"in strategy (a hook is a letter that can be played at the start or end of a word already on the board and as part of the same move in a new word in the cross direction). Certain high scoring words, such as words with doubled Z's (e.g. FUZZ, JAZZ, DAZZLE) that are impossible to make in ""Scrabble"" without using blanks, can be played. The word KNICKKNACK, with 4 K's, is impossible to play in ""Scrabble"" because there is only 1 K and only 2 blanks - but it is possible to play this word in ""Super Scrabble"". With"
"only occurs in one word (""kyning"") and loanwords, so there is no tile for it. ""J"", ""V"", ""Q"", and ""Z"" are only used in loanwords. Anglo-Saxon uses the letter ""Ƿ"", but it was replaced by ""W"" in this set because it can be easily confused with P. Anglo-Saxon also uses the letter ""Ȝ"", but it is a typographic variant of G, so that is used instead. This version is hand-made and not an official edition by Mattel. Arabic-language editions use the following 100 tiles: Although Arabic letters have up to four forms, Scrabble tiles use the isolated form. In some"
"at any time. Several online tools exist for counting tiles during friendly play. Diacritical marks (such as ""é"" in words borrowed from French) are ignored. English-language editions of Scrabble contain 100 letter tiles, in the following distribution: The total number of points is 187. When Alfred Butts invented the game, he initially experimented with different distributions of letters. A popular story claims that Butts created an elaborate chart by studying the front page of ""The New York Times"" to create his final choice of letter distributions. In 2004, Super Scrabble was launched. For international distribution outside the United States and"
"these 130 tiles. It was An unofficial Japanese Hiragana Scrabble set uses these 100 tiles: The obsolete letters ゐ and ゑ, the letter を now exclusively used as a grammatical particle, and the lengthener ー have no tiles. Words are played in ""dictionary format"": This version was created by a student from Japan, and is not in wide circulation. A more popular set by Scrabble3D uses these 206 tiles: The obsolete letters ""ぇ"", ""ゐ"", ""ゑ"", ""ゎ"", ""ぃ"", ""ぁ"", ""ぅ"", and ""ぉ"", along with the marks ""ー"", ""゛"", and "" ゜"", have no tiles (with the first three letters and the"
"no premium squares (originally 64 tiles on an 8×8 board). It has a Qu tile instead of Q and a different tile distribution than Scrabble. Words can be formed as in Scrabble as well as by playing on top of previously formed words. When playing over a word, at least one tile from the original word must be incorporated into the new word. All tiles, with the exception of the Qu tile in certain circumstances, are worth the same, with additional points scored for higher stacks of letters. Stacks can't go higher than five tiles and all words that are"
"a board square) Some other differences from Scrabble are: a rack is six tiles instead of seven; the center square is not a ""double word square""; and, playing all six tiles in your rack at once scores a 10-point bonus instead of 50. Numble Numble is a 1968 board game published by Selchow and Righter which is very similar to Scrabble. Instead of forming words, players form sequences adhering to certain arithmetic and numerical constraints. Each tile in Numble has a single digit, 0 through 9, except for two blanks. A ""word"" in Numble is a string of digits in"
"Scrabble Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada; outside these two countries it is a trademark of Mattel. The game is sold in 121 countries and is available in 29 languages; approximately 150 million sets"
"that when a player exchanges tiles on his turn, he could request opponent to pass his turn. Both players have one chance each for one game. The sets consist of these 120 tiles: Diacritic marks are ignored. The letters ""J"", ""K"", ""W"", ""X"", and ""Y"" are absent since these letters do not exist in the standard Italian alphabet, although they are sometimes used in loanwords. Another set uses these 120 tiles: ""Scarabeo"" is an Italian variant of Scrabble that is much more popular in its native country than the original game. It is played with a 17×17 board, and uses"
"as these digraphs and trigraphs are very rare in Gwich'in. ""C"" is not included, as it is only used in the digraph ""CH"". ""P"", ""Q"", and ""X"" are absent because these letters are not used in Gwich'in. Arguably B, F, and M are not used in Gwich'in either, but they are included as these letters are used for borrowed words. Haitian Creole-language editions of Scrabble contain these 100 tiles: ""X"" has no tile as it is only used in loanwords in Haitian Creole. ""Q"" has no tile as it is not used in Haitian Creole, while ""C"" is only used"
