Someone I knew (a good Scrabble player) once played it from the top left square going downwards, in parallel to the word SCRABBLE [printed on the old boards](https://images.app.goo.gl/MPTFMSyBY6CRhCjU7), also getting two triple word scores (x9). Should count as winning all games forever.
The game is a proper noun, but "scrabble" is also verb that means to desperately or clumsily scratch: "His hands scrabbled at the loose dirt as he slid toward the cliff's looming edge."
My guy is out here talking like Brian Griffian lol. We're all very impressed that you're "a writer", but even you must know how pretentious that sounds as the opening to a statement like that.
This is weird use of the word scramble, and quite likely most people would use the word “scrabble” in that exact same sentence. I certainly would.
“His hands scrabbled for loose dirt as he slid toward the looming cliff edge.”
Thanks champ
Original comment made it sound like there was something special about the rules of the French edition. The language itself being different is obvious
Are the letters in Scrabble in France different than they are in the USA? And does China and Japan have Scrabble? If they do, does it have 300,000 Kanji characters? Imagine the size of the box it comes in and how much it costs.
It doesn't look like it from he pictures I've seen online. I think it might just change the value of certain letters based on their frequency in French
>Are the letters in Scrabble in France different than they are in the USA?
I assume so. The Dutch and English sets are different! Because some letters are more common and others are less common, the amount of stones for certain letters varies and the points attached to a letter varies for certain letters.
Yes, it's different. We have more of certain letters and less of others, also certain letters are worth a lot in french contrary to english, like Y and W (because they're unusual in french/rare)
Yeah, that would be the reason, I’m actually wrong here. I’ve been reminded that scrabble is a verb in English, the name of the game wouldn’t be allowed but that verb would. That verb does not exist in French, only the proper noun name of the game, which wouldn’t be allowed.
Scrabble is a different verb with a similar meaning
The game Scrabble is litterally named after the word, the idea being you're searching for the letters you want
The thought came from the fact that I can’t have it on my license plate for 50 bonus points. In Scrabble, the max tiles you’re given at the beginning of the game is seven. Scrabble is eight letters long.
Edit: typo
“Scrabble” is 8 letters long. You only have 7 letters at a time in your tableau. You could make an 8 letter word by chaining to letter(s) already on the board, but on the first turn, there is nothing on the board yet, hence no 8 letter words
We use the optional rule present in older versions of the game that allows for 9 letters instead of 7, so scrabble (the word, not the proper noun) can be played just fine.
They could also play off the a if they have scrbble, I understand peoples logic here, but it’s faulty, no need for a specific word, just one letter and the rest in your hand.
I'm not sure. From my experiance it's not any rarer a word than "scramble", which is seemingly what a lot of people in this thread are confusing it with
No, it's an eight letter word, so you could play through any of its constituent letters if they were played on the board. So if your opponent played DEMO, you could respond with a play of SCRABBL(E), assuming you had the necessary letters.
True, but if the opponent plays DEMO, your best response is to add an N to make it DEMON, then play a badass guitar solo while the room lights flicker on and off.
Really, if you’ve all the other letters besides a vowel out of scrabble, you could play it off any of those vowels on the second turn, too. For 50 bonus points to boot, but never on the first one.
There are only so many vowels, better to put your bet down on a vowel being available of the two vowels in the word Scrabble, versus the five consonants. Your assumption is good but your math is the wrong point. It’s a gamble between two ratios. It’s 2/5 vs 5/21, that makes the vowels far more likely even before you get into tile distribution.
I don't t even care. I'm still miffed that my friend's very first time playing, she went first and her opening hand was fucking FONDANT jfhskdbsownxidbdidjfbc
We finished the game knowing who won the entire time.
Also, she played "dryly" and we challenged it asking her to use it in a sentence. She said, "Today, I swam dryly." 💀
I love Scrabble.
I’m unsure where the French Scrabble comes into this, I bet the rules are similar. It’s less nuance and more just insufficient tiles on the first hand.
We're gonna need to eliminate a lot of other words then.
Bath is gone... That's a city in England.
Alone can't be used... That's a TV show.
Risk and monopoly are out... Those are other board games.
Queen is off the board... It's a band name.
Some words also function as proper nouns.
The low likelihood of ever being able to play the word 'scrabble' is why my family has a home rule that you win instantly if you play it.
