Scrabble is a board game that is very popular among intellectuals. In the article we will tell you in detail what this entertainment is that you can play with friends, describe all the rules and tell who will be able to become the winner of the linguistic game "Scrabble". The rules of the game are simple.
To learn, you first need to buy a box with a set of letters and the main "board", drawn by squares. You can do this even on the Internet.
What is included?
There are small magnetic travel chips and boards on sale, but you can buy a simple set of a paper box and a set of plastic chips.
The magnetic kit consists of a plastic box, one part of which is a playing field, drawn into squares of different colors. Most of them are black or white. But there are prize squares of bright colors. There are two magnetic strips on which are placed 7 letters, relying on each player.
Scatter in the box are small magnetic letters. On each chip, a capital letter is drawn in the center, and next to it is a small number that corresponds to the prize points of the game “Scrabble” (according to the rules of the game).
The paper version has simple plastic chips and stands for them for each player. They fold into a fabric bag.
The rules of the game, instructions with all the values of the color cells of the playing field are also included in the Scrabble set.
The markup value of the playing field
The main cells of the field have the main colors - white or black, depending on the model of the game "Scrabble". The rules of the game indicate that if the letter is on a simple cell, then its value is indicated on the chip with the letter.
Colored cells are considered premium. There are squares that increase the prize pool of only letters. So, the points of the chip located on the green cell are doubled. If it falls on the yellow square, then the points increase three times. In order for them to count towards one of the players, he must place the word on this square before his opponent in the Scrabble game.
The rules of the game say that bonus points can also increase for the whole word at once. This happens when the letters fall on the blue and red cells. If the words pass through the territory of the blue square, then all the meanings of each letter are doubled. If the word turned out to be one of the letters on the red cell, then all the glasses written on each letter triple. This is the best result.
If the letters of one word hit both the bonus cells for the letter and the cells for the word, then the bonus points are added up.
There are sets of games with a field on which its meaning is written in letters on each cell. These are mostly large desktops. In small road complexes, detailed printed instructions are given with all the rules.
Scrabble: Board Game Rules
The game set includes 128 chips with letters and three chips with a painted star. This is the best detail, since it can easily replace absolutely any letter in the game at the request of its owner.
They start the game by turning all the chips upside down so that the players do not see their value. Then each player blindly collects for himself 7 chips, from which it will be necessary to make some kind of word.
If the player does not go first, he has the right to use one of the letters of another player, but only one. If you look at a sample of the game in the photograph, you can see that the word "turner" was also assigned other words - "mercury" and "face", using the existing ones - "t" and "a" in the compilation of new words.
But there is one "but." You cannot continue a word, you cannot use two letters of a word in one. Words should be perpendicular to one another. It should also be noted that words should all be correct: nouns in the nominative case of the singular.
Who is the winner of the game?
Laying out words from his seven chips, the player calculates the points received. To do this, add all the numbers written on each letter. If a player places a letter or a word on the bonus square, then the value accordingly increases two or three times. All points are recorded in a notebook opposite the name of the player.
After the words of these seven letters are made up, and the player cannot think of anything else, the move is passed to the next player, and the player who wins gets the required number of missing letters to the number seven. So, in turn, all the players write the words. When there is already no free space on the field, players begin the total score. Whoever scored more points, the winner of the game "Scrabble" with friends. The rules are easy, so quickly memorized.
You can take such an interesting game with you on a train, on trips to nature, and play it in the evenings with your family or friends.