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 The Politics of Scrabble

As you age, Scrabble becomes more meaningful and rewarding. It helps nurture your relationships and grow friendships. Even those without an interest in the game become engrossed when they sit down at a table with friends or family members who know their letters well and play a fierce game of word domination. Though there are many politics involving Scrabble, it is not as political as one might think. The first ever Scrabble World Championship was contested between England and France in 1938–a world war was underway, so playing a competition at that time would have been difficult for players from both sides-and the Americans were not involved because the tournament ended before America entered WWII. The Scrabble World Championship has been held annually since 1955.

The Scrabble Champions Tournament is the premier tournament in the world, which is contested by the top-ranked players in the world. It has been held continually since 1991 and takes place every four years. The winner of this tournament is recognized as the champion of champions and is awarded a great deal of prize money and honor.

According to competitive Scrabble rules, there are 240 points available on the board for each player at game's end, so it's advantageous to have a large vocabulary. The most basic letters are created when players combine two or more letters that occur frequently in English words. These letters are called "doublets" and they're worth six points.

Other tiles are worth even more points, such as the "triplet" (three consecutive Scrabble letter tiles), which is worth 10 points; the "quadruplet" (four consecutive Scrabble letter tiles), which is worth 15; and the "septuplet" (seven consecutive Scrabble letter tiles), which is worth 20.

The quintuplet (five consecutive Scrabble letter tiles) is the highest score possible in competitive play, worth 25 points. No other tile has ever been taken home by a player. Players who score exactly 10 points per turn get the coveted "forty-two" tile, and if they score exactly 50 points per turn, as was done during the final round of the 2011 championship, with five triplets and a quintuplet, they also get to keep their hands in place from that round until next time and have five free passes on their next turn.

The "double-twenty" tile is the most powerful tile in all of Scrabble, but it's rarer than the other tiles mentioned above. To earn this tile, a player needs to score exactly 200 points per turn, which has been achieved by only seven players since 1960. In 1969, during a world championship, three players won exactly 200 points in a single game. In 2011, the quintuplet was added to the board and one player achieved double-twenty on his first turn with it; he went on to win that tournament as well.

Tournaments are played five games at a time. Players are permitted to be in the same tournament as many times as they win a game in a given tournament.

Scrabble has only one rule, which is that opponents must agree on words. Players are free to create their own individual or personal rules for the game if they so choose.

Scrabble allows for the use of foreign language dictionaries in order to determine the meanings of unknown words. These meanings don't matter when considering which available Scrabble letters can be used to form words, but knowing what the word means tells players whether or not it's acceptable within Scrabble's rules.

Having a high-ranking word in your book is not enough to earn you a win in Scrabble. You must show or prove to your opponent that the word exists. This could mean starting the dictionary on the front page, or showing them a cross-reference chart, etymology chart or OED reference. If a player's word is deemed unacceptable because it doesn't exist, then he will forfeit his turn and lose his points for that word. This rule was added about 25 years ago after many arguments among players about whether words were acceptable or not; this rule eliminates all argument and makes it impossible for any player to dispute another's play of an obscure word. There is no appeal process for this rule, so players are expected to know the acceptable or unacceptable words; the rules must be known before the game begins.

Scrabble has several basic types of tiles: letter tiles, word-value tiles and blank-value tiles. The blank-value tiles are worth zero points and are used to fill in open spots on the board during play. No player can earn a word bonus using these tiles, but they also can't be used to add up to a word score because they do not make words in any way. The blank-value tile can be played at any time, even on an opponent's turn. Blank value cannot be placed during the last two turns of any given game.

The word-value tiles are the ones that earn a player points. These are called "contribution" notes, because they contribute to the value of playable words and increase the player's score. These generally earn a player one to three points each time one is played on the board. Every game has exactly 100 letter tiles in it – so if any are left over after players have used up all their tiles, those unused and remaining letters get thrown out of play and no longer can be used by any player for the duration of that game. That's why it's so important to make words out of every single letter available to you during your turn, because those unused letters don't get passed back to you for a second play.

A player may use any of the tiles in a turn to form playable words, but they're not allowed to use any two of the same words. There are two types of composite letters that don't count toward a player's score: "T" and "Z." These letters are called "tetris," or abbreviated T or TZ, and may only be used to create names or words with no more than four letters. Any other letters in the name must match their pattern and be from their own list. For example, if you have a T on your first turn, you cannot play it on second or third turn; instead, it takes up one space on the board without being used as part of a word score.

All the regular letter tiles have their own color codes and are typically arranged in a certain way; for example, look-alike letters like "L" and "I" often sit next to one another on the board. However, the blank-value tiles are always placed at the end of a player's turn. There is no penalty for leaving blank-value tiles unused on any one turn, so players may as well use them to form blanks that can be used later in an attempt to make a word score when they're not on their own turn. Luckily, even though they take up very little space, these tiles are very rare and so are worth quite a bit when found.

Conclusion

Scrabble is the most popular word game in Lebanon today, but is facing growing competition from other types of games, as well as social media sites like Facebook. The game remains very popular in the United States and Canada, and other countries around the world. The World Scrabble Championship has been held every two years since 1978, with prize money of up to $45,000 per player. In recent years, a few players have earned that amount for winning multiple championships within a single year.

The board for Scrabble was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts in 1938 and has not changed since then; all players around the world use the same board with only one possible layout.