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Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble
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....
 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, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place....
 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.






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Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble
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....
 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, Eleven plus two = Twelve plus one, A decimal point = I'm a dot in place....
 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 is a term generally applied to a form of the English language that is thought to be normative for educated native speakers. It encompasses grammar, vocabulary, spelling, and to some degree pronunciation....
, 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
SOWPODS

SOWPODS is a term used to refer to the word list used in tournament Scrabble in most countries except the United States, Thailand and Canada. The term SOWPODS is derived from the anagram of the two acronym Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and Chambers Dictionary, these being the original two official dictionaries used in various p...
)


Clabbers Example Board
Horizontal words from top to bottom

  • 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 = QI
    Qi

    In traditional Chinese culture, qi is an active principle forming part of any living thing.It is frequently translated as "energy flow," and is often compared to Western notions of energeia or ?lan vital as well as the Yoga Pranayama of prana....
  • VUEJ = JUVE
  • EWY = WEY
  • ODOR = ODOR
  • ASSGEOU = GASEOUS
  • ROH = RHO
    Rho

    Rho may refer to:*Rho , a letter of the Greek alphabet, upper case ?, lower case ?...


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 = JOR
    Jor

    In music of India, jor is the instrumental rendition of nomtom. The Tala is usually slow or moderate with an incompletely developed rhythm cycle. It is more common in instrumental concerts than in vocal....
  • RO = OR