Scrabble variants
In practice any reasonable system, such as totaling the number of letters held, is acceptable.
Anagrams (also called Snatch or Snatch-words) is a fast-paced, non-turn-based Scrabble variant played without a board.
The increased ability to play parallel to pre-existing words makes for much higher scores.
= blank), a player announcing that the blank was a C and announcing the words SANICLE and INLACES would receive twice the base score; their opponent could steal the word SCALENI and score the base amount, but could not change the C to a T and earn points for SALTINE.
Duplicate Scrabble is a form of organized tournament Scrabble popular in French-speaking countries, in which in each round all players receive the same tiles and, within a fixed time limit, have to find the highest scoring word.
This form of Scrabble can often result in many players participating simultaneously; the official record for participation in France, where Duplicate Scrabble is the preferred form of the game, is 1485 at the 1998 tournament in Vichy.
[5] If a blank is played, any player may remove it from the board at the start of their turn and replace it with the letter it was declared to represent.
However, they may not replace it with any other letter that would form a valid word, such as L (PEAL), R (PEAR), S (PEAS), or T (PEAT).
Solitaire Scrabble can be played against a clock, trying to get the most points in a certain length of time or for highest maximum score.
In some variants, the person who creates the first complete grid when all the tiles run out is the winner.
Good players must find 7-tile bonus plays a majority of the time, and the short odd words that are a staple in Scrabble are of little use in WildWords.
[14][15] Scarabeo is an Italian variant of Scrabble that is much more popular in its native country than the original game.
In the simpler version, young players connect letters with words on the game board.
When this happens a bonus point is received for each tile you placed on an orange square on that board.
[22][23] Literaxx is the English version of Literaki, a popular online Polish variant.
Double and triple word squares function in the same manner as standard Scrabble.
Anadrome is a web-based variant which (as the name implies) allows words to be played reading in any orthogonal direction, doubling traditional turn opportunities.
With 39 different bonus tiles,[25] many directly correlating to mathematical operators like * (multiplication), ^ (exponentiation), !
Anadrome has a tile-earning mechanic and board editor, allowing users to create publicly available boards for Scrabble, Words with Friends, and their own custom designs, making it a superset of crossword-style games.
Users place sequences of numbers and equations, using the four main arithmetic operators (addition, subtraction, division, multiplication) and the equal sign in a Scrabble-like placement.
A similar Scrabble-like arithmetic game was published in Australia, during the 1970s, under the name Equable.
[29][30] David Bukszpan, in his 2012 book Is that a Word?, panned the game, saying it was "not terribly easy to pick up, and seems destined to remain forever abandoned and gathering dust in the great toy attic of history.
"[31] Despite this assessment, the game did gain some measure of popularity in the UK, resulting in tournaments.
[34] One of the earlier number-based variants, Numble was a physical board game using numbers and basic mathematic equations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
Players draw tiles and assemble separate arrangements of words without a board.
Stacks can't go higher than five tiles and all words that are completely on the first level receive doubled points.
