It's Scrabble with a twist. Instead of playing on a gameboard or computer or phone, we'll play with giant Scrabble "tiles" on the floor in the Meeting Room. The tiles actually are old DS cases with white paper letters on them.
Rules of the game:
1. Two teams of 2-3 people face off. -or- Two individuals go head to head.
2. All the tiles are placed face down in the middle of the room.
3. Each team takes 7 tiles to start.
4. The judge (me) tells the teams to begin and flip over their tiles.
5. The teams must use up all their tiles by creating a word or multiple words. Think of it as having your own Scrabble board. The words must build off each other.
6. Once a team has used up all their tiles, they say, "Take two." This means each team will take another two tiles from the center and add them to their boards. The teams may have to rearrange their words and word arrangements in order to include the additional letters.
7. This continues until one team uses up all their tiles and there are no more in the center to pick.
Speed is the name of the game! If you get too far behind and the other team is in a rhythm, you'll dread hearing "take two!" as you struggle to make words out of your pile of letters (I speak from experience).
Here's a short example:
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| These are my first seven letters. |
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| I arranged the words "jail" and "fade," using all the tiles. |
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| I pulled an O and M, and had to do some rearranging. |
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| After the addition of C and D this is what I ended up with...after 10 minutes of frustration. |