The required program is Windows-only. That's too bad. It's a great idea.

Have any of you played a variation called "speed scrabble"? (This doesn't require a playing board.)

I just got my high score (including a triple triple!)≡ Click to see image ≡

though that game was a lot easier than this one...

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And as you can see from my screenshots, it's not windows only. It's java, and I'm playing on a Mac.

Thanks mosch! I'm glad it's not really true.

Qat was used twice!

What's "speed scrabble"?

A college friend invented a one-player variant called "Scrabbletaire." Unfortunately, I've forgotten the rules.

However, I've been having lots of fun killing time with Babble, which combines Scrabble and Boggle.

Alex, is speed scrabble like Take Two?

Every player starts with 5 tiles and has to make them into connecting words; when someone has used all their tiles they call out "take two!" and everybody has to take two more tiles. And so on...

nomis, the rules of Speed Scrabble I know are very similar:

3-5 players each take 7 tiles (face down until the game starts) and once the game starts they try to use all 7 tiles in interconnected words. Each player's word are independent of the other players. When somebody uses all 7 letters they say "hit" and everybody draws another letter and keeps trying to use all their letters in an interconnected grid (rearranging words as you go along is legal). You repeat this until there are no more tiles left to draw from - then whoever runs out of tiles wins.

I'm a recovering Scrabble addict and don't play nearly as much as I used to.

mosch - great game you had there. You're definitely on a much higher skill level than I am. I love the game immensely, I'm just not great at it. After playing hundreds of games I still tend to make basic words. I know the strategies, but I just don't have Srabble-cabulary needed for the consistent big scores. I still get excited about using all 7 letters and triple score words, I think I'd black out if I ever made a double triple.

Thanks, slack! I was really excited to break 400 (I don't think I ever did that before), and that was my first 2xTWS. I still get real excited when I spot a bingo, but I get less excited now that I've had a game where I hit two bingos and lost anyway.

I'm actually considered pretty crap, as far as competitive scrabblers go, but I love the game. It caters to both my inner language geek, and my strategy geek.

I've played Scrabble exactly once.