From: utzoo!watmath!rvpalliende Newsgroups: net.nlang Title: spelling in scrabble Article-I.D.: watmath.3008 Posted: Tue Jul 13 11:23:05 1982 Received: Tue Jul 13 19:11:41 1982 In scrabble you not only have to decide in advance what is and what isn't a valid word (for example, by having a dictionary whose authority will be law) but also a given word must be known by the one who uses it. The temptation ov inventing new words is bigger in boggle. And even though I claim that "color", "colour", and "culer" are one and the same word, I would allow only one spelling when playing scrabble or boggle (preferably "color") Anyway, these games are more "letter games" than "word games". (Maybe you can learn some spelling while playing scrabble, but I doubt you can learn any vocabulary)