Talk:Scrabble variants

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[edit] Article Fixed

For better informational, and notability, purposes I have merged Geek and Pokemon category Scrabble into Category Scrabble. Allowing separate headings for each category anyone has ever used would set a dangerous precedent. I feel that using standard equipment is more important than who came up with the variant. I also added in a number of well known variants which were sorely lacking.WAvegetarian 11:24, 24 October 2005 (UTC)

Cool; good point re. the merging. My brother and I came up w/ the idea for Geek Scrabble independently though I'm sure others have too (our game of it was fun). I made up the Scrabble Towers rules listed on the page having never played Upwords. I'm not an expert on the topic of Scrabble variants (I've never even watched a tournament) but am going to add some info from Google. BTW, do you have any idea how most others deal with the can't-overlap-all-5-letters-in-a-5-letter-word issue? Do they just do like Upwords and require 1 common letter only? --Unforgettableid 01:59, 31 October 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure. I don't often play variants so far removed from the original game as the strategy changes so much. I mostly stick to regular Scrabble and clabbers.WAvegetarian 02:20, 31 October 2005 (UTC)

Need to mention Duplicate Scrabble which is the standard competitive format for the French-speaking countries. English-language Scrabble can be played in duplicate but this is hardly ever done.

I put it in there, feel free to edit. I was introduced to and love playing Duplicate in English with http://jduplicate.sourceforge.net/ --Forresto 05:29, 10 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Junior Scrabble

I was hoping to find information about Junior scrabble. If i recall correctly it features a smalller board and some suggested words already printed on the board. -- Horkana 06:47, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Wordox

Is it just me or is wordox missing from this list, I believe it is called wordsteal also. Basically a cross between scrabble and othello I suppose. - ZincBelief

[edit] Original Research tag

I've added an "original research" tag because there seem to be a number of sections to the article that would violate Wikipedia's original research tenets if they were on their own as articles. I'll be doing a hunt over the next while to determine if I can find sources for some of these variants. Any help would be appreciated. If I can't find things, I may be removing sections from the article. Andy Saunders 20:21, 8 January 2007 (UTC)

The tag seems fair enough, I've never heard of most of these. Duplicate Scrabble however is played by tens of thousands of people, although very very rarely in English. I have heard of a few duplicate tournaments organised by ABSP members mind you. Mglovesfun 00:06, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, this article could do with some serious trimming - Volost in particular, amusing as it is. Calr 23:13, 31 August 2007 (UTC)

I agree, Andy. This page is clearly out of control. Wikipedia is no place to list all house versions that a few people occasionally play, or that tournament players have discussed in passing, or that someone has invented but never really gotten to catch on.

Anagrams is not best described a variant of Scrabble. It has its own page, which is correct; here, it should have no more than a brief mention with link. Multiple sections for what are essentially different people's names for anagrams, is ridiculous.

We should also consider seperating: 1) common variants played on a Scrabble board with Scrabble tiles from 2) commercial, internet, etc, games that are Scrabble-like in nature, but changed just enough to avoid (or claim to avoid) intellectual property problems. These seem like pretty different phenomena to me.

J. Goard 17:22, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Volost

As far as I can tell (based on a Google search of "Volost scrabble"), the only references to "Volost" out there are a few blogs. The game appears to be something made up while drunk and playing Scrabble, and unless someone can find a legitimate source for it I will delete it from the page. TheCatalyst31 Reaction•Creation 21:42, 8 September 2007 (UTC)

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BetacommandBot 23:31, 6 November 2007 (UTC)