Braingle: '28-Tile Scrabble' Brain Teaser

28-Tile Scrabble

Language brain teasers are those that involve the English language. You need to think about and manipulate words and letters.

Puzzle ID:	#10548
Fun:	(2.57)
Difficulty:	(3.2)
Category:	Language
Submitted By:	griphook
Corrected By:	MarcM1098

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?

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Comments

tangerine Feb 27, 2003	Whoa, dude Oo; you have a large brain and lots of time, eh? lol. -tangerine-
Codammanus Mar 13, 2003	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!
wayo Mar 19, 2003	Can't wait to challenge my friends. Salute to you Griphook.
inudbz Mar 22, 2003	that was hard.
lionprince Mar 23, 2003	Amazing
griphook Mar 24, 2003	My kid brother got a higher SCORE but he would not allow me to post it here. Smile.
(user deleted) Mar 25, 2003	This is too much. But I had fun trying.
PhilDunphy Mar 26, 2003	very difficult, and I wasted at least a trees worth of paper!!
Codammanus Mar 26, 2003	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.
griphook Mar 27, 2003	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
eelliott2 Apr 04, 2003	That was way to easy
Codammanus Apr 04, 2003	That had to be a metaphor or something, right?
icehaven Apr 04, 2003	You got to have a lot of time to think of such riddles. My highest was about... 650points.
slacker Apr 05, 2003	I found one that gives you a score of 992 quickly whizbang fjord vamp sext
griphook Apr 08, 2003	Congratulations slacker. Can't wait to challenge my younger brother with your new set of words.
andrewcs Apr 18, 2003	Slacker! you forgot to take of for a word with more than five letters!!!...anyway nice hard puzze griphook
dazzyrazzychic May 05, 2003	ok...gah that was...sorta easy...when you see the answer.
nickadeemus Jul 25, 2003	congratulations on having the top spots on the hardest teaser section up to this teaster. amazing.
nickadeemus Jul 25, 2003	teaser, i mean
rose_rox Oct 12, 2003	a real challenge combined with scrabble... whoa, great teaser.
griphook Oct 21, 2003	many thanks to all
fishmed Dec 17, 2003	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.
griphook Dec 20, 2003	many thanks
Peteycrack21 Dec 22, 2003	All you have to do is not use any of the tiles. 1,000 pts. BAM!!!!!! I win!!!
Rowsdower Dec 22, 2003	Um, Petey, you'd be like NEGATIVE 2900 points.
griphook Apr 09, 2004
jimbo Jun 11, 2004	Wonderful teaser. This kept my mother in law occupied for hours when she came to visit. Thank you so much!
(user deleted) Aug 10, 2004	Extremely Difficult
griphook Nov 26, 2006	i love it when mothers-in-law are quiet
griphook Dec 03, 2008	thank you to Amylex, Chris and Elaine for your suggestions
(user deleted) 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.
NIUDean Feb 23, 2010	@dave321, I think you forgot to deduct the points for having extra tiles left over
Mathgeek007 Apr 05, 2011	SCHMALTZY WYVERN BIJOUX DEFOG That leaves qpk... That's it! What/s my score!?
Alexi Jun 27, 2012	also 992 Vamp jinxed squiz growth flyback
Alexi Jun 27, 2012	And the best so far: Fjord wetbacks quiz vexing lymph blanks = E,I SCORE = 93!