*sigh* Anyone remember the rules of Scrabble?

[whatevergirl]

LOL. I ask because we bought it tonight at Target, and while the directions seemed clear…we’re thinking we might have been cheating? lol

So…here’s the question…say I create the word…YEARN…and you come along and add the word ‘s’ to the end of my word…do you get credit for the whole word (with the s)…even though I created the word? I want to say that you do, but you just don’t get credit for the ‘double’ word blocks, and so on, if you landed on those. Only the person who created the word gets those squares as credit.

So…is this right? (the bolded part?)

I encourage everyone to get back to boardgames. We have become too much of a techie family, with video games, and computer online play, and my son and daughter really liked just sitting around in the kitchen…playing a basic board game…like dh and I did as a kid. We used to play cards a lot, and monopoly, but monopoly takes a year and a day. This was really great fun! Best part…Scrabble only costs $12 at Target. LOL:thumbsup:

 

[ack]

The way we play it, sure, you get credit. You even get “double word” credit for the whole word if you placed the tile on the “double word” square during that turn.

(After all, you always have to build off of other words in Scrabble – there’s no other legal way to make a word, and what you’re describing is just an extreme case of this.)

LOL. I ask because we bought it tonight at Target, and while the directions seemed clear…we’re thinking we might have been cheating? lol

So…here’s the question…say I create the word…YEARN…and you come along and add the word ‘s’ to the end of my word…do you get credit for the whole word (with the s)…even though I created the word? I want to say that you do, but you just don’t get credit for the ‘double’ word blocks, and so on, if you landed on those. Only the person who created the word gets those squares as credit.

So…is this right? (the bolded part?)

I encourage everyone to get back to boardgames. We have become too much of a techie family, with video games, and computer online play, and my son and daughter really liked just sitting around in the kitchen…playing a basic board game…like dh and I did as a kid. We used to play cards a lot, and monopoly, but monopoly takes a year and a day. This was really great fun! Best part…Scrabble only costs $12 at Target. LOL:thumbsup:

 

[kage_ar]

We are scrabble nuts here. I sooooo want a fancy one for Christmas

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble#Scoring

For fast reference for rules, wikipedia rocks

Premium squares affect the score of each word made in the same play by constituent tiles played upon those squares. Premium squares, once played upon, are not counted again in subsequent plays.

 

[whatevergirl]

Thanks kage…we saw the fancy ones…I wonder what’s different about it? I was in a different part of the store, when the kids brought the game over to me…and my son said…(it’s funny you say ‘fancy’)…"mom, they had fancy scrabble games over there…did you just want this one?’ I said…fancy? lol Wow, Scrabble’s changed since I was a kid. But, I didn’t see it…maybe I’ll have to check it out online.

ack–so you’re saying that a player gets credit for the ENTIRE word if he/she only adds an ‘s’ to a word that ANOTHER PLAYER created? That’s how we played, but the directions didn’t spell it out. (no pun)

 

[kage_ar]

Once you have counted a premium square, no one else can count it again in that game, so, YEARN on a double word score only counts as YEARNS when you add an “s”, not the double word score.

The fancy ones have little ridges that hold the tiles in place, so they don’t get jostled about. They also are raised on a lazy susan type thing, so, it spins to face the person who is playing.

How cool is that?

 

[whatevergirl]

Once you have counted a premium square, no one else can count it again in that game, so, YEARN on a double word score only counts as YEARNS when you add an “s”, not the double word score.

The fancy ones have little ridges that hold the tiles in place, so they don’t get jostled about. They also are raised on a lazy susan type thing, so, it spins to face the person who is playing.

How cool is that?

OH MY GOSH…that would be way cool. (you’d think you were giving me the winning lotto numbers…but seriously, that is exciting!) lol

Tonight, the board only faced my son…and go figure…he ended up winning.

 

[ack]

But if the “S” went on the double word score tile, would she get the double word score for the entire word YEARNS?

That’s how I interpreted the post.

Once you have counted a premium square, no one else can count it again in that game, so, YEARN on a double word score only counts as YEARNS when you add an “s”, not the double word score.

The fancy ones have little ridges that hold the tiles in place, so they don’t get jostled about. They also are raised on a lazy susan type thing, so, it spins to face the person who is playing.

How cool is that?

