Scrabble
A short game of Scrabble against another Tamagotchi: take turns making words on the board from your 7 tiles. The higher total wins.
Can be drawn when your Tamagotchi becomes an adult. Cannot start while sleeping or sick.
On screen
Buttons
| Button | Action |
|---|---|
| A | Move the cursor back over the empty squares (and SWAP / PASS). With your rack open: up the rack. After the first tile: the other stop (across, down, PLAY). |
| B | Move the cursor on over the empty squares (and SWAP / PASS). With your rack open: down the rack. After the first tile: the other stop (across, down, PLAY). |
| C | On a square: open your rack; in your rack: put the tile down. On PLAY: play the word. On SWAP / PASS: swap your whole rack / pass. On the results: go on. |
| D | Take back the last tile you put down (with your rack open: close it). Held: CANCEL? YES stops the game (no points). |
How to play
The 15 by 15 board with the usual bonus squares: double and triple letter, double and triple word (the centre star is a double word). The bag has the usual 98 tiles and points, but no blanks. Who goes first is drawn at random; each player has 6 turns. On your turn, A / B move the cursor over the empty squares (round from either end) and onto SWAP and PASS; C on a square opens your rack and C again puts the chosen tile there. The cursor then jumps to the next empty square across, or down (A / B), or onto PLAY; your second tile fixes the direction and the cursor jumps along it. D takes back the last tile. C on PLAY plays the word: it must go in one line with no gaps, join the tiles already down (the first word covers the star), and every word it makes must be in the word list (the common English words of Word Shake plus the common two-letter words); otherwise NOT A WORD (or another reason) shows and your tiles stay to change. Each word made scores its letters' points (doubled / tripled on a new tile's letter square), times a new tile's word squares; all 7 tiles in one turn scores 50 more. SWAP changes your whole rack while the bag still has 7 tiles; PASS skips your turn. The other player finds the words it can make in its everyday vocabulary and usually plays the best one. The game ends after the last turn (or when a player uses their last tile with the bag empty); the totals show (C goes on) and the higher one wins. Points for a win.
Points
| Win | Points earned |
|---|---|
| Below 1 | None |
| 1 | 400 points |
Points are added when the game ends, before the pile of cash drops. See Points for what they buy.