Basic Scrabble rules

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key

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rules. Each player gets seven letters.

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There are 98 letter tiles and two

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magical blank tiles. Those can be turned

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into any

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letter. You cannot play diagonally, as

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much as that would be enticing

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sometimes. The red, blue, and yellow

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squares can boost your score. We

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especially like triple word. The same

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word can be played more than once, and

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you can challenge an opponent's word

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given that all players have agreed on a

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reference dictionary at the beginning of

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the game. You can't of course speak at

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this while

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playing. But who had the brilliant idea

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to get a soul competitive about word

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making?

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[Music]

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It was the Great Depression in the

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United States of America and Alfred here

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was unemployed. Sounds like a familiar

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story, doesn't it? A bit like Monopoly.

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Anyways, unable to resume his

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architecture career, Alfred delved into

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the board game world to create something

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that could merge numbers and letters.

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But this was not without a

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future. First up was Lexico. Initially

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named it, Lexico was a simple word game

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that requires you to collect nine random

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letters