
:340 Fremont St., Manchester NH 03103
:Don Finkey
::(603)-321 3069
::[mailto:dfinkster@aol.com dfinkster@aol.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Seacoast NH NASPA Club #901'''''</font>
:Monday 4:30 P.M. - 10 P.M.
:Contact director before attending to confirm meeting
:19 Cricket Hill Rd., East Kingston, NH 03827
:Ed Liebfried
::(603) 717-6153
::[mailto:ed.liebfried@gmail.com ed.liebfried@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">NEW JERSEY</font> ===

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://woogles.io/club/bridgewater|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  <font color="blue">'''''Bridgewater NASPA Club #580'''''</font>
:  '''Online Meetings''':Playing on [https://woogles.io/club/bridgewater woogles.io] last Monday of the month at 7 P.M.

[http://bridgewaterscrabble.org/ '''Club website''']

:Tuesday 7:00 P.M.
:Time to Eat Diner, 270 Rt. 202/206 North  (Just off the Somerville Circle)
:Ed Horch
:[mailto:edhorch@bridgewaterscrabble.org edhorch@bridgewaterscrabble.org]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Springfield NASPA Club #411'''''</font>

:Monday evenings -- message directors for locations
:Chisholm Center, 100 S. Springfield Ave, Springfield, NJ 07081 or
:Panera Bread, 295 Rte. 22, East Springfield, NJ 07081
:Don Carson
::(732) 297-7794
::[mailto:revdoncarson@verizon.net revdoncarson@verizon.net]
:Glenn Filzer
::(862) 812-1937
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Teaneck NASPA Club #251'''''</font>

:Thursday 6:30 P.M. - 10:30 P.M.
:Richard Rodda Community Center, 250 Colonial Court
:Paul Mistrette
::(973) 785-0758
::[mailto:pbm1959@verizon.net pbm1959@verizon.net]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">NEW MEXICO</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Santa Fe NASPA Club #542'''''</font>

:Wednesday 5:00 P.M.

:The Montecito, 500 Rodeo Rd.
:Wally Schultz
::(505) 426-1753
::[mailto:walman@cybermesa.com walman@cybermesa.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">NEW YORK</font> ===

;<font color="blue">''''' Albany / Capital Region NASPA Club #404'''''</font>

[https://www.facebook.com/albanycapitalscrabbleclub'''Club website''']

:Wednesdays at 6:30 PM - 4 games
:Love Albany Center - Karner Room, 8 Kate Street
:Kevin Gauthier
::(518) 463-1650
::[mailto:kbgauthier1966@gmail.com kbgauthier1966@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Brooklyn'''''</font>
:Call director for various times and places.
:Alan Hecht
::(347) 339-4857
<BR>
;<font color="blue">'''''Buffalo NASPA Club #456'''''</font>

:Thursday 6:00 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
:Kenmore Baptist Church, 10 Wardman Road, Kenmore, NY. 14217
:Joan Tondra
::(716) 548-8360
::[mailto:ardnotj8@gmail.com ardnotj8@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Huntington Station, Long Island'''''</font>

[http://scrabbleli.byethost31.com/?i=1'''Club website''']

:Tuesday 4:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
:Panera Bread, Walt Whitman Shops, 160 Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station, N.Y. 11746
:Bob Krause
::(631) 328-3118
:Jon Kent
<BR>

;<span style="font-size:2em">💻</span>  <font color="blue">'''''New York NASPA Club #56'''''</font>

[https://www.facebook.com/NYCScrabble '''Scrabble Club 56 in NYC | Facebook '''] - Click See More in the Additional Information paragraph on the About tab for complete details
<BR>
:Every Thursday night except Thanksgiving, X-mas and New Years
:110 East 55th St., 6th floor, Manhattan
:4 director-paired rounds start promptly at 7 P.M.
:Joel Sherman
::(718) 881-7527
::[mailto:gijoel6@aol.com gijoel6@aol.com]
:Larry Sherman
::[mailto:icenine@panix.com icenine@panix.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Rochester/Pittsford'''''</font>

:Monday, 9:30 A.M. to 12:30 p.m.
:Webster Community Center, Chioyda Drive, Webster
<BR>
:2nd and 4th Saturday, 10 A.M. to 1 P.M
:Pittsford Community Center, 35 Lincoln Avenue, Pittsford
<BR>
:Olivia Durant
:Dianne Wittman
::(585) 975-9896
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Greater Syracuse NASPA Club #130'''''</font>

[http://www.cnyscrabble.com'''Club website''']

:Kieran O'Connor
:Contact director for status.
::(315) 481-8541
::[mailto:scrabble@cnyscrabble.com scrabble@cnyscrabble.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Wappingers Falls'''''</font>

:Tuesday, 2 P.M. to 4:30 p.m.
:Regency at Wappinger, 23 Linwood Dr., Wappingers Falls, N.Y. 12590
:James Harris
::(845) 394-8272
::[mailto:jth746@gmail.com jth746@gmail.com]

=== <font color="black">NORTH CAROLINA</font> ===

<font color="blue">'''''Asheville NASPA Club #608'''''</font>

         [http://www.ashevillescrabble.com/ '''Club website''']
<BR>
:Sunday 1:30 P.M. - 5:30 P.M.
:Stephens-Lee Recreation Center, 30 George Washington Carver Avenue
:William Snoddy
::(828) 713-1076
::[mailto:williamrsnoddy@gmail.com williamrsnoddy@gmail.com]
<BR>

<font color="blue">'''''Raleigh/Durham NASPA Club #920'''''</font>

[http://durhamscrabble.neocities.org'''Club website''']

:First and third Saturdays of month 1:00 to 4:00 P.M.
:See club website for events on fifth Saturdays
:Pure Soul, 4125 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd., Suite 1, Durham, N.C. 27707
:Lisa Perry
::(984) 212-0436
::[mailto:perrylisa302@gmail.com perrylisa302@gmail.com]
:Kenji Matsumoto
::[mailto:scrabblekenji@gmail.com scrabblekenji@gmail.com]
<BR>

<font color="blue">'''''Raleigh/Durham NASPA Club #623'''''</font>

[https://sites.google.com/site/trianglescrabble/home'''Club website''']

:Triangle Scrabble Club
:Second and fourth Saturdays of month 1:00 P.M.
:Greek Fiesta, 8521 Brier Creek Pkwy. #109, Raleigh, NC 27617
:David Klionsky
::(919) 699-9831
::[mailto:davidtheakiva@gmail.com davidtheakiva@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">OHIO</font> ===



;<font color="blue">'''''Columbus'''''</font>
;[https://www.facebook.com/groups/scrabbleloversofcolumbus'''Club Facebook page''']
:Saturday, 12 noon to 4 P.M.
:Giant Eagle store (upstairs), Kingsdale Shopping Center
:Doug Critchlow
::[mailto:critchlow.1@osu.edu critchlow.1@osu.edu]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Dayton NASPA Club #294'''''</font>

:Saturday 12:30 P.M.
:Vandalia Library 300 S Dixie Drive Vandalia, OH 45377
:Joe Roberdeau
::(513) 503-3263
::[mailto:jroberdeau@roadrunner.com jroberdeau@roadrunner.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Medina NASPA Club #454'''''</font>


:Nearly every Thursday, 2:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
:Panera Bread, 4065 Pearl Rd., Medina, OH 44256
:Dan Stock
::(330) 952-1832
::[mailto:danielstock@aol.com danielstock@aol.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">OKLAHOMA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Oklahoma City NASPA Club #673'''''</font>

:Monday 3:00 P.M. - 8:30 P.M.
:Wednesday 11:30 A.M. to 5 P.M.
:Alternating meeting sites on each day. Call director for this week's location.
:Joe Gatz (405) 437-8277
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Tulsa'''''</font>
:Call director to arrange games.
:Joan Hess
::(918) 850-4495



=== <font color="black">ONTARIO</font> ===

<font color="blue">'''''Barrie NASPA Club #606'''''</font><BR>
[https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TSPgLYtz6xQl1WAB9X3BUEzPPNmUn5-m/view?usp=drive_link Club flyer]


:2nd & 4th Wednesday 5:45 P.M. to 8:45 P.M.
:Barrie Royal Canadian Legion - Branch 147
:410 St. Vincent Street, Barrie, ON L4M 4A6
:Michael Zacharko
::[mailto:zactool@hotmail.com zactool@hotmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Belle River NASPA Club #823'''''</font>

:Monday 1:00 P.M. - 4:00 P.M.
:Essex County Library, Atlas Tube Community Centre
:447 Renaud Line, Belle River, ON N0R 1A0
:Eilleen Forshaw
::(226) 363-0617
::[mailto:rgforshaw@aol.com rgforshaw@aol.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Brantford NASPA Club #193'''''</font>

:Monday 7:00 P.M.
:Friendship House, 452 Grey Street, Brantford
:Lucie McPhail
::(519)-761-7527
<BR>

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://woogles.io/club/CambridgeON|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  <font color="blue">'''''Cambridge NASPA Club #471'''''</font>

  '''''Golden Triangle Scrabble Club'''''

7:15 P.M. Friday 3 games – NWL default lexicon
:Riverbend Place (lower level), 650 Coronation Boulevard
:Su Edwards
::(519) 653-6197
::[mailto:chessrocks.su@gmail.com chessrocks.su@gmail.com]
:Arie Sinke
::(905) 807-4206
::[mailto:ariesinke@gmail.com ariesinke@gmail.com]
<BR>


;<font color="blue">'''''Cornwall'''''</font>
:1 P.M. Thursday
:Cornwall Public Library
:45 Second St. East
:Registration required, call 613 932 4796. No drop ins.
:Vivianne Panizzon
::[mailto:vpanizzon@gmail.com vpanizzon@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''London NASPA Club #692'''''</font>

:Monday 1:30 P.M.
:St. Jude's Anglican Church, Corner of Fanshawe Rd. and Adelaide St., North London
:Sharon Crawford-Mackay
::(519) 474-3104
::[mailto:sharoncm24@hotmail.com sharoncm24@hotmail.com] 
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Mississauga NASPA Club #422'''''</font>

[http://www.mississaugascrabble.com '''Club website''']

:Thursday 7:30 P.M.
:Mississauga Valley Community Centre, 1275 Mississauga Valley Boulevard
:Shan Abbasi
::(416) 305-4736
::[mailto:info@mississaugascrabble.com info@mississaugascrabble.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Oshawa NASPA Club #263'''''</font>

:Club currently not meeting

:Trevor Sealy
::(905) 432-1732
::[mailto:trevor_sealy@rogers.com trevor.sealy@rogers.com]
:Hy Francis
::(416) 284-7581
<BR>

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://woogles.io/club/Ottawa|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  
<font color="blue">'''''Ottawa NASPA Club #495'''''</font>
<BR>
[http://www.ottawascrabbleclub.com/ '''Club website''']

:Wednesday 7:00 P.M. - 10:15 P.M.
:Calvin Christian Reformed Church, 1475 Merivale Rd., Nepean
:Club E-mail
::[mailto:ottawascrabble@outlook.com ottawascrabble@outlook.com]
:Heidi Robertson
::[mailto:heidikoe@hotmail.com heidikoe@hotmail.com]
:Chris ten Den
::[mailto:ctenden@gmail.com ctenden@gmail.com]
:Matthew Tunnicliffe
::[mailto:oohntschte@hotmail.com oohntschte@hotmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''St. Catharines'''''</font>
:Wednesday 5 P.M. to 7:45 P.M.
:1st & 3rd Wed: St. Catharines library Merritt branch, 149 Hartzel Rd.
:All other Wed: St. Catharines library Dr Huq branch, 425 Carlton St.
:No cost to play
:Mary Klein
::[mailto:m.klein@cogeco.net m.klein@cogeco.net]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Stratford NASPA Club #546'''''</font>

[http://www.stratfordscrabble.ca '''Club website''']

:Wednesday 7 P.M.
:Anne Hathaway Retirement Home, 480 Downie St., Stratford
:Terry Aitken
::(519) 273-2233
::[mailto:terence.aitken@gmail.com terence.aitken@gmail.com]
<BR>

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=http://www.torontoscrabbleclub.com/woogles/|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  <font color="blue">'''''Toronto NASPA Club #3'''''</font>

  [http://www.torontoscrabbleclub.com '''Club website''']

:Wednesday 6:30 P.M. - 9:30 P.M.
:Earl Bales Community Center Seniors Building, 4169 Bathurst St.
:John Chew
::(416) 876-7675
::[mailto:poslfit@gmail.com poslfit@gmail.com]
:Eric Peters
::(416) 655-3420
::[mailto:ericdylanpeters@gmail.com ericdylanpeters@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Toronto'''''</font>

;[https://www.facebook.com/groups/scrabbleinthecity/'''club website''']

:Club meets periodically. See website for up to date information.

=== <font color="black">OREGON</font> ===



;<font color="blue">'''''Milwaukie (Portland) NASPA Club #308'''''</font>

[https://pdxscrabble.org '''Club website''']

:Tuesday 6:30 P.M. - 10:00 P.M.
:Kairos-Milwaukie UCC, 4790 SE Logus Rd., Milwaukie
:Mike Baker
::(503) 775-2987
::[mailto:Mikebob@pacifier.com mikebob@pacifier.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">PENNSYLVANIA</font> ===



;<font color="blue">'''''Allentown NASPA Club #551'''''</font>

:Wednesday 6 P.M. to 10 P.M.
:Nativity Lutheran Church, 4004 Tilghman Street, Allentown, Pa. 18104
:Sally Reeser
::(610) 730-6357
::[mailto:salcriree@gmail.com salcriree@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Philadelphia'''''</font>

Contact director to arrange games
:Mark Abadi
::(980) 253-2849
::[mailto:markiabadi@gmail.com markiabadi@gmail.com]

Also, See the listing under Delaware for a club meeting
in nearby Wilmington.

;<font color="blue">'''''Pittsburgh NASPA Club #352'''''</font>

[http://facebook.com/PghScrabble/ '''Club website''']

:Wednesday 6:00 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
:Please contact the Director for details.
:Tom Chang
::(412) 580-1357
::[mailto:tscjiv@gmail.com tscjiv@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Pittsburgh NASPA Club #655'''''</font>

[http://facebook.com/SouthHillsScrabble '''Club website''']

:First and third Saturdays 1:00 P.M. - 3:00 P.M.
:Mt. Lebanon Public Library, 16 Castle Shannon Blvd.
:Bob Hagerty
::(412) 417-5415
::[mailto:jamesrhagerty888@gmail.com jamesrhagerty888@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Warrington NASPA Club #805'''''</font>

[http://www.facebook.com/warringtonscrabble '''Club website''']

:1st & 3rd Monday 5 P.M.
:Panera Bread, Valley Square Shopping Center, 1521 Main St.
:Joe Neff
::(609) 315-3355
::[mailto:warringtonscrabble@comcast.net warringtonscrabble@comcast.net]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND</font> ===
;<font color="blue">'''''Charlottetown NASPA Club #902'''''</font>
<BR>
:Tuesday 5 P.M. - 8 P.M.
:Charlottetown Library Learning Center, 97 Queen St., Charlottetown PE C1A 4A9
:Lisa Kessler
::(416) 937-6063
::[mailto:lisakessler101@gmail.com lisakessler101@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">QUEBEC</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Gatineau NASPA Club #926'''''</font>
<BR>
:Monday 7:00 P.M. - 10:30 P.M. STARTING SEPTEMBER 15, 2025
:Bellmont Community Center, 26 Rue Belmont, Gatineau, QC 39H 2M7
:Greg Golding
::(819) 682-1283
::[mailto:caagmg@gmail.com caagmg@gmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Montreal NASPA Club #83'''''</font>

:Wednesday 7:00 P.M.
:Pierre Elliott Trudeau Park, 6975 Mackle, H4W 3A5
:Sary Karanofsky
::(514) 481-7941
::[mailto:saryk@videotron.ca saryk@videotron.ca]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">RHODE ISLAND</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Exeter'''''</font>
[https://scrabbleri.wordpress.com'''Club website''']

:First and third Thursday 11 A.M. - 1 P.M.
:Exeter Public Library
:Beth Voso
::[mailto:b.voso@cox.net b.voso@cox.net]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">SASKATCHEWAN</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Regina NASPA Club #597'''''</font>

:Email or call director for current meetings
:Michael Bray
::(306) 533-8376
::[mailto:mdbray@accesscomm.ca mdbray@accesscomm.ca]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Saskatoon NASPA Club #532'''''</font>

Club not currently meeting

:George MacAulay
::(683) 480-7771
::[mailto:g.macaulay@sasktel.net g.macaulay@sasktel.net]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">TENNESSEE</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Knoxville/Sevierville NASPA Club #553'''''</font>

:Tuesday 2 P.M. to 5 P.M.
:Panera Bread, 4855 Kingston Pike, Knoxville
:Contact a director in advance for head count
:Vicki Blizzard
::(865) 680-2659
::[mailto:msbliz@aol.com msbliz@aol.com]
:Bob Frey
::(865) 466-3243
::[mailto:bfrey517@aol.com bfrey517@aol.com]
<BR>



;<font color="blue">'''''Nashville NASPA Club #646'''''</font>

:First and third Sunday 1 P.M.
:Whole Foods (Green Hills), 4021 Hillsboro Pike - upstairs dining area
:Charlie Bond
::(615) 646-8623
::[mailto:nashscrab@yahoo.com nashscrab@yahoo.com]
:Emily Brodeur
::(615) 297-2430
::[mailto:emilybrodeur@aol.com emilybrodeur@aol.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">TEXAS</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Austin NASPA Club #234'''''</font>
[http://www.austinscrabble.org '''Club website''']

:Monday 7 P.M.
:Pat's Games, 2308 Hancock Drive
:Extra parking available across the street
:Jim Hughes
::[mailto:jimat9909@gmail.com jimat9909@gmail.com]
<BR>

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://woogles.io/club/dallasbedford|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  <font color="blue">'''''Bedford/Hurst/Euless NASPA Club #248'''''</font>
  '''''Mid-Cities Scrabble Players'''''


:'''Online Meetings''':Playing on [https://woogles.io/club/dallasbedford woogles.io] starting at 7 P.M. on Tuesday.
:Message [mailto:midcitiesscrabble@gmail.com midcitiesscrabble@gmail.com] by 6 P.M. if you want to play.
<BR>
:Sunday afternoons 1 P.M.
:Market Street upstairs cafe, 605 Colleyville Blvd. (Highway 26), Colleyville, TX 76034 (Town Center Colleyville).
:Kate Watson, Pat Sanchez
:Message [mailto:midcitiesscrabble@gmail.com midcitiesscrabble@gmail.com] to confirm club will be meeting on a particular Sunday.

