How to play Scrabble (2024 rules)

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  • Опубликовано: 28 авг 2024
  • Learn the rules to the board game Scrabble quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.
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    RULES:
    The object of the game is to score the most points when the game ends. The game ends once 1 player has emptied their rack of all letters when the bag is empty, or if all the players pass twice in successive turns.
    Lay out the board and give each player a tile rack. Mix up all the tiles in the bag and each player takes 1 tile. The player whose tile is closest to the letter “A” goes first. If it is a tie, try again. A Blank tile beats any letter. Return the tiles to the bag, then beginning with the starting player and proceeding clockwise, each player secretly draws 7 random tiles and adds them to their rack. Tiles should remain hidden from your opponents.
    Each letter tile has a value as indicated by its number. Blank tiles have no value but can be used as any single letter. When played, you must declare its letter and you cannot change its letter later. The total quantity of each letter is printed on the board.
    After each player has their starting tiles, the game begins. On your turn, you must form 1 new word on the board, or discard and draw new letters, or skip your turn. The very first word of the game must be at least 2 letters long and cover the center start square. After that, you must form words on the board that are horizontally or vertically connected to a previously formed word. Words always read from left to right and top to bottom, never backwards, upwards, or diagonally.
    All placed letter tiles must be adjacent to each other in a straight line and be a part of the same word, you cannot place letters in multiple locations across the board in a single turn. You are allowed to create multiple words, by placing tiles adjacent to multiple words already in play. If you do, then all touching letters must form complete words. If even one word is incomplete, but the rest are good, you may not play there.
    You may have any number of duplicate words on the board. After you place your word, you then score points based on the combined value of all the letters in all the new words you formed that turn. At least 1 letter needs to be added to a word for it to be considered a new word. Letters that are a part of 2 different words will be scored twice, once in each word.
    If you covered a premium square, then that word will score bonus points. The Premium letter bonus only applies to the letter on top of it, while the premium word bonus applies to the total value of the word. Apply bonuses to premium letters first, before applying premium word bonuses. Blanks on premium word squares still activate the bonus. You can only score premium bonuses the turn you place a tile on that bonus. If you make a new word from an existing word that already had bonuses from a previous play, then you do not score those bonuses.
    The center start square is a double word bonus. If you create a word using all 7 letters on your rack in a single turn, then that is called a “bingo”, and you receive a bonus 50 points after the word has scored. After you place your tiles, record your score on a score pad, then draw back up to 7 tiles and the next player goes.
    You are allowed to use any word in the official Scrabble dictionary, or any agreed upon dictionary of your choice. Players may only consult a dictionary during a challenge. Illegal words that are not allowed, are: any word that is misspelled, made up words, proper nouns and proper names, foreign words, abbreviations, acronyms, freestanding prefixes and suffixes, hyphenated words, and words with apostrophes.
    If you think someone’s word is illegal, you may challenge that word before the next player starts their turn. Look up their word in the dictionary. If the word is illegal, then the illegal word is returned to that player’s rack, and no points are scored and their turn ends. If the word is legal, then the word remains and points are scored, but the challenger loses their next turn.
    If you are unable to play a word, or choose not to, you may trade in tiles for new ones from the bag. Place all the tiles you wish to trade facedown on the table, then draw the same number of tiles from the bag, then return the facedown tiles to the bag and end your turn. If you want, you may also choose to skip your turn without playing or discarding.
    Keep playing until the bag runs out of tiles, then play continues without players replenishing their racks. Then the first player to play all the tiles in their rack ends the game. Or if all the players pass two times consecutively, then the game ends. Either way, players now subtract points from their score based on all their remaining tiles left in their rack. If a player had played all their tiles, they add the sum of all the other players’ unplayed tiles to their score. Then the player...

Комментарии • 100

  • @JonjonPham
    @JonjonPham 6 месяцев назад +18

    The way Jim uses "Misspleled" and "Madup" as examples of illegal words at 3:40 are great. Thanks

    • @legendsofthepasta
      @legendsofthepasta 4 месяца назад

      I was looking at the illegal words and I noticed some words that are actually in the Scrabble dictionary as two letter words. Words like un, re, and ed are Scrabble words. Though I guess their meanings differ from the prefixes and suffixes we know of. I believe that un just means one, re refers to the musical note, and ed means education.

  • @LeotheTiger1234
    @LeotheTiger1234 Год назад +34

    Sometimes I like to play Solitare Scrabble; the object of that variation is to use every single tile in the bag. If you have any left over, you lose. If the bag is empty, you win. (The closest I ever got was 3 tiles left in the bag.)

