Scrabble's gameplay is intuitive and easy to learn, and it allows players to jump right into the actual game without any real need to go over the manual. Gameplay is primarily handled using the mouse as tiles are dragged into appropriate squares, with various in-game commands simply a click away. At the end of each turn, players can manually pick up the tiles or have the computer automate the action. In Scrabble's single player and LAN gameplay modes, the game allows players to add up to two computer or human opponents. Each computer opponent has an adjustable difficulty setting ranging from novice to expert, and players can also adjust the computer's challenge level by setting a numeric value.
Scrabble allows customized dictionaries to be incorporated, as well.
Adding to the traditional game of Scrabble, the computerized version enhances gameplay with hints, tile information, word guides, and tile rack organization, all located conveniently to the right of a player's tile rack. Although the hints and guide options can be disabled in multiplayer mode, they can be quite instructive as the computer staggers word suggestions based on a player's tile collection and the arrangement of the tiles in play. The guide cleverly offers word suggestions based on what's available on a player's tile rack, organizing them based on word point values, anagrams, consonant-heavy words and variations on the English language. The rack button allows words to be arranged alphabetically, descending and ascending in tile value, and by vowels in descending order to consonants. But this is only the tip of the iceberg, as the multiplayer function adds a whole new dimension to the game.