If a word is challenged and it is legal, the challenger loses his or her next turn. If multiple words are made in a turn, all words are challenged when one word is challenged.
The dictionary should only be consulted if a word is actually challenged, and should never be used before a word is played for verification purposes. One player should be elected as the score keeper. The scorekeeper should double-check the tally for each word.
Each letter tile has the value of that letter. Unless the tile is on a Premium Letter Square, these should be counted at face value and totaled for the word.
According to scrabble rules, there are two types of premium squares: Premium Letter and Premium Word Squares. A light blue square is a Premium Letter Square and it doubles the score of the letter placed on it. A dark blue square is a Premium Letter Square and it triples the score of the letter placed on it. A pink square is a Premium Word Square and if any letter from a word is placed on this square, the value of the entire word is doubled. A red square is a Premium Word Square and if any letter from a word is placed on this square, the value of the entire word is tripled.
Whenever there is a challenge, regardless of how many words are acceptable or not, someone loses exactly one turn. If at least one of the words formed on the play is unacceptable, then the whole play is considered unacceptable, and the player must remove all the letters from the board played that turn and scores zero. This is known as playing a "Triple-Triple".
To compute the total score for the play first add up the values of the individual tiles, counting the Double Letter Score bonus if it's applicable. Then multiply by NINE. If all seven tiles of the player's rack have been used for this play, then add an extra 50 pt.
Actually, this play is the current single highest-scoring acceptable play in NSA Club or Tournament history. It was played in at a club in Michigan. The bonus is only scored for the player who originally covers the bonus square, and only for the one turn.
Subsequent turns that use a letter already covering a bonus square don't score the bonus points. Not necessarily. At clubs and tournaments experts average between points per game. However, the competition is probably much stiffer than your wife encounters, and she may have to adjust her thinking to adapt to the typical 25 minute time limit per person per game when using a chess clock. A better measure of skill is determining the "average points per turn" score.
If your wife averages 30 or more points per turn, not counting tile exchanges, then she may very well be an expert. The very top players average 35 or more points per turn, not counting exchanges. We suggest she visit and play at a club or tournament and see how she fares. Their avatars look so fake! Gerrywest I uninstalled Scrabble Go last night for the exact same reason and I was wondering if anyone else had the same complaint.
Regardless of the game being free for users, it is a complete waste of time just getting all vowels or only 1 letter consonants and every move you make is restricted. I was then curious if I was playing against a computer or someone with a huge ego??? Anyway it makes the games extremely tedious and defeats the purpose of participating to be mentally stimulated. Are you kidding me???!!!
Scrabble GO! I use only tile swap because you are penalised for it, so to my mind it keeps the game fair. Other than that, I either win or lose without aids. Scrabble Go is awful indeed, but if you want an uninterrupted game with your old Scrabble friends, try Lexulous. For copyright reasons the board has high scoring squares in a slightly different position and you get 8 tiles bingo with 7 or 8. Scrabble GO …or tbe Collins dictionary it uses…is erroneous.
Just 2 of many instances. Many of the people are not real either. When on the chat and I refuse to go to another chat platform, many resign. Also there are romance scams.
If you play long enough you can see patterns. Or just mute the chat. Females rarely chat with me. The guys who do? Beware of social engineering and phishing! I agree I have several of these men Two asking for money I hasten to add I did not give any to them.
You play humans if you want. Now I like to play slow games, like really slow as in one move a day, LOL! We live on a opposite sides of the globe and we have an interaction via a game that we look forward to doing every day.
I agree that Scrabble Go crashes MANY times; it is very frustrating as it is always near the end of the game when it is most crucial. I definitely preferred the previous version. Recently a tournament had a challenger with 60, points. Never mind skill level. The above clearly states my frustration with what should be a fun and challenging game…….. I signed up to play scrabble with my cousin. It is a scary site.
Weird people ask personal questions I resign the game then. One man tried to get me to invest I blocked him and reported him. Another man asked me if I was a boy and how old am I. I blocked him also. This is not a safe site. Your other reports are correct. People try to scam you, get personal information, and they all start out the same. This is a dangerous site. I recommend not playing with anyone you not know. I totally agree Kathy, and I have only been playing for a short time.
I blocked him. I ended muting chat. Same here! Words with Friends has a lot of advertising between games but seems to have more genuine players. I prefer it to Scrabble Go for sure. Bloated app, too many bots and good players are hard to find. Ridiculous way of claiming prizes, 1 by 1 instead of claiming all.
The worst is how often it crashes, I can now barely play a turn if lucky after updating the app using iPhone 6 with iOS Thank you for discovering Word Master Pro, I will definitely give it a look. Scrabble is a wonderful game, delightfully challenging. ScrabbleGo is mind numbingly infantile and a sorry bastardization of an already perfect game. Please let ScrabbleGo die an easy death and let Scrabble out of the cage.
