Speed Scrabble

Speed Scrabble, disturbingly enough, is dangerously simple: even a child as young as ten may be able to find the neccesary resources. You will need:

• A set of Scrabble(tm) letter tokens. Many families keep these in their homes in unlocked closets!
• A large flat surface, like a table. We understand these are common in schools nowadays and may be used without adult supervision. Be vigilant!
• A dictionary of some sort. Confiscating your child's library card may reduce the risk of her obtaining one of these without your knowledge.
• Gambling tokens: each player will need 5-10 of these, usually quarters, dimes, or nickels.

You may easily lull yourself into a false sense of security: "But conform, we keep the Scrabble(tm) board locked in the gun safe!" or "My child doesn't have a large peer group."

Nonsense, foolish yuppies! Speed Scrabble requires only 2-3 participants. While your child may be safe from other dreaded games like Spin the Bottle, it is easy to find enough players for this wicked game. And what is more, Speed Scrabble does not require a Scrabble(tm) board. The most aggreviating mistake you can make is a false sense of security.

Play happens in the following manner:

1. Blank tiles are removed from the tile set.
2. Tiles are planced face down and shuffled.
3. Tiled are divided into equal groups for each player. If there are extra tiles, these are set aside.
4. Each player antes one gambling token into the "pot" (possible links to drug usage need to be investigated throughly).
5. Each player takes seven tiles from their pool. At a predetermined signal, all players turn these tiles face up and begin attempting to arrange these tiles into a single small crossword grid on the table in front of them.
6. If any player fits all of their tiles into a single grid, such that any row of contiguous tiles forms an English word appearing in the dictionary at hand, that player shouts "GO!" as loudly and smugly as possible. At this signal, all players take another tile from their face-down pool and flip it over, adding it to the working set of tiles they must arrange into their grid.
7. Any player may rearrange any of their tiles at any time in the pursuit of legal words.
8. The tile imprinted with the letter 'Q' may be treated for purposes of play as a 'Q' or as a 'QU'. It may be a 'Q' in one direction and, simultaneously, a 'QU' in another.
9. When the pool of face-down tiles has been exhausted, the first player to finish their grid shouts, triumphantly, "DONE!". Each other player then examines the finished player's grid for misspellings or non-words. There is no penalty for an incorrect challenge. Should a flaw be discovered and confirmed, the player pays an additional gambling token into the pot, and the pot carries to the next round (note that in the next round each player will still have to ante). If no errors are found, that player takes the pot.
10. Players will repeat steps 2-9 as desired.

Certainly after explaining the rules of the game, the danger will be evident to any concerned, loving parent. But the parent who truly cares will take the time to play through a few rounds in a safe, controlled environment, well out of earshot of your children--we must be careful not to set a bad example. Only then can we develop the mental faculties required to keep our loved ones safe!

speed scrabble

Made from original mohair this document has traveled from the farthest reaches of this building to inform you of a cool variation of boring game...

BECAUSE SCRABBLE SUCKS

Now everyone loves rules and thinks they should be followed without question; I won't have to explain to you the severity of breaking the rules.

Rule #1 Are you drunk? If you are playing revphil style... nice. But this is not an important rule, if in fact it can be called a rule at all.

Rule #2 You cannot enjoy normal scrabble. At least, not after you have played Speed Scrabble. Go find some people with nothing better to do.

Rule #3 Someone (one of the 3-5 players we at Speed Scrabble Inc^tm suggest you play with) has to eat the board. It is of no consequence in Speed Scrabble

Rule #4 Turn over all the characters and scramble the living hell out of them (no that was too much, unscramble them slightly... good)

Rule #5 Every player gets 7 characters (unless you want more, or less, but people should be equal, in theory)

Rule #6 arrange your letters into a word(s). Whoever is the first to use all of his or her tiles says "take one" ("go" and "Eat a Steaming Karl, Hosers!" are also acceptable)

Rule #7 EVERYONE takes another tile and continues to build a crossword. You may rearrange your tiles as you see fit.

Rule #8 Continue until the last tile is used. The first person to incorporate all his or her tiles into a crossword that does not suck, wins (meaning, if other people are upset because they have a better understanding of "language" then you then you may find that the other players will begin to ignore you when you triumphuntaly yell "DONE!"

Rule #9 If you finish first, but have no interesting words in your crossword than your victory is hollow. You should feel bad.

*other variations are better, you figure them out for yourself, fucko