Scrabble (from the English Scrabble - to rummage in search of something ) is a board game for a company of 2 to 4 people, in which you need to form words from the available letters.
Playing field
Words must be laid out on a 15x15 playing field, i.e. for creativity, players have 225 squares that can be filled with the letters of the word. At the very beginning, each participant pulls out random letters from a special bag (there are 104 in total). The first word is laid out in the middle of the playing field, and the next player can create a new word only at the intersection with the letters of the previous word. You can lay out words from left to right or from top to bottom.
Vocabulary
In the game, it is permissible to create all the words that are in the standard dictionary of the language, except for those that need to be written with a capital letter, as well as abbreviations and words that contain an apostrophe or a hyphen. All cases, declensions and tenses can be used.
In the Russian version of the game - Erudite - the rules for composing words are stricter. Players are allowed to use only common nouns in the nominative singular (or plural, if there is only such a word).
It is allowed to use the dictionary only to check the existence of already composed words. And you can only come up with new words on your own.
Rules of the game
Each player has seven chips. Only one word is formed in one move. Each new word necessarily comes into contact with one of the words composed earlier.
If a player cannot form a single word, he is allowed to change any number of letters and pass the move to another player. Any sequence of letters vertically or horizontally must represent a word. After each move, you need to take new letters - so that there are seven of them again. If a player has made a word out of all seven letters during a move, he will be additionally awarded 50 points.
Scoring and bonuses
Each letter in the game corresponds to a certain number of points from 1 to 10. Some squares on the playing field are highlighted in different colors. In accordance with the signature for the color, additional points are awarded for a letter or a whole word.
Using a dummy (joker or asterisk)
In addition to letters, the set contains empty tokens. They can be used by the player as any required letter. The following players must interpret the dummy as the letter the first player counted it for.
When scoring, there are two options for evaluating a dummy: zero points for a dummy (this is the classic version) or the number of points that a player would receive for using the letter that the dummy has become.
