Scrabble Rules Made Simple

The game of Scrabble is close to being a national pastime. Almost everyone has sat down and played a round with their family at least once in the past. If you have never played Scrabble, you should consider buying it. It will give you a great family activity to play. If you have never played Scrabble or heard of it before in the past, the rules are very easy to understand. Read on for a guide to this popular game, as well as some tips that you can use to do well. It is a game that all ages can compete at with an equal chance of doing well.

The concept is simple: there are various different tiles with letters of the alphabet on them. Each player receives seven tiles. Using these tiles, you must create as high scoring of a word as you can and place it on the playing board (which is a large grid that the letter tiles fit into.) The first word made starts in the middle of the playing board, and each word after that must be touching one of the previous words, and must incorporate letters from other words.

There are several different types of areas to place you letters, there are some called double letter score or triple letter score which, obviously, double or triple the amount of the letter that lands on that spot. Other types of places on the playing board are double word score and triple word score which double or triple the total amount of the word that you've made. The triple word score is the best area to put your word, but also the rarest.

On each tile, along with a letter, there is a number. The number is how much each letter is worth. The rarer the number is, the more points it is worth. For example: an A is worth only one point, and a Q or a Z is worth ten points.

After you have taken your turn, you replace however many letters you used with new letters. If you cannot find any words that your letters spell, you can trade out all of your letters for new ones, but you lose that turn and you cannot make a word until the turn comes back around to you.