Scrumble

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Scrumble is a well-loved game played with a partial scrabble set and a group of creative people.

[edit] The Gameplay

Scrumble is played with a set of Scrabble tiles and tile-holders, but without the Scrabble board. Players each take seven tiles. Advanced players can take random tiles, though many players wish to choose 4 consonants and 3 vowels. Gameplay proceeds with each player playing when he or she feels ready. Some players prefer to play frequetly. These players are konwn as 'machine-gunners.' Other players play less frequently. These players are known as 'snipers.'

A Scrumble play consists of the player arranging his or her letters into a word, phrase, acronymn, onomatopoeia or other meaningful arrangment and creating a story, joke or pun for which the punchline will be read by the other players from the arrangement of tiles on the scrumbler's tile-holder. A player should conceal his or her tiles until the end of the play and reveal the tiles to the other players as the punchline. Players continue to rearrange the tiles in their set until they can no longer make jokes. Players may trade in for new tiles at any point. Continuing to Scrumble with a single set of tiles for an hour or more is considered a sign of an advanced Scrumbler. Spelling is no object in the creation of a Scrumble play.


[edit] Examples

The Set-up: I have a friend who is always wearing a beard, a turban and glasses. The last time I saw him he was wearing his beard and his turban, but no glasses. I asked him what had happened to his glasses. His reply?

The Scrumble: LASIKH

The Set-up: If you were spinning records at a Middle Eastern World War II allied peace conference, your name might be . . .

The Scrumble: DJ YALTE (Note that the misspelling of the word 'Yalta' was necessary from the given tile draw. It did not compromise the players' enjoyment of the Scrumble.)


[edit] History and Geography

Scrumble was invented by Lee Saunders and Austin Larson in Silverthorne, Colorado in the summer of 2001. Since that time it has been played by dozens of people in California, Colorado, New Hampshire, Maine, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.

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