<BR>

;[[Image:Woogles-32.png|link=https://woogles.io/club/dallasbedford|left|32px|Woogles.io logo]]  <font color="blue">'''''Dallas/Richardson NASPA Club #319'''''</font>
<BR>
:'''Online Meetings''': Playing 4 games on [https://woogles.io/club/dallasbedford woogles.io] on Thursdays at 7 P.M. Message [mailto:dallas-scrabble-club@googlegroups.com dallas-scrabble-club@googlegroups.com] by 6 P.M. in advance to be paired. Walkins will be paired randomly.
<BR>
Club is not meeting in person. Anyone interested in directing the club should get in touch with Pat Sanchez
:Pat Sanchez
::(214) 598-6142
::[mailto:patsanch@swbell.net patsanch@swbell.net]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Houston NASPA Club #359'''''</font>
:'''Look for us on [https://www.facebook.com/houstonscrabbleclub Facebook]. '''
<BR>
:Sunday 1:00 P.M. 4 games
:Jason’s Deli, 11081 Westheimer Rd.
:Judy Newhouse
::(281) 682-8781
::[mailto:judynew22@gmail.com judynew22@gmail.com]
:Robin Lewis
::(832) 541-4183
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''South Houston NASPA Club #511<BR><BR>'''''</font>
:Monday 6:00 P.M.
:IHOP, 11222 Fuqua Road
:Margaret Bee
::(832) 338-9146
::[mailto:huff_reunion@juno.com huff_reunion@juno.com]
:Peg Pywar
::(713) 651-1245
::[mailto:wordsayer@netzero.com wordsayer@netzero.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Lubbock NASPA Club #124<BR><BR>'''''</font>
:Sunday 1:30 P.M. and Wednesday 6:00 P.M.
:Contact directors for location
:Kay Weston
::(806) 543-8198
:Ann Skylstad
::(806) 535-2145
::[mailto:kakisky@sbcglobal.net kakisky@sbcglobal.net]
:Caesar Jaramillo
::(806) 407-6610
::[mailto:c_r_j_55@yahoo.com c_r_j_55@yahoo.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Portland NASPA Club #652<BR><BR>'''''</font>
:Thursday 7:00 P.M.
:Books Ink, 1011 Highway 181 Ste 6
:Jennifer Hay
::(361) 643-3222
::[mailto:txbooksink@cs.com txbooksink@cs.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''San Antonio NASPA Club #489<BR><BR>'''''</font>
[http://sanantonioscrabble.weebly.com/ '''club website''']

:Thursday 6:30 - 9:00 P.M.
:Lions Field Adult Activity Center, 2809 Broadway (at Mulberry)
:Matt DeWaelsche
:(210) 848-6434
:Jennifer DeWaelsche
::[mailto:jifner@hotmail.com jifner@hotmail.com]
<BR>

;<font color="blue">'''''Schertz NASPA Club #595<BR><BR>'''''</font>

:Last Sunday of the month, 1:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
:Schertz Public Library, 798 Schertz Parkway
:Nancy Scott
::(210) 658-2994 (H) or (210) 289-7043 (C)
::[mailto:NScott3@aol.com NScott3@aol.com]
:Matt DeWaelsche
<BR>

=== <font color="black">UTAH</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Salt Lake City NASPA Club #173'''''</font>

[http://utahscrabble.com/ '''Club website''']

:Wednesday 3:00 P.M. - 8:00 P.M.
:Pier 49 Pizza, 5221 South State St.
:Mike Stevens
::(801) 201-9672
::[mailto:majomike@gmail.com majomike@gmail.com]
<BR>

=== <font color="black">VERMONT</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Burlington NASPA Club #822'''''</font>

[https://www.facebook.com/groups/473562531659129 '''club website''']

:Wednesday 6:00 P.M.
:The Boardroom Cafe, 3 Mill St., Burlington, Vt. 05401
:David Spargo
::(802) 598-3852
::[mailto:spargod@gmail.com spargod@gmail.com]
:Jeffrey Nelson
::(802) 862-9912
::[mailto:jeffreynelson2005@yahoo.com jeffreynelson2005@yahoo.com]
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=== <font color="black">VIRGINIA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Charlottesville NASPA Club #543'''''</font>
[https://www.facebook.com/groups/454088101368853/ '''Club website''']

:1st and 3rd Fridays 5:30 P.M. - 9:00 P.M.
:Fuzzy's Tacos, Merchant's Way, 5th Street Station
::We recommend that visitors call or send a message before coming. We can meet at other times given some notice.
:Barry Keith
::(954)806-2387
::[mailto:barrykeith214@gmail.com barrykeith214@gmail.com]
:Clay Daniel
::[mailto:charlesclaybornedaniel@gmail.com charlesclaybornedaniel@gmail.com]
:Nancy Bowen
::[mailto:nancyhbowen51@gmail.com nancyhbowen51@gmail.com]
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=== <font color="black">WASHINGTON</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Seattle NASPA Club #253<BR>'''''</font>
[http://www.seattlescrabble.org '''Club website''']

::Thursday 6 P.M.-9 P.M.
::Woodlawn Park Lawn Bowling Clubhouse, 6150 Whitman Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103
:::Check club website for more-detailed directions

:Jane Bissonnette
::(206) 683-3071
::[mailto:hjbissonnette@comcast.net hjbissonnette@comcast.net]
:Rebecca Slivka
::(206) 285-7188
::[mailto:rebecca@seattlescrabble.org rebecca@seattlescrabble.org]
:Ken Clark
::(253) 631-7010
::[mailto:seascrab@gr8white.com seascrab@gr8white.com]
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;<font color="blue">'''''Spokane NASPA Club #509<BR>'''''</font>
[http://sites.google.com/view/spokanescrabble '''Club website''']

::Second and fourth Sunday of month Noon-4 P.M.
::Spokane South Hill Library Events Room, 3324 S. Perry St.
:::Check club website to confirm meeting location

:Nicholas Seistrup
::(509) 507-3844
::[mailto:director@spokanescrabble.com director@spokanescrabble.com]

=== <font color="black">WEST VIRGINIA</font> ===

;<font color="blue">'''''Lewisburg NASPA Club #767'''''</font>

Wednesday 6 p.m.
:New Chapter Book Store, 922 Washington Street East
:Call or message director to confirm meeting

: Aaron McGuffin
::(304) 654-1995
::[mailto:aaron.mcguffin1@gmail.com aaron.mcguffin1@gmail.com]
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NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0

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NASPA '''[[Zyzzyva]]''' version 3.5.0 was released on 2026-08-28 for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Release 3.5.0 is a feature release that supersedes [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 |version 3.4.2]].

== Support for Multiple Custom and International Lexicons ==

Among other new features, Release 3.5.0 supports multiple custom and international lexicons.

== No New Lexicons ==

Release 3.5.0 does not include any updated or new lexicons. It no longer includes [[NWL2018]] and [[NSWL2018]].

== Installation Instructions ==

For step-by-step installation instructions, see:

* [[NASPA Zyzzyva macOS Installation]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Windows Installation]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Linux Installation]]
<br/>
To download '''NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Release 3.4.2''', click [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download |here]].

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[[File:Zyzzyva_LastWord.png|750px|link=NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile_—_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study,_now_on_mobile!]]
<br/>
<br/>
The '''[[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]''' app is an updated version of Michael Thelen’s pre–iOS 7 Zyzzyva app for today’s iOS and Android handheld devices, both smartphones and tablets. A lot of kind people crowdfunded that app and were disappointed when it went “out of print” in 2014, so NASPA has been pleased to be able to bring it back and thank them for their support.

While the user interface is almost the same as the old iOS app’s, under the hood it’s completely new code, fitted onto a common NASPA Zyzzyva multi-platform code-base. This means that the mobile app and computer application are now being updated on the same release schedule. In version 3.4.0 and later, the mobile app’s active data-synchronization feature is also available in the computer application. In version 3.5.0, the mobile app (like the computer application) can import multiple custom and international lexicons.

[[File:Zyzyva325_Mobile.png|750px|link=NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile_—_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study,_now_on_mobile!]]

== What You’ll Need ==

[[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] (NZM) is a scaled-down version of the familiar [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] (NZ) computer application, and it’s optimized for small screens so that you can study on the go. (It also works on larger tablet devices, though the print can seem a bit small!)

* '''iOS'''. You’ll need an iPhone or iPad device running iOS 14.0 or later. If your device was released in 2015 or later, it should be able to run that OS; that includes the iPhone 6S or later, iPad (2017) 5th generation or later, iPad Mini 4 or later, and all iPad Air 2 or later, and all iPad Pro models, along with the last (seventh-generation) iPod Touch. These are all devices with a 64-bit A- or M-series processor.
* '''Android'''. You’ll need a phone or tablet running Android 9 or later with a 64-bit processor or a 32-bit ARMv7 or later processor. That includes almost any device that you’d still find usable.
<br/>
The app itself occupies 100 MB or less of space, but, like the computer version, it manages databases that can consume significant amounts of space, especially if you turn on the option to create lexicon databases or synchronize its data with another computer or mobile installation that maintains lexicon databases. (For each word in a lexicon, allow 300 bytes, or 400 bytes if the lexicon source includes definitions.)

== What It Can Do ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile has three main functions, ''Quiz'', ''Search'', and ''Judge''. There are lots of “word tools” for iOS and Android (some also licensed by NASPA) that can do one or more of those things with specific focus, and some of them include a timer, which NZM does not. Its primary audience is people who are committed to word study and are familiar with the NASPA Zyzzyva computer application; the main advantage of NZM for you as a NZ user is that you can trust it to work just like NZ and share data with it through cloud data synchronization as you move back and forth between devices.

* '''''Quiz'''''. Quiz yourself on anagrams in flashcard style, moving from question to question with one click. Or, if you prefer, turn on Keyboard Mode and type your responses as you would in NZ. Quiz yourself on the ones you missed. Build a cardbox full of study words, automatically scheduled to appear based on your past ability to solve them. [[Data_Synchronization_in_NASPA_Zyzzyva_and_NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile|Synchronize]] your saved quizzes, quiz statistics, and cardbox data with your other mobile and computer devices, so you can study words whenever you like and wherever you are.
* '''''Search'''''. Quickly find all words that match an anagram or pattern, or find all words you can build from a set of letters. Compare search results between one lexicon and another.
* '''''Judge'''''. Get an adjudication (“valid” or “not valid”) for any combination of words according to a lexicon. The result is exactly what you’d see if you’d done it at a club or tournament using a NZ word-judge station.
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NZM is especially well suited for cardbox study. For more information on the Leitner Cardbox System and how cardboxing can boost your gameplay abilities, please read our [[Cardboxing 101]] article. (By the way, in case you were wondering, <tt>CARDBOX</tt> is not a valid word in any lexicon!)

== Where to Get It ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile is produced by NASPA for the benefit of its members and all who are interested in competitive game play. It is offered free of charge on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store. Click [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download |here]] for the download links.

The NASPA [[Zyzzyva Committee]] welcomes your suggestions for improvement, and we especially want to know what features of the NZ computer application are worth adding to NZM’s streamlined interface, given that the underlying engine is common between the two and those capabilities are “just hiding” beneath the surface.

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[[File:Zyzzyva_Title.png|750px|link=NASPA_Zyzzyva:_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study]]
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Welcome to the home page of [[Zyzzyva |NASPA Zyzzyva]], a word study program originally written by [[Michael Thelen]] and now maintained by the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Zyzzyva_Committee/NASPA Zyzzyva Committee]. NASPA Zyzzyva is a free download, offered for the benefit of NASPA members and all our affiliates who enjoy competitive word games.

NASPA Zyzzyva is the word judge program of choice at major events such as [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA’s Scrabble Players Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]], and the [[National_School_SCRABBLE_Championship |North American School SCRABBLE Championship]]. Other versions of Zyzzyva are used at the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]], as well as at smaller events, clubs, and gatherings around the world.

The current version of NASPA Zyzzyva is [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 | Version '''3.5.0''']], released on '''2026-08-28'''; this version adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons.

* To download the latest release for Windows, macOS, and Linux, visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Download |Download]] page.
* If you are interested in running NASPA Zyzzyva on iOS and Android devices, visit the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] page.
* If you have a question, visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_FAQ |Frequently Asked Questions]] page.
* If your question is not answered there, please visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Contact |Contact]] page to find out where you can get further help.
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Thank you for visiting. We hope you enjoy Zyzzyva, and happy studying!
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Zyzzyva

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'''NASPA Zyzzyva''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|program]].

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva is an application for desktop and laptop computers, currently available for the Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.

The [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] app is available for iOS and Android devices. Please see that page for information about the mobile version.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.5.0 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]],and Volost lexicons.

It adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons as well as other new features.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]] wrote the original version of what was then Zyzzyva,
and maintained it for many years as it gained worldwide popularity.
Zyzzyva
has been used at software self-lookup stations at most
North American [[SCRABBLE]] [[tournaments]],
including BAT, Oregon TILE, the Dallas Open,
the [[National SCRABBLE Championship]],
[[National School SCRABBLE Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
and the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]].

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and we have worked since then
with our SCRABBLE partners to ensure
access to all the official word lists for our members.

NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] has continued development of the desktop edition of
what became NASPA Zyzzyva. Their most recent work has been to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | [[Media:Example.ogg]]NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2016]], [[SSWL2016]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]] as well as older versions [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.4]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.3]]
: a time-limited test release that expired in May 2015
; Zyzzyva 0.9.4
: released 2006-01-14, first version to include [[OTCWL2]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
The [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]], as with everything Zyzzyva-related, was originally written by Michael Thelen and then transferred to NASPA in 2014. It is now fully up to date with information about NASPA Zyzzyva.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]
* [[International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva|International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

Zyzzyva

2026-09-10T02:26:26Z

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'''NASPA Zyzzyva''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|program]].

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva is an application for desktop and laptop computers, currently available for the Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.

The [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] app is available for iOS and Android devices. Please see that page for information about the mobile version.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.5.0 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24],and Volost lexicons.

It adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons as well as other new features.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]] wrote the original version of what was then Zyzzyva,
and maintained it for many years as it gained worldwide popularity.
Zyzzyva
has been used at software self-lookup stations at most
North American [[SCRABBLE]] [[tournaments]],
including BAT, Oregon TILE, the Dallas Open,
the [[National SCRABBLE Championship]],
[[National School SCRABBLE Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
and the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]].

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and we have worked since then
with our SCRABBLE partners to ensure
access to all the official word lists for our members.

NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] has continued development of the desktop edition of
what became NASPA Zyzzyva. Their most recent work has been to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | [[Media:Example.ogg]]NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2016]], [[SSWL2016]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]] as well as older versions [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.4]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.3]]
: a time-limited test release that expired in May 2015
; Zyzzyva 0.9.4
: released 2006-01-14, first version to include [[OTCWL2]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
The [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]], as with everything Zyzzyva-related, was originally written by Michael Thelen and then transferred to NASPA in 2014. It is now fully up to date with information about NASPA Zyzzyva.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]
* [[International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva|International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

Zyzzyva

2026-09-10T02:23:12Z

Judycole: /* Version History */ added 3.5.0

'''NASPA Zyzzyva''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|program]].

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva is an application for desktop and laptop computers, currently available for the Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.

The [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] app is available for iOS and Android devices. Please see that page for information about the mobile version.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.5.0 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24],and Volost lexicons.

It adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons as well as other new features.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]] wrote the original version of what was then Zyzzyva,
and maintained it for many years as it gained worldwide popularity.
Zyzzyva
has been used at software self-lookup stations at most
North American [[SCRABBLE]] [[tournaments]],
including BAT, Oregon TILE, the Dallas Open,
the [[National SCRABBLE Championship]],
[[National School SCRABBLE Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
and the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]].

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and we have worked since then
with our SCRABBLE partners to ensure
access to all the official word lists for our members.

NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] has continued development of the desktop edition of
what became NASPA Zyzzyva. Their most recent work has been to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | [[Media:Example.ogg]]NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2016]], [[SSWL2016]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]] as well as older versions [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.4]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.3]]
: a time-limited test release that expired in May 2015
; Zyzzyva 0.9.4
: released 2006-01-14, first version to include [[OTCWL2]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
The [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]], as with everything Zyzzyva-related, was originally written by Michael Thelen and then transferred to NASPA in 2014. It is now fully up to date with information about NASPA Zyzzyva.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

Zyzzyva

2026-09-10T02:21:43Z

Judycole: /* Current Version */ lexicons

'''NASPA Zyzzyva''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|program]].

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva is an application for desktop and laptop computers, currently available for the Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.

The [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] app is available for iOS and Android devices. Please see that page for information about the mobile version.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.5.0 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24],and Volost lexicons.

It adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons as well as other new features.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]] wrote the original version of what was then Zyzzyva,
and maintained it for many years as it gained worldwide popularity.
Zyzzyva
has been used at software self-lookup stations at most
North American [[SCRABBLE]] [[tournaments]],
including BAT, Oregon TILE, the Dallas Open,
the [[National SCRABBLE Championship]],
[[National School SCRABBLE Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
and the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]].

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and we have worked since then
with our SCRABBLE partners to ensure
access to all the official word lists for our members.

NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] has continued development of the desktop edition of
what became NASPA Zyzzyva. Their most recent work has been to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2016]], [[SSWL2016]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]] as well as older versions [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.4]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.3]]
: a time-limited test release that expired in May 2015
; Zyzzyva 0.9.4
: released 2006-01-14, first version to include [[OTCWL2]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
The [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]], as with everything Zyzzyva-related, was originally written by Michael Thelen and then transferred to NASPA in 2014. It is now fully up to date with information about NASPA Zyzzyva.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

Zyzzyva

2026-09-10T02:19:12Z

Judycole: /* Supported Operating Systems */ remove now

'''NASPA Zyzzyva''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|program]].

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva is an application for desktop and laptop computers, currently available for the Windows, macOS, and Linux operating systems.

The [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] app is available for iOS and Android devices. Please see that page for information about the mobile version.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.4.2 adds the [[SOWPODS | CSW24]] lexicon. It continues to include the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]],and Volost lexicons.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]] wrote the original version of what was then Zyzzyva,
and maintained it for many years as it gained worldwide popularity.
Zyzzyva
has been used at software self-lookup stations at most
North American [[SCRABBLE]] [[tournaments]],
including BAT, Oregon TILE, the Dallas Open,
the [[National SCRABBLE Championship]],
[[National School SCRABBLE Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]]
and the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]].

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and we have worked since then
with our SCRABBLE partners to ensure
access to all the official word lists for our members.

NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] has continued development of the desktop edition of
what became NASPA Zyzzyva. Their most recent work has been to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS |CSW21]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS |CSW21]] and [[CSW2019|CSW19]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4]]
: the official source for [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[CSW2019|CSW19]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]]
: the official source for [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2016]], [[SSWL2016]] and [[CSW2015|CSW15]] as well as older versions [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.4]]
: the official source for [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]]
; [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.0.3]]
: a time-limited test release that expired in May 2015
; Zyzzyva 0.9.4
: released 2006-01-14, first version to include [[OTCWL2]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
The [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]], as with everything Zyzzyva-related, was originally written by Michael Thelen and then transferred to NASPA in 2014. It is now fully up to date with information about NASPA Zyzzyva.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

NASPA School Word List 2018

2026-09-10T02:17:04Z

Judycole: download

The '''[[NASPA School Word List]]''' (2018 edition), NSWL2018, was edited by
the NASPA [[Dictionary Committee]] in 2018, and incorporates changes made to
the corresponding [[OTCWL2018]] lexicon.
Like its predecessors, it consists of those words that are acceptable in the regular [[Official Tournament and Club Word List]] (OTCWL) that are considered appropriate for school use.
It was originally released as the School SCRABBLE Word List (SSWL), and rebranded the NASPA School Word List in 2019.

== Errata ==

On 2019-01-30, the editor noticed the presence of the trademark verb forms VASELINED and VASELINING, and removed them from the word list. (VASELINE and VASELINES had already been removed earlier.)

== Availability ==

=== Print Edition ===

For licensing reasons, this book is a members-only publication. A limited print run is available through the [[NASPA Store]].

=== Electronic Edition ===

It is also available for personal use as a free download (password required) through NASPA [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/services.pl Member Services].

NSWL2018 was included in [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]] and subsequent releases through 3.4.2.

== Content ==

To view a list of differences between specific editions of NSWL and NWL, use Zyzzyva to search for words that are in one lexicon but not the other. There are 591 words that are in NWL2018 but not in NSWL2018; all words in NSWL2018 are in NWL2018.

=== Deleted words ===

The following 121 words that appeared in SSWL2016 are not in NSWL2018:

AQUALUNG(S) BAKELITE(S) BENADRYL(S) BIRO(S) BOURSIN(S) BRILLO(S) CAZHER CAZHEST CELOTEX(ES) CINEPLEX(ES) COMSAT(S) DACRON(S) DOBRO(S) DREKKISH DUMPSTER(S) EMMY(S) FORMICA(S) FREON(S) FRISBEE(S) GOBSHITE(S) HALIOTES HALIOTISES INAPTER INAPTEST JACUZZI(S) JELLO(S) JETWAY(S) KEWPIE(S) KLEENEX(ES) LEVIS LILO(S) LUCITE(S) LUREX(ES) LYCRA(S) MAILGRAM(S) MASONITE(S) MULATTO(ES,S) MYLAR(S) NICHROME(S) ORLON(S) OZALID(S) PERNOD(S) PERSPEX(ES) POPSICLE(S) PYREX(ES) RABIESES REALTOR(S) REXINE(S) SAPIDER SAPIDEST SECONAL(S) SHINOLA(S) SILASTIC(S) SPANSULE(S) STELLITE(S) STETSON(S) SUETIER SUETIEST TANNOY(S) TASER(S) TEFLON(S) TERYLENE(S) THERMIT(S) TOFUTTI(S) VASELINE(S) VELCRO(S) WEEJUNS

NWL2018

2026-09-10T02:15:54Z

Judycole: /* Electronic Editions */ electronic 2018

The '''[[NASPA Word List]] 2018 Edition''' (NWL2018) is the first word list
developed and edited by NASPA, and the official lexicon governing
competitive play in the United States and Canada beginning March 1, 2019.
It replaces [[OTCWL2016]].

== Where to Get It ==

=== Print Edition ===

For licensing reasons, this book is a members-only publication. A limited print run is available through the [[NASPA Store]].

=== Electronic Editions ===

NASPA members may download the word list and related files through [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/services.pl Member Services] in the following formats.

; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=36 NWL2018 (self-print)]
: New words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), in an easy-to-print 16-page PDF
; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=29 NWL2018 (text)]
: All words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), in a text file, final version dated 2018-12-08
; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=30 NWL2018 (Windows text)]
: All words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), in a Windows text file, final version dated 2018-12-08
; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=31 NWL2018 New Words (text)]
: New words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), in a text file, final version dated 2018-12-18
; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=32 NWL2018 New Words (Windows text)]
: New words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), in a Windows text file, final version dated 2018-12-18
; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=35 NWL2018 (compressed)]
: New words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), compressed into a one-page PDF
; [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/doc.pl?did=37 NWL2018 (booklet)]
: New words found in the NASPA Word List (2018 edition), in a four-sheet double-sided half-letter booklet format PDF

NASPA members may use the free word study and adjudication tool,
[[NASPA Zyzzyva]], to access a licensed electronic copy of this word list.
NWL2018 was included in [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.0]] and subsequent releases through 3.4.2.

NASPA Zyzzyva is available for download to Windows and Mac machines at the [http://zyzzyva.net/download.shtml NASPA Zyzzyva download site], which
includes
download and installation instructions.

=== Developer Access ===

NASPA members who offer free software to our community are welcome to include NWL2018 in their products with appropriate credit and links, and should [[Contact|contact]] us for details.

Commercial developers are invited to [[Contact|contact]] us to discuss licensing terms.

== Errata ==

=== Content Errors ===

* JOUISSANCES was misentered as JOUISSANCEES, and corrected on 2019-01-08 (thanks to Mitch Bayersdorfer for reporting the issue).
* HAEMOPHILI was misentered as HAEMOPHILUI, and corrected on 2019-01-08 (thanks to John Bulten for reporting the issue).
* PARURESES was misentered as PARURESIES, and corrected on 2019-01-08 (thanks to John Bulten for reporting the issue).

