scrabble cheat

Today I was thinking about Scrabble and a comment left after my previous post find a word for scrabble saying that Scrabble is kind of boring game. I was wondering if this game was getting old and needed some fresh new ideas to extend the life of the game (even though I think this board game will never die). So just for the fun of it, I started listing a few new game element they could add to the board game.

The first thing I came up with is kind of a scrabble cheat, that would let you reuse a word a bit like we do with hooks but instead of adding letters a the end or at the beginning of the word, you would add a scrabble letter on top of another one to form a new scrabble word.

The scrabble word cheat

Ok the name is not that hot, but images will show my idea better. So let's say we have the word "MUG". You could transform this scrabble word into "BUG". This

(This word worth 6 points)


(This new word would also worth 6 points)

This example above is only the most basic case of using the scrabble word cheat. You could do something better like the following scrabble word example where we replace two letter of the same word. Replacing scrabble letter "M" by a "B" and letter "G" by a "Y".


(This new word would worth 8 points)

But even better, you would replace a letter to form a new word, but you would put a completly new word on the scrabble board at the same time.





(The total point scored here would be 10 points)

Stay tuned for more ideas, I have more on my list but time is missing a little.

Check out my other post on Scrabble

Scrabble word finder
Nice little tools that are very handy when you need to find word in a very specific context or simply to make sure your opponent is not trying to invent new words.

find a word for scrabble

Find a word and a strategy

The main thing you do when playing a Scrabble is to find a word that will give you the highest amount of point. Well, I don't fully agree with my last sentence. When I play Scrabble, yes I try to find THE word that will empty my tray but most of the time, this is just impossible. So we need a little Scrabble strategy to prevent other players from scoring big. When you look at the Scrabble game board you can see the "special" square that gives more points when used. When it's your turn and you don't have anything good to put on the board, you need to play in a way that you will steal some precious spaces. So when you try to find a word for scrabble, always keep in mind that you might score big, but your opponent might score bigger if you don't think in advance.

Don't let another player put an easy hook on a bonus square. What that means is if you're about to make a word that ends up one bonus square short and that it is easy for another player to add a single letter on that bonus square to form a new word with your, that maybe you shouldn't play that word!

Here's a hook example where the Scrabble strategy would be to not put this word. Your word is "CODE" and the easy hook would be to add "X" to form "CODEX".

You would get 8 points for "CODE" (O is doubled) and the other Scrabble player, just by putting an extra letter would score 31 points. That 23 points more than you!

Word finder

When I play Scrabble with my girlfriend, we always end up arguing about the existence of a word, the spelling of it or what better word we could have made with what we had on our scrabble tray. So, if like me you want to save some time doing all that, I suggest you take a look at this website every time you are trying to find a word for Scrabble. They have a Scrabble word finder that takes the letter in your tray and try to build a word with some other letter from the board (specified by you). They also have a word verification tool that you can use to proof the existence of your exotic word.

My other Scrabble post

Scrabble cheat
Look out my scrabble ideas to help give this classic board game new twists. You will find some illustration of the board and how you can use existing letters to form new words but in a new way.