Oh,so my Ki is Ka

As my Id is by my ego, vis and vim up via ton of Ki as we tew and hew out pep and own our ole for the max rec: Scrabble! I hope anyone perusing this appreciates that I had to trek through the upper echelons of difficulty to create that agglomeration of twos and threes and the higher reaches of audacity to pretend it is coherent. But I digress: on to the twos.

Here are the list of acceptable two letter words in Scrabble.

And their nefarious cousins, the threes.

However, herein lies the rub: to know the words is facile, but to implement them in your game requires an aptitude for creating hooks. For example: AA (a rough cindery lava) can be hooked by not only adding an s, but also adding an h (as in the interjection AAH) or by adding an l (AAL - an east indian shrub). To create a succesful base for one's game, one must be perspicacious enough to identify nooks and crannies where not only one, but myriad hooks can be created. Exponents of this scrabble discipline are capable of layering i.e. they can lay words directly on others, like a brickmason creating a wall e.g.

AZURE
NAMED

AN, ZA, UM, RE And ED are all acceptable words. A proficient player can go even further, with concoctions such as:

GATES
AZURE
MOPED

There are manifold combination that can be used to refine your game. In order to become habile in the use of such words it is necessary to augment your knowledge of two and threes, especially the hooks.

Next week I will delve into the wells of power manifested in the Q, Z, X and J.