Oh I so agree with everything you have said. This scrabble Go is ugly and makes me ill just Trying to play it. Die ScrableGo.. Just die.
I do not need bells and whistles etc. I do not play Scrabble for bells and whistles or coins etc. I am 7still 0 yrs. ScrabbleGo is not the right road. There is a reason it has lasted so many years. Think about it. You can still play the old Scrabble game against the computer if you turn off refresh in settings or turn off internet.
I SO agree! Then scrabble go will be GONE! I play Go with several of the same people I played EA scrabble. We just play and pay no attention to anything else. Will be deleting it. So the original real deal game Is gone forever? They had the audacity to delete during a pandemic yet! I will hate Hasbro and rotten Apple forever and ever because of that. They should just go stuff it. Am I missing something? Can anyone help? I think you can change the board to anything you like in the options which includes making it the same as the old Scrabble.
Plus you can change the points for individual letters also, I am pretty sure. And change the name. Just purchased Word Master Pro. Now, hopefully we will have a game soon where you can play with friends. Deleted the horrifying Scrabble Go, and what a feeling!!!!! Which wordmaster? There is hope at last. Thanks for the Word Masters recommendation. I found another similar game called Lexulous. You can play the computer as well as invite and play friends. Interface is a bit wonky but overall not too bad.
Thanks for the heads-up about Lexulous. My brothers and sisters and I are checking it out, now. It looks promising! Word Feud is another good option. We are all in our sixties and early seventies and love playing Scrabble together. Thanks for writing this.
At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, losing the old Scrabble game has been devastating, and trying to find an even somewhat adequate replacement has been exceedingly frustrating bordering on completely maddening.
Scrabble Go sucks for a multitude of reasons that others have already mentioned. Besides the obvious, here are my other complaints. If I wanted to play against the computer, I would have selected that option. Also, the average skill level seems to be lower on Scrabble Go than it was on the old game. The time crunch factor seemed to hinder my game. I liked the 2 or 5 minute per turn options in the old Scrabble game, but anything less than that is too much pressure for me.
Especially loved was the Teacher button, which was not on Words with Friends etc. Almost enough to send us all over the edge! It might just save the sanity of many of us! As the song goes. As fare as the rest of us are concerned we can get lost! Thanks for your write ups on this Josh.
Over here in the UK we thoroughly agree that this is outrageous. In addition to leaving a 1 star rating, signing the petition, writing to the CEOs of Scopely, I also reached out to a couple of media outlets here in the UK. Being able to exchange letters and not lose a turn is BS. And there is no rhyme or reason for when you have to pay gems or just watch the same inane ad.
After trying to play the travesty that is ScrabbleGo I am so very glad i found this post. Thank you very much for the information and research. So very sad! However , letting you know, CH and ZO have been words since I started national and occasionally international tournament for 27 years. That is currently from OSW19 lists. So this is a pseudo-review piece promoting a most likely illegal copy of Scrabble called Word Master Pro.
Also note that GO is evolving with each new version. With 1. New versions are coming out regularly with upgrades and I look forward to them. I suggest people keep checking it out as new versions are released. Trying to promote a competing app off the back of a hit piece is pretty desperate. Why are you posting bullshit on WithoutBullshit? Yes, wordmaster lacks some features like multiplayer and dictionaries.
But the without ads feature of Scrabble Go costs several dollars per month, a subscription model, whereas the EA app and wordmaster charge a one-time fee. Was the one-time fee too low to support the service? There would have been many ways to raise the cost without selling the exclusive rights to Scopely, the Martin Shkrely of online games.
I have a different issue with the Scopley Scrabble Go in that my icon on my iPhone has been stuck for the last two days and I am unable to continue my Scrabble games. Players then look up the words in question in an agreed-upon dictionary — if the play is valid, the challenger loses their turn, and if it's not, the tiles come off the board and the challenger goes again. Occasionally, tournament players will even strategically play a word they know is phony if there are no appealing alternatives.
If you've played Scrabble before, you know the excruciating feeling of being just one letter short of an amazing word. As tempting as it may sound, it's almost never the right strategy to simply play your O and hope you draw an A out of the bag.
Scrabble players call that "fishing," and it usually doesn't work out. For one thing, the odds are against you — even the most plentiful letter in the bag, the E, makes up just 12 of the tiles in Scrabble, and no consonant appears more than six times. But more importantly, you're unlikely to score enough points to justify fishing.
Playing one letter at a time usually means you're scoring very few points. Even if you magically draw the A for NUCLEAR and score 70 points, it may not be enough to make up for all the low-scoring plays you made on the previous turns. For you. World globe An icon of the world globe, indicating different international options. Get the Insider App. Click here to learn more. A leading-edge research firm focused on digital transformation.
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