Scrabble scoring

[Earl Snake-Hips Tucker]

If you are luck enough to drop enough tiles that you cover two "triples," do you count that as 6 times the letter scores or 9 times?

(Yes, I know that that spans 8 spots, and at least one letter has to already be on the board.)

Nine times.

If you're looking for some high scores in scrabble, you should know these words.

http://members.aol.com/gulfhigh2/words14.html

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Jacques Kilchoer
Workers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains.

[Nickrz]

Don't forget to add 50 for the bingo!

[DSYoungEsq]

Nine times says WHO?

[Satan]

Nick - You do get 50 points for a bingo, but you can play a triple-triple without playing a bingo.

Yes, it is tripled and that score is tripled, which means it is effectively x9.

Now then - Play a 15 letter word on three Triple Word Scores and you get 3x3x3, or 27 times your score!

I know my Scrabble, kids... Not much else, unfortunately...

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Yer pal,
Satan

[DSYoungEsq]

Not to beat a dead horse, or anything, but who SAYS you get to triple the already tripled score? Can someone quote the rule that governs this, please? :)

[Satan]

From Official Scrabble Tournament Rules
found online at www.math.utoronto.ca/~jjchew/scrabble/rules/nsa.html (http://www.math.utoronto.ca/~jjchew/scrabble/rules/nsa.html)

<h1>G. Triple-Triples (TWS-TWS)</h1>

If a word is formed that covers two red Triple Word Squares, the score is TRIPLED AND THEN TRIPLED AGAIN, which
is NINE times the total letter count.

I will concede that Official Tournament Rules occassionally differ from the rules in the game.

That said, the Triple-Triple rule is the same in the rules that come with the game. Direct from the Hasbro site at www.hasbroscrabble.com/rules3.html (http://www.hasbroscrabble.com/rules3.html) is the following:

<h1>4.Premium Word Squares:</h1>

The score for an entire word is doubled when one of its letters is placed on a pink square: it is tripled when one of its letters is placed on a red square. Include premiums for double or triple letter values, if any, before doubling or tripling the word score.

If a word is formed that covers two premium word squares, the score is doubled and then re-doubled (4 times the letter count), or tripled and then re-tripled (9 times the letter count). NOTE: the center square is a pink square, which doubles the score for the first word.