=== Printing Errors ===
An early version of the New Words Self-Print Edition included deleted words among the lists of words of two to eight letters; it was replaced after [[Steven Alexander]] reported the issue on 2019-01-07. This version was then replaced on 2019-01-08, after [[Marlon Hill]] noticed extraneous words out of sequence at the end of the main list.

== Effective Date ==

The [[Advisory Board]] has determined that this edition will take effect on
March 1, 2019.

== History ==

As soon as [[OTCWL2016]] went to press, the [[Dictionary Committee]] began
reviewing the longer words that had been proposed for inclusion in that edition,
but omitted due to time constraints.

This edition includes new words from three sources:
* [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Official_SCRABBLE_Players_Dictionary#OSPD6 OSPD6]
* [[MWCD]] (online edition)
* the Canadian Oxford Dictionary (2nd edition), primarily for words of up to 10 letters and their inflections and root forms.

86 previously acceptable words were nominated for review; 12 of them were removed when no evidence was found supporting their original addition.

== Changes ==

This edition includes 3,385 new words: 2 two-letter words, 1 three-letter word, 4 four-letter words, 23 five-letter words, 49 six-letter words, 65 seven-letter words, 88 eight-letter words, 181 nine-letter words, 1263 ten-letter words, 840 eleven-letter words, 415 twelve-letter words, 200 thirteen-letter words, 147 fourteen-letter words, and 107 fifteen-letter words. Complete lists
of new words and definitions can be found in [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/services.pl Member Services].

The following 12 words were deleted:
CAZHER CAZHEST DREKKISH HALIOTES HALIOTISES INAPTER INAPTEST RABIESES
SAPIDER SAPIDEST SUETIER SUETIEST.

NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0

2026-09-10T02:11:17Z

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NASPA '''[[Zyzzyva]]''' version 3.5.0 was released on 2026-08-28 for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Release 3.5.0 is a feature release that supersedes [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 |version 3.4.2]].

== Support for Multiple Custom and International Lexicons ==

Among other new features, Release 3.5.0 supports multiple custom and international lexicons.

== No New Lexicons ==

Release 3.5.0 does not include any updated or new lexicons. It no longer includes [NWL2018] and [NSWL2018].

== Installation Instructions ==

For step-by-step installation instructions, see:

* [[NASPA Zyzzyva macOS Installation]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Windows Installation]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Linux Installation]]
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To download '''NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Release 3.4.2''', click [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download |here]].

NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0

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NASPA '''[[Zyzzyva]]''' version 3.5.0 was released on 2026-08-28 for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Release 3.5.0 is a feature release that supersedes [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 |version 3.4.2]].

== Support for Multiple Custom and International Lexicons --

Among other new features, Release 3.5.0 supports multiple custom and international lexicons.

== No New Lexicons ==

Release 3.5.0 does not include any updated or new lexicons. It no longer includes [NWL2018] and [NSWL2018].

== Installation Instructions ==

For step-by-step installation instructions, see:

* [[NASPA Zyzzyva macOS Installation]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Windows Installation]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Linux Installation]]
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To download '''NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Release 3.4.2''', click [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download |here]].

NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study

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NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study

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Welcome to the home page of [[Zyzzyva |NASPA Zyzzyva]], a word study program originally written by [[Michael Thelen]] and now maintained by the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Zyzzyva_Committee/NASPA Zyzzyva Committee]. NASPA Zyzzyva is a free download, offered for the benefit of NASPA members and all our affiliates who enjoy competitive word games.

NASPA Zyzzyva is the word judge program of choice at major events such as [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA’s Scrabble Players Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]], and the [[National_School_SCRABBLE_Championship |North American School SCRABBLE Championship]]. Other versions of Zyzzyva are used at the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]], as well as at smaller events, clubs, and gatherings around the world.

The current version of NASPA Zyzzyva is [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 | Version '''3.5.0''']], released on '''2026-08-28'''; this version adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons.

* To download the latest release for Windows, macOS, and Linux, visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Download |Download]] page.
* If you are interested in running NASPA Zyzzyva on iOS and Android devices, visit the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] page.
* If you have a question, visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_FAQ |Frequently Asked Questions]] page.
* If your question is not answered there, please visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Contact |Contact]] page to find out where you can get further help.
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Thank you for visiting. We hope you enjoy Zyzzyva, and happy studying!
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NASPA Zyzzyva: The Last Word in Word Study

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Welcome to the home page of [[Zyzzyva |NASPA Zyzzyva]], a word study program originally written by [[Michael Thelen]] and now maintained by the [http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Zyzzyva_Committee/NASPA Zyzzyva Committee]. NASPA Zyzzyva is a free download, offered for the benefit of NASPA members and all our affiliates who enjoy competitive word games.

NASPA Zyzzyva is the word judge program of choice at major events such as [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA’s Scrabble Players Championship]], the [[Canadian National SCRABBLE Championship]], and the [[National_School_SCRABBLE_Championship |North American School SCRABBLE Championship]]. Other versions of Zyzzyva are used at the [[World SCRABBLE Championship]], as well as at smaller events, clubs, and gatherings around the world.

The current version of NASPA Zyzzyva is [[NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 | Version '''3.5.0''']], released on '''2026-08-28'''; this version adds support for multiple custom and international lexicons.

* To download the latest release for Windows, macOS, and Linux, visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Download |Download]] page.
* If you are interested in running NASPA Zyzzyva on iOS and Android devices, visit the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] page.
* If you have a question, visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_FAQ |Frequently Asked Questions]] page.
* If your question is not answered there, please visit the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Contact |Contact]] page to find out where you can get further help.
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Thank you for visiting. We hope you enjoy Zyzzyva, and happy studying!
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NASPA Zyzzyva Windows Installation

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This page describes how to '''install [[NASPA Zyzzyva]]''' on a '''Windows''' computer for NASPA members.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 10 (Version 1809) or later.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]], ignoring warnings that the software can harm your computer.
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use and specify where you want Zyzzyva to appear in the Start menu.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_350_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Look for Zyzzyva in the Start Menu and click to open it.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Manage... and check any lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) or later.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]], ignoring warnings that the software can harm your computer.
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use and specify where you want Zyzzyva to appear in the Start menu.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_342_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Look for Zyzzyva in the Start Menu and click to open it.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check CSW24 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) or later.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_341_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) or later.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_34_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) or later.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]], ignoring warnings that the software can harm your computer.
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use and specify where you want Zyzzyva to appear in the Start menu.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_33_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Look for Zyzzyva in the Start Menu and click to open it.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check NWL2020 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) or later.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0. However, note that CSW21 is not available in this release.
* Review the [[Media:WhatsNew.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1 ==

Note: This version requires Windows 7 (or Windows Server 2008 R2) or later.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0. However, note that NWL2020 and CSW21 are not available in this release.
* Review the [[Media:Zyz323New.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing Older Versions ==

If you are installing a version of NASPA Zyzzyva prior to 3.2.0,
here is archived information about what you should do.

This information is presented in three different ways:
* A [http://zyzzyva.net/videos/install-windows-3.0.3.mp4 video] prepared by [[Dallas Johnson]].
* A [http://zyzzyva.net/doc/install-windows-3.0.3.pdf PDF file] prepared by [[Kate Fukawa-Connelly]].
* A checklist below for those who have installed NASPA Zyzzyva in the past.

You should look at the video or the PDF file first, even if you are familiar with versions prior to 3.0, as much has changed since then.

* If you wish to install the [[OTCWL]], [[OSPD]], [[SSWL]] or [[CSW]] lexicon, make sure that you have a NASPA [[membership]], its ID (number) and password, and a Windows computer with an Internet connection.
* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]], ignoring warnings that software can harm your computer.
* Run the installer, reading the terms of use and clicking “next” or “I agree” where appropriate, finally clicking “Finish”.
* Look for the Z icon on your desktop and click on it to open Zyzzyva.
* If you are a first-time user, you may be prompted to choose which lexicons you want to use. Choosing a protected lexicon, to which you do not yet have access, may result in an error message that you can safely ignore.
* Choose Tools > Manage Licences > Claim License... > NASPA
* Enter your NASPA ID and password
* Click “OK” in response to “A license has been received from issuer ‘NASPA’”.
* Click “OK” in response to “An activation certificate has been received from issuer ‘NASPA’”. Your license will now be listed on the screen, together with its validity and when you will next need to reactivate it.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check OTCWL2016 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* When prompted if you want to rebuild databases, so indicate. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you're done!

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile — The Last Word in Word Study, now on mobile!

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The '''[[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]''' app is an updated version of Michael Thelen’s pre–iOS 7 Zyzzyva app for today’s iOS and Android handheld devices, both smartphones and tablets. A lot of kind people crowdfunded that app and were disappointed when it went “out of print” in 2014, so NASPA has been pleased to be able to bring it back and thank them for their support.

While the user interface is almost the same as the old iOS app’s, under the hood it’s completely new code, fitted onto a common NASPA Zyzzyva multi-platform code-base. This means that the mobile app and computer application are now being updated on the same release schedule. In version 3.4.0 and later, the mobile app’s active data-synchronization feature is also available in the computer application. In version 3.5.0, the mobile app (like the computer application) can import multiple custom and international lexicons.

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== What You’ll Need ==

[[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] (NZM) is a scaled-down version of the familiar [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] (NZ) computer application, and it’s optimized for small screens so that you can study on the go. (It also works on larger tablet devices, though the print can seem a bit small!)

* '''iOS'''. You’ll need an iPhone or iPad device running iOS 14.0 or later. If your device was released in 2015 or later, it should be able to run that OS; that includes the iPhone 6S or later, iPad (2017) 5th generation or later, iPad Mini 4 or later, and all iPad Air 2 or later, and all iPad Pro models, along with the last (seventh-generation) iPod Touch. These are all devices with a 64-bit A- or M-series processor.
* '''Android'''. You’ll need a phone or tablet running Android 9 or later with a 64-bit processor or a 32-bit ARMv7 or later processor. That includes almost any device that you’d still find usable.
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The app itself occupies 100 MB or less of space, but, like the computer version, it manages databases that can consume significant amounts of space, especially if you turn on the option to create lexicon databases or synchronize its data with another computer or mobile installation that maintains lexicon databases. (For each word in a lexicon, allow 300 bytes, or 400 bytes if the lexicon source includes definitions.)

== What It Can Do ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile has three main functions, ''Quiz'', ''Search'', and ''Judge''. There are lots of “word tools” for iOS and Android (some also licensed by NASPA) that can do one or more of those things with specific focus, and some of them include a timer, which NZM does not. Its primary audience is people who are committed to word study and are familiar with the NASPA Zyzzyva computer application; the main advantage of NZM for you as a NZ user is that you can trust it to work just like NZ and share data with it through cloud data synchronization as you move back and forth between devices.

* '''''Quiz'''''. Quiz yourself on anagrams in flashcard style, moving from question to question with one click. Or, if you prefer, turn on Keyboard Mode and type your responses as you would in NZ. Quiz yourself on the ones you missed. Build a cardbox full of study words, automatically scheduled to appear based on your past ability to solve them. [[Data_Synchronization_in_NASPA_Zyzzyva_and_NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile|Synchronize]] your saved quizzes, quiz statistics, and cardbox data with your other mobile and computer devices, so you can study words whenever you like and wherever you are.
* '''''Search'''''. Quickly find all words that match an anagram or pattern, or find all words you can build from a set of letters. Compare search results between one lexicon and another.
* '''''Judge'''''. Get an adjudication (“valid” or “not valid”) for any combination of words according to a lexicon. The result is exactly what you’d see if you’d done it at a club or tournament using a NZ word-judge station.
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NZM is especially well suited for cardbox study. For more information on the Leitner Cardbox System and how cardboxing can boost your gameplay abilities, please read our [[Cardboxing 101]] article. (By the way, in case you were wondering, <tt>CARDBOX</tt> is not a valid word in any lexicon!)

== Where to Get It ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile is produced by NASPA for the benefit of its members and all who are interested in competitive game play. It is offered free of charge on Apple’s App Store and the Google Play store. Click [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download |here]] for the download links.

The NASPA [[Zyzzyva Committee]] welcomes your suggestions for improvement, and we especially want to know what features of the NZ computer application are worth adding to NZM’s streamlined interface, given that the underlying engine is common between the two and those capabilities are “just hiding” beneath the surface.

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile

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'''NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|app]] for handheld devices (smartphones and tablets) running iOS or Android. It is based on the same code base as [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] for desktop and laptop computers, but with a smaller, streamlined interface. That interface is closely patterned on Michael Thelen’s Zyzzyva app for iOS, introduced in 2011 and acquired by NASPA in 2014.

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile is an app for mobile devices, currently available for the iOS (13 or higher) and Android (9 or higher) operating systems. It is optimized for small screens, but can also be used on tablets.

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile should also run on Chromebooks that support Android apps from Google Play.

The app can interoperate with, and is functionally equivalent to, the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] program for computers. This allows users to study words at home and on the go. Synchronizing data with the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] computer application is easier now that the latter also supports active synchronization of cardboxes, quiz statistics, and saved quizzes between devices using Dropbox cloud storage.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.5.0 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], and Volost word lists.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]], author of the original Zyzzyva,
launched a crowdfunding campaign around 2010
to develop a miniature version for iPhones, which were then taking off in popularity.
With the support of about 100 subscribers, he brought his app to the iTunes Store in 2011.

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and while the desktop version carried on, mobile app development stopped, due to a lack of volunteer developers with relevant skills and the difficulty of working under the licensing restrictions imposed by the owners of the lexicons.

In 2019, after NASPA began to publish lexicons under its own copyright, NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] began work to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel, and the resulting NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile app was released in late 2021.

We chose to stick with the “look and feel” of the old iOS app as a starting point, partly to acknowledge the financial support that made that work possible. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile_Download|NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.5.0]]
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS | CSW21]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.2
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS | CSW21]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.1
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.0
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.3.1
: includes [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.3.0
: includes [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
Visit the [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]] page for frequently asked questions about NASPA Zyzzyva in general.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

The following topics from the NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile help might be useful to review:

* [[media:NZM Search.pdf |Search]]
* [[media:NZM Quiz.pdf |Quiz]]
* [[media:NZM Judge.pdf |Judge]]

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile — The Last Word in Word Study, now on mobile!]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]
* [[International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva|International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

International Support in NASPA Zyzzyva

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== What’s new with lexicons in version 3.5.0? ==

Until version 3.5.0, NASPA Zyzzyva (NZ) and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile (NZM) only supported lexicons that use the '''<tt>A</tt>'''-to-'''<tt>Z</tt>''' letter set and its frequencies and values. We built licensed lexicons (NWL, NSWL, and CSW) into each version, and users could add one custom lexicon.

We’ve completely reworked Zyzzyva so that users can create multiple custom lexicons by plugging them in. As part of that effort, we updated Zyzzyva to accommodate other letter sets and their differences, and created a way for international organizations to make their lexicons “pluggable” with the assurance of authenticity that Zyzzyva users have come to expect.

== What’s different about international lexicons? ==

A lot of countries use [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions different letter sets], some with more or less letters, some with multigraph letters like the Spanish '''<tt>{CH}</tt>'''. Users sometimes managed to squeeze them into Zyzzyva as a custom lexicon, with varying degrees of success.

Zyzzyva now uses a system of Web-linked catalogs to understand these letter sets and their particular values, counts, and sort orders. When properly configured, an international user can now expect Zyzzyva to work correctly in their own language, recognizing all of their letters and refusing all others.

In particular, we have worked extensively with the Spanish federation (FILE) to accommodate the international Spanish letter set and to translate the user interface. We hope that this will spread the love of Zyzzyva to the many countries that participate in FILE’s clubs and competitions.

== I only play in English. Should I care about this? ==

Probably not, though you may appreciate being able to load multiple custom lexicons that use the English letter set. You can do this by importing text files in ''Preferences'' -> ''General'' -> ''Lexicon'' -> ''Manage'' (NZ) or ''Settings'' -> ''Lexicon'' -> ''All Lexicons'' (NZM) and telling it to model them on your usual English word list.

For our many English-only users, the only other change is that we redesigned those dialogs to support “pluggable” lexicons. That means that you won’t have to update the desktop application to use the next version of your favorite lexicon, just watch for a notification that an update to that lexicon’s catalog is available, accept that update, then import the new lexicon source file so that the catalog can recognize it as authentic; from then on, it’ll be as if it was built into the application. (Or, you can wait for those new lexicons to be built into a new version of NASPA Zyzzyva, as before.)

== How can I try out one of these international lexicons? ==

First thing first: Not every international lexicon is publicly distributed, or at least, not with detailed definitions and other stuff attached. It’s up to the publisher to manage how its users get access to the lexicon source files, so, contact your organization to see if they have a compatible lexicon source text file or ZIP archive that you can download. (If all you have is some text file, you can try importing it as a custom lexicon, but you may run into trouble if it uses a special letter set.)

As of mid-2026, we have made such arrangements with the FILE (Spanish), SD (German), and DS (Danish) organizations. If you dive into the ''Advanced'' section in NZ’s ''Manage Lexicons'' dialog, you can explore the tree of Zyzzyva catalogs that are set up to define international letter sets and recognize approved lexicon source files. With the benefit of some basic cryptography, we’ve made it so that these international lexicons can be authenticated just like the ones that we build into Zyzzyva.

The process requires that you work your way through this catalog tree, fetching them from the Internet and loading them, to make Zyzzyva aware of the lexicons you’re interested in. Then, when you import the lexicon source that you downloaded, it’ll be recognized cryptographically, and you’ll be all ready to go. Remember: fetch and load the catalog first, then import and load the downloaded lexicon source.

== Where can I find more help to set up my international lexicon? ==

In NZ, there’s a new section in the online help named ''Lexicons'' that explains everything about the new catalog system, how lexicons are imported and recognized, and how to use the ''Manage Lexicons'' dialog to load and unload them as desired. There’s a lot of detail there, so, if you’re using NZM, you may want to install NZ and read that section, because the online help in NZM is very brief.

== Do I need to be online for all this to work? ==

Only at the beginning, to fetch catalogs and download lexicon source files. Everything you’ll need to use any lexicon winds up in your Zyzzyva data directory, which lives on your computer or mobile device, and is eligible for data synchronization between devices. Unless you uninstall the mobile app and delete its data, these files (catalogs and lexicon source) are there for good.

== I need step-by-step instructions! ==

Sure thing. Let’s take FISE2A (the current international Spanish lexicon, abridged, containing all 2- to 9-letter words). These instructions work for either NZ or NZM.

# First, make sure you’re online, since you’ll be reaching out to the Internet.
# Download the FISE2A lexicon source archive file from [https://www.putpaid.com/zyzzyva/lexicons/fise2a/FISE2A.zip here]. (You don’t have to unpack it, unless you’re curious.) Don’t try to import it now, because Zyzzyva doesn’t know anything about the Spanish catalog yet.
# Go to ''Preferences'' -> ''General'' -> ''Lexicon'' -> ''Manage'' (NZ) or ''Settings'' -> ''Lexicon'' -> ''All Lexicons'' (NZM). You should see all of the lexicons that Zyzzyva sees as available, some loaded, some not.
# Farther down, you should see a button for managing catalogs. (On NZ, you need to click ''Advanced'' to enable that button.) Click that.
# Look under ''NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 Catalog'' (you may have to click a triangle icon to open that branch of the catalog tree) to find ''International Lexicons Catalog''.
# Since you haven’t fetched the international catalog from the Internet yet, it probably looks dead. Click on it to show its details.
# Click the button to fetch the catalog. Assuming that succeeds, you should be prompted to load it, and when you agree to that, you should see that it is programmed to validate a number of individual national catalogs at the next level of the tree. Back in the tree view, click the triangle icon, if necessary, to see the individual catalogs listed.
# Find ''FILE (Spanish) Catalog'' in the list and repeat the steps above. Your catalogs are now in your data directory and ready to recognize the FISE2A lexicon.
# Go back a level to where the available lexicons are listed. You won’t see FISE2A there yet, because you haven’t imported it yet.
# Click the button to import the lexicon source archive file. If it’s properly recognized, you should be prompted to load it, and you’ll be all set. If you see a message about importing it as a custom lexicon, you probably don’t have the right catalog loaded, so you should check over the steps above.

Your newly imported lexicon should now show the same green “seal and checkmark” icon as the built-in lexicons, meaning that it’s been authenticated and is correct for judging. If your lexicon source archive file included optional features such as definitions and playability data, you may want to take a few minutes to build a lexicon database as described in the online help.

== My organization wants to make Zyzzyva available to its users. How do we do that? ==

The rest of this document is for you! There are a number of steps you need to take to make your lexicon and its letter set fully compatible with Zyzzyva. For more information, or to ask a specific question about international support in NZ and NZM, please [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org?Subject=international%20support send a message] to the NASPA Zyzzyva Committee.

=== Establish your right to publish word lists and definitions ===

You should check with the publisher of the word list itself, plus any definitions, to be sure that you’re in compliance with their terms of license for distribution to users. That may depend on whether your lexicon will be made available to anyone or just to approved users. Our standard format for lexicon source puts basic symmetric encryption on text files, so that the word list isn’t easily accessible outside Zyzzyva itself, but it’s not unbreakable.