    • @electrocubic5116
      @electrocubic5116 11 месяцев назад +4

      Same! I also used to do that when I became bored of playing the original game.

    • @chixenlegjo
      @chixenlegjo 2 месяца назад +1

      This seems extremely easy. Make multiple long words with many open spaces with vowels near them, then play a bunch of two letter words at the end.

  • @Кто-то621
    @Кто-то621 Год назад +18

    Finally. Scrabble remastered

  • @-WarMapping-
    @-WarMapping- Год назад +41

    The rules are the same as regular scrabble, with these changes. For a referesher of those rules, check out this video.

  • @RedSytheMMVI
    @RedSytheMMVI Год назад +7

    Could you please do a tutorial on the game of life goals card game? I never could grasp the rules but you're so good at explaining things

  • @qamaralshihni9333
    @qamaralshihni9333 3 месяца назад +4

    This is the best description I found ❤❤Thanks

  • @doctorvenom9348
    @doctorvenom9348 Год назад +126

    Wait, there was a rule change for Scrabble?

    • @sungkarson9526
      @sungkarson9526 Год назад +9

      I didn’t know that

    • @Cyr3x7
      @Cyr3x7 Год назад +3

      Yes

    • @670839245
      @670839245 Год назад +26

      edit: went to the old scrabble video and it didn't say offensive words are banned.
      I think in previous rules, offensive words are banned. It's not mentioned here. (Does that mean one can play the F word?)

    • @ronaldwayne7092
      @ronaldwayne7092 Год назад

      @@670839245 It all depends on the lexicon you use. The one sold in North American stores does not contain swear words or words used only as slurs. The NA tournament word list allows cuss words but not slurs.

    • @EmmsterGD
      @EmmsterGD Год назад +10

      The new rules say that slurs, not swear words, are banned. This includes words that have any sort of racial, homosexual, or other such connotation. However, if they have a different meaning which isn’t slur related, it is still valid.
      In other words, words that have a sole meaning of offensiveness are removed

  • @khangphuc778
    @khangphuc778 Год назад +18

    how did he even apply the rules of illegal words to the illegal words

  • @bazookaman1353
    @bazookaman1353 Год назад +14

    Scrabble : How to play
    The objective of the game is to ruin friendships.

    • @1Holbytla
      @1Holbytla 5 месяцев назад +2

      😂 Like Monopoly!

    • @ThatIsALakeSir
      @ThatIsALakeSir 4 месяца назад +1

      Usually UNO, but this can be applicable

    • @homuraakemi103
      @homuraakemi103 Месяц назад

      Especially if you’re the type bringing in the dictionary and the strategy of doing the boring, yet annoying plays to minimize the other people’s points.

  • @sophiegrey9576
    @sophiegrey9576 11 месяцев назад +7

    UN, ED and RE are valid words in both standard scrabble dictionaries. Pretty sure EN is, too. They're words by themselves.
    The game can and often is also played with two players rather than four.

  • @superprofi4307
    @superprofi4307 Год назад +2

    nice thanks. I was looking to buy this game

  • @ecccentric
    @ecccentric 10 часов назад

    Very helpful

  • @JohnSmith-zw8vp
    @JohnSmith-zw8vp 11 месяцев назад +1

    Okay, so it's only at the very end we finally get a rule change...the player who first went out gets as a bonus the added total of the other players' "leftovers". One thing I find fascinating as how the challenge rule adds a poker/bluffing element to the game. For example, you could play a really weird looking but legal word hoping your opponent will challenge it and lose their turn. OR you can play an illegal but reasonable sounding word hoping your opponent won't challenge. Also the capitalization rule only applies to words that are always used capitalized. So words like Jack and Japan are legal as they also have lowercase uses/meanings. Also acronyms are only illegal if they are always capitalized like AWOL. Ones that are usually used in lowercase like scuba or laser are legal.

    • @Firefly256
      @Firefly256 8 месяцев назад

      Fun fact "awol" is actually a valid word because sometimes it doesn't have to be capitalized!
      For the bluffing point, that also happens with set-ups as well. Suppose you play an A next to a triple-letter square for 6 points when you could've gotten 7 in another spot. You could do this bluff making the opponent think you have a Z for a massive score next turn, so they sacrificed 10 points to block the A, preventing ZA. In reality, you don't have the Z and you made your opponent sac 10 points at the cost of 1 point

  • @jonasnielsen3413
    @jonasnielsen3413 6 месяцев назад +5

    What was wrong with "BANDS"?

