"In addition, after this game, each family selects a ""Crazy Cash"" card, starting with the family that will be playing first. Scrabble Flash is a game where the families have to make words using 5 oversized electronic ""Scrabble Flash"" letter tiles. Alternating between teams, each family member in family order takes a turn picking what word they can make. The player then arranges the Flash tiles used to make that word. The team gets 3 points for making a word with 3 letters, 4 points by making a word with 4 letters, or 5 points by making a word with"
"a ""Y"" it is worth 10 points, if a blank is used as a ""Z"" it is worth 15 points, and if a blank is used as a ""K"" it is worth 20 points. Each of those letters are so high in points, because they are used only in borrowed words. The score of 20 for a ""K"" is the highest known point value for any letter in any Scrabble score distribution worldwide. ""Y"" is absent in all sets except the paleographic extension of the first set because it is rare in Latin. ""K"" and ""Z"" are also absent in"
"correspond to points. Each side of every die is printed like a Scrabble tile with a letter and small subscripted number on the lower right corner. One side of one die is marked with a diamond, which acts like the blank tile in Scrabble (can represent any letter, but will have no value). The corresponding scoresheet, like the parent game, has an Upper and Lower Section. In the Upper Section, points are scored and marked for two- to six-letter words, with each word determined by the point values of its letters. The player is awarded 35 points if the total"
"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"
"the letters ""B"", ""E"", ""N"", ""O"", ""P"", ""S"", and ""U"". The letter ""C"" was reduced in value to 5 and the ""X"" was increased to 10: Circa 1961, the hyphen was dropped from the game's name, and the original Swedish distribution of the game had been restored. Sometime later, produced under BRIO's subsidiary, Joker, the number of ""T""s in the set were reduced by one and an 8-point ""Z"" tile was added. In 2002, under the ownership of Mattel and its brand name Scrabble, the Swedish language set tile values of the ""C"" and ""Z"" were changed, respectively, to 8"
"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"
"describe the word ""hat"". 20 points were given for a word solved on the first clue, 15 points scored for a word solved in two clues and 10 points were awarded for a word solved on the third attempt. After three clues, the opponents had a shot at the word for 5 points. After a certain number of words, the team with the highest score became the champions and won money. Teams could win up to 6 times before being forced to retire. Ken and Christine Rowland were the only couple to receive full marks having given the correct answers"
"word LAVA would score . The hierarchy of letters is similar to that of Scrabble; Q and Z are the highest-scoring tiles (each 10) followed by X and J (each 8) and so on, the most notable variance is that here L is worth five as opposed to just one in Scrabble. The player starts with two minutes to find as many words as he can; if he manages to use Q, Z, X, or J in any word he is awarded a further 10 seconds. After each successful entry the letters used are discarded with the matrix replacing those"
"$25 Wal-Mart gift card and a 50-point bonus. An incorrect answer gave the opponent a chance at the points and gift card. The game is played in two rounds, each with one puzzle. The player with the most points at the end of the game wins $50 and first chance to play the ""Super Sqramble""; in the event of a tie (the most recent being Episode #392 on October 26, 2009), both players win the game and $50, and play Super Sqramble together. The day's winner has 60 seconds to unscramble a 9 or 10-letter word, two letters of which"
"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"
"score in the Upper Section is at least 45. In the Lower Section are seven scoring categories: One Word, Two Words (at the same turn), Three Words (at the same turn), All Consonants, All Vowels (the consonant Y is considered a vowel in this game), Yahtzee Word (a seven-letter-word), and Chance. Of course, a word has to be a valid Scrabble word before it is scored, except in the All Consonants, All Vowels and Chance categories, although the pronoun ""I"" and the indefinite article ""a"" are also considered words. Jackpot Yahtzee, which started marketing in 1980, uses dice bearing symbols"
"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"
"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"""
"choose to swap tiles with the pool of currently unused tiles or pass their turn. Players can form words either vertically or horizontally on the board. The player's aim is to score as many points as possible. A letter placed on a DL or TL square doubles or triples the value of that letter on all words formed using that square. Similarly, the DW and TW squares double and triple the value of the new word(s) using that square. If a player uses all seven tiles on a single play (known as a bingo in ""Scrabble""), 35 bonus points are"
"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"
"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"
"Scrabble letter distributions Editions of the word board game Scrabble in different languages have differing letter distributions of the tiles, because the frequency of each letter of the alphabet is different for every language. As a general rule, the rarer the letter, the more points it is worth. Many languages use sets of 102 tiles, since the original distribution of one hundred tiles was later augmented with two blank tiles. In tournament play, while it is acceptable to pause the game to count the tiles remaining in the game, it is not acceptable to mention how many tiles are remaining"
"Flash"". In this round, the team is given five over-sized ""Scrabble Flash"" cubes, each with a different letter. The first team has thirty seconds to make as many words as possible; each word must contain at least three letters, and each valid word is worth one point for each letter used; there is at least one valid five-letter word. Both teams play the same set of letters; the team that is to go second is isolated while the first team plays. The team with the higher score wins a prize and two ""Bonus Scrabble Tiles."" Before the round begins, a"
