Scrabble Up
BGG rank
BGG #29,720
BGG rating
4.7

Scrabble Up

1996

Rules assistance for Scrabble Up

Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.

  • 2 players
  • 30 min
  • 8+
  • Complexity 1.5/5

Rules assistant for Scrabble Up

For 2 players

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Answers come from the official rulebook, with the page to check.

Scrabble Up is a board game released in 1996 for 2 players, 30 minutes per game, and ages 8 and up. It was designed by Hank Atkins and its main mechanics are Real-Time.

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About the game

Bears little resemblance to the classic word game it's named for. Each player starts with six letter tiles; the first to accumulate 19 or more is the winner. Each player tries to form the longest possible word from the OTHER player's tiles, starting with the last tile drawn. The first to find a word starts a marble rolling down a zigzag groove, and the other player must give a word before the marble reaches the bottom. Then each player takes the tiles of the word they formed from the other player, each draws a new starting tile, and they take the next turn. There is also a variant which uses the point values on the tiles (same as in Scrabble) for scoring.

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  • Milton Bradley

Questions and answers

Scrabble Up supports 2 players according to the catalogue. This is the publisher’s listed player count, so the game is designed for exactly that number of participants. Variants for other group sizes, if any, are described in the rulebook of your edition, so check it before setting up a different configuration.