Scrabble: Jake Rules

My good freind Jake and I used to hang out every Wednesday to play scrabble before choir practice. The Jake Rules came from those afternoons.

Jake Rules for Scrabble:

• Any words, names, or made up words from books, TV, or lyrics and conversations (sang and abbreviations of these) are all allowed.
• You should always have 7 tile
• Words can go up, down, forward, and backward, but not diagonal.
• Wrap around if the word is too long.
• The person with the longest word ready at the beginning of the game goes first. (If in the case of a tie, the player with the highest points on their longest word shall go first.)
• You can draw for a letter you need in exchange for one of your other letters, once every few turns for an exceptional word. (Cannot use on consecutive turns)
• You can trade a tile with a tile in someone else’s “deck” if they agree to the trade.
• You can only take points for a double/triple-letter/word space if and only if you were the one to cover the space with one of your tiles during the single turn (once it is used you can not use that bonus again in the same game session)
• If your word is two words (one spelled front ward and one spelled backwards) count it twice.
• If need be, you can use two ‘I’s for the Roman numeral II