How to Play Anagram Scrabble

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Summary: To play Anagram Scrabble, also known as Scrabble Apple, place all of the tiles face down between the players, and take turns flipping over one letter at a time until words are formed. Create no words, rearrange words and steal words from other players in the game of Anagram Scrabble with information from a game store employee in this free video on board games.

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By Windy Challey
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Windy Challey has worked at Games of Berkeley for more than eight years. In that time, she has demonstrated and sold thousands of board, dice, role playing, miniature and puzzle games.read more

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"Hi, my name is Wendy St. George and this is how to play Anagram Scrabble. It's being sold as Scrabble apple right now. You take all the tiles out of the apple and place them all face down in between the players. Then everyone takes turn flipping over letters one at a time. The flipped over letters are left in the middle and near each other so that player, players can contemplate them all at the same time. Once one person thinks they can make a word out of the revealed letters and the word must be at least three letters long, they yell out, "I see deal; d-e-a-l". They may, the may then take this word and put it in front of them. Then play continues. The next player can either take a word from the middle that they see or they can add to the letters of the person who had a word in front of them already. If they can add to it and make it a different word or rearrange the letters to make it a different word, like dale, then you can steal that from another person and put it in front of yourself. And so that's how it goes; you add letters or rearrange the letters of somebody else's words to steal it or make your own word from the, from the revealed words in the middle of the table. There are some letters that are red and these are double word scored letters. So if you made a word using one of the double, the double word, you will get a double word score on the word that has a red letter in it. If you had two red letters, you would double it and then double it again. But having more than two letters does not give you any advantage. You can only double it and double it again. The end when all the tiles are taken or everyone agrees there's no words to be made, then you count up the points of all the words that are in front of you that haven't been stolen and whoever has the most points wins. And that's how you play Anagram Scrabble. It's similar to another game that's been very popular recently called Bananagrams. It's been out for a few years; sold in a banana; the rules are slightly different as you make a cross word in front of yourself out of the tiles. But they are both a, a quick play and stealing letters sort of game. That's how you play Anagram games."