Tips for Winning At Scrabble

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Learn about the end of a scrabble game and who wins and how to win at scrabble in this free how-to video on playing the game of scrabble.

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Posted by joedupont on Friday, 09 May, 2008 at 8:46 PM

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are you sure about the end of the game. I just read the instructions and on 9 the game is over when the first person is without tiles. please double check this.

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Tips for Winning At Scrabble
Hi! My name is Andy Strohl and on behalf of Expert Village, in this clip we will discuss the end of the game and unused tiles. Don’t forget to check out my work at my website www.strohldigital.com. So this is the end of the game, no more plays can be made. I went to my opponent, he or she could not make a play, came back to me, I used all my tiles, goes back to my opponent and my opponent couldn’t use any of the tiles, so the game is now officially over and we add up all the scores. As you can see there, there are 3 letters left in my opponents rack a, e and t and each one are worth 1 point. Because I have 0 tiles left, I get not only does my opponent subtract 3 points from their total but I get these points to my score. It would be different if I had a v left over, we would simply both subtract these amounts from our total score. So my total score would be reduced by 4 and my opponents would be reduced by 3. That is pretty much the end of the game. Sometimes that gets confusing. People play different house rules but those are the official rules of Scrabble as far as how to end the game of Scrabble.

About the Expert

Expert: Andrew Strohl started playing board and card games at a very early age. Before his teens, he was active in numerous tournaments and gaming clubs, including Scrabble, his first love. Read More