April 18, 2010

Speed Scrabble

Here's a bar graph that I've never seen before:



Scrabble tile distribution.

Ever since being introduced to Speed Scrabble at Cousin Liz's Xmas party I've been proselytizing.

Rules:
No Scrabble board required.
Put the standard 100 Scrabble tile upside down on the table.
Best with 2,3,4 or 5 individuals or teams (if playing with three take out one tile from the 100)
Everybody takes 7 tiles face down from common pile.
On go each player tries to use their own letters in a legitimate Scrabble style crossword that only they add to.
First player to use all their letters calls "Go".
Every players takes one more letter from pile.
Players may rearrange their letters at any time.
First player to call "Done" when all tiles are gone wins.

Extremely addicting.

Fun to add special rules:
No 2 letter words (just to win - you can use to call "go" during play)
Got to have a 9 letter word
Have to have two words that are opposites
Got to have a color, etc.

2 comments:

Peter said...

You might like Speed Scrabble online too!

Paul said...

Check out the game Bananagrams. Pretty much the same thing.