STEPS ON HOW TO PLAY A SCRABBLE GAME
1ST STEP:Two or more players will sit around a 15 square by 15
square playing board that is initially empty. At the start of the
game, a set of 100 tiles, each marked with a letter and a point
value, are placed so that their letters are out of sight, either by
placing them in a bag or by placing them face-down on the table.
Each player has a wooden holder, known as a "rack," for holding
letters to be played, which is empty at the start of the game.
2nd Step:To decide who goes first, each player draws a single
letter tile from the bag (or, if there is no bag, from the tiles
which have been laid face-down on the table). The player who draws
the letter that is closest to "A" in the alphabet goes first. If
there are two players who draw the same letter, and that letter is
the closest to "A" of all letters drawn, then all players throw
back their tiles and draw another tile at random, repeating this
process until a single player wins the draw. After the first player
takes a turn, the player to her or his left will take a turn, and
this process will proceed in a clockwise direction around the
board.
3rd Step:The first player takes 7 letters from the Scrabble bag
and places them out of sight of the other players on that player's
rack. Other players must then draw sufficient letters to put seven
letters on their respective racks. Players must draw their letters
in the order in which they will play, but they should not wait
until it is their turn to draw their letters, as having the letters
sooner gives everyone a chance to think ahead about how they will
play.
4rd Step:The first player examines his or her letters to see
what words can be made from them. When a word has been found, it
must be placed on the board in a way that covers the center square.
This square is marked by a star, and is also a double-word score,
giving the first play double the score it would otherwise have. The
word may be placed either horizontally or vertically, but not
diagonally.
5th Step:After each turn, the player who has just played draws
as many letters as have just been played, so that there are always
seven letters on the player's rack at the end of the draw. Unless,
of course, the letters in the bag have become exhausted.
6th Step:After the first turn, each player must play in a way
that makes at least one word using at least one tile that is
already on the board.
7th Step:The score received for a turn is based upon the point
values that appear on each tile used to make a word, and is
modified based upon any bonus squares that are covered by the
letters that are newly-placed during that turn. The follow kinds of
bonus squares are marked in specific places on the board: Double
Letter Score: This means that a letter placed on this square
receives double the number of points that are shown on the
letter.Double Word Score: This means that a word that is made that
includes the letter that is placed on this square receives double
the number of points that it otherwise would.Triple Letter Score:
This means that a letter placed on this square receives three times
the number of points that are shown on the letter.Triple Word
Score: This means that a word that is made that includes the letter
that is placed on this square receives triple the number of points
that it otherwise would.
8th Step:Scoring involves adding up the point values of all
letters played, as well as all letters already on the board that
are in new words made during the present turn. The letters that are
newly played that are on double or triple letter bonus squares are
then individually doubled or tripled. The words that are newly made
that have newly-played letters on double or triple word scores are
then doubled or tripled; the entire word, including squares that
were already on the board, is doubled or tripled in this case.
9th Step:When a turn is taken, the score is computed and written
down, usually on a piece of paper that is divided into columns, one
column per player. The score for each turn is added to the prior
total and sub-totaled, so that everyone knows the score as the game
proceeds.
10th Step:Play continues in this manner until there are no more
letters in the bag and the last player has had their turn, and
someone has played the last letter that they have, so that their
rack is now empty. When this occurs, the point values of all
letters remaining on each players' rack are added up and subtracted
from that player's score, and these same point values are added to
the score of the player who "went out" (used up all of their
letters) first. This ends the game.
11th Step:No matter who "goes out," it is the person having the
highest score who wins the game. Second place goes to the person
with the second-highest score, and so on.
THE SCRABBLE RULES
Two to four players play in any game of Scrabble. The object of
Scrabble is to score more points than one's opponent. A player
collects points by placing words on the game board. Each letter has
a different point value, so the strategy becomes to play words with
high scoring letter combinations.
1. The Scrabble BoardA Scrabble game board is made of up cells
in a square grid. The Scrabble board is 15 cells wide by 15 cells
high. The Scrabble tiles fit within these cells one to a cell.
2. Scrabble TilesScrabble Rules Scrabble is played with exactly
100 tiles. 98 of these tiles contain letters on them, while there
are 2 blank tiles. These blank tiles add a wildcard aspect to
Scrabble. The blanks substitute for any letter in the alphabet.
Once played, a blank tile remains for the remainder of the game the
letter for which it was substituted when first played.Various
letters have different point values, depending on the rarity of the
letter and the difficulty in playing it. Blank tiles have no point
value.
3. Tile ValuesHere are the point values for each letter in
Scrabble. 0 Points - Blank tile. 1 Point - A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S,
T and U. 2 Points - D and G. 3 Points - B, C, M and P. 4 Points -
F, H, V, W and Y. 5 Points - K. 8 Points - J and X. 10 Points - Q
and Z.
4. Extra Point ValuesSome squares on the Scrabble board
represent multipliers. If a tile is placed on this square, then the
tile's value is multiplied by a factor or either 2x or 3x. Certain
tiles multiply the point value of an entire word and not simply the
tile on that space.Double Letter Scores - Light blue cells are
found isolated on the board. When a tile is placed on this space,
that tile's point value is multiplied by two.Triple Letter Score -
This is a dark blue cell on the Scrabble. The tile placed on this
square has its points multiplied by three.Double Word Score - Light
red cells are found running diagonally towards the four corners of
the board. When a player plays a word on one of these squares, the
point value of the entire word is multiplied by two.Triple Word
Score - This is a dark red square on the Scrabble board. These are
found on the four sides of the board equidistant from the four
corners of the board. When a word is played using this square, then
the points for the word are multiplied by three.One Single Use -
Note that extra point squares are only usable once. If one player
plays a word using this cells, then the next time that space is
used to make a word, the point value is not multiplied.5. The Fifty
Point BonusWhen a player is able to place all seven tiles from the
tile rack on the board at the same time, that player receives a 50
point bonus. In end game scenarios, when the players hold less than
the standard seven tiles, a player does not get the 50 point bonus
for using all the tiles on the rack.
6. The End of a Scrabble GameWhen all of the tiles have been
taken from the bag and one player has used all of the tiles on
their rack, then the game ends.
7. Tallying Scrabble ScoresOnce the game has ended, each player
counts the points on the tiles left remaining in their rack. Each
player has that number deducted from their final score.The player
who ended the game and who therefore has no more tiles remaining is
given an added bonus. Add the total of all points of all remaining
players with tiles left on their racks. This number is added to the
final score of the player who is "out" of tiles.The Scrabble player
with the highest score after all final scores are tallied wins.
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