Single tile multipliers

There are ways to score extra points using multipliers on the gaming board. Some of the cells on the board have multipliers such that when you place a tile on that cell, then you are allowed to multiply the value of that tile with the multiplier on that cell. The incredible thing with multipliers on the cells is that there are multipliers that multiply the value of the whole word you have formed and not just one letter.

These multipliers include Double Letter Score which is light blue in color on the board. Obviously, this implies that if you place a tile on a cell labeled double letter score, the point value of that tile will be multiplied by two or in other words, doubled. There is also a dark blue cell that is usually labeled Triple Letter Score. This allows the player to multiply the value of the tile placed on that cell by three or in other words, tripled. That’s as far as multipliers that multiply values of letters go.

Entire word multipliers

It was mentioned that there are also multipliers that increase the value of the whole word created. There are cells labeled Double Word Score. These cells are light red in color and if you observe carefully, you will notice that these cells run diagonally extending to the four corners of the gaming board.

Placing tiles on these cells allows you to multiply the value of the entire word by two. The tile on which you place on the cell has to be part of the word though. Therefore, when you form a word that falls on this cell, you will add up the scores on the tiles forming the word including those of single letter multipliers and multiply the value of the word formed by two. Sometimes, a word falls on two Double Word Score cells and therefore, it only follows that that word is doubled and then redoubled. This is the same as multiplying by four.

There is also another word multiplier that is denoted by a cell labeled Triple Word Score. These cells appear as dark red cells. Placing tiles on this cell means you are allowed to multiply the value of that word the tile is in, by three. Sometimes, a word can also fall on two Triple Word Score cells. This means that the player’s score is tripled and re-tripled. This is equivalent to multiplying by nine.

Important point to note: These multipliers can only be used once. As you progress in the game and another word formed also falls on the cells with multipliers that have been used before, it is not allowed to use that multiplier again.

Bonus points

Sometimes, it is possible to use all the seven tiles at once in a single move. This means that you exhaust the tiles at your disposal sitting on the rack. Such a move is handsomely rewarded with 50 bonus points on top of the score that is earned normally.