page_title: Anagrams (game)
section_title: Rules
hierarchical_section_title: Anagrams (game) / Rules
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context_page_description: Anagrams is a tile-based word game that involves rearranging letter tiles to form words.
  The game pieces are a set of tiles with letters on them. Tiles are turned over one by one, and players form words by combining unused tiles with existing words, their own or others'. The game has never been standardized and there are many varieties of sets and rules. Anagrams is often played with tiles from another word game, such as Scrabble. There are also web and mobile app-based versions of the game.
context_section_description: Different editions of the game use different rules, and players now often play by house rules, but most are variants of the rules given here, taken from Snatch-It.
  To begin, all tiles are placed face down in a pool in the middle of the table. Players then take turns flipping over tiles until somebody notices a word of three or more letters. A word can be formed by either:
  Using a number of face-up tiles from the pool
  "Stealing" a word from a player by combining it with one or more tiles from the pool to make a new word (e.g., the word TRACK may be formed with a K from the pool and a player's CART). Players may also combine their own words with additional tiles from the pool in the same way.
  When a player sees a word, they call it immediately (irrespective of who flipped the last tile) and place the word in front of them. The game then continues with further tiles being flipped.
  All words must be at least three letters long. When a word is expanded with tiles from the pool, the added tiles may not simply be a suffix (like -S or -ING).
  The game ends when all tiles are face up and no further words can be formed. Players then score according to the words they have in front of them: a 3-letter word is worth 1 point, a 4-letter word 2 points, and so on.
caption: All games of Anagrams are played with letter tiles
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