    • @fireblossom9618
      @fireblossom9618 4 месяца назад +1

      If you mean at 1:40 it's because he already played Baton on the same turn and the S wasn't connected to it. Bands is a valid word there but he would have to wait until the next turn to play it

  • @enghse888
    @enghse888 6 месяцев назад +1

    Geograhical place or sport'club can be used eg CHINA , or Liverpool

  • @RoseTulip27
    @RoseTulip27 4 месяца назад +1

    Good tutorial!

  • @khangphuc778
    @khangphuc778 Год назад +3

    the most op letter: s

  • @derekchen9658
    @derekchen9658 8 месяцев назад +1

    Hasbro: wait, is prefix and suffix words allowed?
    Triple S Games: you can’t use prefix and suffix words.

    • @ThatIsALakeSir
      @ThatIsALakeSir 4 месяца назад

      You can’t use prefixes and suffixes if they aren’t part of a word, you may use them when they are part of a word

  • @TheCheesyNachos
    @TheCheesyNachos Год назад +5

    I feel that the rule used to be that when you exchange the tiles, you used to just discard it rather than return it to the bag. Is this how the 2023 version differs?

    • @Firefly256
      @Firefly256 8 месяцев назад +1

      No, it always was putting the tiles back in the bag

  • @user-to9oc2vk7d
    @user-to9oc2vk7d 6 месяцев назад +1

    Can you cash tiles if there are less the 7 left in bag

  • @leoli2284
    @leoli2284 Год назад +1

    Are you going to make a playlist of your remakes?

  • @JovenSancho
    @JovenSancho 9 месяцев назад

    Bro thank you for teaching me

  • @josephwong1647
    @josephwong1647 3 месяца назад

    Very nice. Only 1 section is different.

  • @aaronmorris1513
    @aaronmorris1513 Год назад +2

    I did not recognize any changes to the rules

  • @weee50
    @weee50 Год назад +1

    The U is worth 3 points?

  • @wolfyowoz
    @wolfyowoz Год назад +4

    So the new rule is that you can choose to shuffle your rack and score no points for doing so

    • @JohnSmith-zw8vp
      @JohnSmith-zw8vp 11 месяцев назад +1

      No, we've always had that rule.

  • @Soldado94aliasUnit594
    @Soldado94aliasUnit594 Год назад +3

    But can we use "Kwyjibo" as a word?

    • @670839245
      @670839245 Год назад +2

      "kwjibo" is not a word by any definition. "kwyjibo", on the other hand, is a made-up word from the Simpsons, and is probably what you are trying to reference.

  • @user-iy6dt4xp5o
    @user-iy6dt4xp5o Год назад +3

    Now do scrabble bingo and scrabble pass

  • @ian-cj8ot
    @ian-cj8ot 7 месяцев назад

    How is the scoring if the I put ‘s’ on a word plus it is place on a bonus square then I make another word. So basically it is on the corner of 2 connecting words.
    The bonus square applies on both words since it is in the corner, right? Thank you for the help.

  • @aliciasematore4285
    @aliciasematore4285 26 дней назад

    He also could've said, "If you spell a word that doesn't exist in the Scrabble Dictionary, give your tiles to the challenger, and you are eliminated from the game."

  • @addisonfung5009
    @addisonfung5009 Год назад +3

    My Variation:
    During a challenge, if the challenger successfully challenges an illegal word, they can either get an extra turn, or deduct the challenged player's points based on the value of that illegal word. The challenger gets to choose the bonus.
    If it is your turn, and you have placed a letter on a "Double Word Score" or "Triple word score" when it isn't used, while forming multiple words using this square, you can multiply all the words you used in this turn.

  • @superagaming_064
    @superagaming_064 5 месяцев назад

    3:15 is it a reference to the game of the same name?

  • @clu2573
    @clu2573 3 месяца назад

    At 2:00, you say that the play is illegal, but wouldn’t it need to be challenged?

    • @clu2573
      @clu2573 3 месяца назад

      And at 3:49, you give EN, UN, and RE as examples of nonwords, but they are all accepted words. Same with ED,

  • @Windows70095
    @Windows70095 7 месяцев назад +1

    4:10

  • @presto709
    @presto709 10 месяцев назад

    I'm confused about the end score. Does each player subtract the value of their remaining tiles or does the person who used all their tiles add everyone remaining tiles values ot his score?

