Talk:Scrabble variants

Article Fixed

For better informational, and notability, purposes I have merged Geek and Pokemon category Scrabble into Category Scrabble. Allowing separate headings for each category anyone has ever used would set a dangerous precedent. I feel that using standard equipment is more important than who came up with the variant. I also added in a number of well known variants which were sorely lacking.WAvegetarian 11:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Cool; good point re. the merging. My brother and I came up w/ the idea for Geek Scrabble independently though I'm sure others have too (our game of it was fun). I made up the Scrabble Towers rules listed on the page having never played Upwords. I'm not an expert on the topic of Scrabble variants (I've never even watched a tournament) but am going to add some info from Google. BTW, do you have any idea how most others deal with the can't-overlap-all-5-letters-in-a-5-letter-word issue? Do they just do like Upwords and require 1 common letter only? --Unforgettableid 01:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I'm not sure. I don't often play variants so far removed from the original game as the strategy changes so much. I mostly stick to regular Scrabble and clabbers.WAvegetarian 02:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Need to mention Duplicate Scrabble which is the standard competitive format for the French-speaking countries. English-language Scrabble can be played in duplicate but this is hardly ever done.

I put it in there, feel free to edit. I was introduced to and love playing Duplicate in English with http://jduplicate.sourceforge.net/ --Forresto 05:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Junior Scrabble

I was hoping to find information about Junior scrabble. If i recall correctly it features a smalller board and some suggested words already printed on the board. -- Horkana 06:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Wordox

Is it just me or is wordox missing from this list, I believe it is called wordsteal also. Basically a cross between scrabble and othello I suppose. - ZincBelief

Original Research tag

I've added an "original research" tag because there seem to be a number of sections to the article that would violate Wikipedia's original research tenets if they were on their own as articles. I'll be doing a hunt over the next while to determine if I can find sources for some of these variants. Any help would be appreciated. If I can't find things, I may be removing sections from the article. Andy Saund e rs 20:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

The tag seems fair enough, I've never heard of most of these. Duplicate Scrabble however is played by tens of thousands of people, although very very rarely in English. I have heard of a few duplicate tournaments organised by ABSP members mind you. Mglovesfun 00:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]