RULES AND REGULATION OF PLAYING SCRABBLE GAMES

Scrabble is an interesting games that can be played 2 until 4 players. This game is very good not only enjoyful but also can improve one's vocabulary. Right now, scrabble is also played in a tournament. Here are some regulation and rules of scrabble game. 
 
General Scrabble Competition
1. The tournament’s Director has full authority with regard to the interpretation and modification, if necessary of these rules (if not started in constitution). The decision of the Tournament Director with respect to these rules will be final and binding.

2. Every scrabble board will be led by 2 (two) regulators; they are 1 (one) timekeeper and 1 (one) scorer.

3. The player of scrabble consists of four players if the players from the same group, they must sit face to face.

4. Players must show their identity tag given by the committee when entering the competition room.

5. There should be no communication in any form between the players and/or to the spectators during the match. Communication can be made only to the regulator(s) or Tournament director.

6. During the game, the players are not allowed to:

a. Open any kind dictionaries, books or other reading materials. Bring any form of communication device, such as beeper, mobile phone, etc

b. Distract other player’s attention in any way.

c. Leave the location of the game by any cause, unless permitted by the regulator.

d. Leave the location of the game by any cause, unless permitted by the regulator.

7. After the game, all players must sign the score sheet, as to agree the final score. Once the score sheet is signed, no objection can be made.

8. Tolerance of lateness for the competing group is 10 minutes starting from the scheduled time. If the player does not show up after that time, it is considered a walk out. The team who wins by walk out will get the average score of that round for the match.

9. The tournament director reserves the rights to disqualify a group who refused to be subjected to the regulations of the game.

12. Other rules that have no been determined by these regulations can and will be decided later by the tournament director.

13. Regulator(s) have the right to overrule the rules that are written in this regulation with agreement from the tournament director.

14. The dictionary used in the game is Oxford dictionary.

THE REGULATION OF SCRABBLE GAMES

1.      Before the game, every player takes a tale to decide the order in which they play. The player who picks the letter closest to the beginning of the alphabet goes first (with blank tiles ranked higher than A's).

2.      At the beginning of the game, and after each turn until the bag is empty (or until there are no more face-down tiles), players draw tiles to replenish their "racks", or tile-holders, with seven tiles, from which they will make plays. Each rack is concealed from the other players.

3.      On each turn, a player has the option to: (1) pass, forfeiting the turn and scoring nothing; (2) exchange one or more tiles for an equal number from the bag, scoring nothing, an option which is only available if at least seven tiles remain in the bag; or (3) form a play on the board, adding its value to the player's cumulative score.

4.      The first word played must cover H8, the center square. The word must consist of at least two letters, extending horizontally or vertically. H8 is a premium square, so the first player to play a word receives a double score.

5.      A blank tile may take the place of any letter. It remains as that letter thereafter for the rest of the game. Individually, it scores no points regardless of what letter it is designated, and is not itself affected by premium tiles.

6.      After playing a word, the player draws letter tiles from the bag to replenish their rack to seven tiles. If there are not enough tiles in the bag to do so, the player takes all of the remaining tiles.

7.      After a player plays a word, their opponent may choose to challenge any or all the words formed by the play. If any of the words challenged is found to be unacceptable, the play is removed from the board. The challenger will get 10 point, and the player will be subtracted 10 point. However if the word is found to be acceptable, the challenger will be subtracted 10 point, and the player will get 10 point.

8.      If a player uses all seven of the tiles in the rack in a single play, a bonus of 50 points is added to the score of that play (this is called a "bingo"). These bonus points are added after totaling the score for that turn.

9.      Acceptable words are the primary entries in some chosen dictionary, and all of their inflected forms. Words that are hyphenated, capitalized (such as proper nouns), or apostrophized are not allowed, unless they also appear as acceptable entries: "Jack" is a proper noun, but the word JACK is acceptable because it has other usages (automotive, vexillological, etc.) that are acceptable. Acronyms or abbreviations, other than those that have been regularized (such as AWOL, RADAR, and SCUBA), are not allowed. Variant spellings, slang or offensive terms, archaic or obsolete terms, and specialized jargon words are allowed if they meet all other criteria for acceptability.

10.  When the letters to be drawn have run out, the final play can often determine the winner. The player who goes out first gets the sum of all remaining unplayed tiles added to their score. Players with tiles remaining on their rack have the sum of their remaining tiles subtracted from their score.