"it was only used in loanwords. This distribution had a ""CH"" tile for the digraphic letter. Dakelh-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. The letters ""F"" and ""R"" are used in Dakelh, but only in loanwords and are very infrequent. ""P"", ""Q"", ""V"", and ""X"" are also absent because these letters are not used in Dakelh. Danish-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. This distribution lacks ""Q"" and ""W"", which are rare in the Danish language. Dutch-language editions consist of the following 102 tiles: Before March 1998, there was a difference between the Dutch and the Flemish version: the Dutch"
"of Scrabble the company also produced the first Afrikaans language version of the game under the name Krabbel, a Afrikaans translation of ""Scrabble"". This language set of the game had the following 100 tiles: Absent in both the original and standard set of Afrikaans are the letters ""C"", ""Q"", ""X"", and ""Z"". The infrequent ""X"" and ""Z"" may still be represented by the use of a blank, yet the letters ""C"" and ""Q"", not used in Afrikaans but only in a few loanwords, may not be. The Anglo-Saxon editions use these 101 tiles: Anglo-Saxon uses the letter ""K"", but it"
"is unusual in that the game board is only revealed as play progresses. The board begins blank except for a grid pattern and the treasure at the center. A set of ""room tiles"" are arranged randomly near the board, face down. Play progresses in turns as each player, controlling an adventurer, selects a tile at random and sets it down on a grid space on the board. Each tile represents a space and may be one of several different configurations. The space may be a room with several doorways, it may be a turn, a hallway, a dead end, a"
"among tournament Scrabble players. Writers John Ciardi, James Merrill, John Malcolm Brinnin, and Richard Wilbur reputedly played together regularly in Key West, Florida, with novelist John Hersey also sometimes sitting in. There has never been a standardized set of rules, and players now often play by house rules, but most are variants of the rules given here. To begin, all the tiles are placed face down in the middle of the table. Taking turns around the table, each player turns over one tile, placing it in clear view of all players. Another variation is to have each player have a"
"added - this contrasts with the 50 bonus points in Scrabble. The different arrangement of premium squares can lead to scoring situations that would be rare or impossible in a typical Scrabble game. For example, it is possible to place a new word that simultaneously covers a triple letter score (TL) and a triple word score (TW), or a new word that covers a double word score (DW) and a triple word score (TW), which would be near impossible or impossible in a Scrabble game. The game ends when a player plays every tile in his or her rack, and"
"making them slightly smaller than the squares on the board. Only the rosewood tiles of the deluxe edition varies the width up to for different letters. Travelling versions of the game often have smaller tiles (e.g. ); sometimes they are magnetic to keep them in place. The capital letter is printed in black at the centre of the tile face and the letter's point value printed in a smaller font at the bottom right corner. S is one of the most valuable tiles in English-language Scrabble because it can be appended to many words to pluralize them (or in the"
"gives the information a serious player needs to advance to successful tournament play. There have been numerous documentaries made about the game, including: Scrabble Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles bearing a single letter onto a board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns, and be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The name is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada; outside these two countries"
"Scrabble® brand crossword game. An alternative by Scrabble3D has this distribution (no combinations): Irish-language sets use these 100 tiles: ""J"", ""K"", ""Q"", ""V"", ""W"", ""X"", ""Y"", and ""Z"" are absent since they are rarely used in the Irish language. An alternate set, proposed by Scrabble3D along with the official set, was proposed to have these 100 tiles: Note that ""H"" is not in this set because it is only used at the beginning of the words starting with vowels, which is against the rules there. Note: This set uses the old orthography. In the new orthography, the dotted letters are"
