Your guide to studying the new CSW24 lexicon

Your first Scrabble tournament after a lexicon update always brings with it a little rush of excitement. You've got a couple thousand more words in your proverbial arsenal than you did last time out, and with them, a whole new world of possibilities opens up.

You might get to play that cool new slang term that you've always wanted to see on a Scrabble board. You might win a game with a new bingo or X-bomb. You'll see all sorts of overlappy-type plays that weren't available to you before, thanks to all the new short words and their hooks. All of it makes Scrabble feel a little newer. A little fresher. A little more fun.

There's just one little catch, though. Before you get to play all of these fun new words, you first have to buckle down and learn the darn things. And the scary truth about this current update is, we're all running out of time to do so. The new CSW lexicon takes effect on Jan. 1. It's already mid-October. We've got about 11 weeks left until go time, and they're gonna fly by real quick.

So, we CoCo folks are doing what we can to help. To that end, we've gathered as many CSW24 resources as we can find, and we've put them all together in one centralized place. We're hoping our lexicon resources page will serve as a one-stop shop, giving you everything you need to get cracking on the new words:

The words, in full. Courtesy of our friends at WESPA, we have all the new words available for you in a printable list format. Chris Lipe put together the WESPA Initiation Kit, which is a 31-page PDF that includes all the words of length 3-8 along with their hooks and definitions. And then there's the Complete New Words list, authored by Tony Kalayzich and David Sutton, that gives you the full 1,816 new words in all their glory.

Our cheat sheets. If you want to focus on just the most important words first, we've got a handy resource for that. Our team of CoCo volunteers (special shoutout to newcomer Tony Boyle here!) put together a couple of cheat sheets that highlight twos, threes, and JQXZ words specifically. There's both a Comparison Cheat Sheet, which shows you how the Collins lexicon compares to the list of American-only words, and an International Cheat Sheet, which simply lists them all.

The latest version of Ulu. For all you iPhone users out there, Seth Lipkin's word lookup app is already updated to include the new CSW words. To get them, all you need to do is visit the app store and update your app. We've got instructions for you that are quick and easy.

The latest version of Zyzzyva (coming soon). Word on the street is, there should be a new version of Collins Zyzzyva by late October. When it's ready, you'll have a world-class tool for both studying and word judging.

This is everything we've got for you so far! But, certainly, if you know of any more CSW word study tools that are worth sharing with the world, our inbox is always open. We're looking to make it as easy as possible for everyone out there to learn the new words, so let us know if you find any resources that can help.

And with that, I'll leave you all to the learning. The studying part, you do alone. Hit those books, and hopefully you'll be able to enjoy the thrill of playing one of those new words for the first time come January.