Answer: brr
If you are really overrun with Rs, you can toss a third one aboard and spell it BRRR.
From Quiz: Out of Vowels? Not Out of Options!
Answer: faqir
The use of the Q instead of the K might make it easier for an English speaker to pronounce this word properly, as "fa-KEER," rather than as "FAKE-er."
You can also pluralize it with an S at the end.
From Quiz: Q Sans U
Answer: The Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary
To determine which words were acceptable, a dictionary specifically designed for Scrabble was originally published in 1975. The Official Scrabble Players' Dictionary is American. It was most recently updated in 2006.
From Quiz: Scrabble Brained
Answer: 10
N is the only consonant in Dutch worth 1 point.
From Quiz: Scrabble in Dutch
Answer: Ki, Za and Ja
Scrabble clubs are in most countries. The Internet Scrabble Club is a free site. "Zo" has been legal prior to the update and is the cross between a yak and a cow in Tibet.
From Quiz: Scrabble words (Collins) and strategy
Answer: Jo
For an example of its use, check out the Robert Burns poem 'John Anderson, My Jo'.
From Quiz: I Can't Believe That's a Scrabble Word
Answer: 5
The letters K, W, X, Y, and Z are 10 points in French.
From Quiz: Scrabble In French
Answer: mark
It can also mean a person as a target for some sort of crime.
The proper name, Mark, sometimes a nickname of Marcus, is the name of the author of one the second Gospel in the New Testament.
From Quiz: Proper Names That Can Be Used In Scrabble [2]
Answer: Twenty-Two
K = 5
N = 1
I = 1
F = 4
E = 1
Since the K is on a triple letter square, multiply it by three. 5x3 = 15.
Add up the other letters. 1+1+4+1 = 7
15 + 7 = 22
The value of the word knife is 22 points.
From Quiz: Scrabble: How Much Do You Know? Version 2.0
Answer: 13
C= 3 points
H= 4 points
O= 1 point
I= 1 point
C= 3 points
E= 1 point
3+4+1+1+3+1=13
CHOICE is worth 13 total points.
From Quiz: Scrabble: How Much Do You Know?
Answer: one out of three
Scrabble is found in one of three American homes, making it a very common sight in the games closet. Did you know that William Macy was on vacation one day, and when he found out about Scrabble, he ordered that it was to be put into his stores. Within a year after Macy's order for the game to be put in his stores, Scrabble was a "must have". There have been over 175 Scrabble tournaments and over two hundred Scrabble clubs in the U.S. alone. There is even a National Scrabble Association!
From Quiz: Scrabble Night!
Answer: REECHED
REECHED means smoked as in "The bonfire reeched." Seven letter words are very useful in Scrabble because you score fifty bonus points for using all seven letters from your rack. Knowing anagrams of various words is useful for fitting your bonus words onto the board. For example REECHED might fit somewhere that CHEERED does not.
From Quiz: Anagrams. More to Less Common.
Answer: SAWDUST
The maximum SAWDUST can score as an opening word is eighty points. Compound words like sawdust can be very useful in Scrabble. Other examples are mindset and suitcase.
From Quiz: Anagrams. Less To More Common.
Answer: Qoph
The Phoenician alphabet called it Qop, with a symbol resembling a circle on a vertical stick, rather like a lollipop. This led to the Aramaic Qop, which looks rather like a P made from a vertical straight line and a hook. The Syriac Qop, Arabic Qaf and Hebrew Qof or Qoph (which resembles the Aramaic letter) are all further developments. The letter is pronounced like q or k; when transliterated, either of those may be used, but many biblical names use c. The Greek letters qoppa and phi, and the Roman Q, are all ultimately derived from Qop.
From Quiz: Mind Those Scrabble Q's!
Answer: 2, 3, or 4
The game includes four letter racks.
From Quiz: Scrabble Rules!
Answer: mickey
"Slip him a mickey": to secretly give someone an adulterated drink or food that will render them unconscious. Named after bartender Mickey Finn.
From Quiz: Proper Names That Can Be Used In Scrabble [1]
Answer: Hasbro
Scrabble is owned by Hasbro and has been sold under many of its brands, including Parker and Milton Bradley. Milton Bradley is located in Springfield, Massachusetts. As a child I went on tours of the factory. Mattel owns the rights for the rest of the world.
From Quiz: Think You Know Scrabble?
Answer: 8
There are 8 T.W.S. tiles on the board; one in each of the corners (4), and 4 on the side edges.
From Quiz: Scrabble Stumpers
Answer: mm
Strangely enough, you can't spell it with three Ms.
