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13Ice

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Nov 16th, 2020, 8:06 pm

#8075225 by 13Ice

What is it?

Scrabble Mash is a contest where you need to use all the tiles provided to make a grid of words. Each word must be connected to at least one other word in scrabble fashion. A full match will contsist of 10 Rounds.
First round, each player will start with 7 randomly generated scrabble tiles (each players tiles are from an individual full set of scrabble tiles, excluding the blank tile), players fill in the grid forming words across and down, connected in a continuous scrabble pattern. In each successive round, players will be given 2 more tiles which must be incorporated into your word grid in order to score the round.
Unlike scrabble, you can rearrange any of your tiles as many times as you like while you try to incorporate them in words. If you are unable to use all the tiles in a round (or simply wish to skip the round), you may choose to do so, penalties will apply.

How do you play?

Subscription rounds will be open for 24 hours.
Players will have 24 hours to fill in their grid with their tiles in each round, If all players have posted their grids early, new tiles may be provided sooner.
You may write your letters on the grid or you can download the tiles provided below. If you write them in you need to also provide the tile value's (for ease of scoring). (See below for instructions on how to add your tiles to the grid).

Sample

Player 1 wrote:
ACROSS
WIG = 7 points
DOWN
SWIRL = 8 points
TOTAL SCORE = 15

Player 1 wrote:
ACROSS
IWIS = 7 points
GIRL = 5 points
DOWN
WAG = 7 points
TOTAL SCORE = 19

Rules:

Only one post per player
EDITING will only be allowed for 10 minutes after your post. If you feel you added your points incorrectly do not worry, I will be double checking them and your posting them is just a guidline.
Words played side by side must also form words for all letters that are along side each other.
You are give two new tiles each round and you must then incorporate these into your word grid. You may rearrange any of the tiles at any time to achieve this.
If you complete a round successfully (by using all the tiles), you score for each word formed according to the letter value of each tile.
If you cannot use all tiles in a round, or wish to move to the next round, you must post accordinly. If so, you will not score any points for that round, and the point value for the new tiles will be deducted from your totals.
All words must be in the Collins Dictionary - Official Scrabble Word Check. Words that are not allowed to be played include suffixes, prefixes, abbreviations and words that requires the use of a hyphen or apostrophe.
Scoring:
- Each letter has a score value as indicated by a number on the tile. The score values of the horizontal words and vertical words are totaled. The letter used where a vertical and a horizontal word crosses is counted twice in scoring.
- Tile Values (click on the letter below to download the image or click here for the full alphabet)
  1 Point - A, E, I, L, N, O, R, S, T and U.
  2 Points - D and G.
  3 Points - B, C, M and P.
  4 Points - F, H, V, W and Y.
  5 Points - K.
  8 Points - J and X.
  10 Points - Q and Z.

Scoring in Round 10, even if you do not complete it successfully, you score for all valid words. You score a long word bonus for each word longer than six letters (round 10 only). Seven letters = 10, Eight = 20, Nine = 40, Ten = 60, Eleven = 100, Twelve = 140. If you complete the last round successfully, you score double points for your words. (Bonus points are on top of your word points and are NOT eligible to be doubled).

Click HERE for the grid

Rewards

All players posting in 10 Rounds - 50 WRZ$
Highest points + 250 WRZ$
2nd Highest points + 200 WRZ$
3rd Highest points + 150 WRZ$
4th Highest points + 100 WRZ$

Nov 16th, 2020, 8:06 pm

13Ice

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Nov 16th, 2020, 8:08 pm

#8075231 by 13Ice

How to post your Grid
To download and update the grid with your words added using the free online-image-editor

Right click on the image of the grid.
Save the image, either to your desktop or wherver you save images to be used later (or copy the image address(URL) and upload it directly into the "From URL" tab on image editor).
In the opening post is a shortcut to all the letters (under the Tile Values)
Either click on the full alphabet or just on the letters you want.
Again right click on the images and save them to the same place you have saved the board.
Now open the online-image-editor (this is a free image editor)
Top left is "Upload new picture"
Under the Upload tab is "Choose File" - find where you saved your images and choose the grid image, upload. You should now have the grid uploaded and on your screen.
Go to the Wizards tab at the top.
- Under the Wizards tab go to Overlay Image
- On the left is now a box that says Choose File
- Find the file that has all your images of the letters you saved.
- Choose the letter you want and upload it
- Move the image of the letter you just uploaded to the spot you want it and once in the right spot hit Apply. (Once you hit Apply you can not move the letter unless you say Undo, then you have to repeat the steps again).
- Click on wizards -Overlay Image again
- Repeat the steps until you have all your letters in the spots you want them.
When done you want to save your grid image (top left corner)
Now upload your grid to whatever hosting site you prefer and post your grid as per the rules.

You can choose any hosting site but many people prefer Imgur. Always make sure your image of the grid can be seen.
*if you use any word documents, once you save your images you should be able to load them into the document and then you can move them around as you wish, then you can save the completed image and upload as above.

Nov 16th, 2020, 8:08 pm