=== Contact NASPA about building a Zyzzyva catalog ===

It’s important to know that catalogs only describe lexicons; they don’t contain them. Users never have to handle catalogs as files, because Zyzzyva knows where to find them on the Internet and where to store them in the user’s data directory. However, they will have to follow your instructions to download and import the lexicon source files that your catalog describes and recognizes.

Each Zyzzyva catalog belongs to one organization, and you’ll be responsible for hosting and updating it, so you’ll need a Web server in an established domain and the capacity to serve the catalog file to your users when they’re online. Your catalog, actually a small SQLite database, will contain basic information about your organization and the lexicons you support, including copyright, publishing date, and so on. It will also contain the specifics of the letter set your lexicons use, plus the unique cryptographic hashes of all lexicon source files you intend for your users to import. (All of this database structure is described [[#Build your catalog|below]].)

Your users’ ability to import and load your lexicon with a mark of authenticity depends on Zyzzyva recognizing its source files by those cryptographic hashes. In turn, Zyzzyva needs to be able to validate the catalog itself, which requires that it be digitally signed and that its signer’s public key be listed in its parent catalog, likely Zyzzyva’s International Lexicons Catalog.

Getting listed in that parent catalog is a one-time task, between your organization and the parent catalog’s publisher (usually NASPA), based on a signed agreement about responsibilities and practices. Essentially, in return for Zyzzyva’s validation of your catalog, you will be agreeing to operate it in a way that’s consistent with NASPA’s interests, to show due regard for the legal rights of word list publishers, and to enforce the same agreement on any entity whose child catalog is validated by yours.

Once your organization’s catalog is listed in that way, you are free to amend your catalog as required without involving us, to revise, replace, add, or remove lexicons, as long as your digital signing key remains the same. When the catalog’s content changes, users who have your catalog loaded will see a notification directing them to the dialog that lists catalogs, where they can click a button to do the update.

=== Assemble your lexicon source files ===

It’s critical to be sure that you have the exact complete word list, because your users will see the lexicon presented as authenticated by your organization. Formatting is also important — one word per line, with optional definitions, parts of speech, and inflections in the format described in the ''Lexicons'' section in NZ’s online help, saved in a plain text file ('''<tt>.txt</tt>''') in UTF-8 encoding with a byte-order mark (BOM), hexadecimal '''<tt>EF BB BF</tt>''', at the start. (A professional text editor should be able to do this for you.)

Each individual lexicon source file is separately recognized by its cryptographic hash. To see that hash value, hold down the SHIFT key in NZ as you import the source file in the ''Manage Lexicons'' dialog. You can then enter it in the [[#Table: lexicon|catalog database record]] that you create for that file.

Unless a lexicon source file has already been cataloged (which will be normal for your users, though not for you at this point), the only kind you can import is one that you agree to register in your custom catalog as an unrecognized lexicon source text file. That’s the first step to take for each new lexicon you will add to your catalog. The file will be copied to your data directory under '''<tt>words/imported</tt>''', and it will be available to load for use in NZ only as long as it is (currently) registered in your custom catalog or (later) recognized by your (future, loaded) catalog.

If you want to protect your word list by encrypting a lexicon source file (word list or playability data), ask your desktop OS to open the '''<tt>.txt</tt>''' file using an application picker, then navigate to the NZ application and hold down the SHIFT key as NZ opens the file; it will write the encrypted file to the same location with the extension '''<tt>.enc.txt</tt>'''. (This optional encryption step does not change the file’s recognized cryptographic hash value.)

We encourage catalog owners to recognize forward and reverse word-graph (DAWG) files as lexicon source files by adding [[#Table: lexicon|catalog database records]] for them. The purpose of these DAWGs is to make word searches faster by mapping the letter sequences in all of the listed words; including those records in the catalog, and making the DAWG files part of the lexicon source archive file, makes everything go smoothly for the user. Zyzzyva will automatically generate DAWG files when a lexicon is loaded if they’re absent from the data directory, but with a delay that’s visible to the user. To catalog them, you’ll need their cryptographic hash values; if you hold down the SHIFT key in NZ while the lexicon source text file is loading, Zyzzyva will report the hash value for each DAWG, so you can enter those values in their catalog database records. Once those DAWG hashes are recognized by a loaded catalog, you’ll see that the generated files are also stored in your data directory under '''<tt>words/imported</tt>'''.

If you are interested, we can help you configure optional lexicon source files for playability data and bingo stems, which have their own standard formats. Each fully configured lexicon can have a lexicon source text file, a playability data file, two bingo-stems files (for six- and seven-letter stems), and two word-graph files; they can be imported separately, but most users will prefer to import them as part of a lexicon source archive ('''<tt>.zip</tt>''') file, which is usually smaller than the lexicon source text file alone.

=== Build your catalog ===

Once you have the cryptographic hash values for all of your lexicon source files (including DAWGs, if you took note of those when Zyzzyva generated them), you can go about building your organization’s catalog. You can describe multiple word lists in one catalog; for example, the Spanish catalog recognizes both the public (FISE2A) and restricted (FISE2) word lists.

The following sections describe the data format for a Zyzzyva catalog database. We strongly suggest that you follow along using a database browser such as DB Browser for SQLite, using any catalog database that you find in your Zyzzyva data directory under '''<tt>catalogs</tt>''' as a working example. When building a new catalog from scratch or from an existing one, you should work through the tables in the order below, as the schema uses SQLite foreign keys to manage dependencies between records. (All such dependencies are resolved within your catalog, not between catalogs.)

All '''<tt>key</tt>''' fields in these tables are by convention in lower case, to distinguish them from non-key fields ('''<tt>name</tt>''' and '''<tt>description</tt>''') whose content is intended to appear in the user interface.

==== Table: interpretation ====

The '''<tt>interpretation</tt>''' table contains records that describe all of the file formats that your catalog may recognize. There’s no reason to change these records at this time, so you should leave this table as is.

Currently defined interpretation keys include:

; '''bare'''
: A text file where each line contains a word without definitions.
; '''definitions-zyzzyva-2005'''
: A text file where each line contains a word with definitions in the legacy Zyzzyva format.
; '''dawg-zyzzyva'''
: A forward DAWG file.
; '''dawg-zyzzyva-reverse'''
: A reverse DAWG file.
; '''playability'''
: A text file where each line contains a number (indicating frequency of play) and a word.
; '''stems-6'''
: A text file where each line contains a six-letter stem (a combination of letters that occurs frequently in seven-letter words).
; '''stems-7'''
: A text file where each line contains a seven-letter stem (a combination of letters that occurs frequently in eight-letter words).

==== Table: publisher ====

The '''<tt>publisher</tt>''' table contains one record for each publishing authority mentioned in the database. That includes your organization as the publisher of the catalog, as well as any other organization that publishes a word list that your catalog recognizes.

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A unique string that identifies the publisher within the catalog database.
; '''<tt>name</tt>'''
: A brief string that identifies the publisher to the user.
; '''<tt>description</tt>'''
: A longer string that describes the publisher in full.
; '''<tt>url</tt>'''
: The publisher’s Internet URL.

==== Table: tile_set ====

The '''<tt>tile_set</tt>''' table contains one record for each letter set mentioned in the database. Without such a record, your word lists are assumed to use the standard English set and its letter counts and values, so you very likely will need to create one.

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A unique string that identifies the letter set within the catalog database.
; '''<tt>name</tt>'''
: A brief string that identifies the letter set to the user.
; '''<tt>description</tt>'''
: A longer string that describes the letter set in full.
; '''<tt>collation</tt>'''
: The letter set’s collation order. Currently, this is for documentation only, as sorting is done using indexes in the '''<tt>tile</tt>''' table.

==== Table: tile ====

The '''<tt>tile</tt>''' table contains one record for each letter in each letter set. It has a composite (two-part) key, comprising the '''<tt>tile_set</tt>''' foreign key and a serial index.

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>tile_set</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>index</tt>'''
: A number (beginning with 1) that uniquely identifies this letter within the letter set, and the second part of this table’s composite key. In unusual cases such as German, where different letters are interchangeable in the sort order, you can use the fractional part of the number (e.g., 1, then 1.1) to indicate that while maintaining key uniqueness.
; '''<tt>multigraph</tt>'''
: A string containing the letter label, which may be from one to three characters, without enclosing braces.
; '''<tt>substitute</tt>'''
: An optional string (otherwise NULL) containing a substitute one-character letter label, required only for non–'''<tt>A</tt>'''-to-'''<tt>Z</tt>''' letters, typically a numeral or other ASCII character. Because the substitute character is used to build DAWGs, it must be unique in the letter set.
; '''<tt>value</tt>'''
: The number of points that the letter is worth.
; '''<tt>count</tt>'''
: The number of letters of the letter’s kind in the letter set.
; '''<tt>vowel</tt>'''
: The number 1 (otherwise NULL) if the letter is classified as a vowel.

==== Table: word_list_family ====

The '''<tt>word_list_family</tt>''' table contains records that describe each “family” that your word lists belong to. Families in Zyzzyva are distinguished by color when used in judging, as a visual aid to users, to distinguish between stations intended for different divisions. You should probably invent a new family for your international lexicons, with its own distinctive color, but if you don’t, you must reproduce the family record from any other catalog where it’s defined, because all dependencies between database records must be resolved within one catalog.

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A unique string that identifies the word list family within the catalog database.
; '''<tt>name</tt>'''
: A brief string that identifies the word list family to the user.
; '''<tt>description</tt>'''
: A longer string that describes the word list family in full.
; '''<tt>color</tt>'''
: The word list family’s HTML color name or hexadecimal value (e.g., '''<tt>#C0FFEE</tt>'''), for use in background coloring. It should be a unique color among known word list families, and preferably a lighter shade that doesn’t overwhelm black text.

==== Table: word_list ====

The '''<tt>word_list</tt>''' table contains one record for each word list that your recognized lexicon source files use. It may contain multiple records for the same word list if there have been revisions since it was originally published, using a composite (two-part) key that includes the revision number. It may also contain superseding records for word lists that are new versions of another list in the same family. (For example, NWL2023 supersedes NWL2020, but they are both in the NWL family.)

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A unique string that identifies the word list within the catalog database. It must also be unique among all catalogs, because Zyzzyva uses it to index all of the lexicons that it manages.
; '''<tt>revision</tt>'''
: A number (beginning with 1) that uniquely identifies one revision of the word list, and the second part of this table’s composite key. Ordinarily, this is always 1, but if the list is republished, it should be incremented so that the revision number is visible to the user.
; '''<tt>name</tt>'''
: A brief string that identifies the word list to the user.
; '''<tt>description</tt>'''
: A longer string that describes the word list in full.
; '''<tt>copyright</tt>'''
: The legal copyright text for the word list. This appears in the NZ status bar and in saved word lists.
; '''<tt>publisher</tt>'''
: A foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>publisher</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>date</tt>'''
: A string in short ISO date format (e.g., 2024-01-14) that identifies the publication date of the word list.
; '''<tt>supersedes</tt>'''
: A string (otherwise NULL) that identifies the key of the word list that this word list supersedes. The identified word list may or may exist in this table, but Zyzzyva may use it to guide the user in migrating study data from one word list to another.
; '''<tt>word_list_family</tt>'''
: A foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>word_list_family</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>tile_set</tt>'''
: A foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>tile_set</tt>''' table.

==== Table: lexicon ====

The '''<tt>lexicon</tt>''' table contains one record for each lexicon source file that your catalog recognizes. It has a composite (two-part) key, comprising its cryptographic hash value and the algorithm used to generate it. (Note that ZIP archives used to package multiple lexicon source files are not listed here, though each individual file inside them must be individually recognizable.)

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A unique string that identifies the lexicon source file within the catalog database. This is the cryptographic hash value used to check that the source file is authentic. In the case of encrypted text files, the hash value reflects the decrypted text.
; '''<tt>algorithm</tt>'''
: A number that uniquely identifies the hash algorithm used to compute the hash value, and the second part of this table’s composite key. Currently, this is always 12, indicating SHA3-256.
; '''<tt>word_list</tt>'''
: The first part of a foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>word_list</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>revision</tt>'''
: The second part of a foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>word_list</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>interpretation</tt>'''
: A foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>interpretation</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>sort</tt>'''
: A string documenting how the file is sorted, if necessary to differentiate multiple hash values for the same lexicon source file sorted in different orders.

==== Table: catalog ====

The '''<tt>catalog</tt>''' table contains one self-description record to describe itself, and optionally more records to describe child catalogs that are validated by your catalog. It’s unlikely that you’ll be birthing child catalogs, but if you do, your users will have to fetch and load your catalog before they can fetch those.

; '''<tt>key</tt>'''
: A unique string that identifies the catalog within the catalog database. It must also be unique among all catalogs, because Zyzzyva uses it to index all of the catalogs that it manages, except the mandatory self-description record, which must match the describing record in the parent catalog database in its identifying fields.
; '''<tt>name</tt>'''
: A brief string that identifies the catalog to the user.
; '''<tt>publisher</tt>'''
: A foreign key, pointing to a record in the '''<tt>publisher</tt>''' table.
; '''<tt>date</tt>'''
: A string in short ISO date format (e.g., 2017-01-01) that identifies the publication date of the catalog.
; '''<tt>url</tt>'''
: The catalog’s Internet URL. Zyzzyva uses this to fetch the catalog from the Internet. There must also be a matching file in Base64 PEM format at the same URL, with '''<tt>.sig</tt>''' appended, that contains the digital signature of the catalog file as signed by the holder of the RSA key-pair whose public key appears in the '''<tt>signer</tt>''' field.
; '''<tt>signer</tt>'''
: The catalog signer’s public key in Base64 PEM format.

=== Test your catalog ===

Once you’ve created your catalog, it’s time to test it to see if it properly recognizes and describes your lexicon source files. Since your catalog isn’t validated by any existing catalog, it won’t be possible to operate your catalog in the way that your users will once everything is configured, so you should follow these steps to test it.

# Close the NZ application.
# Use a SQLite database browser to open your catalog and export all tables and records in CSV format to a text file.
# Find your custom catalog database ('''<tt>custom.db</tt>''') in your Zyzzyva data directory under '''<tt>catalogs</tt>''' and make a copy of it. Open that file in the database browser.
# Import and merge your exported catalog records into the copied catalog, and resolve any key-uniqueness conflicts or other issues, then write the database file back to disk.
# Temporarily swap the resulting merged catalog file with the custom catalog file in your Zyzzyva data directory.
# Open the NZ application and verify that it reads the merged catalog at startup without complaints.
# Go to ''Preferences'' -> ''General'' -> ''Lexicon'' -> ''Manage'', click ''Advanced'', then click the button to open the ''Manage Catalogs'' dialog.
# In the list of catalogs, select ''Custom Catalog'' and click ''Edit''. You should see any custom lexicons that you had already imported and registered there, but you won’t yet see your newly described lexicons (unless you had earlier imported them as custom lexicons, in which case you should now select them and click ''OK'' to deregister them).
# Returning to the ''Manage Lexicons'' dialog, try importing your lexicon source text file. If your merged catalog records are keyed to the correct hash values and the other tables are in order, you should not be asked to register it as a custom lexicon; instead, you should see that the lexicon appears in the dialog with a red icon to indicate that it’s unauthenticated (like a custom lexicon), but with other descriptive fields displayed as you intended.
# When you close the ''Preferences'' dialog, NZ will try to load your lexicon source files according to your merged catalog records. (This will generate DAWG files; if you recorded the correct DAWG hashes in your catalog, those files should now be saved along with the imported text file.) You can then test it in a ''Search'' tab, to verify that you can type all of the letters in your letter set (but no others) in the ''Anagram Match'' text field and do a search for matching words.
# If all of the above steps worked, then you should return to the ''Manage Lexicons'' dialog and check for the presence of optional features that you intend to support for the new lexicon. If they’re missing, you need to import those specific lexicon source files (or a ZIP archive that contains them) and then check that they were successfully loaded.
# Further tests could include building a lexicon database, using ''Tools'' -> ''Rebuild Database'', which brings in definitions, playability data, and stems files and enables specific search features not available without one. (You may need to restart NZ to see this database working in full.) Also, you should test that your DAWG files are loading successfully at startup; if you still see progress dialogs, that’s Zyzzyva generating DAWGs on the fly because it couldn’t load the ones you imported, so you will probably want to get the correct DAWG hashes (as described [[#Assemble your lexicon source files|above]]) and add DAWG records to the catalog.
# When testing is complete, if you added or corrected any records merged into your custom database, you should reflect those changes back to the catalog database that you intend to publish.

=== Sign and host your catalog ===

When you are satisfied that your catalog is ready to test with its first Zyzzyva users, it’s time to put a digital signature on it. This (along with a record in a parent catalog that describes it) is what enables users to load your catalog so that it can recognize your lexicons as authentic.

Follow these steps using any current version of the [https://github.com/openssl/openssl/tree/master#download OpenSSL] program, which is available in source form for all desktop operating systems, or any software with equivalent functionality. In these steps, use a suitable unique name for your catalog, something reflective of your organization, in place of '''<tt>our</tt>'''.

* Generate an encrypted private/public RSA key pair as PKCS#1 in PEM format. This will prompt you for a password, which you must record for future use, as you will need it whenever you use the private key to sign a catalog file. The privacy of that password is what guarantees that any catalog signed by that key (and, by extension, any lexicon it recognizes) is actually authenticated by your organization, so you should protect it.
'''<tt>openssl genrsa -aes256 -out our.prv 4096</tt>'''
* Derive the public RSA key from PKCS#1 in PEM format. This will prompt you for your password to decrypt the encrypted key file. The resulting '''<tt>.pub</tt>''' file is what you must submit to us to identify you as your catalog’s signer in its parent catalog.
'''<tt>openssl rsa -in our.prv -pubout -out our.pub</tt>'''
* Generate a signed digest hash of the catalog file ('''<tt>our.db</tt>''') with your private key. This will prompt you for your password to access the private key in the encrypted key file.
'''<tt>openssl dgst -sign our.prv -keyform PEM -sha256 -out our.db.sig.binary -binary our.db</tt>'''
* Encode the signed digest hash in Base64 for deployment.
'''<tt>openssl enc -base64 -in our.db.sig.binary -out our.db.sig</tt>'''

The result is that your catalog ('''<tt>our.db</tt>''') is unchanged, but you also have the accompanying signature file ('''<tt>our.db.sig</tt>''') that Zyzzyva expects to be in the same location on the Internet when users fetch your catalog, for validation.

Because of the way this catalog validation works, it’s not critical that you host your catalog with SSL ('''<tt>https:</tt>''') security, but that’s always good server-management practice.

When all this is done, you must send us three files: the catalog, its signature file, and the public key in PEM format ('''<tt>our.pub</tt>'''). We will run a validation check on these files. When your hosting location is finalized, send us the URL to the catalog file, and we will add the necessary description record to the appropriate parent catalog. Your last task is to test the link between catalogs in NZ and/or NZM by updating the parent catalog and then fetching and loading your catalog, as described [[#I need step-by-step instructions!|above]].

=== Update your catalog ===

When it’s time to make changes to your catalog, you can repeat the above steps to test, sign, and host the updated catalog. As long as you use the same private key to do the signing, you are free to do these updates without notifying us. We may intervene if we see evidence that you aren’t following the signed agreement regarding respect for publishing rights or other issues.

=== Relocate your catalog ===

At some point in the future, your catalog files may have to move to a different Internet domain or a different location on your existing Web server. This affects the parent catalog, which tells Zyzzyva where to look when a user asks to fetch or update your catalog.

The catalog tree design allows for this through a practice known in software engineering as “tombstoning”. Your catalog must contain a “self-description” record that matches the record in the parent catalog, including its own Internet URL. No catalog can load properly unless it contains a self-description record that matches its description in its parent catalog.

When you first know that you will be moving your catalog files, you should advise us, to make us aware of the coming change. When you place your catalog in its new location, and before it’s no longer available in its existing location, you must change the self-description record in the catalog at its old location to point to the new URL (and re-sign the catalog, so that it can still be validated). Zyzzyva will notify users that your catalog has changed, and when they update it, Zyzzyva will skip over your obsoleted catalog and fetch the one in the new location. In this way, you can relocate your catalog without involving us during your cutover.

Later, once everything is tested, you must advise us that your change is complete. We will update the parent catalog so that its description of your catalog contains the new URL, at which point you can take down the existing copy.

=== For more information ===

If you need clarification or assistance with any information in this document, please [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org?Subject=International%20Support%20in%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva send a message to us] with your specific request.

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'''NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|app]] for handheld devices (smartphones and tablets) running iOS or Android. It is based on the same code base as [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] for desktop and laptop computers, but with a smaller, streamlined interface. That interface is closely patterned on Michael Thelen’s Zyzzyva app for iOS, introduced in 2011 and acquired by NASPA in 2014.

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile is an app for mobile devices, currently available for the iOS (13 or higher) and Android (9 or higher) operating systems. It is optimized for small screens, but can also be used on tablets.

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile should also run on Chromebooks that support Android apps from Google Play.

The app can interoperate with, and is functionally equivalent to, the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] program for computers. This allows users to study words at home and on the go. Synchronizing data with the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] computer application is easier now that the latter also supports active synchronization of cardboxes, quiz statistics, and saved quizzes between devices using Dropbox cloud storage.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.5.0 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], and Volost word lists.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]], author of the original Zyzzyva,
launched a crowdfunding campaign around 2010
to develop a miniature version for iPhones, which were then taking off in popularity.
With the support of about 100 subscribers, he brought his app to the iTunes Store in 2011.