 

[Phemie]

Once you have counted a premium square, no one else can count it again in that game, so, YEARN on a double word score only counts as YEARNS when you add an “s”, not the double word score.

The fancy ones have little ridges that hold the tiles in place, so they don’t get jostled about. They also are raised on a lazy susan type thing, so, it spins to face the person who is playing.

How cool is that?

Santa gave me one of those fancy Scrabble games a few Christmases ago. Now if only I could find someone to play with me…

 

[Phemie]

But if the “S” went on the double word score tile, would she get the double word score for the entire word YEARNS?

That’s how I interpreted the post.

Yes, if you place the S on a double word score tile you get double word score for the entire word. Should you have the word WAN and add an S thus:

SWAN
T
O
V
E

you would get double word score for EACH word if the S was placed on a double word score tile.

 

[Stella76]

Everyone else has answered your Scrabble question, but I just wanted to add my name to the chorus of folks who love board games!

My husband and I love to play Scrabble. We play about once a week, and the running joke is that although I have a whole litany of college degrees to my name and he has only his high school diploma, he constantly blows me out of the water in Scrabble!

*Stella

 

[whatevergirl]

Everyone else has answered your Scrabble question, but I just wanted to add my name to the chorus of folks who love board games!

My husband and I love to play Scrabble. We play about once a week, and the running joke is that although I have a whole litany of college degrees to my name and he has only his high school diploma, he constantly blows me out of the water in Scrabble!

*Stella

LOL! Thanks for chiming in, Stella. You know, we had a blast playing this last night, and my dd wants to play tonight again. She was upset that she came in last. She said she was practicing when dh and I were asleep this morning. I’m game though–it got intense towards the end there!!

Practicing…Scrabble?:ehh:

 

[kage_ar]

LOL! Thanks for chiming in, Stella. You know, we had a blast playing this last night, and my dd wants to play tonight again. She was upset that she came in last. She said she was practicing when dh and I were asleep this morning. I’m game though–it got intense towards the end there!!

Practicing…Scrabble?:ehh:

Show her the crossword in the morning paper, get her a book of crossword puzzles - those are a great way to “practice” scrabble (and work your brain).

 

[kage_ar]

Yes, if you place the S on a double word score tile you get double word score for the entire word. Should you have the word WAN and add an S thus:

SWAN
T
O
V
E

you would get double word score for EACH word if the S was placed on a double word score tile.

Yep.

 

[jmcrae]

LOL. I ask because we bought it tonight at Target, and while the directions seemed clear…we’re thinking we might have been cheating? lol

So…here’s the question…say I create the word…YEARN…and you come along and add the word ‘s’ to the end of my word…do you get credit for the whole word (with the s)…even though I created the word? I want to say that you do, but you just don’t get credit for the ‘double’ word blocks, and so on, if you landed on those. Only the person who created the word gets those squares as credit.

So…is this right? (the bolded part?)

I encourage everyone to get back to boardgames. We have become too much of a techie family, with video games, and computer online play, and my son and daughter really liked just sitting around in the kitchen…playing a basic board game…like dh and I did as a kid. We used to play cards a lot, and monopoly, but monopoly takes a year and a day. This was really great fun! Best part…Scrabble only costs $12 at Target. LOL:thumbsup:

You just count the face value of the tiles that the other person put down, but you count everything for the tiles that you put down.

So, if the person who put down YEARN got a triple, the person who added the S wouldn’t get the triple, but they’d get the face value of all the letters plus the value of their S, including any double or triple word scores that they happen to land on.

 

[puzzleannie]

yes you get credit for the whole new word, all the numbers on the tiles of the new word, but if the first word contained a double, triple or other score (the colored blocks) that only counts for the first word, unless the new letter is on one of the bonus blocks.

 

[whatevergirl]

Show her the crossword in the morning paper, get her a book of crossword puzzles - those are a great way to “practice” scrabble (and work your brain).

This is a great idea…I’ll have her practice with the sunday paper…excellent idea. It’s funny, kids think the only entertainment out there needs to be electronic…think again.

 

[baltobetsy]

I played Scrabble with my mother all my life. It was always a thrill to beat her. One of the ways I knew she was declining as she entered her final illness was that she played Scrabble as poorly as DH, a notoriously bad player. I was beating her by a hundred points or more, and there was no joy at all in those victories.

Betsy