I really appreciate you making and sharing your game! I want to try this at home with Scrabble tiles.
I'm interested in games easily played with common bits and pieces. While waiting around one day my spouse and I came up with a game (that had already been come up with in the 1970s, according to Wikipedia when I went looking for games played with Scrabble tiles) we call Scramble; all tiles facedown, take turns flipping a tile, anyone can call out a word longer than three tiles that can be formed with the visible letters, including stealing others' words by inserting a letter(s) to form a new word, as read in either direction (no anagramming).
Example: EAT could become EATS, TASE, or STARE but not TEAS or STEAK.
If a person says an invalid word they have to be silent for one flip.
When the facedown letters got fewer and it became clear from multiple attempts and subsequent ties (at least two players saying a valud word) that a certain tile is an s, we made a rule that "one does not simply add an s to the end of a word" and that it needs to be added with another letter, thus avoiding what felt like Ko battles from Go.
Additionally, if you want thinkier games, increase the minimum length for new words every time a Q, X, or Z is revealed.
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I really appreciate you making and sharing your game! I want to try this at home with Scrabble tiles.
I'm interested in games easily played with common bits and pieces. While waiting around one day my spouse and I came up with a game (that had already been come up with in the 1970s, according to Wikipedia when I went looking for games played with Scrabble tiles) we call Scramble; all tiles facedown, take turns flipping a tile, anyone can call out a word longer than three tiles that can be formed with the visible letters, including stealing others' words by inserting a letter(s) to form a new word, as read in either direction (no anagramming).
Example: EAT could become EATS, TASE, or STARE but not TEAS or STEAK.
If a person says an invalid word they have to be silent for one flip.
When the facedown letters got fewer and it became clear from multiple attempts and subsequent ties (at least two players saying a valud word) that a certain tile is an s, we made a rule that "one does not simply add an s to the end of a word" and that it needs to be added with another letter, thus avoiding what felt like Ko battles from Go.
Additionally, if you want thinkier games, increase the minimum length for new words every time a Q, X, or Z is revealed.