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and while the desktop version carried on, mobile app development stopped, due to a lack of volunteer developers with relevant skills and the difficulty of working under the licensing restrictions imposed by the owners of the lexicons.

In 2019, after NASPA began to publish lexicons under its own copyright, NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] began work to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel, and the resulting NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile app was released in late 2021.

We chose to stick with the “look and feel” of the old iOS app as a starting point, partly to acknowledge the financial support that made that work possible. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile_Download|NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.2]]
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS | CSW21]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.1
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.0
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.3.1
: includes [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.3.0
: includes [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
Visit the [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]] page for frequently asked questions about NASPA Zyzzyva in general.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

The following topics from the NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile help might be useful to review:

* [[media:NZM Search.pdf |Search]]
* [[media:NZM Quiz.pdf |Quiz]]
* [[media:NZM Judge.pdf |Judge]]

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile — The Last Word in Word Study, now on mobile!]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile

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'''NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile''' is a word study and word adjudication [[software|app]] for handheld devices (smartphones and tablets) running iOS or Android. It is based on the same code base as [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] for desktop and laptop computers, but with a smaller, streamlined interface. That interface is closely patterned on Michael Thelen’s Zyzzyva app for iOS, introduced in 2011 and acquired by NASPA in 2014.

== Supported Operating Systems ==

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile is an app for mobile devices, currently available for the iOS (13 or higher) and Android (9 or higher) operating systems. It is optimized for small screens, but can also be used on tablets.

NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile should also run on Chromebooks that support Android apps from Google Play.

The app can interoperate with, and is functionally equivalent to, the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] program for computers. This allows users to study words at home and on the go. Synchronizing data with the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] computer application is easier now that the latter also supports active synchronization of cardboxes, quiz statistics, and saved quizzes between devices using Dropbox cloud storage.

== Current Version ==

Version 3.4.2 includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], and Volost word lists.

== History ==

[[Michael Thelen]], author of the original Zyzzyva,
launched a crowdfunding campaign around 2010
to develop a miniature version for iPhones, which were then taking off in popularity.
With the support of about 100 subscribers, he brought his app to the iTunes Store in 2011.

In September 2014, NASPA bought all rights to Zyzzyva,
and while the desktop version carried on, mobile app development stopped, due to a lack of volunteer developers with relevant skills and the difficulty of working under the licensing restrictions imposed by the owners of the lexicons.

In 2019, after NASPA began to publish lexicons under its own copyright, NASPA’s [[Zyzzyva Committee]] began work to factor off a common code base for all NASPA Zyzzyva platforms, desktop and mobile, so that they can be maintained in parallel, and the resulting NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile app was released in late 2021.

We chose to stick with the “look and feel” of the old iOS app as a starting point, partly to acknowledge the financial support that made that work possible. The Committee welcomes suggestions about improvements to the software.

== Version History ==
; [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile_Download|NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.2]]
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW24]], and [[SOWPODS | CSW21]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.1
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.4.0
: includes [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.3.1
: includes [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]
; NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile 3.3.0
: includes [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [[NWL2018]], [[SSWL2018 | NSWL2018]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]] and [[CSW2019 | CSW19]]

== Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) ==
Visit the [[NASPA Zyzzyva FAQ]] page for frequently asked questions about NASPA Zyzzyva in general.

Dedicated students should enjoy our [[Cardboxing 101]] and [[Cardboxing 201]] articles, to get an idea of how you can power up your word study using NASPA Zyzzyva on desktops and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile on mobile devices.

The following topics from the NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile help might be useful to review:

* [[media:NZM Search.pdf |Search]]
* [[media:NZM Quiz.pdf |Quiz]]
* [[media:NZM Judge.pdf |Judge]]

NASPA will be updating this page as time permits; we welcome specific questions or suggestions at [mailto:zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org zyzzyva@scrabbleplayers.org].

== Links ==
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile — The Last Word in Word Study, now on mobile!]]
* [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download]]
* [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]]

Cardboxing 201

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If you’ve read our [[Cardboxing 101]] article and are eager to learn more about the subject, great! Here are some tips and tricks to help you build and maintain your cardbox with the best of them. This article focuses on cardboxing in the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] (NZ) desktop application or [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] (NZM) mobile app.

It’s best to start building your cardbox on a system where you’ve already built up a quiz history, because NZ and NZM will give you credit for words that you seem to know well, planting them deeper in the cardbox. If you’ve never done quizzes before, everything you add to the cardbox is going to land in Cardbox 0 and be due immediately.

If you’re just starting out with a new NZ or NZM installation, be sure to sync your data with your habitual NZ or NZM installation first, to bring that quiz history up to date in both places, and, for the love of all that is good and holy, please be careful not to sync a new and virtually empty mobile cardbox/quiz-stats database over any older desktop database that you wanted to keep — read the warnings! For information about data synchronization, see [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] and the related help text in NZ and NZM.

== Where to Start? ==

As we pointed out in the introductory article, with cardboxing as with any abstruse study, discouragement is the enemy. With that in mind, it’s almost always best to start small.

Maybe we should start with that word, <tt>ABSTRUSE</tt>. Looks like a good word to know, and one that most expert players wouldn’t easily see in their rack of <tt>AEUBRST</tt> as they fixate on finding a place for <tt>ARBUTES</tt> or <tt>BURSATE</tt> (or <tt>SURBATE#</tt>, if they play the International English lexicon). Zyzzyva tells us that <tt>ABSTRUSE</tt> is middlingly probable as eight-letter words go, #12247 out of 31736, but, with its two <tt>S</tt>’s and its familiar meaning, it seems more worth knowing than, say, <tt>FROMENTY</tt> (#12189). So, we have to make a decision: Do we populate our cardbox by raw probability or by pattern, and how big do we go?

We recommend that you start by pattern, using defined groups of words that many word players have come to recognize as worth studying. (You definitely won’t enjoy the result if you populate your cardbox with the 12247 most probable eight-letter words.) You may have heard people talk about “stem” groups like <tt>TISANE?</tt> and <tt>SATIRE?</tt>, and these are definitely the ones to go with if you want to cardbox with seven-letter words and don’t know where to start. Or, maybe you’re not so concerned with long words and just want to know the “high fives” (words beginning or ending with four- or five-point letters) that can easily score 30 or 40 points when played in the right spot. Either way, a pattern search is where you should start.

You can do these searches quickly using the ''Search'' tab’s many predefined search specifications (e.g., on NZ, ''Load Search…'' → [up a level] ''predefined'' → ''Top 7s By Stem'' → ''001 TISANE.zzs'') and its ''Belongs to Group'' condition. Run a search, see how many words it finds, then decide if this is a group worth studying. If so, right-click the list of found words and choose ''Add list to Cardbox…'' The NZM app can do basic pattern searches like <tt>TISANE?</tt> and group searches, as well as these predefined searches, but for more complex searches you may want to consider populating the cardbox in NZ and then syncing it to NZM.

== Surviving the Early Days of Cardboxing ==

Even a small cardbox of 200 words or so can be a bit overwhelming to start, especially if you’re intent on keeping at it every day until there are no more questions due. It can be like a new baby to start. Here are some anti-infanticide tips:
* '''Prioritize small wins over completeness.''' Rather than spending minutes on a difficult question, mark it incorrect and move on to the next one. The backlog remains the same when you do this, because the question goes to Cardbox 0 and you’ll see it again within a day, and you give yourself the chance to dispatch the next one quickly, which will push it up a level and out of the current logjam. It may seem counterintuitive to give up easily, but it’s actually better for your study habit, both short- and long-term.
* '''Resist the urge to expand.''' Until you’ve figured out how to divide your cardbox into subgroups, keep all of the questions circulating and don’t add more words until you see that the daily due count is down to something manageable, between 20 and 100 questions, depending on your style and availability. Later on, when you do add more words, seeing those more familiar questions interspersed with the new ones will give you those small wins, and keep you on your toes, too.
* '''Turn on the sprinkler.''' A trick that some people use to break up big clods of cardbox questions is to designate Cardbox 15 as a “sprinkler” box. Since it would normally take many years for any question to reach Cardbox 15 “naturally”, you should feel free to change the cardbox schedule settings for that box to have a short ''Schedule'' value and a long ''Window'' value; then, as needed, you can tell NZ or NZM to move a clod of due questions to Cardbox 15, and they’ll magically reschedule themselves over a wider period of days. Having solved them correctly a few times, and when things are more under control, you can revisit the sprinkler box (where all of the correctly answered questions will still be, since there’s no higher box to advance to) and move the questions somewhere more fitting, like Cardbox 5, which will spread them out over a seven-day window.
* '''Phone a Friend.''' Maybe you know someone who’s cardboxing and wants to help you. There’s no shame in sharing! Any cardbox they’ve built is one you can copy and use. If they’re a NZ user, the database files are in their data directory under '''<tt>quiz/data</tt>''', arranged by lexicon, named '''<tt>Anagrams.db</tt>'''. If they use Zyzzyva’s data synchronization, they’re in their Dropbox cloud storage under '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva/quiz/data</tt>'''. (If you use NZM, since its storage is walled off, you’ll have to slot that database file into your own Dropbox storage and do a sync to bring it down to your mobile device.) After that, you’ll have a gently used cardbox that might conform to your solving abilities better than a brand-new one would.

== When It’s Time to Go Pro ==

This would be a good time to review the points in [[Cardboxing 101]] about scheduling and sizing, now that you have mastered the controls.

How far can you go with cardboxing in NZ and NZM? That depends only on your availability and your patience. There are people who study tens of thousands of words this way, short ones and long ones, and the benefits are huge. One thing you’ll notice is that you’ve gained both inclusive and exclusive knowledge of anagrams: It’s valuable to know the nine words to be found in <tt>AEINRST</tt>, and even more valuable to know that there aren’t more than those, so you can instantly challenge <tt>RESTAIN*</tt>.

The next step, for those who care about agility in game situations, is to drill by speed of recognition, which is something your cardbox won’t do (unless you enable NZ’s timer option on your cardbox quiz). For that, we recommend Aerolith’s [https://www.aerolith.org/wordwalls/ WordWalls], an online tool with nearly infinite depth for everyone from intermediate players to world champions.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

=== What’s the difference between a “Standard” quiz and a “Cardbox” quiz? ===

A standard quiz is one you create (in NZ or NZM) without selecting the cardbox option, and it doesn’t require a cardbox to work. You just tell it how to search for the words to quiz on, and the program will shuffle the questions in random order and track your progress over time. If you leave it and come back to it later, it will remember where you were, so all of the “state” is built into the saved quiz itself. A cardbox quiz is only useful if you’ve already built up a number of words from earlier searches that you want to study repeatedly, and this type of quiz is never actually saved, because all of the progress “state” is in the cardbox database, as it tracks your successes and failures and the due dates for each question. You may open your regular cardbox quiz and find that there are no questions due, or a hundred. Then, it’s up to you to decide how to tweak the settings and the number of words in the cardbox to suit your style.

=== I goofed a question, so now it’s back in Cardbox 0, but I really do know it. How do I correct this? ===

If you mark a question incorrect by mistake, you have an opportunity to fix that in the moment by clicking ''Mark as Correct'' (NZ) or the ''Check'' button (NZM), but, once you’ve moved on to the next question, you’ll need to make the repair manually.

As of Release 3.5.0, you can now manage questions directly in the Cardbox tab in both NZ and NZM. In NZ, locate the question in Cardbox 0 and right click the question to delete it or move it. In NZM, use the ''Manage'' tab to locate the question in Cardbox 0, select it, then press ''Action'', choose ''Move to Cardbox'', and tell it where to put the question.

Another way - perhaps easier if you need to correct several questions - is to run a search for the words you missed, then move the resulting words to a specific cardbox. On NZ, that means right-clicking the list, choosing ''Remove list from Cardbox'', then right-clicking the list again, choosing ''Add list to Cardbox…'', clicking ''Specify cardbox'', and telling it where to put the questions.

=== I’m ready to move beyond patterns, and I want to study by probability by putting the top thousand seven-letter words in my cardbox. What should I do? ===

Searching by probability is something you won’t see in the streamlined NZM interface, so for this you’ll need NZ. Open a ''Search'' tab, choose a ''Length'' condition to limit the search to seven-letter words, and add a ''Probability Order'' condition with minimum 1 and maximum 1000; a ''Lax'' search will return more than 1000 words if those following words are equally probable, which is what you probably want. Click ''Search'', then right-click the list and choose ''Add list to Cardbox…'' with the default option to ''Estimate cardbox based on past performance''. (A lot of the listed words will end up in Cardbox 0, but some may be higher if you’ve solved those quiz questions correctly before; any question that was already in your cardbox will stay where it was.) If you want to quiz in NZM with your newly expanded cardbox, you’ll need to sync out from NZ and back in to NZM.

=== How do I divide my cardbox so that I can study just a subgroup of them for a while? ===

A lexicon’s ''Anagrams'' cardbox is never actually subdivided, so what you are wanting is to run a search-restricted cardbox quiz. You’ll find the option to impose a search restriction in the ''New Quiz'' dialog in both NZ and NZM. In NZ, you can save that quiz as you would any other quiz, then load it when you feel like quizzing on just the <tt>-ING</tt> words, or whatever. Since the NZM interface’s selection of search options is limited, only NZ can create a cardbox quiz that is restricted by probability or various other conditions, but (aha!) once you’ve saved that quiz and synced it to your mobile device, the quiz engine in NZM will respect the search restriction when you load that saved quiz.

=== Is there an “In Cardbox” condition that I can add to a search? ===

Sadly, no. The word engine that does searches is aware only of the lexicon files in the installation and any lexicon-database files that you may have created from them, not the contents of your cardbox. You can run a cardbox quiz with a search restriction, though. If your purpose is to extract the list of questions in your cardbox, we recommend you (carefully) open the quiz-statistics/cardbox database in an application such as DB Browser for SQLite.

=== My cardbox seems uneven — it hits me with too many questions at once. How can I fix that? ===

That’s probably because you’re too good at this! Both NZ’s and NZM’s cardbox settings have a default ''Schedule'' value and a ''Window'' value for each cardbox from 0 to 15. When a question is placed in a box, it’s given a random due date that is up to ''Window'' days more or less than ''Schedule'' days, as the ''Window'' value controls how widely to spread them. The default settings are fairly good at smoothing out the curve of questions due per day, which you can see in NZ’s ''Cardbox'' tab and NZM’s ''Manage'' tab (under ''By Schedule''), but you’re welcome to increase those ''Window'' values if it helps even out the lumps.

=== What do the various rescheduling commands do? ===

The cardbox system keeps track of each question’s due date even after they come due, so you can always see how many days past due your questions are. Rather than moving individual questions between cardboxes as a way to reschedule them, you should get to know the ''Shift By Days'' and ''Shift By Questions Due'' actions in NZM’s ''Manage'' tab; in NZ, choose ''Tools'' → ''Reschedule Cardbox Contents…'' and look for the similarly named buttons. Both of these rescheduling commands have the same effect, which is to shift all questions forward or back by the same amount of time, the only difference being how that amount of time is calculated. The ''Reschedule By Cardbox'' command is stronger; it scrubs all existing due dates, maintaining each question in its current box but with a new due date based on the ''Schedule'' and ''Window'' values — almost the same as what would happen if you deleted them all from the cardbox and then added them back. This latter command is useful after you’ve been studying just a subgroup of words in your cardbox for a while, when you switch back to the full cardbox, and find to your horror that the words you stopped studying are now way past due and want to be done before all the rest.

=== I want to cardbox on multiple devices. How should I go about it? ===

Both NZ and NZM can operate on cardboxes that are synced with Dropbox cloud storage, and in that way, multiple devices can sync their cardbox/quiz-statistics databases with each other. Since version 3.4.0, both NZ and NZM have buttons to sync “actively” with Dropbox, without you having to install the Dropbox application.

In the case of NZ up to version 3.3.0, you won’t see any mention of syncing in the application interface, but you can use the ''Preferences'' dialog to make it look for its data directory in a location that Dropbox is syncing in the background (though NZ doesn’t actually move the data for you, so you’ll have to do that yourself; this is known as “passive” sync).

To bring multiple devices' Zyzzyva data directories into sync, they all need to target the same '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva</tt>''' folder in the same user's Dropbox cloud storage. (Important: Zyzzyva's active-sync engine won't link up with a Dropbox app folder that it didn't create, so, we recommend you start your Dropbox sync relationship by doing an active sync of your habitual Zyzzyva installation, the one that has your “good” quiz data.)

When firing up any new NZ or NZM installation, press the ''Sync'' button, sign in to Dropbox and give permission when prompted, and then — please! — if you see prompts about conflicted items, read those questions before you agree to proceed with the sync. The first time you sync, there may be conflicts between older, useful cardbox/quiz-statistics databases on Dropbox and newer, but useless databases just established on your mobile device; if so, you should tell it to sync in one direction only, from Dropbox to your mobile device, by answering ''Yes'' to the first question and ''No'' to the second before answering ''Yes'' to start syncing. It will take a while, and it will try to keep your device awake, because Zyzzyva’s active-sync engine isn’t programmed to pause a sync and finish it later; since iOS tolerates only short periods of background activity before killing an active app, you should let it run in the foreground.

After one or more tries, having completed this initial sync, Zyzzyva will only sync files that have changed, so it’ll be very quick. The one thing to remember, to avoid disappointment, is to sync when you start cardboxing and again when you stop, because otherwise you could end up with two or more devices that both think they have newer cardbox data, and this will be flagged as a sync conflict later on.

=== How do I move cardbox data forward when moving to a new lexicon? ===

There is one ''Anagrams'' cardbox for each lexicon, and the contents won’t automatically be brought forward when you begin to study a new one. When a new lexicon is released and you want to move your quiz statistics and cardbox data forward, the simplest way is to use Zyzzyva’s import features. In NZ’s ''Cardbox'' tab, target the new lexicon, then click ''Import…'' and choose the old lexicon; in NZM’s ''Manage'' tab, target the new lexicon, press ''Action'', choose ''Import From Lexicon'' and choose the old lexicon. Either way, your ''Anagrams'' cardbox data will come over, along with the rest of the quiz history for that lexicon. (That’s why, when the import finishes, the number it reports will probably be larger than the number of questions in your cardbox.) If you use Zyzzyva’s data-synchronization feature, this update will sync to all of your devices along with the rest of your data directory.

NASPA Zyzzyva macOS Installation

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This page describes how to '''install [[NASPA Zyzzyva]]''' on a '''macOS''' (typically Apple Macintosh) computer for NASPA members.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 ==

This version requires macOS Release 13 or greater.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]].
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_350_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Open the app in the Applications folder.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check any lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 14 releases.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]].
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_342_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Open the app in the Applications folder.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check CSW24 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 14 releases.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_341_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 14 releases.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_34_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 11 releases.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer disk image file]].
* Open the disk image file and drag the app to the Applications folder as indicated.
* Open the app in the Applications folder.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check NWL2020 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_33_Notes.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.7 or greater.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0. However, note that CSW21 is not available in this release.
* Review the [[Media:Zyz323New.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0. However, note that NWL2020 and CSW21 not available in this release.
* Review the [[Media:WhatsNew.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing Older Versions ==

If you are installing a version of NASPA Zyzzyva prior to 3.2.0,
here is archived information about what you should do.

# If you wish to install the [[OTCWL2016]], [[OSPD5]], or [[SSWL2016]], make sure that you have a NASPA [[membership]], its ID (number) and password, and a 64-bit (Intel Core Duo 2 or later) OS X (10.7 or later) computer with an Internet connection.
# Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer disk image file]].
# Open the disk image file and drag the app to the Applications folder as indicated.
# Open the app in the Applications folder.
##If you see a warning about security, either click the ''Allow'' button if there is one, or else go to the ''Apple menu → System Preferences → Security & Privacy → General → Allow applications downloaded from:'' and select ''Anywhere'', then try again.
##If you see a warning about an unknown developer, hold down the Control key and click the app. Choose Open and then click Open. Zyzzyva is saved as an exception to your security settings.

# Go to ''Tools → Manage Licenses...'' and click ''Claim License...''. Choose NASPA. Log in with your [[NASPA ID]] and password. Click ''OK'' to acknowledge that you have received a license file. Click ''OK'' to acknowledge that you have received an activation certificate. Click ''Close'' to close the Licenses window. Click ''OK'' to acknowledge that Zyzzyva is attempting to load lexicons using the new license.
# Go to ''Zyzzyva → Preferences → General → Load Lexicons: Edit...'' and click on ''OTCWL2016''. Click ''OK'' twice to close windows.
# To check that you have OTCWL2016 loaded correctly, click the magnifying glass search button, choose the OTCWL2016 lexicon, and ask for an anagram match for ABEDHIRTT. If you see BIRTHDATE, you’re done.
# If you want to see definitions or do more complex searches, go to ''Tools → Rebuild Database...'' and choose to build the OTCWL2016 lexicon database. This will take a while, but when it's complete, you'll have the full set of capabilities with the new lexicon.

== NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0 Issue With macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)==

If Zyzzyva fails to launch when you try to run it, you can fix your installed copy of NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0 by following these steps:

# In Finder, in the Go menu, choose Go to Folder…
# Enter /usr/lib and click Go.
# Select the file named libz.1.dylib and copy it to the Clipboard.
# Navigate to the folder where Zyzzyva is installed.
# Control-click the Zyzzyva application icon and choose Show Package Contents.
# Open the Contents folder and then the Frameworks folder.
# Paste the file that you copied onto the clipboard, and click Replace when prompted.

