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When playing the game, sometimes you have a good word and no easy place to play it. You can double your opportuinities by allowing the tiles of your words to be placed either forwards or backwards on the board. All the other rules still apply.
Anyone who has ever played those "Word Find" or "Word
Search" puzzles should have no trouble "reading" the backwards-spelled words. As if that really matters, when you simply want a particular letter to link your word (and available empty space).
Note that in this Idea, I am specifically NOT promoting diagnonal placement of the tiles. Because I see that as being another variation altogether. TWO more variations, that is.
(A diagonal-play ONLY game, and a mixed orthogonal/diagonal game.)
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I assume if you make a play that can be read either direction, you score double. |
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OK, but this should NOT apply to 2 letter words - too many / no thinking required. |
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// NOT promoting diagnonal placement of the tiles. Because... // |
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...Because you could get 6 double word scores at a time that way? |
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[phundug], with respect to scoring double for certain words (NOT palindromes like "nun", but instead words like "tip"), that sounds OK. Next, heh, as it happens, a diagonal-only game can only use about half the squares on the board. I suspect there are too many tiles for that to work well. if it is decided to START such a game one-off from the central square, then practically no extra points will be available to anyone.
Instead of a black/white checkerboard, think of a score/noscore checkerboard. So, perhaps an alternating-diagonal playing system would be appropriate. Player 1 plays diagonally through the central square. All the other players connect to that. Sure, high scores are going to happen. So? Then Player 1 plays on a noscore diagonal near the center. All the other players connect to THAT. Then they all play again on the scoring diagonals, and so on, alternating. In terms of orthogonal connections, IGNORE the ugliness. Only diagonal arrangements matter! |
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In case any Scrabble experts out there didn't already know this, one of the highest-scoring words, if you are lucky enough to get the both the needed letters and the opportunity to put it in the right place, is "QUIXOTIC". It can stretch between two triple-word scores, with the "X" landing on a double-letter score. |
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Yesss! CITOXIUQ! On 6 double word scores and a triple! That's 25 times 192 equals... I win! |
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I wonder whether "TRANQUILIZINGLY" would pass muster as a word. It's too long to appear in any lists, but if the edge of the board was "_RAN__I__ZING__", then if TRANQUILIZINGLY" were acceptable I think it would score almost 1,050 points. |
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'Xyzygy/syzygy' is also a good one, but is only in half the dictionaries I've found, and even then, the spelling fluctuates. |
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