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28-Tile Scrabble
28-Tile Scrabble is a modified Scrabble. No board is used and a player is given immediately 28 Scrabble tiles (hence, the name of the game).
The rules are:
1. The tiles are 26 letters of the alphabet (one tile per letter) and 2 blank tiles (which may be used as any letter in the alphabet).
2. A player forms any number of words from his available tiles only.
3. Each tile can be used only once.
4. Words cannot share any tile.
POINT SYSTEM
a.) Credits: A player starts with 1000 points for playing.
b.) Deductions: Points are deducted from the player's credit as follows:
- 150 pts. for any unused Z,Q,X,J,V, or K
- 100 pts, for any other unused consonant or vowel
- 75 pts. for any word with three letters or less.
- 50 pts. for any word in excess of five WORDS (not letters)
- 5,4,3,2,1 pts for using a blank tile as A,E,I,O,U respectively.
The highest score so far is less than 950 points.
CHALLENGE: What is your best score?
The rules are:
1. The tiles are 26 letters of the alphabet (one tile per letter) and 2 blank tiles (which may be used as any letter in the alphabet).
2. A player forms any number of words from his available tiles only.
3. Each tile can be used only once.
4. Words cannot share any tile.
POINT SYSTEM
a.) Credits: A player starts with 1000 points for playing.
b.) Deductions: Points are deducted from the player's credit as follows:
- 150 pts. for any unused Z,Q,X,J,V, or K
- 100 pts, for any other unused consonant or vowel
- 75 pts. for any word with three letters or less.
- 50 pts. for any word in excess of five WORDS (not letters)
- 5,4,3,2,1 pts for using a blank tile as A,E,I,O,U respectively.
The highest score so far is less than 950 points.
CHALLENGE: What is your best score?
Hint
"THE QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS OVER THE LAZY DOG" will not work. There are only 28 tiles available."QUICK BROWN FOX JUMPS THE LAZY DOG" will not work. There are only 2 jokers available for the extra U and the two extra O's.
The highest score so far is 948.
Answer
GROWTH VEND FLAX BUCKS JUMPY QUIZ.1000
- 0 ( no unused letter-tiles)
- 0 ( no three-letter word)
- 50 ( one word in excess of five words as player formed six words)
- 2 ( for using the two blank tiles as the two extra U's at 1 pt. per extra U)
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948 points
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Whoa, dude Oo; you have a large brain and lots of time, eh? lol.
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EXTRA EXTRA!!!!
28-Tile Scrabble makes the Top 5 of Braingle's Hardest Teasers. (Soon, you may take over the whole page one). I see it coming!
28-Tile Scrabble makes the Top 5 of Braingle's Hardest Teasers. (Soon, you may take over the whole page one). I see it coming!
Can't wait to challenge my friends. Salute to you Griphook.
that was hard.
Amazing
My kid brother got a higher SCORE but he would not allow me to post it here. Smile.
Mar 25, 2003
This is too much. But I had fun trying.
very difficult, and I wasted at least a trees worth of paper!!
Griphook,
After giving someone a commendation on a teaser, they revealed it wasn't ORIGINAL. (Sad face). Please tell me yours are (like mine) 100% Original.
After giving someone a commendation on a teaser, they revealed it wasn't ORIGINAL. (Sad face). Please tell me yours are (like mine) 100% Original.
Rest assured my friend that if ever I will borrow an idea, I will give credit to whom credit is due. The teasers I posted are my own. Smile
That was way to easy
That had to be a metaphor or something, right?
You got to have a lot of time to think of such riddles. My highest was about... 650points.
I found one that gives you a score of 992
quickly whizbang fjord vamp sext
quickly whizbang fjord vamp sext
Congratulations slacker. Can't wait to challenge my younger brother with your new set of words.
Slacker! you forgot to take of for a word with more than five letters!!!...anyway nice hard puzze griphook
ok...gah that was...sorta easy...when you see the answer.
congratulations on having the top spots on the hardest teaser section up to this teaster. amazing.
teaser, i mean
a real challenge combined with scrabble... whoa, great teaser.
many thanks to all
Should have known this was you. I have yet to find one of yours that I have not liked, though I have not been able to solve them all.
many thanks
All you have to do is not use any of the tiles. 1,000 pts. BAM!!!!!! I win!!!
Um, Petey, you'd be like NEGATIVE 2900 points.
Wonderful teaser. This kept my mother in law occupied for hours when she came to visit. Thank you so much!
Aug 10, 2004
Extremely Difficult
i love it when mothers-in-law are quiet
thank you to Amylex, Chris and Elaine for your suggestions
Sep 22, 2009
I SCORED 950.
HO HO HO.
All of these words are in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and none are abbreviations. My extra letters were "Y" and "N".
CRWTH
LYNX
QAZVIN
GYPS
JOKED
BUMF
CRWTH is a musical instrument.
LYNX is an animal.
QAZVIN is a city in Iran.
GYPS is a form of the verb "GYP" which is to steal.
JOKED is the past tense of 'to joke'.
BUMF is a word for paperwork.
HO HO HO.
All of these words are in the Merriam-Webster dictionary, and none are abbreviations. My extra letters were "Y" and "N".
CRWTH
LYNX
QAZVIN
GYPS
JOKED
BUMF
CRWTH is a musical instrument.
LYNX is an animal.
QAZVIN is a city in Iran.
GYPS is a form of the verb "GYP" which is to steal.
JOKED is the past tense of 'to joke'.
BUMF is a word for paperwork.
@dave321, I think you forgot to deduct the points for having extra tiles left over
SCHMALTZY
WYVERN
BIJOUX
DEFOG
That leaves qpk... That's it! What/s my score!?
WYVERN
BIJOUX
DEFOG
That leaves qpk... That's it! What/s my score!?
also 992
Vamp jinxed squiz growth flyback
Vamp jinxed squiz growth flyback
And the best so far:
Fjord wetbacks quiz vexing lymph
blanks = E,I
SCORE = 93!
Fjord wetbacks quiz vexing lymph
blanks = E,I
SCORE = 93!
BIGHT
JYNX
LUMPS(U)CKER
VOZD(H)
WAQF
-1 for using a blank as a U.
Total score: 999.
JYNX
LUMPS(U)CKER
VOZD(H)
WAQF
-1 for using a blank as a U.
Total score: 999.
Spelling correction: VOZHD
GEMSBUCK - Oryx gazella, a large antelope of Africa
JYNX - a wryneck, an Old World woodpecker
TRIPLy - three times as much or to the third degree
VOZHD - a Russian leader
WAQF - a religious (Muslim) endowment
1000 points.
JYNX - a wryneck, an Old World woodpecker
TRIPLy - three times as much or to the third degree
VOZHD - a Russian leader
WAQF - a religious (Muslim) endowment
1000 points.
correction: WAQFs
GEMSBUCK JYNX TRIPLy VOZHD WAQFs
1000
- 0 (no unused letter-tiles)
- 0 (no one-, two-, or three-letter word)
- 0 (no word in excess of five words)
- 0 (no blank tile is used as an A, E, I, O, or U.
1000
- 0 (no unused letter-tiles)
- 0 (no one-, two-, or three-letter word)
- 0 (no word in excess of five words)
- 0 (no blank tile is used as an A, E, I, O, or U.
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