File:Zyzzyva 350 Notes.pdf

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Judycole:

NASPA Zyzzyva macOS Installation

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Judycole: /* Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 */ updated for 3.5

This page describes how to '''install [[NASPA Zyzzyva]]''' on a '''macOS''' (typically Apple Macintosh) computer for NASPA members.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 ==

This version requires macOS Release 13 or greater.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]].
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use.
* Review the notes that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Open the app in the Applications folder.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check any lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 14 releases.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]].
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_342_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Open the app in the Applications folder.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check CSW24 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 14 releases.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_341_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 14 releases.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_34_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater - including all macOS 11 releases.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer disk image file]].
* Open the disk image file and drag the app to the Applications folder as indicated.
* Open the app in the Applications folder.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check NWL2020 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_33_Notes.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.4 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.7 or greater.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0. However, note that CSW21 is not available in this release.
* Review the [[Media:Zyz323New.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.2.1 ==

This version requires macOS Release 10.12 or greater.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.3.0. However, note that NWL2020 and CSW21 not available in this release.
* Review the [[Media:WhatsNew.pdf|What's New notes]].

== Installing Older Versions ==

If you are installing a version of NASPA Zyzzyva prior to 3.2.0,
here is archived information about what you should do.

# If you wish to install the [[OTCWL2016]], [[OSPD5]], or [[SSWL2016]], make sure that you have a NASPA [[membership]], its ID (number) and password, and a 64-bit (Intel Core Duo 2 or later) OS X (10.7 or later) computer with an Internet connection.
# Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer disk image file]].
# Open the disk image file and drag the app to the Applications folder as indicated.
# Open the app in the Applications folder.
##If you see a warning about security, either click the ''Allow'' button if there is one, or else go to the ''Apple menu → System Preferences → Security & Privacy → General → Allow applications downloaded from:'' and select ''Anywhere'', then try again.
##If you see a warning about an unknown developer, hold down the Control key and click the app. Choose Open and then click Open. Zyzzyva is saved as an exception to your security settings.

# Go to ''Tools → Manage Licenses...'' and click ''Claim License...''. Choose NASPA. Log in with your [[NASPA ID]] and password. Click ''OK'' to acknowledge that you have received a license file. Click ''OK'' to acknowledge that you have received an activation certificate. Click ''Close'' to close the Licenses window. Click ''OK'' to acknowledge that Zyzzyva is attempting to load lexicons using the new license.
# Go to ''Zyzzyva → Preferences → General → Load Lexicons: Edit...'' and click on ''OTCWL2016''. Click ''OK'' twice to close windows.
# To check that you have OTCWL2016 loaded correctly, click the magnifying glass search button, choose the OTCWL2016 lexicon, and ask for an anagram match for ABEDHIRTT. If you see BIRTHDATE, you’re done.
# If you want to see definitions or do more complex searches, go to ''Tools → Rebuild Database...'' and choose to build the OTCWL2016 lexicon database. This will take a while, but when it's complete, you'll have the full set of capabilities with the new lexicon.

== NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0 Issue With macOS 10.13 (High Sierra)==

If Zyzzyva fails to launch when you try to run it, you can fix your installed copy of NASPA Zyzzyva 3.1.0 by following these steps:

# In Finder, in the Go menu, choose Go to Folder…
# Enter /usr/lib and click Go.
# Select the file named libz.1.dylib and copy it to the Clipboard.
# Navigate to the folder where Zyzzyva is installed.
# Control-click the Zyzzyva application icon and choose Show Package Contents.
# Open the Contents folder and then the Frameworks folder.
# Paste the file that you copied onto the clipboard, and click Replace when prompted.

NASPA Zyzzyva Linux Installation

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Judycole: /* Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 */ added 3.5

This page describes how to install NASPA Zyzzyva on Linux for NASPA members.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 ==

The current release 3.5.0 is available only for 64-bit operating systems. (If you need to run NASPA Zyzzyva on a 32-bit operating system, Version 3.2.4 has both 32-bit and 64-bit installation packages.) It supports the following common Linux distributions (and later): Red Hat 8.8, Ubuntu 22, and openSUSE 15.5.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]].
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use. If you see a message about a missing library, you may need to install it using your package manager. For example, on Ubuntu, you may need to run this command: '''<tt>sudo apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0</tt>'''
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_342_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Open the app from where it was installed.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Manage... and check any lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2 ==

The current release 3.4.2 is available only for 64-bit operating systems. (If you need to run NASPA Zyzzyva on a 32-bit operating system, Version 3.2.4 has both 32-bit and 64-bit installation packages.) It supports the following common Linux distributions (and later): Linux Mint 19, Ubuntu 17, openSUSE 15, Debian “buster”.

* Download the [[NASPA Zyzzyva Download|installer]].
* Run the installer - you must accept the terms of use. If you see a message about a missing library, you may need to install it using your package manager. For example, on Ubuntu, you may need to run this command: '''<tt>sudo apt-get install libxcb-xinerama0</tt>'''
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_342_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.
* Open the app from where it was installed.
* Choose Edit > Preferences > Load Lexicons > Edit... and check NWL2023 and any other lexicons that you want to use.
* Rebuild databases when prompted. This step may take several minutes if you have many lexicons installed. When it completes, you’re done!
** If not prompted, you can choose Tools > Rebuild Database... to start the process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1 ==

Release 3.4.1 is available only for 64-bit operating systems. (If you need to run NASPA Zyzzyva on a 32-bit operating system, Version 3.2.4 has both 32-bit and 64-bit installation packages.) It supports the following common Linux distributions (and later): Linux Mint 19, Ubuntu 17, openSUSE 15, Debian “buster”.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.2.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_34_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Installing NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.0 ==

Release 3.4.0 is available only for 64-bit operating systems. (If you need to run NASPA Zyzzyva on a 32-bit operating system, Version 3.2.4 has both 32-bit and 64-bit installation packages.) It supports the following common Linux distributions (and later): Linux Mint 19, Ubuntu 17, openSUSE 15, Debian “buster”.

* The installation instructions are the same as for NASPA Zyzzyva 3.4.1.
* Review the [[Media:Zyzzyva_34_Notes.pdf|notes]] that appear at the end of the installation process.

== Release Contents ==

For changes in a specific release, see:

* [[Media:Zyzzyva_342_Notes.pdf|Release 3.4.2 What's New notes]].
* [[Media:Zyzzyva_341_Notes.pdf|Release 3.4.1 What's New notes]].
* [[Media:Zyzzyva_34_Notes.pdf|Release 3.4.0 What's New notes]].
* [[Media:Zyzzyva_33_Notes.pdf|Release 3.3.0 What's New notes]].
* [[Media:Zyz323New.pdf|Release 3.2.4 What's New notes]].

NASPA School Word List 2018

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Judycole: /* Electronic Edition */ deleted info about download

The '''[[NASPA School Word List]]''' (2018 edition), NSWL2018, was edited by
the NASPA [[Dictionary Committee]] in 2018, and incorporates changes made to
the corresponding [[OTCWL2018]] lexicon.
Like its predecessors, it consists of those words that are acceptable in the regular [[Official Tournament and Club Word List]] (OTCWL) that are considered appropriate for school use.
It was originally released as the School SCRABBLE Word List (SSWL), and rebranded the NASPA School Word List in 2019.

== Errata ==

On 2019-01-30, the editor noticed the presence of the trademark verb forms VASELINED and VASELINING, and removed them from the word list. (VASELINE and VASELINES had already been removed earlier.)

== Availability ==

=== Print Edition ===

For licensing reasons, this book is a members-only publication. A limited print run is available through the [[NASPA Store]].

=== Electronic Edition ===

It is also available for personal use as a free download (password required) through NASPA [{{SERVER}}/cgi-bin/services.pl Member Services].

== Content ==

To view a list of differences between specific editions of NSWL and NWL, use Zyzzyva to search for words that are in one lexicon but not the other. There are 591 words that are in NWL2018 but not in NSWL2018; all words in NSWL2018 are in NWL2018.

=== Deleted words ===

The following 121 words that appeared in SSWL2016 are not in NSWL2018:

AQUALUNG(S) BAKELITE(S) BENADRYL(S) BIRO(S) BOURSIN(S) BRILLO(S) CAZHER CAZHEST CELOTEX(ES) CINEPLEX(ES) COMSAT(S) DACRON(S) DOBRO(S) DREKKISH DUMPSTER(S) EMMY(S) FORMICA(S) FREON(S) FRISBEE(S) GOBSHITE(S) HALIOTES HALIOTISES INAPTER INAPTEST JACUZZI(S) JELLO(S) JETWAY(S) KEWPIE(S) KLEENEX(ES) LEVIS LILO(S) LUCITE(S) LUREX(ES) LYCRA(S) MAILGRAM(S) MASONITE(S) MULATTO(ES,S) MYLAR(S) NICHROME(S) ORLON(S) OZALID(S) PERNOD(S) PERSPEX(ES) POPSICLE(S) PYREX(ES) RABIESES REALTOR(S) REXINE(S) SAPIDER SAPIDEST SECONAL(S) SHINOLA(S) SILASTIC(S) SPANSULE(S) STELLITE(S) STETSON(S) SUETIER SUETIEST TANNOY(S) TASER(S) TEFLON(S) TERYLENE(S) THERMIT(S) TOFUTTI(S) VASELINE(S) VELCRO(S) WEEJUNS

Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile

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Judycole: deleting question about custom lexicons

=== Wait, there’s a mobile version of NASPA Zyzzyva? ===

Yes! NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile (NZM) was introduced in 2021 as a mobile companion to the familiar NASPA Zyzzyva (NZ) desktop application. Both are currently at version 3.5.0. While they look very different on the surface, they share common quiz, search, and judge functions, and they are fully compatible in how they record your saved study data. For more information about NZM, please see [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]].

=== What is data synchronization in Zyzzyva, and why would I want to do it? ===

Zyzzyva data synchronization is mostly for users with more than one device that they use for word study. If that describes you, and you don’t synchronize your study data between devices, then nothing is coordinated, because those installations live totally separate lives. (That may be good enough, for example, if you only use the desktop application for adjudication, or if you’ve been exceptionally clever and moved your study data to a USB drive that you plug into whichever device you’re using.) Data synchronization makes multiple Zyzzyva installations seem like one, so you can switch devices and pick up where you left off in your study.

People who use Zyzzyva data synchronization usually have one of two purposes: Either they routinely move back and forth between a home computer and a mobile device, or they use NZM to run quizzes that they had to create in NZ because NZM’s set of search conditions is too limited. (NZM can run those, even though its user interface can’t create them.)

=== How does data synchronization work? Is it like a backup? ===

Zyzzyva synchronizes your study data with servers operated by a cloud-storage provider. If you use only one device, but you’re concerned about losing years’ worth of study data if it’s lost or stolen, data synchronization is one way to do it, but there are other ways: On a computer, you can train an Internet service’s program to back up your study data to their servers on a regular schedule. On a mobile device, Zyzzyva’s data are part of the larger set of user data that is covered by backup features included in the operating system.

When reading the following, it’s important to remember that your Zyzzyva installations will be syncing with a cloud-storage provider, not directly with each other. (At no time is your Zyzzyva session “live on the Internet”!) Consequently, syncing your data between devices always requires an “up” sync followed by a “down” sync.

=== What Zyzzyva data can I synchronize? ===

In both the desktop application (NASPA Zyzzyva) and the mobile app (NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile), every user has a “data directory” in local storage to hold all of your study data — everything but the program itself. When you run it for the first time, the program creates this directory in a location that belongs to you (named '''<tt>Zyzzyva</tt>''' in your home folder, if you’re on a computer; it’s hidden on mobile devices).

For the purposes of synchronization between devices, this data directory is one big blob — you can either sync its entire contents or nothing at all. Still, it’s good to know what’s in there: The '''<tt>quiz</tt>''' subfolder contains your quiz statistics and cardbox data, along with any quiz specifications that you created and saved. The '''<tt>search</tt>''' subfolder contains any search specifications that you created and saved. The '''<tt>words</tt>''' subfolder contains any word lists that you saved, perhaps from the result of a search. The '''<tt>judge</tt>''' subfolder contains logs of your adjudications. The '''<tt>lexicons</tt>''' subfolder contains lexicon databases, if you’ve opted to build them, and any Custom lexicons you may have created in NZM.

=== Is synchronization only for mobile users? ===

First, let’s distinguish between “passive” synchronization, which requires the assistance of another program to sync data with a cloud-storage provider, and “active” synchronization, which is something that Zyzzyva manages on its own using network services.

As of version 3.4.0 and later, both NZ and NZM support active synchronization with a cloud service, in a similar fashion. This is the configuration that we recommend for most users. Active sync only occurs when you trigger it, avoiding most redundant network traffic.

Historically, NASPA Zyzzyva, the desktop application, has always been compatible with passive sync using Dropbox or another cloud-storage provider; it only required that you move the data directory to a location that the provider’s installed application targets by default. This works very well between computers, but it generates a lot of network traffic, because files in the data directory change every time you answer a quiz question or judge a word. Also, because passive sync happens in the background, it can be hard to know when it’s complete. Despite those issues, many users are happy using the provider’s installed application, so NZ continues to support passive sync.

The mobile app (NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile and its predecessor, the pre-2014 Zyzzyva iOS app) only supports active sync, and it does not use or benefit from the installation of any cloud-storage sync program, thus, no passive sync.

Whatever your scenario, Zyzzyva works fine while you’re offline, and you can sync any changes to its data when you’re back online.

=== What cloud-storage providers can I use, and is it safe? ===

For passive sync when using NZ on a computer, any cloud provider will do, including Dropbox, Google Drive, iCloud Drive, and OneDrive. For active sync, Zyzzyva currently only supports Dropbox. Dropbox offers free storage space up to 2 GB per account, and active-sync clients such as Zyzzyva don’t count toward the maximum of three connected Dropbox program installations per account.

Zyzzyva’s active-sync engine only requests access to its own “app folder” in your Dropbox storage, so it can’t see any other files that you may have stored there or otherwise affect your cloud-storage setup.

=== How exactly do I synchronize my Zyzzyva data directory across my desktops / laptops and mobile devices? ===

For the recommended active-sync configuration, consult the online help in NZ and NZM to get your devices linked to a sync provider and take note of its advice about operation. The passive-sync alternative requires some technical knowledge and careful attention to the step-by-step instructions [[MEDIA:Synchronizing_the_Zyzzyva_Data_Directory.pdf |here]].

In most cases, users have a desktop / laptop installation with valuable data before installing NZM or installing NZ on another computer. In this scenario, it is important to get that desktop / laptop installation fully synced with the provider first (whether actively or passively), then perform the new installation, then sync it with the provider immediately '''before''' doing any quizzing there, so as not to risk damaging those valuable data. Once they’re synced as a group, you can stop worrying about such conflicts. These steps are outlined in the instructions linked above.

If instead you have two existing installations that both have valuable data and aren’t synced, it won’t be practical to merge them, and syncing them will force you to choose one over the other, so be careful!

=== Will synchronization use up my mobile-data plan? ===

Probably not, but if you’re uncertain, use your mobile device’s metering features to watch how much data each sync is using. The initial sync could use as much as 400 MB of data, so maybe you’ll want to do that one while you’re on wi-fi (and not on your friend’s tethered hotspot!).

=== What could possibly go wrong? ===

Zyzzyva’s sync engine is very cautious, and it hasn’t been known to “lose” data on its own, but it’s good to be conscious of what can go wrong without realizing it in the moment.

Anything that changes at one end of the sync relationship will be reflected at the other, either later or almost immediately, depending on whether the sync is active or passive. That includes routine updates to file contents, but also deletions and replacements. When Zyzzyva’s active-sync engine sees changes to a file at both ends, it will favor the end whose change seems more recent, if asked to consider both. If it already had knowledge of the file from a previous sync, it’ll prompt you to choose a side — should it consider changes from one end, both, or neither, or just cancel the sync? This will usually steer you to make a safe decision that you won’t need to correct later.

The scarier scenario is where the sync engine sees a file for the first time, but it exists in both locations with different contents and last-modified dates; this is very common when a user is syncing the data directories of two Zyzzyva installations for the first time. In such a case, and especially when the sync engine tells you that there are many files in conflict, read the prompts carefully and consider the consequences, as it will happily overwrite an older quiz-stats/cardbox database that you wanted to keep with a brand-new but almost empty one from a new installation where you just happened to run one quiz before syncing. (Ouch!) Remember, changes are handled at the file level, so don’t expect database changes to be merged at the record level.

=== Why does synchronization take so long? ===

With passive sync, you probably won’t notice how long it is taking, and it will pick up where it left off if it was interrupted. Most of the time, active sync is very quick, because the active-sync engine is conscious of the prior state of each file and only syncs files that have really changed. However, the first sync can take a long time (minutes to hours, depending on the size of your data directory and the speed of your network connection). Watch the file-countdown indicator if you aren’t sure that anything useful is happening; you can extend the timeout setting if you are getting a lot of prompts asking if you want to cancel the sync.

On mobile devices, especially iOS devices, it’s important not to put the app into the background or put the device to sleep during a long sync, because the operating system will suspend the app before long, and the sync will have to be restarted — so just plug it in and let the sync complete.

How long a sync takes depends greatly on the size of the files involved. Of all files in the data directory, lexicon databases are by far the largest (typically 60 MB), but they’ll only change if you rebuild them, so consider that factor if it seems that a sync is taking a long time.

=== Why do my data take up so much space? ===

The format of Zyzzyva’s data directory is the same on computers and on mobile devices. Unless you’ve built lexicon databases (optional, but recommended for many reasons as explained in the help files), the size of that directory is generally small. Where the pain can start on mobile devices with limited storage is with lexicon databases, either ones you built locally or ones that were synced in from another device where storage wasn’t a concern.

Lexicon databases typically use 300 to 400 bytes of storage for each word in the lexicon. This can easily put the size of the database over 60 MB, and you can multiply that by the number of lexicons. Some of those lexicons, you probably don’t even use. So, to cut down on the space consumption on your mobile devices, you may want to delete some of them. There isn’t a way to do this through NZ or NZM, so you’ll have to delete the files yourself; the best way is to log on to the cloud-storage provider’s website, find the Zyzzyva data directory and then its '''<tt>lexicons</tt>''' subdirectory, where you will find files with names like '''<tt>NWL2023.db</tt>'''. (To avoid creating those files in the first place, use Zyzzyva’s settings to unload those lexicons before asking it to build or rebuild lexicon databases.)

=== Why am I seeing data synchronization conflicts, even after the initial sync? ===

Zyzzyva’s active-sync engine is very cautious, as mentioned above, so it may report file conflicts when they don’t exist. For example, if you initiate a routine sync from your mobile device and put it to sleep, all of the changed files may reach the cloud-storage provider, but the app may be suspended before it gets final confirmation of that, so it won’t update its sync status; the next time you ask it to sync, both ends of the sync relationship think that they have an updated version of the file, which could indicate a conflict. Only after you tell it how to resolve the conflict will the engine go to the trouble of computing the cryptographic hash of the file’s contents and decide that there’s no actual change to be synced.

=== A sync just squished my cardbox! What do I do now? ===

Oh dear. Let’s hope you have another copy somewhere. If you have a device that hasn’t yet synced with the cloud-storage provider, you may be able to preserve an older copy of the affected database file and feed it back into the sync process after the damaged file has finished propagating. Or, if your computer operating system or cloud-storage provider offers a way to recover previous versions of files, you can restore it that way, and let that restored version propagate among your devices.

=== Can I make active sync automatic? ===

Passive sync is by its nature automatic, as long as the cloud-storage provider’s program is operating and your devices are online. Active sync only occurs when you trigger it, but there are options you can set to make it happen automatically when Zyzzyva starts or quits — or, on a mobile device, whenever you bring it to the foreground or put it in the background. (On iOS devices, this sync-on-quit task has about 30 seconds to complete before the operating system will suspend the app, aborting the sync; however, this is usually more than enough time for it to complete, and you can redo the sync later if it gets cut off.)

=== Can I sync my data with other users? ===

No. When you set up data synchronization, either passive or active, you must log on to a cloud-storage provider using a specific account. Unless you share those account credentials with others, the Zyzzyva data directory stored in that location is not accessible to them. (Outside of the sync scheme, though, there’s nothing stopping you from sharing those files with other users.)

=== My data directories won’t sync across NZ/NZM installations, though they should. Why is this happening? ===

We’ve seen this happen to users who set up a passive-sync link to Dropbox by creating a folder named '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva</tt>''' in Dropbox storage and changing their NZ preferences to use the locally synced copy of that folder as their data directory, and only then tried to enable active sync on that or another device. When the active-sync engine tries to sync with that folder in the cloud, it is refused access and creates its own '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva (1)</tt>''' folder instead; the two Zyzzyva installations don’t sync with each other.

The problem, here, is that Dropbox strongly enforces access control between its client apps; if an app didn’t create the folder, it can’t access it. First, you’ll have to break all of your active-sync links, because they’re pointing to the wrong place. Then, take a backup copy of your “good” (passively linked) data directory, delete both folders ('''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva</tt>''' and '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva (1)</tt>''') in the cloud, and, once those deletions have propagated to all passively linked devices, link one device to Dropbox using active sync so that our Dropbox client identity can recreate the '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva</tt>''' folder in its own right; then, once the “good” device is linked to Dropbox again (actively or passively), restore the backup copy to that device’s data directory location, and finally sync all devices to resolve any conflicts that may result from differences between their data directories.