"on one category per round and players race to find a unique answer starting with each letter in the category key word, which is related to the category in some way. As the game box shows, if the category word is ""CAMPING TRIP"" players have 2 minutes to find a word that starts with a C, then an A, then an M, and a P... and so on. Players get 1 point for each unique answer and the first player to 25 points wins. The game contains 250 word challenges on 125 cards for players 12 and up. Scattergories became"
"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"
"(given in the Rust Hills article) is as follows: A variant with 220 letters: The distribution of 180 letters for ""Scrabble Scoring Anagrams"" (according to a review on funagain.com): Anagrams Anagrams (also known as Pirate Scrabble, Anagram, Snatch, Word Making and Taking and Grabscrab) is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words. The game pieces consist of a set of tiles with letters on them. Tiles are turned over one by one, and players form words by combining unused tiles with existing words, their own or others'. The game has never been standardized and there"
"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"
"draw pile. The player with the most points at the end of eight rounds wins.[1] Allowable words Edit Players should decide on an English dictionary to be used during the game. An allowable word must appear as an entry in that dictionary or as one of the listed inflected forms of an entry word. Words must also use at least two cards. The makers of Quiddler have established several restrictions on the words used in a game. No proper nouns may be used. Capitalized adjectives, such as Iraqi and Scottish, may be used. Prefixes and suffixes by themselves are not"
"clues given by the host. Five points were awarded for each correct answer. From Series 2 onwards, all three contestants had a chance to play the Star Game in ascending order of score from the previous round. Each chose one of three sequences that all contained the same three letters (e.g. SIT, TIS, STI), which would appear in all of their words. The contestants were shown a word with three consecutive letters removed, which formed a word of their own, and the host read a clue on the buzzer. Giving the correct three-letter word scored 15 points for the contestant"
"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"
"cells and peculiar rules. In one variation of ""Scrabble"", blanks score points corresponding to the letters the blanks are used to represent. For example, if one played blank to represent a Z, it would get ten; a blank to represent a V or an H would get four; a blank to represent a D would get 2 and blank to represent a T, N, L, S or R or any of the vowels would get one. Popular among tournament Scrabble players is ""Clabbers"". In Clabbers, any move that consists of anagrams of allowable words is allowed. For example, because ETAERIO"
"the letters of the word. For example, if the scrambled word was ""MAS"", and the clue was ""America's Uncle"", contestants would push 7-2-6 to spell ""S-A-M"". Contestants would get points depending on how quickly they punched in the right answer, starting at 1,000 and counting down as time went on. After each word was revealed, some letters of the word would be circled. When four words have been played, the circled letters would be shown again, along with a cartoon with a caption. Contestants would have 10 seconds to unscramble the circled word, which would fit into a humorous phrase"
"1.500 €, 2.000 €, 2.500 €, 3.000 €, 3.500 €, 4.000 €, 4.500 €, 5.000 €, 6.000 €, 7.000 €, 8.000 €, and a car. They get the letters R, S, F, Y, and O, (originally C, T, G, L, and I, later C, L, X, G, and A until August 30, 2015) and call 3 more consonants and a vowel before getting 10 seconds to solve the puzzle and win the bonus prize. The audience members all stand up when the bonus puzzle is solved. In the event the winner proceeds to the bonus round while holding a wedge"
"the winner. In others, a calculation based on word length is used to determine the winner. Some variants allow for the exchange of unwanted tiles. Local variants include Take One or Take Four; the banning of 2 letter words; having a dictionary on hand for any players to use (but since it is a game of speed, this doesn't get used much); a bonus of 50 points for building the word ""chicken"", a bonus for longest word (number of letters in word, not tile values; and only if a single player has longest word), etc. Team Speed Scrabble is when"
"the length of each word and the number of words made. Once a player reaches 2,500 points, all 13 dice are used; all words must now contain at least four letters. A player with at least 2,500 points is considered ""vulnerable""; at least 500 points must be scored in a turn, or 500 points are deducted from their score. The first player to reach 5,000 points is the winner. The dice are labeled as follows: In the ""Dick Van Dyke Show"" episode ""A Man's Teeth Are Not His Own,"" Rob & Laura play a game of Perquackey with their neighbors."
"who answered faster would sometimes be awarded the higher place; in other cases, a tiebreaker question was used. On rare occasions, an Observation round would have the players answer a five-part question, such as ""Name the five continuity errors in the film clip,"" and players would receive 2 points for each correct answer. From 1986 to 1991, each round was introduced by the distinctive K logo, which would morph into a symbol for the round. A similar version of this was used in the 2009 revival. This round only took place in the first series, to be replaced with Mental"
"cards, and so forth. Points are added at the end of each round. The game continues until the end of the eighth round. Depending on the number of players, the discard pile may need to be shuffled to resupply the draw pile. The player with the most points at the end of eight rounds wins.[1] Allowable words Edit Players should decide on an English dictionary to be used during the game. An allowable word must appear as an entry in that dictionary or as one of the listed inflected forms of an entry word. Words must also use at least"
"and triple-letter score spaces are removed). A scrambled-up word appears on the board. The host then reads a clue to that word. The first player to buzz-in with the correct word earns the regulation value of that word (doubled or tripled if one of the letters is on a double or triple-word score space). Players must wait until the host finishes reading the clue before buzzing in. The children play the first word. They alternate words with their parents from then on. The first team to reach 100 points or more wins the game and the grand prize trip. The"