"a board. Tiles are placed face-down in the middle of the table in a communal pool and each player is given a small number of face-up starting tiles. From their starting tiles, ""each player"" tries to build his own valid Scrabble grid—players do not use each other's grid or tiles. When a player successfully uses all of his face-up tiles, he shouts ""take two"", and every player takes two more tiles. Play continues until there are no more tiles left to draw. In some variants, the person who creates the first complete grid when all the tiles run out is"
"have been sold worldwide and roughly one-third of American and half of British homes have a Scrabble set. There are around 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world. The game is played by two to four players on a square board with a 15×15 grid of cells (individually known as ""squares""), each of which accommodates a single letter tile. In official club and tournament games, play is between two players or, occasionally, between two teams each of which collaborates on a single rack. The board is marked with ""premium"" squares, which multiply the number of points awarded: eight dark red ""triple-word"""
"the face of the piece or in some sets is entirely blank. These tiles have no numerical sequence like the simples (for example the bamboo pieces number 1 to 9). Like the simples, there are four identical copies of each Honors tile, for a total of 28 Honors tiles. There are two sets of Bonus tiles: Flowers and Seasons. The flower and season tiles play a unique role in the mechanics of the game. When drawn, the Bonus tile is not added into a player's hand but are instead set aside and kept near the player's other tiles for scoring"
"from the bag or, in another change from the classic version, select one of the face-up tiles on the raised tile holder. Another new feature is an addition to the rules regarding the wild tile. Each time a wild tile is played, the player who utilizes the tile must swap boards with an opponent, thwarting his strategy. The game ends when all tiles are in use and the final word has been played. The player with the highest score wins. Scrabble ME Scrabble ME is a variation on the classic board game ""Scrabble"", where each player plays on their own"
"in the digraph ""CH"", and ""U"" in ""OU"" and ""UI"". This version is made for educational purposes and is not an official edition by Mattel. There is no official Hawaiian-language edition of Scrabble, but one suggested fan version made for educational purposes contains these 100 tiles: ""B"", ""C"", ""D"", ""F"", ""G"", ""J"", ""Q"", ""R"", ""S"", ""T"", ""V"", ""X"", ""Y"", and ""Z"" have no tiles as they are not used in Hawaiian. For the sake of the geocache this is connected to, the distribution had to be modified a bit. For example, there should be 30 A's and 11 K's. The"
"is called ԲԱՌ ԽԱՂ (""bar khagh"", meaning ""words game"") and is not an official edition by Mattel. Notice that this distribution lacks ""և"", another Armenian letter, because: However, it can be formed as a ligature of ե/Ե and ւ/Ւ. Bambara-language Scrabble sets use these 106 tiles: The uncommon digraphic letters ""sh"" (sometimes represented with the IPA symbol ʃ; a regional variant of s) and ""kh"" (only used in loanwords) are absent as they are now considered obsolete. Basque-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. Called Euskarbel, this is not an official edition by Mattel. Diacritical marks are ignored. ""C"", ""Q"","
"version had 2 IJ tiles with a value of 4 points. Furthermore, it had only 1 F and only 4 S tiles; and the face value of the G was only 2 points. The Flemish version never had IJ tiles, it was as described above. The Dutch version is now in line with the Flemish one. Instead of the IJ letter a combination of the I and J is now used. Another Dutch version before March 1998 consisted of these 100 tiles: The original Dutch version consisted of these 102 tiles: Esperanto Scrabble exists as an Internet game (Rules for"
"An example of a set with no square differences arises in the game of subtract a square, invented by Richard A. Epstein and first described by Solomon W. Golomb. In this game, two players take turns removing coins from a pile of coins, with the goal being to be the person who removes the last coin. In each turn, either player can only remove a square number of coins from the pile. Any position in this game can be described by an integer, its number of coins. The non-negative integers can be partitioned into ""cold"" positions, in which the player"