=== I tried to link NZM to Dropbox using “Sign in with Google”. Why doesn’t that work? ===

NZM uses an embedded browser (“webview”) to ask for authorization when you ask it to link to a cloud-storage provider. The resulting logon page may include a “Sign in with Google” button, which probably won’t work. That’s because Google’s identity service doesn’t support browsers that don’t store cookies (I wonder why?). Better just to log on with an account and password — you should only have to do this once per device.

Cardboxing 201

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Judycole: Update goof question

If you’ve read our [[Cardboxing 101]] article and are eager to learn more about the subject, great! Here are some tips and tricks to help you build and maintain your cardbox with the best of them. This article focuses on cardboxing in the [[NASPA Zyzzyva]] (NZ) desktop application or [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] (NZM) mobile app.

It’s best to start building your cardbox on a system where you’ve already built up a quiz history, because NZ and NZM will give you credit for words that you seem to know well, planting them deeper in the cardbox. If you’ve never done quizzes before, everything you add to the cardbox is going to land in Cardbox 0 and be due immediately.

If you’re just starting out with a new NZ or NZM installation, be sure to sync your data with your habitual NZ or NZM installation first, to bring that quiz history up to date in both places, and, for the love of all that is good and holy, please be careful not to sync a new and virtually empty mobile cardbox/quiz-stats database over any older desktop database that you wanted to keep — read the warnings! For information about data synchronization, see [[Data Synchronization in NASPA Zyzzyva and NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] and the related help text in NZ and NZM.

== Where to Start? ==

As we pointed out in the introductory article, with cardboxing as with any abstruse study, discouragement is the enemy. With that in mind, it’s almost always best to start small.

Maybe we should start with that word, <tt>ABSTRUSE</tt>. Looks like a good word to know, and one that most expert players wouldn’t easily see in their rack of <tt>AEUBRST</tt> as they fixate on finding a place for <tt>ARBUTES</tt> or <tt>BURSATE</tt> (or <tt>SURBATE#</tt>, if they play the International English lexicon). Zyzzyva tells us that <tt>ABSTRUSE</tt> is middlingly probable as eight-letter words go, #12247 out of 31736, but, with its two <tt>S</tt>’s and its familiar meaning, it seems more worth knowing than, say, <tt>FROMENTY</tt> (#12189). So, we have to make a decision: Do we populate our cardbox by raw probability or by pattern, and how big do we go?

We recommend that you start by pattern, using defined groups of words that many word players have come to recognize as worth studying. (You definitely won’t enjoy the result if you populate your cardbox with the 12247 most probable eight-letter words.) You may have heard people talk about “stem” groups like <tt>TISANE?</tt> and <tt>SATIRE?</tt>, and these are definitely the ones to go with if you want to cardbox with seven-letter words and don’t know where to start. Or, maybe you’re not so concerned with long words and just want to know the “high fives” (words beginning or ending with four- or five-point letters) that can easily score 30 or 40 points when played in the right spot. Either way, a pattern search is where you should start.

You can do these searches quickly using the ''Search'' tab’s many predefined search specifications (e.g., on NZ, ''Load Search…'' → [up a level] ''predefined'' → ''Top 7s By Stem'' → ''001 TISANE.zzs'') and its ''Belongs to Group'' condition. Run a search, see how many words it finds, then decide if this is a group worth studying. If so, right-click the list of found words and choose ''Add list to Cardbox…'' The NZM app can do basic pattern searches like <tt>TISANE?</tt> and group searches, as well as these predefined searches, but for more complex searches you may want to consider populating the cardbox in NZ and then syncing it to NZM.

== Surviving the Early Days of Cardboxing ==

Even a small cardbox of 200 words or so can be a bit overwhelming to start, especially if you’re intent on keeping at it every day until there are no more questions due. It can be like a new baby to start. Here are some anti-infanticide tips:
* '''Prioritize small wins over completeness.''' Rather than spending minutes on a difficult question, mark it incorrect and move on to the next one. The backlog remains the same when you do this, because the question goes to Cardbox 0 and you’ll see it again within a day, and you give yourself the chance to dispatch the next one quickly, which will push it up a level and out of the current logjam. It may seem counterintuitive to give up easily, but it’s actually better for your study habit, both short- and long-term.
* '''Resist the urge to expand.''' Until you’ve figured out how to divide your cardbox into subgroups, keep all of the questions circulating and don’t add more words until you see that the daily due count is down to something manageable, between 20 and 100 questions, depending on your style and availability. Later on, when you do add more words, seeing those more familiar questions interspersed with the new ones will give you those small wins, and keep you on your toes, too.
* '''Turn on the sprinkler.''' A trick that some people use to break up big clods of cardbox questions is to designate Cardbox 15 as a “sprinkler” box. Since it would normally take many years for any question to reach Cardbox 15 “naturally”, you should feel free to change the cardbox schedule settings for that box to have a short ''Schedule'' value and a long ''Window'' value; then, as needed, you can tell NZ or NZM to move a clod of due questions to Cardbox 15, and they’ll magically reschedule themselves over a wider period of days. Having solved them correctly a few times, and when things are more under control, you can revisit the sprinkler box (where all of the correctly answered questions will still be, since there’s no higher box to advance to) and move the questions somewhere more fitting, like Cardbox 5, which will spread them out over a seven-day window.
* '''Phone a Friend.''' Maybe you know someone who’s cardboxing and wants to help you. There’s no shame in sharing! Any cardbox they’ve built is one you can copy and use. If they’re a NZ user, the database files are in their data directory under '''<tt>quiz/data</tt>''', arranged by lexicon, named '''<tt>Anagrams.db</tt>'''. If they use Zyzzyva’s data synchronization, they’re in their Dropbox cloud storage under '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva/quiz/data</tt>'''. (If you use NZM, since its storage is walled off, you’ll have to slot that database file into your own Dropbox storage and do a sync to bring it down to your mobile device.) After that, you’ll have a gently used cardbox that might conform to your solving abilities better than a brand-new one would.

== When It’s Time to Go Pro ==

This would be a good time to review the points in [[Cardboxing 101]] about scheduling and sizing, now that you have mastered the controls.

How far can you go with cardboxing in NZ and NZM? That depends only on your availability and your patience. There are people who study tens of thousands of words this way, short ones and long ones, and the benefits are huge. One thing you’ll notice is that you’ve gained both inclusive and exclusive knowledge of anagrams: It’s valuable to know the nine words to be found in <tt>AEINRST</tt>, and even more valuable to know that there aren’t more than those, so you can instantly challenge <tt>RESTAIN*</tt>.

The next step, for those who care about agility in game situations, is to drill by speed of recognition, which is something your cardbox won’t do (unless you enable NZ’s timer option on your cardbox quiz). For that, we recommend Aerolith’s [https://www.aerolith.org/wordwalls/ WordWalls], an online tool with nearly infinite depth for everyone from intermediate players to world champions.

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

=== What’s the difference between a “Standard” quiz and a “Cardbox” quiz? ===

A standard quiz is one you create (in NZ or NZM) without selecting the cardbox option, and it doesn’t require a cardbox to work. You just tell it how to search for the words to quiz on, and the program will shuffle the questions in random order and track your progress over time. If you leave it and come back to it later, it will remember where you were, so all of the “state” is built into the saved quiz itself. A cardbox quiz is only useful if you’ve already built up a number of words from earlier searches that you want to study repeatedly, and this type of quiz is never actually saved, because all of the progress “state” is in the cardbox database, as it tracks your successes and failures and the due dates for each question. You may open your regular cardbox quiz and find that there are no questions due, or a hundred. Then, it’s up to you to decide how to tweak the settings and the number of words in the cardbox to suit your style.

=== I goofed a question, so now it’s back in Cardbox 0, but I really do know it. How do I correct this? ===

If you mark a question incorrect by mistake, you have an opportunity to fix that in the moment by clicking ''Mark as Correct'' (NZ) or the ''Check'' button (NZM), but, once you’ve moved on to the next question, you’ll need to make the repair manually. One way is to run a search for that word you missed, then move the resulting words to a specific cardbox. On NZ, that means right-clicking the list, choosing ''Remove list from Cardbox'', then right-clicking the list again, choosing ''Add list to Cardbox…'', clicking ''Specify cardbox'', and telling it where to put the question. (In 3.5.0, you can now manage questions directly in the Cardbox tab.) On NZM, press ''Action'', choose ''Move to Cardbox'', then tell it where to put the question. On NZM, use the ''Manage'' tab to locate the question in Cardbox 0, select it, then press ''Action'', choose ''Move to Cardbox'', then tell it where to put the question.

=== I’m ready to move beyond patterns, and I want to study by probability by putting the top thousand seven-letter words in my cardbox. What should I do? ===

Searching by probability is something you won’t see in the streamlined NZM interface, so for this you’ll need NZ. Open a ''Search'' tab, choose a ''Length'' condition to limit the search to seven-letter words, and add a ''Probability Order'' condition with minimum 1 and maximum 1000; a ''Lax'' search will return more than 1000 words if those following words are equally probable, which is what you probably want. Click ''Search'', then right-click the list and choose ''Add list to Cardbox…'' with the default option to ''Estimate cardbox based on past performance''. (A lot of the listed words will end up in Cardbox 0, but some may be higher if you’ve solved those quiz questions correctly before; any question that was already in your cardbox will stay where it was.) If you want to quiz in NZM with your newly expanded cardbox, you’ll need to sync out from NZ and back in to NZM.

=== How do I divide my cardbox so that I can study just a subgroup of them for a while? ===

A lexicon’s ''Anagrams'' cardbox is never actually subdivided, so what you are wanting is to run a search-restricted cardbox quiz. You’ll find the option to impose a search restriction in the ''New Quiz'' dialog in both NZ and NZM. In NZ, you can save that quiz as you would any other quiz, then load it when you feel like quizzing on just the <tt>-ING</tt> words, or whatever. Since the NZM interface’s selection of search options is limited, only NZ can create a cardbox quiz that is restricted by probability or various other conditions, but (aha!) once you’ve saved that quiz and synced it to your mobile device, the quiz engine in NZM will respect the search restriction when you load that saved quiz.

=== Is there an “In Cardbox” condition that I can add to a search? ===

Sadly, no. The word engine that does searches is aware only of the lexicon files in the installation and any lexicon-database files that you may have created from them, not the contents of your cardbox. You can run a cardbox quiz with a search restriction, though. If your purpose is to extract the list of questions in your cardbox, we recommend you (carefully) open the quiz-statistics/cardbox database in an application such as DB Browser for SQLite.

=== My cardbox seems uneven — it hits me with too many questions at once. How can I fix that? ===

That’s probably because you’re too good at this! Both NZ’s and NZM’s cardbox settings have a default ''Schedule'' value and a ''Window'' value for each cardbox from 0 to 15. When a question is placed in a box, it’s given a random due date that is up to ''Window'' days more or less than ''Schedule'' days, as the ''Window'' value controls how widely to spread them. The default settings are fairly good at smoothing out the curve of questions due per day, which you can see in NZ’s ''Cardbox'' tab and NZM’s ''Manage'' tab (under ''By Schedule''), but you’re welcome to increase those ''Window'' values if it helps even out the lumps.

=== What do the various rescheduling commands do? ===

The cardbox system keeps track of each question’s due date even after they come due, so you can always see how many days past due your questions are. Rather than moving individual questions between cardboxes as a way to reschedule them, you should get to know the ''Shift By Days'' and ''Shift By Questions Due'' actions in NZM’s ''Manage'' tab; in NZ, choose ''Tools'' → ''Reschedule Cardbox Contents…'' and look for the similarly named buttons. Both of these rescheduling commands have the same effect, which is to shift all questions forward or back by the same amount of time, the only difference being how that amount of time is calculated. The ''Reschedule By Cardbox'' command is stronger; it scrubs all existing due dates, maintaining each question in its current box but with a new due date based on the ''Schedule'' and ''Window'' values — almost the same as what would happen if you deleted them all from the cardbox and then added them back. This latter command is useful after you’ve been studying just a subgroup of words in your cardbox for a while, when you switch back to the full cardbox, and find to your horror that the words you stopped studying are now way past due and want to be done before all the rest.

=== I want to cardbox on multiple devices. How should I go about it? ===

Both NZ and NZM can operate on cardboxes that are synced with Dropbox cloud storage, and in that way, multiple devices can sync their cardbox/quiz-statistics databases with each other. Since version 3.4.0, both NZ and NZM have buttons to sync “actively” with Dropbox, without you having to install the Dropbox application.

In the case of NZ up to version 3.3.0, you won’t see any mention of syncing in the application interface, but you can use the ''Preferences'' dialog to make it look for its data directory in a location that Dropbox is syncing in the background (though NZ doesn’t actually move the data for you, so you’ll have to do that yourself; this is known as “passive” sync).

To bring multiple devices' Zyzzyva data directories into sync, they all need to target the same '''<tt>Apps/Zyzzyva</tt>''' folder in the same user's Dropbox cloud storage. (Important: Zyzzyva's active-sync engine won't link up with a Dropbox app folder that it didn't create, so, we recommend you start your Dropbox sync relationship by doing an active sync of your habitual Zyzzyva installation, the one that has your “good” quiz data.)

When firing up any new NZ or NZM installation, press the ''Sync'' button, sign in to Dropbox and give permission when prompted, and then — please! — if you see prompts about conflicted items, read those questions before you agree to proceed with the sync. The first time you sync, there may be conflicts between older, useful cardbox/quiz-statistics databases on Dropbox and newer, but useless databases just established on your mobile device; if so, you should tell it to sync in one direction only, from Dropbox to your mobile device, by answering ''Yes'' to the first question and ''No'' to the second before answering ''Yes'' to start syncing. It will take a while, and it will try to keep your device awake, because Zyzzyva’s active-sync engine isn’t programmed to pause a sync and finish it later; since iOS tolerates only short periods of background activity before killing an active app, you should let it run in the foreground.

After one or more tries, having completed this initial sync, Zyzzyva will only sync files that have changed, so it’ll be very quick. The one thing to remember, to avoid disappointment, is to sync when you start cardboxing and again when you stop, because otherwise you could end up with two or more devices that both think they have newer cardbox data, and this will be flagged as a sync conflict later on.

=== How do I move cardbox data forward when moving to a new lexicon? ===

There is one ''Anagrams'' cardbox for each lexicon, and the contents won’t automatically be brought forward when you begin to study a new one. When a new lexicon is released and you want to move your quiz statistics and cardbox data forward, the simplest way is to use Zyzzyva’s import features. In NZ’s ''Cardbox'' tab, target the new lexicon, then click ''Import…'' and choose the old lexicon; in NZM’s ''Manage'' tab, target the new lexicon, press ''Action'', choose ''Import From Lexicon'' and choose the old lexicon. Either way, your ''Anagrams'' cardbox data will come over, along with the rest of the quiz history for that lexicon. (That’s why, when the import finishes, the number it reports will probably be larger than the number of questions in your cardbox.) If you use Zyzzyva’s data-synchronization feature, this update will sync to all of your devices along with the rest of your data directory.

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Welcome to NASPAWiki

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==2026 Scrabble Players Championship==
[[File:2026_SPC_Winner.jpg|300px|link=2026_Scrabble_Players_Championship]]
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Congratulations to [[Mack Meller]] - winner of the 2026 Scrabble Players Championship, which took place at the DoubleTree by Hilton Cedar Rapids in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, from Saturday, July 18, through Wednesday, July 22, 2026.

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== Current Topics ==
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<h3>AB Election</h3>
[http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/vote.pl Voting will take place from June 1st through June 30th for the 1 contested seat.]
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<h3>Hello by Grouper</h3>
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<h3>NASPA Zyzzyva</h3>
<span style="color:navy">NASPA Zyzzyva 3.5.0 is available for all platforms - </span>[[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile |mobile (iOS and Android)]] <span style="color:navy"> and </span>[[Zyzzyva | desktop (Windows, macOS, and Linux)]]<span style="color:navy">.</span>

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<h3>NWL2023 In Effect</h3>
[[NWL2023 |The NASPA Word List 2023 Edition (NWL2023) is now in effect for tournament and club play as of February 29, 2024.]]
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<h3>NASPA News</h3>
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<h3>NASPA Store</h3>
[http://www.scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/shop.pl Visit the NASPA Store for boards, clocks, tiles, word lists, and more.]

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<h3>Membership</h3>
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/w/Membership Join NASPA or renew your membership.]

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<h3>2025 SPC</h3>
<span style="color:navy">Congratulations to [[Nigel Peltier]] - winner of the [[2025 Scrabble Players Championship]], which took place at the Maryland Live! Casino and Hotel from August 9 to 13, 2025.</span>

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<h3>NASPA Word of the Day</h3>
[http://scrabbleplayers.org/cgi-bin/wotd.pl See today's word of the day.]

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<h3>NWL Apps</h3>
[[Software | Check out the apps and software licensed to include the NASPA Word List.]]

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<h3>Streaming</h3>
[[Scrabble Streaming |NASPA members stream Scrabble content on Twitch, YouTube, and other online platforms. Be sure to tune in and subscribe.]]

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<h3>NASPA Youth Scrabble</h3>
[[NASPA Youth SCRABBLE | The NASPA Youth Scrabble program promotes and recognizes youth Scrabble talent. ]]

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<h3>Awards</h3>
[[Awards | NASPA recognizes player achievements with awards, including Person of the Year and Player Titles.]]
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<h3>NASPA Community Advocate</h3>
[[Community Advocate | The Community Advocate looks into cases of harassment within the organization.]]
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<h3>NASPA Suggestion Box</h3>
[https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CvfjnaoSFnJmT3p9AzEoesV9YyicDqXJSarQzN4cyNk Send us your suggestions for tournament and club Scrabble.]
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NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile Download

2026-09-09T23:45:57Z

Judycole: updated for 3.5

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=='''Download''' the Latest Release of NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile==

The newest version of [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Mobile_%E2%80%94_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study,_now_on_mobile! |NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]] is '''3.5.0''', released '''2026-08-28'''. It includes the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], [SOWPODS | CSW24]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], and Volost word lists.

===iOS===
* Download the [https://apps.apple.com/app/naspa-zyzzyva-mobile/id1587435725 NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile app for iOS] from Apple’s App Store (104 MB).

===Android===
* Download the [https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scrabbleplayers.ZyzzyvaMobile NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile app for Android] from the Google Play store (39–58 MB).

NASPA Zyzzyva Download

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=='''Download''' the Latest Release of NASPA Zyzzyva==

The newest version of [[NASPA_Zyzzyva:_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study|NASPA Zyzzyva]] is '''3.5.0''', released '''2026-08-28'''. It adds new functionality but no new word lists. It continues to include the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]],[[SOWPODS | CSW24]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], and Volost word lists. This version supports 64-bit processors only.

See also: [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]].

===Windows===
* Download the [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Windows/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.exe Installer] (83MB) or its [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Windows/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.zip ZIP Archive] (65MB).
*View the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Windows_Installation |installation instructions]].

===macOS===
* Download the [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.dmg Installer] (122MB).
*View the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_OSX_Installation|installation instructions]].

===Linux===
* Download the [https://scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.zip Installer] (66MB).
*View the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Linux_Installation |installation instructions]].

==Older Releases==

Older releases are made available on an as-is, unsupported basis and may not include current word lists.

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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.4.2|3.4.2]]
|Official release including [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/342/NASPAZyzzyva342.zip Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/342/NASPAZyzzyva342.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/342/NASPAZyzzyva342.exe Windows].
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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.4.1|3.4.1]]
|Official release including [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/341/NASPAZyzzyva341.zip Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/341/NASPAZyzzyva341.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/341/NASPAZyzzyva341.exe Windows].
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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.4.0|3.4.0]]
|Official release including [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/340/NASPAZyzzyva340.zip Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/340/NASPAZyzzyva340.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/340/NASPAZyzzyva340.exe Windows].
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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.3.0|3.3.0]]
|Official release including [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/330/NASPAZyzzyva330-64.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/330/NASPAZyzzyva330.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/330/NASPAZyzzyva330.exe Windows]. Last release to offer 32-bit Windows version.
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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.2.4|3.2.4]]
|Official release including [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324-32.tar.gz Linux 32-bit], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324-64.tar.gz Linux 64-bit], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324.exe Windows]. Last release to offer 32-bit Linux version.
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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.2.1|3.2.1]]
|Official release including [[CSW19]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/321/NASPAZyzzyva321.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/321/NASPAZyzzyva321.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/321/NASPAZyzzyva321.exe Windows].
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|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.2.0|3.2.0]]
|Official release including [[NWL2018]] and [[NSWL2018]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/320/NASPAZyzzyva320.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/320/NASPAZyzzyva320.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/320/NASPAZyzzyva320.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.1.0|3.1.0]]
|Official release including [[OTCWL2016]] and [[SSWL2016]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/310/Zyzzyva-3.1.0-linux.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/310/naspa-zyzzyva-3.1.0.dmg macOS] and [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/310/Zyzzyva-3.1.0-windows-installer.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.0.4|3.0.4]]
|Official release including [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/304/Zyzzyva-3.0.4-linux.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/304/naspa-zyzzyva-3.0.4.dmg macOS] and [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/304/Zyzzyva-3.0.4-windows-installer.exe Windows]. Last release to be compatible with macOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.0.3 |3.0.3]]
|Time-limited test release available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/303/naspa-zyzzyva-3.0.3.dmg macOS] and [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/303/Zyzzyva-3.0.3-windows-installer.exe Windows].
|}

NASPA Zyzzyva Download

2026-09-09T23:30:59Z

Judycole: Update with no NWL18

__NOTOC__

[[File:Zyzzyva_Title.png|750px|link=NASPA_Zyzzyva:_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study]]
<br/>
<br/>
=='''Download''' the Latest Release of NASPA Zyzzyva==

The newest version of [[NASPA_Zyzzyva:_The_Last_Word_in_Word_Study|NASPA Zyzzyva]] is '''3.5.0''', released '''2026-08-28'''. It adds new functionality but no new word lists. It continues to include the [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]],[[SOWPODS | CSW24]], [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], and Volost word lists. This version supports 64-bit processors only.

