Can you spell words backwards in scrabble

The bad thing about television is that everybody you see on television is doing something better than what you are doing. Did you ever see anybody on TV like just sliding off the front of the sofa with potato chip crumbs on their face?

Well, you know, we were having dinner the other night, and she has got this strangest habit. She eats her peas one at a time. You have never seen anything like it. It takes her an hour to finish them.

There was no meeting. But it was quite a meeting. You are looking at the next director of Mets scouting. The only thing is, I have to get fired from the Yankees first.

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Words that can be made with backwards

This page is a list of all the words that can be made from the letters in backwards, or by rearranging the word backwards. These words should be suitable for use as Scrabble words, or in games like Words with friends.

In some cases words do not have anagrams, but we let you find the longest words possible by switching the letters around. Using this tool is a great way to explore what words can be made - you might be surprised to find the number of words that have a lot of anagrams!

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“New” Scrabble rules same as rules you always secretly played by, also not relevant to North America

By Greg Hudson |  04/07/2010

Regular Scrabble: just like new Scrabble (Image: Patrick Easters)

When news hit that Scrabble was changing its rules to allow proper nouns, backwards writing and other sacrilege, stuffy people were appalled. They shook their fists at all the no-good youngsters with their jive talking and their text messaging. The fury was for naught, though, since the rules aren’t really changing.

Instead, Mattel is releasing a different version called Scrabble Trickster. And since Mattel owns the rights to the word game only outside North America, Hasbro, which owns the U.S. and Canadian rights, isn’t touching Trickster. This means that people who want to play the new game will just have to…play how they’ve likely always played it.

Despite the story’s relevance, media outlets are falling over themselves to find the wittiest way to report on the new brand extension. It’s almost like a game. The Washington Post ran a lead filled with impressive words (get it?), the Globe and Mail spelled a word backward (because that’s allowed now!), and almost everyone used an African American name to show how zany the new rules are. Apparently there are no names crazier than Beyoncé, Obama and Jay-Z. At least the latter would provide solid points; Obama, though seemingly promising, would actually end up being an average word in terms of points.

• Obama will now get you 9 points [National Post]
Shakira for points? Scrabble says go for it [Globe and Mail]
New Scrabble to allow proper names [Toronto]
U.S. players react to new scrabble [Washington Post]
Scrabble rules are not being changed [Wall Street Journal]

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If it's words like gag, gig, pup, pep, pop, tat, tot, tut, wow or words that spell other words backwards, like these rat, vat, wat, ray, kay, dew, eel, pit, war, sap, bag, dog, bad..then yes. But if it is a word like this elbbarcs (Scrabble backwards) then, no.

You should have a game board, 100 letter tiles, a letter bag, and four racks.

Before the game begins, all players should agree upon the dictionary that they will use, in case of a challenge. All words labeled as a part of speech (including those listed of foreign origin, and as archaic, obsolete, colloquial, slang, etc.) are permitted with the exception of the following: words always capitalized, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe.

Place all letters in the pouch, or facedown beside the board, and mix them up. Draw for first play. The player with the letter closest to "A" plays first. A blank tile beats any letter. Return the letters to the pool and remix. All players draw seven new letters and place them on their racks.

The first player combines two or more of his or her letters to form a word and places it on the board to read either across or down with one letter on the center square. Diagonal words are not allowed.

Complete your turn by counting and announcing your score for that turn. Then draw as many new letters as you played; always keep seven letters on your rack, as long as there are enough tiles left in the bag.

Play passes to the left. The second player, and then each in turn, adds one or more letters to those already played to form new words. All letters played on a turn must be placed in one row across or down the board, to form at least one complete word. If, at the same time, they touch others letters in adjacent rows, those must also form complete words, crossword fashion, with all such letters. The player gets full credit for all words formed or modified on his or her turn.

New words may be formed by:

  • Adding one or more letters to a word or letters already on the board.
  • Placing a word at right angles to a word already on the board. The new word must use one of the letters already on the board or must add a letter to it. (See Turns 2, 3 and 4 below.)
  • Placing a complete word parallel to a word already played so that adjacent letters also form complete words. (See Turn 5 in the Scoring Examples section below.)

No tile may be shifted or replaced after it has been played and scored.

Blanks: The two blank tiles may be used as any letters. When playing a blank, you must state which letter it represents. It remains that letter for the rest of the game.

You may use a turn to exchange all, some, or none of the letters. To do this, place your discarded letter(s) facedown. Draw the same number of letters from the pool, then mix your discarded letter(s) into the pool. This ends your turn.

Any play may be challenged before the next player starts a turn. If the play challenged is unacceptable, the challenged player takes back his or her tiles and loses that turn. If the play challenged is acceptable, the challenger loses his or her next turn. Consult the dictionary for challenges only. All words made in one play are challenged simultaneously. If any word is unacceptable, then the entire play is unacceptable. Only one turn is lost on any challenge.

The game ends when all letters have been drawn and one player uses his or her last letter; or when all possible plays have been made.

Use a score pad or piece of paper to keep a tally of each player's score, entering it after each turn. The score value of each letter is indicated by a number at the bottom of the tile. The score value of a blank is zero.

The score for each turn is the sum of the letter values in each word(s) formed or modified on that turn, plus the additional points obtained from placing letters on Premium Squares.

Premium Letter Squares: A light blue square doubles the score of a letter placed on it; a dark blue square triples the letter score.

Premium Word Squares: 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.

Letter and word premiums count only on the turn in which they are played. On later turns, letters already played on premium squares count at face value.

When a blank tile is played on a pink or red square, the value of the word is doubled or tripled, even though the blank itself has no score value.

When two or more words are formed in the same play, each is scored. The common letter is counted (with full premium value, if any) for each word. (See Turns 3, 4 and 5 in the Scoring Examples section.)

BINGO! If you play seven tiles on a turn, it's a Bingo. You score a premium of 50 points after totaling your score for the turn.

Unplayed Letters: When the game ends, each player's score is reduced by the sum of his or her unplayed letters. In addition, if a player has used all of his or her letters, the sum of the other players' unplayed letters is added to that player's score.

The player with the highest final score wins the game. In case of a tie, the player with the highest score before adding or deducting unplayed letters wins.

Scoring Examples

In the following, the words added on five successive turns are shown in bold type. The scores shown are the correct scores if the letter R is placed on the center square. In Turn 1, count HORN: in Turn 2, FARM; in Turn 3, PASTE and FARMS; in Turn 4, MOB, NOT and BE; in Turn 5, BIT, PI and AT.

Can you spell words backwards in scrabble

Can words in Scrabble go backwards?

Other planned changes may strike diehard fans of the game as even more radical: Scrabble players will be able to spell words backwards and even play words unconnected to any other words on the board. But Scrabble purists in the United States and Canada have nothing to fear.

Can words go any direction in Scrabble?

Words may only go from top-to-bottom or from left-to-right. 4. Any tile touching another tile must spell a real word (except tiles that only touch corner tips—they don't count). 5.