"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"
"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"""
"standard ""Scrabble"" in ""Super Scrabble"" are summarized by the latter's tagline, ""More spaces, more tiles, more points—add to your fun!"" The board is larger; (21×21 or 441 squares vs. 15×15 or 225 squares); there are more premium squares (going up to quadruple letter and word score spaces); there are 200 tiles, twice as many as a normal ""Scrabble"" set. The middle 15×15 squares are identical to a ""Scrabble"" board, so standard ""Scrabble"" may be played on a ""Super Scrabble"" board. All the high-scoring quadruple premiums lie near the outside of the board, with the quadruple word squares at the four"
"quadruple letter scores spaced only three squares away from a double word score, it is not uncommon to see a single play score over one hundred points, even without a fifty-point bonus. Guarding against such plays becomes vital to strategy. However, due to the larger size of the board, this becomes increasingly difficult, especially late in the game. 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"
"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"
"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"
"second person selected is treated as the ""new contestant"" for the purposes of game play: this is elaborated on later in this section. The main game board has sixteen squares in a 4x4 layout (from A1 to D4). Behind each square is a different colour, and neither player (nor the host or audience) knows the location of which colours are where. The colours are: The number of times that each colour occurs in the Grid varies between episodes. Typically, it will contain 4-7 Cash squares, 1-4 Bonus squares, 2-4 Steal squares, 4-6 Penalty squares and there is always 1 Bankrupt"
"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"
"players find games with more players cramped. With its larger board, ""Super Scrabble"" is ideally suited for three- and four-player games. Indeed, its scoring sheets do not have enough lines to keep score for most two-player games. ""Super Scrabble"" has exactly twice as many tiles as ""Scrabble"", but the distribution of letters is not simply the original distribution doubled. The distribution is: The and indicate modifications from double the original distribution, with indicating more than double the original distribution, and indicating fewer. Note, for example, that there are more than twice as many S's (ten, whereas standard ""Scrabble"" has four)."
"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"
"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"
"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"
"3, 2009, the board was increased to 36 spaces, and consisted of nine columns of four rows. The columns were labeled E-X-P-L-O-S-I-O-N and the rows labeled C-A-S-H. The cash amounts ranged from $1,500 to $5,000. The number of special spaces increased from three to nine, with two $10,000 cash bonus squares, one $25,000 bonus square and six double squares. Every time a contestant hit a double square, as before, he or she received an extra turn. However, after finding a double card the contestant randomly stopped on one of the letters in E-X-P-L-O-S-I-O-N above the game board, revealing a dollar"
"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"
"play on a board ruled into a grid of 15 ""ranks"" (rows) and 15 ""files"" (columns) with a total of 225 squares. The squares are undifferentiated by marking or color, unlike a Western chess board. Each player has a set of 65 pieces of 29 different types. In all, a player must remember 36 different moves. Each piece has its name written on it in Japanese kanji. The writing is typically in black. On the reverse side of most pieces there are characters to indicate the piece's promoted rank, typically written in red. The pieces are wedge-shaped and their orientation"
"thus capturing that piece; and optionally of promoting the moving piece, if the move enters the ""promotion zone"", or if it is a capture and any part of it is in the promotion zone. Two players, Black and White (or 先手 ""sente"" and 後手 ""gote),"" play on a board ruled into a grid of 12 ""ranks"" (rows) and 12 ""files"" (columns), with a total of 144 squares. The squares are undifferentiated by marking or color, unlike a Western chess board. Each player has a set of 46 pieces of 21 different types, and each piece has its name written on"
"score of their pieces and maximize the Schwarz score of their opponent's pieces. As there are six pieces, and each piece can be 1, 2, 3, or 4 moves away from their goal, or out of play, there are 15,625 distinct situations in which Schwarz scores can be precomputed. The game can also be played on a 6 × 6 board with ten pieces on each side, labeled 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12. A pair of 6-sided dice are rolled. The game can also be played in rounds with a doubling cube as in"
"and blank tiles cannot be used to represent these. Portuguese-language editions of Scrabble contain 120 tiles. While ""Ç"" is a separate tile, other diacritical marks are ignored. ""K"", ""W"", and ""Y"" are absent, since they are only present in loanwords in Portuguese, and were not even official letters until 2009. Romanian-language editions of Scrabble use these 100 tiles. Some amendment applied in updated version. Previously, the B was worth 8, and the O was worth 1. The original (1982) distribution used the following 100 tiles: Diacritical marks are ignored, so for example ""Ă"" and ""Â"" are played as ""A"". Both"
"British Square British Square is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. It has an unusual feature of switchback building whereby each foundation is first built up (from ace to king) and then built down (from king to ace). First sixteen cards are dealt on the tableau into four columns of four cards each, turning it into a ""square."" American rule sets, though, puts the formation of the tableau at sixteen piles, four rows of four piles each. Each pile contains a card at the start of the game. The object of the game"
"corners of the board. Other than the differences in the board and the number of tiles, gameplay is similar to ""Scrabble"". Each player has seven tiles in their rack as normal, scoring is the same, and the same word lists are used. However, the differences are enough to upset normal ""Scrabble"" strategies. For example, the fifty points earned from a bingo (using all seven tiles) is not nearly as significant when compared to the high final scores. For a two-player game, scores over eight hundred points are not uncommon. Tournament-level ""Scrabble"" games are usually limited to two players. Many tournament"
"to aces. British Square British Square is a solitaire card game which uses two decks of 52 playing cards each. It has an unusual feature of switchback building whereby each foundation is first built up (from ace to king) and then built down (from king to ace). First sixteen cards are dealt on the tableau into four columns of four cards each, turning it into a ""square."" American rule sets, though, puts the formation of the tableau at sixteen piles, four rows of four piles each. Each pile contains a card at the start of the game. The object of"
"set of 16 letter tiles are placed on the board. A randomizer then causes tiles to light up. Each team is allowed to stop the randomizer; a team starts the final round with the regulation value of the tiles that they stop the randomizer on; the number of tiles that the randomizer lights up is the number of ""Bonus Scrabble Tiles"" that the team had earned from the three previous rounds. This becomes their ""head start"" score before playing ""Scrabble Lightning"". The game is played on a regulation Scrabble board with only the double and triple-word score spaces (the double"
"teams of 2, 3, or 4 race to play legal Scrabble words as quickly as possible. Scoring does not matter; all that matters is how quickly words are played. This can be a co-operative game where all players are simply trying to complete the game as fast as possible. A new variant on Scrabble introduced by Mattel on April 6, 2010. This game has the same rules and tiles as Scrabble, but the board is larger (21x21 vs. 15x15 in the original). With the larger board there are more premium squares, going up to quadruple letter and quadruple word scores."
