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The parent calls out a three-letter word, and the child must move the letters to spell it out on the bottom row. Both teams use the same set of letters, and the team playing second waits in an offstage isolation booth until their turn comes. The first team's turn ends after four words or 60 seconds, whichever comes first.
Local variants include Take One or Take Four; the banning of 2 letter words; having a dictionary on hand for any players to use (but since it is a game of speed, this doesn't get used much); a bonus of 50 points for building a specific word, a bonus for longest word (number of letters in word, not tile values; and only if a single player has ...
In the majority of alternades, every second letter is used to make two smaller words, but in some cases, every third letter is used to make three smaller words. Theoretically, a very long word could use every fourth letter to make four smaller words; e.g., «partitioned» is an alternade for «pin», «ate», «rid», and «to».
The term four-letter word serves as a euphemism for words that are often considered profane or offensive.. The designation "four-letter" arises from the observation that many (though not all) popular or slang terms related to excretory functions, sexual activity, genitalia, blasphemies, and terms linked to Hell or damnation are incidentally four-character monosyllables.
The English language has a very large number of single-word anadromes, by some counts more than 900. [3] Some examples: two letters: am ↔ ma; eh ↔ he; ew ↔ we; no ↔ on; three letters: bro ↔ orb; dog ↔ god; gum ↔ mug; nip ↔ pin; four letters: edit ↔ tide; evil ↔ live; liar ↔ rail; part ↔ trap
The player scores points by using the letters to form words consisting of four or more letters. However, any words proposed by the player must include the letter at the center of the honeycomb. Each letter can be used more than once. You get one point for each letter in the word, except four letter words only score 1 point.
Spell out: Used to indicate that an abbreviation should be spelled out, such as in its first use stet: Let it stand: Indicates that proofreading marks should be ignored and the copy unchanged tr: transpose: Transpose the two words selected wf: Wrong font: Put text in correct font ww [3] Wrong word: Wrong word used (e.g. to/too)
The minimum acceptable word length can be adjusted to a player's skill level (for example, in a game with adults and children playing together, the children may be permitted to form four-letter words while the adults are restricted to words of at least five or six letters).