INSTRUCTIONS
AGES: 8+
PLAYERS: 2 to 4
EQUIPMENT: 110 tiles, 4 tile trays, scorepad and game vertically). A player may pass if he is unable to place any
board
letters on the game board.
OBJECT: Players use letter tiles to strategically form
intersecting words on the game board. The player with the SPECIAL TILES
most points wins the game!
BLUE TILES: These tile are standard play tiles.
GAME SET-UP: Players turn tiles face down, and “shuffle”
them around in a pile. Each player chooses 8 tiles and ORANGE SWITCH TILES: These tiles may be switched
arranges them in their tray so that no other players see the with a tile from another player. During his/her turn, a player
tiles. Choose one player to act as score keeper during game may give one of his/her orange tiles to another player in
play.
exchange for any one of that player’s tiles. The player who
initiated the switch is allowed to choose the tile that he/she
GAME PLAY: The youngest player begins the game, by switches to take from another player. (without looking at the
forming a word from the tiles he/she has chosen. The word other player’s tiles)
must be made up of at least 2 letters and must be a whole,
existent word. Proper names and words (such as States, PURPLE BONUS TILES: These tiles play the same as blue
Cities, People, or Product Names) may not be used. The tiles, but they have double the point value of a standard tile.
player then places the word on the game board so that at
least one of the tiles sits on the “START” square. Words may WILD TILES: These tiles are “wild” and may be used to
be placed on the game board horizontally or vertically. When represent any letter in a player’s word. Once it is placed on
placing tiles on the board, players should keep in mind the the game board, the letter that a “wild” tile represents cannot
bonus point areas on the game board. Tiles that are laid change during the course of the game. Once a wild tile is
on a bonus point square give the players additional points. placed on the game board, it may not be moved.
After the player has placed his/her word on the game board,
the points on the tiles plus any additional bonus points are SCORING: Points for each tile are indicated in the lower
summed. This number is recorded in the player’s column on right hand corner of that tile. A player calculates the sum of
the score sheet. The player then draws new tiles from the these points each time he/she forms a word on the game
tile pile, to bring his/her total number of tiles back to eight. board. The point value of the “shared” letter tile of the word
All players should have eight tiles at the beginning and end that the player intersects is also be added to the player’s
of each turn.
score.
SCORE SHEET NOTE: The total points for a player’s turn BONUS POINT SQUARES: A player may also earn bonus
is written in the white area of the score column, while the points for any “Bonus Point Squares” on the game board
running total can be placed in the gray area of the score that the tile(s) of his/ her word covers. These points may only
column.
be earned the first time they are covered. “Shared” letter
tiles do not receive Bonus Points from the game board a
Play continues with the player to the left of the first player. second time.
This player takes his/ her turn at forming a word and placing
it on the game board. The word must intersect (horizontally ADDING TO AN EXISTING WORD: If a player adds onto an
or vertically) with the word that is already on the game existing word on the game board to form a new word, he/she
board. (The words will share one of the letters). This player receive points for all of the tiles in the newly formed word.
then calculates his/her score and replenishes his/her tiles. Ex: If a player adds the tiles “BASE” to the word “BALL” on
Play continues clockwise in this way to all players. Each the game board, he/she receives the total point value of the
word placed on the game board, should intersect another tiles for the complete word “BASEBALL.”
word(s) already on the game board. Words must always be
separated by one empty square, (as in crossword puzzles)
unless they will form new words ( both horizontally and
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