  • @Windows70095
    @Windows70095 8 месяцев назад +1

    4:09

  • @liangyueho5463
    @liangyueho5463 Год назад +1

    Where can I buy this?

  • @CRaDISHOfficial
    @CRaDISHOfficial Год назад +1

    He has Scrabble Bingo

  • @Frank_E_Scialdone
    @Frank_E_Scialdone 8 месяцев назад

    Also John does play cuz it's a bathroom. Many "NAMES" do play

  • @Frank_E_Scialdone
    @Frank_E_Scialdone 8 месяцев назад

    And XRAY plays in CSW

  • @Mommysugar85
    @Mommysugar85 3 месяца назад

    Wait I got confused 😕

  • @Rev_Erser
    @Rev_Erser 11 месяцев назад +1

    1:30 a shame.

  • @llxlliexfairy
    @llxlliexfairy Год назад +1

    I bet you cant play oxyphenbutazone

  • @ronaldwayne7092
    @ronaldwayne7092 Год назад

    Helpful hint: get someone who is at least competent at math to keep score instead of whoever did so in this video. (I kinda understand how they got 77 for Jack but have no idea how Susan got 144.)

  • @yigitpasa7743
    @yigitpasa7743 Год назад

    4 minutes ago and I clicked on the video

  • @mjorozco3786
    @mjorozco3786 Год назад

    7 minutes posted yooo

  • @itsyusufcraft4674
    @itsyusufcraft4674 Год назад +2

    21st

  • @rg6340
    @rg6340 5 месяцев назад

    Oh 4 4:43

  • @steveburke1519
    @steveburke1519 День назад

    Foreign words are acceptable if they are in the dictionary, as many are. He should have clarified that.

  • @cloverisfan818
    @cloverisfan818 Год назад

    Chelsea

  • @oneness8802
    @oneness8802 3 месяца назад

    Fck me,I was looking at a few videos, yeah OK pretty easy. Then I watch your video, and now all of a sudden this simple game needs studying a bit if to play by all the rules . Or is this just the usa version because I'm in 🇬🇧
    Lol 🤦‍♂️ well I only got this game for my younger sister and we will just play with the basic instructions, omfg 😮😊

  • @netherite9051
    @netherite9051 Год назад

    What

  • @hanhvu2993
    @hanhvu2993 2 месяца назад

    psychopaths might use swear words...

  • @Frank_E_Scialdone
    @Frank_E_Scialdone 8 месяцев назад +2

    PROF is a word and playable ! ALSO EN UN RE ING ED are all playable words. You had better redo this video. You are giving BAD information

  • @besteventclock
    @besteventclock 11 месяцев назад

    “misspleled

  • @i_like_treins3449
    @i_like_treins3449 Год назад

    Yeet

  • @killerystax
    @killerystax Год назад

    Nahh, scrabble got balance changes 💀

  • @goatgamer001
    @goatgamer001 11 месяцев назад

    this is the same as the 2003 rules bruh

  • @Rev_Erser
    @Rev_Erser 11 месяцев назад

    new update

  • @Epic_R3K47
    @Epic_R3K47 Год назад +1

    Are swear words allowed???

    • @ronaldwayne7092
      @ronaldwayne7092 Год назад

      If the dictionary you use has them, then yes.

    • @uttamkumarpan3656
      @uttamkumarpan3656 6 месяцев назад

      Nahhh nah nah nah nah nah!

    • @teologen
      @teologen 3 месяца назад

      Any word is allowed as long as those playing agree. We've done dialect games. And yes, this does not apply to official tournaments but no one but absolute dorks cares about scrabble tournaments.

  • @klipkultur3680
    @klipkultur3680 Год назад +1

    Scrabble in cheap plastic tiles. Sad...

    • @JohnSmith-zw8vp
      @JohnSmith-zw8vp 11 месяцев назад

      Serious players use pro-tiles that are smooth all around and you cannot feel for letters like you can for those cheapskate titles. I don't know if there are pro-title sets for Super Scrabble though...

  • @janwarrenbunoan3795
    @janwarrenbunoan3795 2 месяца назад

    @TripleSGames, the only exceptions are:
    pro
    sub
    non
    post
    over
    under
    age
    ment
    less
    ship
    hood
    sushi

  • @tango_mondo5751
    @tango_mondo5751 Год назад +1

    I bet it’s made to not offend litterally anyone