Re:Scrabble rule change allows use of 'OK'
by jolmg on Thursday May 02, 2019 @04:46PM
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On your Rule 1, do I understand that you can swap any number of letters on your turn before playing your word but with every 1-letter swap, the words need to remain valid? It's not good enough if you need to swap multiple letters before getting to a different valid word?
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Correct. The goal is not really to change the words on the board, but rather to get better letters into your hand.
Think of it as "I would have a full word if only I could get [X letter]." You see [X letter] on the board, and you want it. You might have to do a chain of one-letter-at-a-time swaps though to get it. And each swap has to make a new valid word. But once you get it, you can play your bingo.