Latin version of Scrabble and "two char letters"

by Arana
(Mexicali, Mexico)

Here in Mexico we have lots of words that use double "r", also words that use "ch" as if they were single letters.

The thing is that our scrabble includes only one "RR" and only one "CH". Does this mean that we cannot use words like "CARRO: (meaning car) if we already used the "RR" tile in another word (not connected to CARRO)? Or can we use the single "R" tiles to make those kind of words?

Here are some words so can see what I mean:

CARRO (car)
PERRO (dog)
ZORRO (fox)

CHAPULIN (grasshopper)
PECHO (chest)
TACHA (flaw, defect, cross mark)

There would be a lot of unusable valid words if we were only to use the single included "CH" and "RR" tiles, so my supposition is that we can use two tiles for this cases, but I want to be sure.


Hi Arana - I don't know the answer to your interesting question, but I'm publishing it in the hope that one of our readers can answer it for you. So stay tuned for the comments below this post. If there are no responses over the next week or so I'll investigate further
— Derek

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Latin version of Scrabble and "two char letters"

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Response from Mattel
by: Word-Buff

Philip Nelkon, a representative of Mattel (the owners of Scrabble outside of North America), contacted me to mention this: "I can confirm that in the Spanish Scrabble rules in the Mattel set it is not permissible to use 2 R tiles to make the word CARRO and likewise the other examples."
Not Allowed
by: Richard

You can just as well say there would be a lot of unusable valid words if we were only to use the single included J, Q or Z tiles. For additional occurrences of these you can use the blanks. The same applies to the "CH", "LL" and "RR" tiles in Spanish Scrabble.

Here is the official rule from FISE (Federación Internacional de Scrabble en Español which includes Asociación Mexicana de Escrabblistas, A.C.)

I. 11. Letras dobles
En el SCRABBLE los dígrafos RR, CH, LL aparecen en una sola ficha. Por tanto, no podrán utilizarse dos eres, ni dos eles, ni la ce y la hache para formar una doble letra.

Source: http://www.fisescrabble.org/reglamento.htm

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