Naughty Scrabble

[Tailsteak]

Naughty Scrabble

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Scrabble, with the following rule changes:

1) No letter trades allowed. If you have a hand you don't like, you can discard it entirely and draw a new set of seven letters from the bag. This ends your turn, however, with zero points scored.

2) Any word that is considered "naughty" (i.e., something that, if said within earshot of a seven-year-old, would cause them to giggle and repeat it endlessly) gets a 50 point bonus (thus, "ass" is worth more than "assassin"). This bonus is added after the score for the word is tabulated, and is thus unaffected by double and triple word scores. If it cannot be agreed whether or not a given word is "naughty", it is put to a vote, with "yes it is" winning any ties.

3) Any time you score less than twenty points in a round (either from playing a low-scoring word or from following rule 1), you must either take a shot (something distilled - a gulp of beer is not a shot) or remove an article of clothing (standard strip poker rules on what constitutes an article of clothing)... so if you're not comfortable being naked, you'd better be comfortable being drunk, and vice versa.

4) Once the letter bag is emptied, everyone has just one round left to use up all their letters, with each remaining tile resulting in either a shot or a removed article of clothing, as per rule 3.

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Why does my brain keep making these

Why

[Packbat]

Why does my brain keep making these

Why

Prolonged exposure to Max.

[snowyowl]

I think it might be a little unbalanced; I rarely score twenty points per round on Scrabble skill alone, and there's only so many naughty words. According to standard Strip Poker rules, I am currently wearing 4 articles of clothing (and I'd really like to still be wearing at least 1 by the end of the game), and I'd be comfortable drinking up to 4 shots, assuming I hadn't drunk anything earlier in the evening (which, considering I've apparently been convinced to play Naughty Scrabble, is unlikely).

A typical Scrabble game lasts... what, 30 turns? Thirty divided by the number of players multiplied by the probability of getting a forfeit plus the number of tiles left at the end... seems a little bit high to me.

[Sorcyress]

...or remove an article of clothing (standard strip poker rules on what constitutes an article of clothing)

emphasis mine

I've never played strip poker, may I substitute standard strip dreidl rules instead?

~Sor