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If you believe you received this message in error, please contact us for assistance. You are now leaving Hasbro. As such, we encourage you to read the third party's privacy policy and terms of use closely. Setup Game Play Scoring. You should have a game board, letter tiles, a letter bag, and four racks. The first player combines two or more of his or her letters to form a word and places it on the board to read either across or down with one letter on the center square.
Diagonal words are not allowed. Complete your turn by counting and announcing your score for that turn. Then draw as many new letters as you played; always keep seven letters on your rack, as long as there are enough tiles left in the bag. Play passes to the left. The second player, and then each in turn, adds one or more letters to those already played to form new words. All letters played on a turn must be placed in one row across or down the board, to form at least one complete word.
If, at the same time, they touch others letters in adjacent rows, those must also form complete words, crossword fashion, with all such letters. The player gets full credit for all words formed or modified on his or her turn. New words may be formed by: Adding one or more letters to a word or letters already on the board. What are those strange words with only consonants in them? I could elaborate on this, but to be honest, the truth is too simple to stretch it: abbreviations are not allowed in word games.
If you used them in a family match of Scrabble at home there is no harm done. Officially, they are not allowed in word games like Scrabble, Words with Friends and many more — just like proper nouns and names. When I started playing Scrabble more professionally, I learned a lot about language. I think, when you play word games knowing a lot about grammar is more important than to have a wide vocabulary.
I did not only learn how to extend words, but also about word classes I had already forgotten. One of them are interjections. In a nutshell, those are expressions of emotions. Some words beat the abbreviation trap without modification: BOLO is illegal as the law enforcement abbreviation "Be On Look Out," but it is welcome as a nasty knife, natty necktie or thrown hunting weapon.
EST, which is right out as "short for estimate" or "acronym of Eastern Standard Time," is playable as a meditation technique. Abbreviations are a living part of language. The simple act of shortening a word for ease of use shows that speakers and writers expect to use it.
As noted above, many common words in conversational English are abbreviations in one sense or another. A little bit of reading and some lateral thinking will set you up with legal abbreviations in Scrabble.
Finally, there's one more trick to playing abbreviations in Scrabble: don't play Scrabble. If you don't mind getting digital, its close cousin Words With Friends allows a much wider array of abbreviations to play. Why using abbreviations is bad? What are the most popular abbreviations? What are the rules for abbreviations in Scrabble? Are there any words that can not be played in Scrabble? Do you have to use an apostrophe in Scrabble? How many letters do you need to make a word in Scrabble?
Can you use suffixes in Scrabble? Can You Use Pronouns in Scrabble?
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