Steps On How To Play Scrabble Game
Steps On How To Play 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 facedown 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:
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 subtotaled, 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.
2. Scrabble Tiles
Scrabble 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 Values
Here are the point values for each letter in Scrabble.
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.
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