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Encyclopedia > Double letter score
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A DLS with the word LOFTY

In the A board game is any game played with a premarked surface, with counters or pieces that are moved across the board. Simple board games are often seen as ideal family entertainment as they can provide entertainment for all ages. Some board games, such as chess, have intense strategic value and... board game The word scrabble is also an ordinary verb: see scrabble. Scrabble board in play. Scrabble is a word board game in which players use 100 tiles with printed letters to form words on a 15 x 15 grid with certain premium squares to accumulate points. The words are formed across... Scrabble, a double letter score, or DLS, is a premium This page aims to explain the scoring system in the Scrabble board game by way of examples. For convenience, the first player will be called Anne and the second Beth. Anne opens with LOFTY, starting on H8 and running horizontally. The L is on a double-word square and the... scoring space. This means that a letter set on the board covers a "Double Letter Score" space. That letter scores twice as much as it normally would. In the Image of the Wikimedia Commons logo. The Commons is a free shared repository that you can use with Wikipedia. In common usage, an image (from Latin imago) or picture is an artefact that reproduces the likeness of some subject—usually a physical object or a person. Images may be... pictorial example to the right, the Y is the twenty-fifth letter of the Latin alphabet. See V. In Ancient Greek Υψιλον (Ypsilon) was pronounced IPA [u] (later on [y], now [i]; see English myth and gift which both have ). The Romans borrowed Y directly from the Greek, because they felt... Y in the word lofty covers a "Double Letter Score" space, scoring 8 points.


On the board, a "Double Letter Score" space is designated by a light Blue (from Old High German blao shining) is one of the three primary additive colors; blue light has the shortest wavelength (about 470 nm) of the three primary colors. A clear sky on a sunny day is colored blue because of Rayleigh scattering of the light from the Sun. Large... blue color.


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Rules of the game (1751 words)
One letter has to be on the pink square marked with an star at the centre of the board.
The score or point value of each letter is indicated by a number at the bottom of the tile.
The score for each turn is the sum of the score values in each word formed or modified in play, plus the premium values resulting from placing letters on premium squares.
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