From Quiz: Out of Vowels? Not Out of Options!
Answer: qat
I first encountered this word in P.J. O'Rourke's "All the Trouble in the World," and immediately identified it as a prime Scrabble word. You can pluralize it with an S.
And yes, I know that I used "cot" for a clue, and qat is spelled with an A, not an O. But I bet you'll remember the right spelling, which is the aim of this quiz.
From Quiz: Q Sans U
Answer: 5 or 10 point
The 5 or 10 point challenge adds some incentive to not challenge, as you will lose points or your opponent will gain points if you are wrong.
From Quiz: False Starts
Answer: Double word score
The color of the double score square is pink. Often this is a sought out square for making higher scores on the Scrabble board.
From Quiz: Scrabble Brained
Answer: 5
These letters are J, K, W, X, and Y, which are only used in loanwords.
From Quiz: Scrabble in Italian
Answer: U
The Y is only used in loanwords, so it is worth 8 points.
From Quiz: Scrabble in Dutch
Answer: QADI
Unacceptable "forms" of the other 3 words include KAID, FACIR, and KINTAR, which have yet to be added but maybe will be soon. KAID is acceptable in the Worldwide dictionary (CSW) already.
From Quiz: Q Without U
Answer: Zho
All the answers consist of a z (10 points) a vowel (1 point) and a 4 point letter for 15 points, but only zho (an acceptable alternate spelling of dzo (13 points)) is accepted. My mother (an immeasurably better player than me) used to hate it if I deployed this.
From Quiz: I Can't Believe That's a Scrabble Word
Answer: beth
As a proper name, Beth is a common nickname for Elizabeth, which means 'God is my oath'.
From Quiz: Proper Names That Can Be Used In Scrabble [2]
Answer: Fifty-Eight
A = 9 tiles.
E = 12 tiles.
I = 9 tiles.
O = 8 tiles.
U = 4 tiles.
9+12+9+8+4+= 42
Including the blank tiles there are 100 tiles in the game altogether. Subtract 42 from 100 and you have the remaining tiles.
100-42 = 58
From Quiz: Scrabble: How Much Do You Know? Version 2.0
Answer: E
The letter "E" has twelve tiles! That's more than 10% of all the tiles for every letter.
The next closest letters have nine tiles. Those letters are "A" and "I".
From Quiz: Scrabble: How Much Do You Know?
Answer: 1948
Scrabble was invented by a man named Alfred Mosher Butts. He had the idea to create something that crossed vocabulary words, crosswords and anagrams together. Scrabble was born!
From Quiz: Scrabble Night!
Answer: SARKIEST
SARKIEST is British slang meaning the most sarcastic.
From Quiz: Anagrams. More to Less Common.
Answer: UNHANDS
NHANDUS can score eighty points as an opening word in Scrabble. Here is a useful one. The word SKATING has three anagrams, STAKING, TAKINGS and TASKING.
From Quiz: Anagrams. Less To More Common.
Answer: 56
Take an eight letter word with all 1 pt letters, such as SLATTERN. Use two blanks, and put them on any double or triple letter scores. It is possible to arrange it so that the word doesn't crisscross with any double word scores. You can make a 7-letter word like that, but that would result in making two different words.
From Quiz: American Scrabble Part 2
Answer: The one who picks a blank
The player who draws the letter that is closest to the start of the alphabet goes first. The only exception is that a blank beats all of the lettered tiles.
From Quiz: Scrabble Rules!
Answer: 8 points. A type of lava
The second A is on a double letter square and is it forms a part of two words it gets 4 points.
From Quiz: "Scrabble": What do I score? What does it mean?
Answer: 100
The letter tile "E" has twelve tiles.
From Quiz: Think You Know Scrabble?
Answer: 8
The aa made across is worth 3 points (2 for the double lettered a and one for the other letter). There are also two copies of the word aa made downwards, worth 3 points and 2 points (one is on the double letter square), for a total of 8. Aa is one of those words you'll probably never see outside scrabble. It IS great for those times when you have way too many vowels on your rack.
From Quiz: Scrabble Scoring
Answer: glyph
Use the first letter of each word in the sentence: GLYPH. A glyph is a symbol, usually carved, that conveys a message.
From Quiz: No Vowels? No Problem!
Answer: qadi
I know nothing of Islamic law, but I do know that qadi can be pluralized with an S.
From Quiz: Q Sans U
Answer: Double
In double challenge games you lose your turn if you challenge an acceptable word. This is the most even challenge rule, as someone will always lose a turn.
From Quiz: False Starts