Scrabble rotating mechanisms and personalized graphics. An edition has been released (in association with the RNIB) with larger board and letters for players with impaired vision. The colours on the board are more contrasting and the font size is increased from 16 to 24 point. The tiles are in bold 48 point. An introduction to tournament "Scrabble" and its players can be found in the book "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis. In the process of writing, Fatsis himself progressed into a high-rated tournament player. The "Scrabble Player's Handbook", edited by Stewart Holden and written by an international group of tournament players,
Scrabble a player who goes out adds twice that sum, and his or her opponent is not penalized. Plays can be made in a number of ways (in what follows, it is assumed that the word JACK has been played on a previous turn; letters in parentheses represent tiles already on the board): Any combination of these is allowed in a play, as long as all the letters placed on the board in one play lie in one row or column and are connected by a main word, and any run of tiles on two or more consecutive squares along a