April 01, 2010

7 letter scrabble word


We played a lot of Scrabble this weekend, and who doesn't love a good game of Scrabble, really?

This first is simple , but beautiful. I put all seven letters down on the scrabble board! woot woot. I've never done this before, and I actually did it TWO times in a row.  If a player uses all seven of the tiles in the rack in a single play, a bonus of 50 points is added to the score of that play (this is called a "bingo" in Canada and the United States, a "Scrabble" in Spain and a "bonus" elsewhere).

VEGGIES
SERVING
These were the two words used to give me 50 extra points in the game.... 



Side Note:  article comes from http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8604625.stm

The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said.

Place names, people's names and company names or brands will now count. ( This is how we play it anyways, haha) 

Mattel, which brings out a new version of the game containing amended rules in July, hopes the change will encourage younger people to play. Until now a few proper nouns had been allowed which were determined by a word list based on the Collins dictionary.

In Scrabble, players try to gain the highest points by making words with individual letter tiles on a grid board. Each letter tile has a points value between one and 10, based on the letter's frequency in standard English. Various coloured squares on the board can double or triple a player's points.

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