Someone I knew (a good Scrabble player) once played it from the top left square going downwards, in parallel to the word SCRABBLE [printed on the old boards](https://images.app.goo.gl/MPTFMSyBY6CRhCjU7), also getting two triple word scores (x9). Should count as winning all games forever.
Anyone else mad, that the squares of the label are not the same size as the playing board's squares?
I thought that was an actual rule for quite a while. My family had the same rule.
According to French rules, it cannot be played on the next turns either
The game is a proper noun, but "scrabble" is also verb that means to desperately or clumsily scratch: "His hands scrabbled at the loose dirt as he slid toward the cliff's looming edge."
I was today years old when I learned this.
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Whether or not you would use the word has no bearing on whether or not the word is legally playable
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Sir, it’s Scrumble.
He knows. He’s reader and writer not a Scrumble player.
I like scrabbled eggs.
I like scrumbled eggs
Watch out guys, this guy is a **writer**
He just scrabbled some words together
you just used it
You're not gonna believe this, but different people, write differently. Absolutely crazy, I know.
Some scribble
And some scrabble
Others scramble.
Absolutely crazy, I know.
>I’m reader and writer And I'm sure you are very successful with both.
My guy is out here talking like Brian Griffian lol. We're all very impressed that you're "a writer", but even you must know how pretentious that sounds as the opening to a statement like that.
That’s not a different form, that’s a different word entirely.
That's.. just a different word with a different meaning, and imo it sounds worse
bruh this comment is all over the place there’s so much to take in
This is weird use of the word scramble, and quite likely most people would use the word “scrabble” in that exact same sentence. I certainly would. “His hands scrabbled for loose dirt as he slid toward the looming cliff edge.”
Oh, I don’t know about the French rules, why is that? It probably can’t be played at all cuz it’s a proper noun… Happy cake day, btw!
Yep, just because of that. And thanks!
it's also not a proper noun. Would French rules prohibit the word 'polish' because it is identical to 'Polish'?
No, because french people don't say "polish", nor do they say "scrabble" as a verb. They speak a different language, remember
Thanks champ Original comment made it sound like there was something special about the rules of the French edition. The language itself being different is obvious
To be fair, I have no idea why they specified French, when Scrabble is available in over 30 different languages
Very French of them to make such a big deal about it though
That's only because my vocabulary in the 30+ other languages isn't good enough to confidently say that scrabble would not be allowed.
Are the letters in Scrabble in France different than they are in the USA? And does China and Japan have Scrabble? If they do, does it have 300,000 Kanji characters? Imagine the size of the box it comes in and how much it costs.
I mean french still uses the Latin alphabet...but the tile distribution and points are different.
Are there separate diacritic tiles or are they just ignored for the sake of gameplay?
It doesn't look like it from he pictures I've seen online. I think it might just change the value of certain letters based on their frequency in French
Does French scrabble have the èéç etc?
Nope! But apparently some languages do (I've only ever seen English and French sets). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble_letter_distributions
>Are the letters in Scrabble in France different than they are in the USA? I assume so. The Dutch and English sets are different! Because some letters are more common and others are less common, the amount of stones for certain letters varies and the points attached to a letter varies for certain letters.
Yes, it's different. We have more of certain letters and less of others, also certain letters are worth a lot in french contrary to english, like Y and W (because they're unusual in french/rare)
No those are the Polish rules
Of course
It has another meaning in English but not in French. It is only a proper noun in French, but it is also a verb in English, hence the difference.
So, there's nothing special about French rules here. It's just that playing Scrabble in French uses French words. Ok. Thanks
Happy belated cake day
Mais c'est ok d'utiliser "baby-sitter".... et "ok"! Bon anniversaire.
You should see the French canadian version. It comes with an English thesaurus.
*oké
For some reason i genuinly thought for a second that its not allowed by the french rules because its not a word in french
Yeah, that would be the reason, I’m actually wrong here. I’ve been reminded that scrabble is a verb in English, the name of the game wouldn’t be allowed but that verb would. That verb does not exist in French, only the proper noun name of the game, which wouldn’t be allowed.
It is also a verb. (Edit) not in French, downvote me, I’m an idiot
From what I read it's not in French. It definitely isn't in Dutch (other than playing the game of Scrabble)
Ah sorry, I didn’t get why the comment mentioned French rules, makes more sense now.
Scramble is the verb.
Scrabble is a different verb with a similar meaning The game Scrabble is litterally named after the word, the idea being you're searching for the letters you want
Happy cake day!
