Scrabble
Play Scrabble Online on Mela App

During the time of the Great Depression in the 1930's, a jobless architect called Alfred Mosher Butts was determined to create a board game. After basic market research he came to a decision that games typically fall into three segments: number games like Dice and Bingo (link bingo game); move games like Chess (link chess game) and checkers; and word games like anagrams.

Alfred wished to develop a game that merged the vocabulary skills of puzzles along with an extra element of chance. The game of Scrabble was initially called Lexico, but Alfred was determined to call the game “Criss-Cross Words”.

The game boards for the initial Criss-Cross Words game were handmade using his architectural drafting skills, reproduced through blueprinting and pasted on checkerboards. The tiles too were handwritten and stuck to quarter-inch balsa and cut to match the board.

The initial years were a struggle for the game of Scrabble. In the early 1950s, the president of Macy’s spotted the game on vacation, and wanted to purchase it for his store. Within a year, the game became so popular that everyone wanted a Scrabble set of their own.

A lot has changed since then, the game of Scrabble is now played online but the essence of the game still remains the same. It is a popular game among people of all age groups, which is a rare feat.

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Rules to Play Scrabble Game on Mela App

If you are looking for a quick scrabble game to play online, the Mela app is the perfect choice for you. You can assess all the letters displayed on the screen and make small or long meaningful words.

  • Make words for the maximum points with the available letters in your kitty.
  • For the first move, merge two or more letters together to create a word and place it on the center square.
  • You can make horizontal and vertical words, and refrain from making diagonal words.
  • Choose as many letters to make a word to gain maximum points.
  • If the letters touch other letters, the consequent letters must also form a legitimate word.
  • You can make new words by: adding one or more letters present in your kitty or by positioning a word at right angles to a word already present on the online scrabble board.
  • Double Letter Score (DL) - When a letter is positioned on the DL square, the value of that particular letter doubles in terms of points.
  • Triple Letter Score (TL) - When a letter is positioned on the TL square, the value of that letter triples in terms of points.
  • Double Word Score (DW) - When a letter of a word cascades on the DW square, the player gets double points for the word.
  • Triple Word Score (TW) - When a letter of a word cascades on the TW square, the player gets triple points for the word.
Tips & Tricks

Here are some tricks that will help you play online Scrabble like a pro.

  • Learn more two and three letter words, enhance your vocabulary to be a Scrabble pro.
  • You can create two words simultaneously using the letter “S” simply by adding “S” to a word present on the online board.
  • Position the letters that create frequent beginnings or endings on the right side of your rack.
  • Focus on hooks. For instance, the word rush can turn into crush etc.
  • Look for hotspots. Try to move your game toward the hotspot or bonus squares.
  • Learn more words with “Q” without using the letter “U”. In the Scrabble dictionary, the most scoring scrabble tile is “Q” along with “U”. However, there are only 4 “U” tiles in the game, so use them wisely.
  • Try and look for bonus points as and when you can.
FAQs
As per the official rules of Scrabble, the game ends when all letters have been drawn and a player has used all his/her last tiles; or after the completion of all the possible plays. The other player will be awarded the points remaining in all the other opponents’ racks and the same points will be reduced from the point total of the sum of the points still available on their rack.
A player can score bonus points when they cover the bonus square, limited to only a single turn. Going forward, additional turns that use a bonus square letter will not be eligible for bonus points.
The blank tiles may be used as any letter but the player must declare which letter it represents. The blank tile shall remain that letter for the remainder of the game. The rules of Scrabble do not enable a player to change the letter that the blank reflects. Similarly, a player cannot replace the blank with the letter it signifies and use the blank again for an alternative word later in the game.
Yes, you may take this opportunity to extend a word in front of and/or at the end of a word in a single turn. For this to happen, all the letters must be used in the same turn.

You can improve your Scrabble game skills by:

  • Learn more two and three letter words.
  • Play a lot of games against various oppositions.
  • Use your bonus squares smartly.
  • Check for amazing parallel plays.
Yes, you can do that. There is no official rule in Scrabble that forbids words from being reused throughout the game.
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