See also: [[NASPA Zyzzyva Mobile]].

===Windows===
* Download the [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Windows/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.exe Installer] (83MB) or its [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Windows/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.zip ZIP Archive] 65MB).
*View the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Windows_Installation |installation instructions]].

===macOS===
* Download the [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.dmg Installer] (122MB).
*View the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_OSX_Installation|installation instructions]].

===Linux===
* Download the [https://scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/350/Install%20NASPA%20Zyzzyva%203.5.0.zip Installer] (66MB).
*View the [[NASPA_Zyzzyva_Linux_Installation |installation instructions]].

==Older Releases==

Older releases are made available on an as-is, unsupported basis and may not include current word lists.

{|
|'''Version'''
|'''Description'''
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.4.2|3.4.2]]
|Official release including [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/342/NASPAZyzzyva342.zip Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/342/NASPAZyzzyva342.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/342/NASPAZyzzyva342.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.4.1|3.4.1]]
|Official release including [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/341/NASPAZyzzyva341.zip Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/341/NASPAZyzzyva341.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/341/NASPAZyzzyva341.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.4.0|3.4.0]]
|Official release including [[NWL2023]], [[NSWL2023]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/340/NASPAZyzzyva340.zip Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/340/NASPAZyzzyva340.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/340/NASPAZyzzyva340.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.3.0|3.3.0]]
|Official release including [[SOWPODS | CSW21]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/330/NASPAZyzzyva330-64.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/330/NASPAZyzzyva330.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/330/NASPAZyzzyva330.exe Windows]. Last release to offer 32-bit Windows version.
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.2.4|3.2.4]]
|Official release including [[NWL2020]], [[NSWL2020]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324-32.tar.gz Linux 32-bit], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324-64.tar.gz Linux 64-bit], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/324/NASPAZyzzyva324.exe Windows]. Last release to offer 32-bit Linux version.
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.2.1|3.2.1]]
|Official release including [[CSW19]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/321/NASPAZyzzyva321.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/321/NASPAZyzzyva321.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/321/NASPAZyzzyva321.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.2.0|3.2.0]]
|Official release including [[NWL2018]] and [[NSWL2018]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/320/NASPAZyzzyva320.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/320/NASPAZyzzyva320.dmg macOS] and
[https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/320/NASPAZyzzyva320.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.1.0|3.1.0]]
|Official release including [[OTCWL2016]] and [[SSWL2016]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/310/Zyzzyva-3.1.0-linux.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/310/naspa-zyzzyva-3.1.0.dmg macOS] and [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/310/Zyzzyva-3.1.0-windows-installer.exe Windows].
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.0.4|3.0.4]]
|Official release including [[OTCWL2014]] and [[SSWL2015]], available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/304/Zyzzyva-3.0.4-linux.tar.gz Linux], [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/304/naspa-zyzzyva-3.0.4.dmg macOS] and [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/304/Zyzzyva-3.0.4-windows-installer.exe Windows]. Last release to be compatible with macOS 10.6 (Snow Leopard).
|-
|[[NASPA_Zyzzyva_3.0.3 |3.0.3]]
|Time-limited test release available for [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/303/naspa-zyzzyva-3.0.3.dmg macOS] and [https://www.scrabbleplayers.org/zyzzyva/packages/303/Zyzzyva-3.0.3-windows-installer.exe Windows].
|}

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2026-09-06T16:51:40Z

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NASPA Youth Achievement Awards

2026-09-04T05:35:27Z

Judycole:

__NOTOC__
To encourage youth Scrabble players, NASPA established the Youth Achievement Awards in 2017.

'''[[Noah Goldstein]]''' received the award for Most Achievement Points in the High School Division for the 2025-2026 season from SPC Director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].

[[File:Noah_2026.png|620px]]

==Achievement Points==

Youth players are awarded achievement points for competing successfully in NASPA-rated, School Scrabble, and Youth Scrabble tournaments.

Players get 1 point for each tournament they finish, plus 1 point for each game they win. Both members of a team get full points in School Scrabble events.

In addition, bonus points are awarded to the top 4 finishers in each division of a tournament:

* 5 points for 1st
* 3 points for 2nd
* 2 points for 3rd
* 1 point for 4th

== Award Categories ==
The award season runs from the beginning of a [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA Championship]] to the beginning of the next championship where the winners will be announced.

There are 3 grade categories of Youth Achievement Awards:

* High School - Grades 9 through 12
* Middle School - Grades 6 through 8
* Elementary School - Grades 1 through 5
<br>
Players in each category will be recognized for the most achievement points earned.

Players finishing the year with the highest NASPA rating in each category will also be honored.

== 2025-2026 Youth Achievement Awards ==

The 2025-2026 season ran from August 8, 2025 through July, 17 2026.

<gallery>
File:Cam_2026.png|Cameron S. - High School Achievement - 2nd
File:Hazem_Nathan_2026.png |Hazem K. & Nathan L. - High School Achievement - 5th & 4th
File:Lea_2026.png|Lea S. - Middle School Achievement - 4th
</gallery>

=== High School ===
* Noah G. - 105

* Cameron S. - 93

* Gideon B. - 47

* Nathan L. - 43

* Hazem K. - 35

* Theodore D. - 33

* Maximillian F. - 25

* Chloe E. - 16

* Alex K. - 14

* William K. - 12

==== Highest Rating ====
* Cameron S. 1760

=== Middle School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Jonathan C. - 87

* Alan S. - 41

* Boaz B. - 32.5

* Lea S. - 32

* Leonie K. - 24

* Lisette K. - 22

* Arthur W. - 21

* Marco B. - 20

* Penny S. - 19

* Oscar U. - 19

==== Highest Rating ====

* Jonathan C. 1344 <br>

=== Elementary School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Andrew W. - 106

* Luke M. - 26

* Ben G. - 22

* Xavi G. - 11

* Isaac C. - 9

* Jack R. - 9

* Milo G. - 7

* Ruya R. - 7

* Raes Z. - 7

* Nicky Z. - 7

====Highest Rating====
* Andrew W. 1324

== Past Seasons ==

* [[2024-2025 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2023-2024 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2022-2023 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2021-2022 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* No awards in 2020-2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
* [[2019-2020 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2018-2019 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2017-2018 Youth Achievement Awards]]

NASPA Youth Achievement Awards

2026-09-04T05:34:58Z

Judycole:

__NOTOC__
To encourage youth Scrabble players, NASPA established the Youth Achievement Awards in 2017.

'''[[Noah Goldstein]]''' received the award for Most Achievement Points in the High School Division for the 2025-2026 season from SPC Director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].
<br>
[[File:Noah_2026.png|620px]]

==Achievement Points==

Youth players are awarded achievement points for competing successfully in NASPA-rated, School Scrabble, and Youth Scrabble tournaments.

Players get 1 point for each tournament they finish, plus 1 point for each game they win. Both members of a team get full points in School Scrabble events.

In addition, bonus points are awarded to the top 4 finishers in each division of a tournament:

* 5 points for 1st
* 3 points for 2nd
* 2 points for 3rd
* 1 point for 4th

== Award Categories ==
The award season runs from the beginning of a [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA Championship]] to the beginning of the next championship where the winners will be announced.

There are 3 grade categories of Youth Achievement Awards:

* High School - Grades 9 through 12
* Middle School - Grades 6 through 8
* Elementary School - Grades 1 through 5
<br>
Players in each category will be recognized for the most achievement points earned.

Players finishing the year with the highest NASPA rating in each category will also be honored.

== 2025-2026 Youth Achievement Awards ==

The 2025-2026 season ran from August 8, 2025 through July, 17 2026.

<gallery>
File:Cam_2026.png|Cameron S. - High School Achievement - 2nd
File:Hazem_Nathan_2026.png |Hazem K. & Nathan L. - High School Achievement - 5th & 4th
File:Lea_2026.png|Lea S. - Middle School Achievement - 4th
</gallery>

=== High School ===
* Noah G. - 105

* Cameron S. - 93

* Gideon B. - 47

* Nathan L. - 43

* Hazem K. - 35

* Theodore D. - 33

* Maximillian F. - 25

* Chloe E. - 16

* Alex K. - 14

* William K. - 12

==== Highest Rating ====
* Cameron S. 1760

=== Middle School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Jonathan C. - 87

* Alan S. - 41

* Boaz B. - 32.5

* Lea S. - 32

* Leonie K. - 24

* Lisette K. - 22

* Arthur W. - 21

* Marco B. - 20

* Penny S. - 19

* Oscar U. - 19

==== Highest Rating ====

* Jonathan C. 1344 <br>

=== Elementary School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Andrew W. - 106

* Luke M. - 26

* Ben G. - 22

* Xavi G. - 11

* Isaac C. - 9

* Jack R. - 9

* Milo G. - 7

* Ruya R. - 7

* Raes Z. - 7

* Nicky Z. - 7

====Highest Rating====
* Andrew W. 1324

== Past Seasons ==

* [[2024-2025 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2023-2024 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2022-2023 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2021-2022 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* No awards in 2020-2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
* [[2019-2020 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2018-2019 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2017-2018 Youth Achievement Awards]]

NASPA Youth Achievement Awards

2026-09-04T05:33:59Z

Judycole: /* Highest Rating */ Update rating

__NOTOC__
To encourage youth Scrabble players, NASPA established the Youth Achievement Awards in 2017.

'''[[Noah Goldstein]]''' received the award for Most Achievement Points in the High School Division for the 2025-2026 season from SPC Director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].
[[File:Noah_2026.png|620px]]

==Achievement Points==

Youth players are awarded achievement points for competing successfully in NASPA-rated, School Scrabble, and Youth Scrabble tournaments.

Players get 1 point for each tournament they finish, plus 1 point for each game they win. Both members of a team get full points in School Scrabble events.

In addition, bonus points are awarded to the top 4 finishers in each division of a tournament:

* 5 points for 1st
* 3 points for 2nd
* 2 points for 3rd
* 1 point for 4th

== Award Categories ==
The award season runs from the beginning of a [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA Championship]] to the beginning of the next championship where the winners will be announced.

There are 3 grade categories of Youth Achievement Awards:

* High School - Grades 9 through 12
* Middle School - Grades 6 through 8
* Elementary School - Grades 1 through 5
<br>
Players in each category will be recognized for the most achievement points earned.

Players finishing the year with the highest NASPA rating in each category will also be honored.

== 2025-2026 Youth Achievement Awards ==

The 2025-2026 season ran from August 8, 2025 through July, 17 2026.

<gallery>
File:Cam_2026.png|Cameron S. - High School Achievement - 2nd
File:Hazem_Nathan_2026.png |Hazem K. & Nathan L. - High School Achievement - 5th & 4th
File:Lea_2026.png|Lea S. - Middle School Achievement - 4th
</gallery>

=== High School ===
* Noah G. - 105

* Cameron S. - 93

* Gideon B. - 47

* Nathan L. - 43

* Hazem K. - 35

* Theodore D. - 33

* Maximillian F. - 25

* Chloe E. - 16

* Alex K. - 14

* William K. - 12

==== Highest Rating ====
* Cameron S. 1760

=== Middle School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Jonathan C. - 87

* Alan S. - 41

* Boaz B. - 32.5

* Lea S. - 32

* Leonie K. - 24

* Lisette K. - 22

* Arthur W. - 21

* Marco B. - 20

* Penny S. - 19

* Oscar U. - 19

==== Highest Rating ====

* Jonathan C. 1344 <br>

=== Elementary School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Andrew W. - 106

* Luke M. - 26

* Ben G. - 22

* Xavi G. - 11

* Isaac C. - 9

* Jack R. - 9

* Milo G. - 7

* Ruya R. - 7

* Raes Z. - 7

* Nicky Z. - 7

====Highest Rating====
* Andrew W. 1324

== Past Seasons ==

* [[2024-2025 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2023-2024 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2022-2023 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2021-2022 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* No awards in 2020-2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
* [[2019-2020 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2018-2019 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2017-2018 Youth Achievement Awards]]

NASPA Youth Achievement Awards

2026-09-04T05:33:20Z

Judycole: /* Achievement Points */ elem

__NOTOC__
To encourage youth Scrabble players, NASPA established the Youth Achievement Awards in 2017.

'''[[Noah Goldstein]]''' received the award for Most Achievement Points in the High School Division for the 2025-2026 season from SPC Director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].
[[File:Noah_2026.png|620px]]

==Achievement Points==

Youth players are awarded achievement points for competing successfully in NASPA-rated, School Scrabble, and Youth Scrabble tournaments.

Players get 1 point for each tournament they finish, plus 1 point for each game they win. Both members of a team get full points in School Scrabble events.

In addition, bonus points are awarded to the top 4 finishers in each division of a tournament:

* 5 points for 1st
* 3 points for 2nd
* 2 points for 3rd
* 1 point for 4th

== Award Categories ==
The award season runs from the beginning of a [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA Championship]] to the beginning of the next championship where the winners will be announced.

There are 3 grade categories of Youth Achievement Awards:

* High School - Grades 9 through 12
* Middle School - Grades 6 through 8
* Elementary School - Grades 1 through 5
<br>
Players in each category will be recognized for the most achievement points earned.

Players finishing the year with the highest NASPA rating in each category will also be honored.

== 2025-2026 Youth Achievement Awards ==

The 2025-2026 season ran from August 8, 2025 through July, 17 2026.

<gallery>
File:Cam_2026.png|Cameron S. - High School Achievement - 2nd
File:Hazem_Nathan_2026.png |Hazem K. & Nathan L. - High School Achievement - 5th & 4th
File:Lea_2026.png|Lea S. - Middle School Achievement - 4th
</gallery>

=== High School ===
* Noah G. - 105

* Cameron S. - 93

* Gideon B. - 47

* Nathan L. - 43

* Hazem K. - 35

* Theodore D. - 33

* Maximillian F. - 25

* Chloe E. - 16

* Alex K. - 14

* William K. - 12

==== Highest Rating ====
* Cameron S. 1760

=== Middle School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Jonathan C. - 87

* Alan S. - 41

* Boaz B. - 32.5

* Lea S. - 32

* Leonie K. - 24

* Lisette K. - 22

* Arthur W. - 21

* Marco B. - 20

* Penny S. - 19

* Oscar U. - 19

==== Highest Rating ====

* Jonathan C. 1344 <br>

=== Elementary School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Andrew W. - 106

* Luke M. - 26

* Ben G. - 22

* Xavi G. - 11

* Isaac C. - 9

* Jack R. - 9

* Milo G. - 7

* Ruya R. - 7

* Raes Z. - 7

* Nicky Z. - 7

====Highest Rating====
1. Andrew W. 1106

== Past Seasons ==

* [[2024-2025 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2023-2024 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2022-2023 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2021-2022 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* No awards in 2020-2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
* [[2019-2020 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2018-2019 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2017-2018 Youth Achievement Awards]]

NASPA Youth Achievement Awards

2026-09-04T05:31:39Z

Judycole: /* Highest Rating */

__NOTOC__
To encourage youth Scrabble players, NASPA established the Youth Achievement Awards in 2017.

'''[[Noah Goldstein]]''' received the award for Most Achievement Points in the High School Division for the 2025-2026 season from SPC Director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].
[[File:Noah_2026.png|620px]]

==Achievement Points==

Youth players are awarded achievement points for competing successfully in NASPA-rated, School Scrabble, and Youth Scrabble tournaments.

Players get 1 point for each tournament they finish, plus 1 point for each game they win. Both members of a team get full points in School Scrabble events.

In addition, bonus points are awarded to the top 4 finishers in each division of a tournament:

* 5 points for 1st
* 3 points for 2nd
* 2 points for 3rd
* 1 point for 4th

== Award Categories ==
The award season runs from the beginning of a [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA Championship]] to the beginning of the next championship where the winners will be announced.

There are 3 grade categories of Youth Achievement Awards:

* High School - Grades 9 through 12
* Middle School - Grades 6 through 8
* Elementary School - Grades 1 through 5
<br>
Players in each category will be recognized for the most achievement points earned.

Players finishing the year with the highest NASPA rating in each category will also be honored.

== 2025-2026 Youth Achievement Awards ==

The 2025-2026 season ran from August 8, 2025 through July, 17 2026.

<gallery>
File:Cam_2026.png|Cameron S. - High School Achievement - 2nd
File:Hazem_Nathan_2026.png |Hazem K. & Nathan L. - High School Achievement - 5th & 4th
File:Lea_2026.png|Lea S. - Middle School Achievement - 4th
</gallery>

=== High School ===
* Noah G. - 105

* Cameron S. - 93

* Gideon B. - 47

* Nathan L. - 43

* Hazem K. - 35

* Theodore D. - 33

* Maximillian F. - 25

* Chloe E. - 16

* Alex K. - 14

* William K. - 12

==== Highest Rating ====
* Cameron S. 1760

=== Middle School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Jonathan C. - 87

* Alan S. - 41

* Boaz B. - 32.5

* Lea S. - 32

* Leonie K. - 24

* Lisette K. - 22

* Arthur W. - 21

* Marco B. - 20

* Penny S. - 19

* Oscar U. - 19

==== Highest Rating ====

* Jonathan C. 1344 <br>

=== Elementary School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

1. Andrew W. 81 <br>
2. Djoudi H. 12<br>
3. David H. 11<br>
4. Judith W. 9<br>
4. Mila S. 9<br>
4. Allan R. 9<br>
4. Selina J. 9<br>
4. Jimmy H. 9<br>
9. Raayd Rasool 7 <br>
10. Kitzia K. 7

====Highest Rating====
1. Andrew W. 1106

== Past Seasons ==

* [[2024-2025 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2023-2024 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2022-2023 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2021-2022 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* No awards in 2020-2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
* [[2019-2020 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2018-2019 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2017-2018 Youth Achievement Awards]]

NASPA Youth Achievement Awards

2026-09-04T05:30:42Z

Judycole: /* Achievement Points */ Middle

__NOTOC__
To encourage youth Scrabble players, NASPA established the Youth Achievement Awards in 2017.

'''[[Noah Goldstein]]''' received the award for Most Achievement Points in the High School Division for the 2025-2026 season from SPC Director [[Arthur Moore |Art Moore]].
[[File:Noah_2026.png|620px]]

==Achievement Points==

Youth players are awarded achievement points for competing successfully in NASPA-rated, School Scrabble, and Youth Scrabble tournaments.

Players get 1 point for each tournament they finish, plus 1 point for each game they win. Both members of a team get full points in School Scrabble events.

In addition, bonus points are awarded to the top 4 finishers in each division of a tournament:

* 5 points for 1st
* 3 points for 2nd
* 2 points for 3rd
* 1 point for 4th

== Award Categories ==
The award season runs from the beginning of a [[North American SCRABBLE Championship |NASPA Championship]] to the beginning of the next championship where the winners will be announced.

There are 3 grade categories of Youth Achievement Awards:

* High School - Grades 9 through 12
* Middle School - Grades 6 through 8
* Elementary School - Grades 1 through 5
<br>
Players in each category will be recognized for the most achievement points earned.

Players finishing the year with the highest NASPA rating in each category will also be honored.

== 2025-2026 Youth Achievement Awards ==

The 2025-2026 season ran from August 8, 2025 through July, 17 2026.

<gallery>
File:Cam_2026.png|Cameron S. - High School Achievement - 2nd
File:Hazem_Nathan_2026.png |Hazem K. & Nathan L. - High School Achievement - 5th & 4th
File:Lea_2026.png|Lea S. - Middle School Achievement - 4th
</gallery>

=== High School ===
* Noah G. - 105

* Cameron S. - 93

* Gideon B. - 47

* Nathan L. - 43

* Hazem K. - 35

* Theodore D. - 33

* Maximillian F. - 25

* Chloe E. - 16

* Alex K. - 14

* William K. - 12

==== Highest Rating ====
* Cameron S. 1760

=== Middle School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

* Jonathan C. - 87

* Alan S. - 41

* Boaz B. - 32.5

* Lea S. - 32

* Leonie K. - 24

* Lisette K. - 22

* Arthur W. - 21

* Marco B. - 20

* Penny S. - 19

* Oscar U. - 19

==== Highest Rating ====

1. Jonathan C. 1152 <br>

=== Elementary School ===
==== Achievement Points ====

1. Andrew W. 81 <br>
2. Djoudi H. 12<br>
3. David H. 11<br>
4. Judith W. 9<br>
4. Mila S. 9<br>
4. Allan R. 9<br>
4. Selina J. 9<br>
4. Jimmy H. 9<br>
9. Raayd Rasool 7 <br>
10. Kitzia K. 7

====Highest Rating====
1. Andrew W. 1106

== Past Seasons ==

* [[2024-2025 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2023-2024 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2022-2023 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2021-2022 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* No awards in 2020-2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic
* [[2019-2020 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2018-2019 Youth Achievement Awards]]
* [[2017-2018 Youth Achievement Awards]]