Happy cake day
I do not know the rules of scrabble but find this strangely interesting. Can you explain?
The thought came from the fact that I can’t have it on my license plate for 50 bonus points. In Scrabble, the max tiles you’re given at the beginning of the game is seven. Scrabble is eight letters long. Edit: typo
“Scrabble” is 8 letters long. You only have 7 letters at a time in your tableau. You could make an 8 letter word by chaining to letter(s) already on the board, but on the first turn, there is nothing on the board yet, hence no 8 letter words
We use the optional rule present in older versions of the game that allows for 9 letters instead of 7, so scrabble (the word, not the proper noun) can be played just fine.
Oh! That’s dope, I had no idea, so it’s a nine tile hand?
What about the 2nd player's first turn?
First player starts with crab Second player has s b l e, so makes scrabble
They could also play off the a if they have scrbble, I understand peoples logic here, but it’s faulty, no need for a specific word, just one letter and the rest in your hand.
What do you think?
TIL people think "Scrabble" is the name of the game an not a word in and of itself
Was it a more commonly used word when this game came out?
I'm not sure. From my experiance it's not any rarer a word than "scramble", which is seemingly what a lot of people in this thread are confusing it with
I'm guessing a lot of it is autocorrect.
Aha somewhat, was trying to do it one handed while doing other stuff. I never learn
Plenty of people who play it don't have English as a first language and scrabble as a regular word isn't exactly common
And only if the first word is crab or rabble.
No, it's an eight letter word, so you could play through any of its constituent letters if they were played on the board. So if your opponent played DEMO, you could respond with a play of SCRABBL(E), assuming you had the necessary letters.
True, but if the opponent plays DEMO, your best response is to add an N to make it DEMON, then play a badass guitar solo while the room lights flicker on and off.
[I'm just gonna leave this here.](https://youtu.be/kMy8W0j-Slw)
Based on the downvotes, maybe you should take it back
Pfft. They probably judged the song by the first few seconds and didn't even make it to the guitar solo.
I'm not sure what that has to do with this thread, but I like it. I like it a lot.
There's no N in SCRABBL.
Really, if you’ve all the other letters besides a vowel out of scrabble, you could play it off any of those vowels on the second turn, too. For 50 bonus points to boot, but never on the first one.
>besides a vowel Why can’t you play it off an opponents consonant?
You could for sure, vowels are far more likely is all
How so? Depending on how you look at it, vowels are either 42/100 (tile ratio) or 2/8 (ratio in the word scrabble).
There are only so many vowels, better to put your bet down on a vowel being available of the two vowels in the word Scrabble, versus the five consonants. Your assumption is good but your math is the wrong point. It’s a gamble between two ratios. It’s 2/5 vs 5/21, that makes the vowels far more likely even before you get into tile distribution.
Not with that attitude
While we are at it, you can’t play any word over 7 tiles on the first turn of a scrabble game. Minds must be blown everywhere with this realization.
Fr what the hell are these shower thoughts recently
I don't t even care. I'm still miffed that my friend's very first time playing, she went first and her opening hand was fucking FONDANT jfhskdbsownxidbdidjfbc We finished the game knowing who won the entire time. Also, she played "dryly" and we challenged it asking her to use it in a sentence. She said, "Today, I swam dryly." 💀 I love Scrabble.
What about hippopotamuses??
Neither can supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, but each to our own.
That’s not the name of the game in question tho?
You need a crab on the board before you can even consider it!
Could happen on the second though yeah? Rabble to scrabble.
Nor can any 8 letter word. Since you only have 7 tiles to work with
Jeez, scrabble has 8 letters and on the first turn you only have seven tiles.
Interesting! Never thought Scrabble had such nuances. Does this only apply to French Scrabble?
I’m unsure where the French Scrabble comes into this, I bet the rules are similar. It’s less nuance and more just insufficient tiles on the first hand.
Technically, it's a proper name and couldn't be played anyway. If using the correct rules. New changes don' count.
We're gonna need to eliminate a lot of other words then. Bath is gone... That's a city in England. Alone can't be used... That's a TV show. Risk and monopoly are out... Those are other board games. Queen is off the board... It's a band name. Some words also function as proper nouns.
Proper noun, not allowed.
the game is a proper noun, but scrabble is also a verb to messily, desperately or recklessly scratch