"""X"" are not used in Turkish and therefore do not appear in the set. Blanks may not represent these letters, meaning loanwords that may use them may not appear in the game at all. Tuvan-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, use these 125 tiles: The distribution lacks four letters used only in loanwords: Ф, Ц, Щ, and Ь. This version is made for educational purposes and is not an official edition by Mattel. An optimum Ukrainian-language Scrabble sets, which use Cyrillic letters, contain 104 tiles using this distribution: The apostrophe sign is also included, even though it is not"
"it never achieved the commercial success of Scrabble. Alfred Mosher Butts Alfred Mosher Butts (April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993) was an American architect, famous for inventing the board game Scrabble in 1938. Alfred Mosher Butts was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on April 13, 1899 to Allison Butts and Arrie Elizabeth Mosher. His father was a lawyer and his mother was a high school teacher. Alfred attended Poughkeepsie High School and graduated in 1917. He then graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in architecture in 1924. He was also an amateur artist, and six of"
"Super Scrabble Super Scrabble is a board game introduced in 2004 and a variant of ""Scrabble"". It is played on a 21×21 grid board instead of Scrabble's usual 15×15, and uses twice as many letter tiles. In North America ""Super Scrabble"" is made and marketed by Winning Moves Games, but licensed by Hasbro. In the rest of the world it is manufactured by Tinderbox Games under license from Mattel. ""Super Scrabble"" is available in English and German. In February 2007, a ""Deluxe Super Scrabble"" was released with a rotating gameboard and interlocking tiles, just like ""Deluxe Scrabble"". The changes from"
"squares, 17 pale red ""double-word"" squares, of which one, the center square (H8), is marked with a star or other symbol; 12 dark blue ""triple-letter"" squares, and 24 pale blue ""double-letter"" squares. In 2008, Hasbro changed the colors of the premium squares to orange for TW, red for DW, blue for DL, and green for TL, but the original premium square color scheme is still preferred for ""Scrabble"" boards used in tournaments. In an English-language set, the game contains 100 tiles, 98 of which are marked with a letter and a point value ranging from 1 to 10. The number"
"""V"", ""W"" and ""Y"" are absent because they are only used in loanwords. Digraphs can be formed with two tiles. , an independently produced Bicolano language variant of Scrabble, uses these 102 tiles. The games uses the Abakada alphabet; hence the foreign letters of the present Filipino alphabet, ""C"", ""F"", ""J"", ""Q"", ""V"", ""X"", ""Z"", and even ""Ñ"", are absent. None of these letters can be played with a blank. Also, ""N"" and ""G"" being played in place of ""NG"" is not allowed. Breton-language Scrabble sets use these 100 tiles. ""C"", ""Q"", and ""X"" are absent because they are only"
"borrowed words. Marketed as L33t Tiles by the now defunct Wiremelon, LLC, editions of an English-L33tspeak variant of Scrabble contain 103 letter tiles in the following distribution: Lithuanian-language sets (known as KrisKros Klasik) use these 104 tiles: The letters ""Q"", ""W"" and ""X"" are absent, because they are not used in Lithuanian. Arguably ""F"" and ""H"" do not exist in Lithuanian either, but they are included as they are sometimes used for borrowed words. Lojban-language sets use these 160 tiles: The combination XO is absent as it is only used in 7 words (""binxo"", ""ganxo"", ""jerxo"", ""sirxo"", ""xogji"", ""xotli"", and"
"the name Escarbar (a Spanish word for ""Scrabble"") use these 108 tiles: An unofficial practice in some variants of Spanish Scrabble is the permit of words with QU to be played with the Q and with or without the following U. This variant practice eliminates the Q-without-U difficulty that may otherwise occur. Swedish-language Scrabble sets (until 1990 sold in Sweden as ""Alfapet"", but that became a different game) use these 100 tiles: ""Å"", ""Ä"" and ""Ö"" have separate tiles; other diacritics like that on ""É"" are ignored (except ""Ü""). ""Q"" and ""W"", found only in loanwords, are absent but can"
"multiple of 3) A zero is allowed at each end and duplicate digits are allowed (except for having more than one zero at either end). The following is valid; 0,2,3,6,7,0 but not 0,0,2,3,6,7 or 2,3,6,7,0,0. 1,1,3,6,7 is ok too. Each tile is worth its digit's value in points. A blank could be placed anywhere and, unlike in Scrabble, did not count as a particular digit, so the same blank tile could, for example, be between 3 and 4 in a horizontal sequence and between 8 and 9 in a vertical one. (This is used to get the extra points from"