SSCrabble Instructions
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Game Rules
View the rules of Scrabble.
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Moving Tiles
Select a tile by clicking on it. Select where you want to place it by clicking the destination point.
You can move a tile on the the board back to your rack by clicking on it twice. If your browser supports
it, you can also highlight a tile by pressing the corresponding key (e.g. press 'A' to highlight an A
tile). Space highlights a blank.
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Making Words
Make a word by moving tiles onto the board, then clicking "Submit word(s)" once you have finished placing
tiles. If the word is present in the dictionary the score of your word(s) will be calculated.
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Swapping Tiles
To swap any number of tiles, place the tiles you wish to swap anywhere on the board, then click "Swap tiles".
New Features
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Fixed overscoring of double and triple word scores.
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Bonus for playing all 7 tiles no longer fires at the end of every game.
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Swapping tiles now always pulls fresh tiles from the bag - before it could give you back tiles from those you were swapping.
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You can now only swap tiles if there are at least 7 left in the bag. This also fixes a tile loss bug if you try to swap tiles when there are too few left.
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Full SOWPODS dictionary (but compressed so it's smaller to download than the old "long" dictionary!)
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Much faster initialisation.
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Fixed redrawing of "2W", etc legend on bonus square when a tile is moved from one back to the rack.
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Added blank tiles.
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Summarise all scores for a turn into one dialog, rather than one for each word played plus an extra one for playing all 7 tiles.
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Your highest scoring game and your best ever turn are now tracked using cookies.
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Added keyboard shortcuts.
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More consistent nomenclature (say "tile" rather than "piece").
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Added ability to save a game to resume later.
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Undo!
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Tiles in the rack can be reordered (with 2 extra rack spaces to allow easier rearranging).
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"Sort rack" button added.
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"Give up" button added to end game before all tiles have been played.
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"Withdraw tiles" button added to return all unplayed tiles to the rack.
To be done...
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Score penalty for swapping tiles?
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Reduce the vertical height a bit (currently the board just fails to fit the default window size for 1024x768 for me, which is annoying). Perhaps put score, tiles left, etc and some buttons to one side of the board?
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Tweak dictionary compression - the compression ratio could be better; also playing a word which starts with a common prefix takes a while to check.
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Add ability to choose between dictionaries neatly (SOWPODS, OSW, OSPD, non-english, etc...); also different tile distributions/scores.
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Global highscores? If we store all the moves played, the central server can verify the score independently and catch people trying to submit totally bogus high scores...