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Scrabble Game Guidelines

1. Team Composition
• The tournament will have separate categories for male and female.
• Each category will be divided according to department: Elementary, Junior High
School, and Senior High.
• Teams will represent different houses: Lireo, Sapiro, Adamya, and Hatoria.
• Each team must consist of four players coming from Elementary, Junior High, and
Senior High.

2. Game Setup
• Players will compete against other players in their department and category. For
example, Elementary vs. Elementary, Junior High vs. Junior High, and Senior High
vs. Senior High.
• Males will compete with males and females with females.

3. Game Rules
• The standard rules of Scrabble will apply, including tile placement, scoring, and
dictionary use (for valid words).
• One tournament will be assigned per board category.
• Each player has 25 minutes to make all of his moves, after which a penalty of 10
points per minute applies.
• Use of mobile phones within the “playing area” is prohibited.
• All words in the dictionary that are labeled part of speech, including foreign origin,
obsolete, and slang words are permitted.
• PROHIBITED WORDS: abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, words
that require a hyphen or apostrophe and words requiring capitalization.
• Each player draws a tile – the player with the letter nearest to “A” goes first; the
player who draws a blank tile automatically goes first.
• The first player must play his first word on the center square of the board. NOTE:
The center square counts as a double word square.
• The official rule states that once a blank tile has been played it may not be moved.
• Any player who uses the seven tiles scores an additional 50 points to the player’s
regular score.
• A dictionary may not be used while a game is in progress to search for words to fit
the tiles on a player’s rack. It may only be consulted after a word has been played
and challenged.
• The checking of challenged words should be done by a third party. (if possible)
• NOTE: Word Checker for Scrabble (Collins Scrabble Words (6th ed.)) phone
application will only be used when a word is challenged for consultation of spelling
or usage.
• If a word is challenged, and it is permitted the challenger loses his next turn.
• If a word is challenged, and unacceptable the player takes back his tiles and loses
his turn.
• Any player may use his turn to replace any or all of his tiles. He then awaits his
next turn to play.
• Once there are 6 or fewer letters in the bag, players are banned changing their
tiles.
• Only vertical and horizontal words are accepted, except for diagonal words.
• Players cannot replace a blank tile with the letter it represents so they can be used
in another word.
• A player may decide to pass, whether or not he is able to make a word/s.
• The games ends when:
• All the tiles have been drawn and one of the players has used all the tiles in his
rack.
• When all possible plays have been made
• All players have passed twice in consecutive turns
• After all the scores are added up, each player’s score is reduced by the sum of his
unplayed tiles, and if one player has used all his tiles his score is increased by the
sum of the unplayed tiles of the other player.
• Total of Unplayed tiles will be deducted from the total score of the player.
• The total tile value of unplayed tiles of the player will be added to the opponent
who is out of tiles.
• Each game will be timed with a maximum of 50 minutes per round.
• There will be three rounds.

4. Scoring
• Each player’s score will be tracked individually. The facilitators will provide each
set of players with scoring sheet to have them track their scores.
• The scores will be ranked after each round.

5. Titles and Recognition


• The highest scorer in each department and category (male/female) will earn the
title of: Master Scrabble (male) and Master Scrabble (female).
• Titles will be awarded for the Elementary, Junior High, and Senior High
departments separately.
• All players will receive a certificate of participation in the awarding program.

6. Tie-Breaker
• In the event of a tie, an additional round for 10 minutes will be played to determine
the winner.

7. General Rules
• Players are expected to demonstrate sportsmanship throughout the tournament.
• Unsportsmanlike behavior, such as cheating or disruption, will result in
disqualification.

8. Tournament Schedule for All Categories


• Saturday AM
✓ Registration – 8:20 AM to 8:50 AM
✓ House Rules and other Reminders – 8:50 AM to 9:00 AM
✓ Round 1 – 9:00 AM to 9:50 AM
✓ Round 2 – 9:50 AM to 10:40 AM
✓ Round 3 – 10:40 AM to 11:30 AM

9. Timer to be used: Chess for Scrabble phone application


10. Dictionary to be used: Word Checker for Scrabble (Collins Scrabble Words (6th ed.))
phone application
11. Persons to contact for further inquiries:
✓ Teacher Darwin Blanco
✓ Teacher Keziah Cruz
✓ Teacher Vinice Cayabyab

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