When one player empties her hand of tiles, and there are no more to draw, the game ends. When that happens, players with tiles still in their hand must subtract the total point value of those tiles. So it doesn't pay to hang on to the "Z" until the endgame.
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This morning's Scrabble score:
How do you get minus eight playing scrabble? I'm still new to the game.
ReplyDeleteWhen one player empties her hand of tiles, and there are no more to draw, the game ends. When that happens, players with tiles still in their hand must subtract the total point value of those tiles. So it doesn't pay to hang on to the "Z" until the endgame.
ReplyDeleteThat's right, I totally forgot about the left over tiles at the end.
ReplyDelete"Riviera" is a permitted word?
ReplyDeleteIt was in the unabridged dictionary and not capitalized. It refers to a beach resort.
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