The Cardboard Gamer

By thebarrowboy (Flickr: Scrabble) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By thebarrowboy (Flickr: Scrabble) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

By thebarrowboy (Flickr: Scrabble) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

David Rudy

This Week’s Topic: Scrabble

Time to pull out the English dictionary since this week’s blog is all about Scrabble. Whether you know the dictionary in and out or you argue about a word you made up on the spot, Scrabble is a game for everyone.

How to Play: Setup 

Make sure all the tiles are in the bag, then have all players pick a random tile out of the bag without looking. Whoever’s letter is closest to the letter A goes first. Then from the first person the rest go counterclockwise. Finally, to finish startup, every player takes random tiles and puts them on his or her rack.