Since 1992 Flanders (the Dutch-speaking part of Belgium) has a SCRABBLE®-league (the NTSV), which 28 clubs have joined. The associations organise local play-nights weekly or fortnightly. Some clubs schedule interclubmeetings in cooperation with the league. Representatives of all associations attend those meetings. The highlight of the SCRABBLE®-season are the championships for individuals and for teams.

In Flanders SCRABBLE® is played according to the duplicate method. The instructor draws seven letter-cubes from the supply and calls them out. Every player takes these letters out of his box and gets three minutes time for reflection. After two and a half minutes a signal is given and the players write their solutions on the appropriate piece of paper, which is to be handed in immediately. A jury checks words and combinations and announces the zero scores. The word or the combination with the highest score appears on the giant scrabble-boards in front of the hall. Each player, who naturally keeps his own points, follows this example, hence the duplicate method of playing. If any letter-cubes are left, they are added to the supply. The blank cubes are only replaced if possible after the counting and then added to the supply again. The instructor draws seven cubes ...

What do you find on our internetpages?

• The league (committee, contactmen, ...)
• NTSV-Magazine De Woordenaar
• New rules, ideas
• Club-addresses
• NTSV-calendar (with special activities)
• The publications
• Interclub results
• Laws of the game
• Linguistic rules
• Media (the NTSV appears on Teletekst (VT4), in newspapers and magazines)
• Current topics: new clubs, new interclub organisations, contact with the federations in the Netherlands and the Walloon (French-speaking) provinces in Belgium
• Scrabble® friends on internet

Do you want further information? ntsv@wol.be