Clabbers
Encyclopedia
Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble
players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments. The name derives from the fact that the words CLABBERS and SCRABBLE form an anagram
pair.
Because the number of "words" that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English
, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others. Game scores will often be much higher than in standard Scrabble, due to the relative ease of making high-scoring overlap plays and easier access to premium squares.
Horizontal words from top to bottom
Vertical words from left to right
Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments. The name derives from the fact that the words CLABBERS and SCRABBLE form an anagram
Anagram
An anagram is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce a new word or phrase, using all the original letters exactly once; e.g., orchestra = carthorse, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place, Tom Marvolo Riddle = I am Lord Voldemort. Someone who...
pair.
Rules
The rules are identical to that of Scrabble, except that valid plays are only required to form anagrams of acceptable words; in other words, the letters in a word do not need to be placed in the correct order. If a word is challenged, the player who played the word must then name an acceptable word that anagrams to the tiles played.Because the number of "words" that can be formed is vastly larger than in standard English
Standard English
Standard English refers to whatever form of the English language is accepted as a national norm in an Anglophone country...
, the board usually ends up tightly packed in places, and necessarily quite empty in others. Game scores will often be much higher than in standard Scrabble, due to the relative ease of making high-scoring overlap plays and easier access to premium squares.
Example game (SOWPODS)
- ALI = AIL
- TOD = DOT
- ISNAETCR = CANISTER
- WOPL = PLOW
- DEER = DEER
- ZIF = FIZ
- SIATX = TAXIS
- BTADEI = BAITED
- MGU = GUM
- EMING = MINGE
- ECOPU = COUPE
- RATHE = HEART
- IQ = QIQiIn traditional Chinese culture, qì is an active principle forming part of any living thing. Qi is frequently translated as life energy, lifeforce, or energy flow. Qi is the central underlying principle in traditional Chinese medicine and martial arts...
- VUEJ = JUVE
- EWY = WEY#
- ODOR = ODOR
- ASSGEOU = GASEOUS
- ROH = RHORhoRho is the 17th letter of the Greek alphabet. In the system of Greek numerals, it has a value of 100. It is derived from Semitic resh "head"...
Vertical words from left to right
- ATIW = WAIT
- KAMER = MAKER
- LOSODF = FLOODS
- GCALINS = SCALING
- IDNPE = PINED
- UOT = OUT
- ALEZ = LAZE
- PHA = HAP
- RSITOUEN = ROUTINES
- FIAR = FAIR
- EBRYE = BEERY
- XIM = MIX
- NAV = VAN
- UO = OU
- GULNED = LUNGED
- JOR = JORJorIn Indian music, the jor is a formal section of composition in the long elaboration of a raga that forms the beginning of a performance. Jor is the instrumental equivalent of nomtom in the dhrupad vocal style of Indian music. Both have a simple pulse but no well-defined rhythmic cycle....
# - RO = OR