PE SCRABBLE

• SCRABBLE


  Board game composed of 225 squares and 100 tiles
• Alfred Mosher Butts


  April 13, 1899 – April 4, 1993
• HISTORY


  1. In 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts translated his lifelong love of crossword puzzles into a board game

  2. Butts studied the front page of the New York Times to calculate how frequently each letter of the alphabet was used
• HISTORY


  1. In 1948, he sold the rights to entrepreneur and game-lover James Brunot

  2. Brunot made a few adjustments to the design and renamed the "scrabble", a word meaning "to grope frantically" (from the Dutch "schrabben", which means to scrape or scratch)
• Bluffing


  Purposely playing a phony word, one that isn't in the scrabble dictionary
• BLUFF OR NOT BLUFF


  • FRIENDLILY - NOT BLUFF - ADVERB- a friendly way

  ACKNOWLEGEMENT - BLUFF - ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
• Words that are always off limits


  • Proper Nouns
  • Abbreviations
  • Hyphenated words
  • Any other incomplete and unofficial word
• Brailing


  Feeling the surface of a tile while your hand in the bag in order to draw a blank or other specific letters. This is strictly forbidden.
• POINTS PER LETTER


  • 0 – BLANK TILE

  1 POINT – A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T, U

  2 POINTS – D and G

  3 POINTS – B, C, M, and P

  4 POINTS – F, H, V, W and Y

  5 POINTS – K

  8 POINTS – J and X

  10 POINTS – Q and Z
• Power Tiles


  10 power tiles - 4 –Ss, 2-blanks, J, Q, X, and Z
• Parallel Play


  Placing a word parallel to an existing word such that more than word is formed
• Hooking


  A letter that will spell a new word when it is played with in the front or at the end of a word that already on the board
• EXAMPLE HOOKING IN FRONT


  • NAKED = SNAKED

  2. EARN = YEARN

  3. DEAL = IDEAL
• Fishing/Dumping


  To play for only a few points or exchange only one or two tiles; keeping five or six really good tiles, with the hope of making a high-scoring play next turn
• HIGHEST SCORING TWO LETTER WORS


  • JO
  • EX
  • ZA
  • KI OR QI
• DOUBLE LETTER SCORE – LETTER


  • K TEAMWORK 2 7
• AROMA


  • Triple Word Score 21
• Playing scrabble will expand our vocabulary and improve our literacy and numeracy skills