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Is this move legal?

by Anonymous

Your move is 'IF'

Your move is 'IF'

The word YETTS is on the board vertically. I add an I to the left of the S making IS and add F below I to form IF. Is this move legal?

Hi - This is a perfectly valid Scrabble play. As long as the letters you play lie in the same row or column and form a valid Scrabble word, it's fine to make other words in the process.

In fact, that's the name of the game, since all the other words you make contribute to your score. In your case, you'll get the score for IF plus the score for IS.

All the best.


P.S. It's pretty cool that you know obscure Scrabble words like YETTS. If you're reading this post and wondering what on earth YETTS means, a YETT is a Scots term for a gate. So it make sense to have more than one of them ;-)

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Is this move legal?

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Thanks!
by: Anonymous

I've ALWAYS asked the rationale - never gave me a satisfactory explanation.
Obscure Word For the Day: AGA - a goody if you can get it on the board. Opens up many possibilities. Appreciate your blog. Browse for hours.

Answer to your question
by: Derek, aka Word-Buff

Both moves are perfectly legal. I don't understand how it could be argued otherwise, but feel free to ask your opponent to post her rationale to this thread, to see if I'm misunderstanding her.

This has caused so many arguments.
by: Anonymous

The person I play with always tells me I can't do the YETTS move I'll call it, above - says I can only make one word. Then in the same game she did this.

c
o
n
e was on the board

Her move was

c
o
n
en
i
e
c
e

She said her move was allowed but mine wasn't and couldn't explain the difference to me. This has happened many times. I say it's the same as my yetts move. Can you settle this? Thanks!

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