"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"
"Francophone Scrabble Francophone Scrabble, or French-language Scrabble, is played by many thousands of amateurs throughout the world and the ""Fédération internationale de Scrabble francophone"" has more than 20,000 members. Just as in English, points are scored by playing valid words from the lettered tiles. In French there are 102 tiles - 100 lettered tiles and two blanks known as jokers. The official word list for Francophone Scrabble is L'Officiel du jeu Scrabble. There are two forms of competition Scrabble in French. ""Scrabble classique"", also known as ""partie libre"", is match play, as in the English-language game. Duplicate Scrabble is an"
"in the square, and the process repeats. If the team can obtain a tic-tac-toe in five spins, the team's winnings from the main game are doubled. Also unlike the bonus round from ""All-Star Blitz"", a spin of the board cannot land on a square that has been occupied by a symbol. In Season 2, the Bonus Round is called ""Pick That Dough"". In the round, the audience member chooses 3 celebrities to form a tic-tac-toe on the board. Each celebrity is holding a record sleeve which contains a disc. 8 of the discs contain a cash prize ranging from $1"
"points and are coloured according to their value. Double and triple word squares function in the same manner as standard Scrabble. However, the coloured triple letter squares are only active when the tile colour matches that of the square. Literaxx is available at PlayOK. Anadrome is a web-based variant which (as the name implies) allows words to be played reading in any orthogonal direction, doubling traditional turn opportunities. With 39 different bonus tiles, many directly correlating to mathematical operators like * (multiplication), ^ (exponentiation), ! (factorial), ⌈ (ceiling and floor), and Π (product series) across over 500 boards, scores may"
"white squares until they have achieved a score of 75 or more.The aim is to get as high a score as possible. Of the three pieces of each variety, one has an inscribed '2' above one square, and one has an inscribed '3' (the other is unmarked). When these pieces are played, the square on the board covered by the number written on the tile is multiplied by that number when it is added to the relevant player's score. Pieces may only be placed in positions where they are adjacent to (not just diagonally touching) a piece of either colour"
"2 to 4 players in games lasting roughly 60 minutes. Players should be comfortable with the basic operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The gameboard is a 14x14 grid. The central four squares are orange and contain the numbers 1 (upper left), 2 (upper right), 3 (lower left), and 4 (lower right)- these squares cannot have tiles played upon them, and are the basis for beginning the game. There are special blue squares scattered throughout the board which contain an arithmetic symbol (a plus, minus, multiplication, or division sign), as well as premium squares labelled as 2x (green) and"
"not a die to be rolled but rather a marker with the numbers 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, and 64 inscribed on its sides, to denote the current stake. At the start of each game, the doubling cube is placed on the bar with the number 64 showing; the cube is then said to be ""centered, on 1"". When the cube is centered, the player about to roll may propose that the game be played for twice the current stakes. Their opponent must either accept (""take"") the doubled stakes or resign (""drop"") the game immediately. Whenever a player accepts doubled"
"Two players, Black and White, play on a go board ruled into a grid of 19 ""ranks"" (rows) by 19 ""files"" (columns) with a total of 361 intersections. Each player has a set of 90 pieces of 34 different types. The pieces are round and flattened like go stones. In all, the players must remember 65 different moves. The pieces are generally of the same size, though black pieces may be slightly larger than white pieces. Each piece has its name in the form of one or two Japanese characters marked on its face, in white on black stones and"
"blank side. On each side of the border are six ""blank"" colored boxes. The score displays use an orange seven-segment readout on a black background; the episode's sponsor (currently Auntie Anne's) has a card located between the contestants. The puzzle board has two lines of holders for the letters, with two TV monitors showing the category; the entire board flips around for the Super Sqramble, with the monitors changing to a 60-second clock. The original score displays used a rotating designation for ""One Hundred"", ""Two Hundred"", etc. written in script over a two-digit number with the contestant nameplates underneath; the"
"skill level) board. There are numerous variations of the game. While they are similar to the original ""Scrabble"" game, they include minor variations. For example, Literati draws random tiles instead of providing a finite number of tiles for the game, assigns different point levels to each letter and has a slightly different board layout, whereas Lexulous assigns eight letters to each player instead of seven. Words with Friends uses a different board layout and different letter values, as does Words of Gold. Duplicate Scrabble is a popular variant in French speaking countries. Every player has the same letters on the"