Scrabble Rack Attack is a Scrabble game, but no ordinary. The biggest
difference is, that you have only seven letters to use.

Before you start a game, you choose the game modus you want to play. One Rack,
Rounds, or Extreme, furthermore you can choose to play with or without time
limit.

If you play with time limit, you have 5 minutes to make as much points as you
can, before the round (or the game) ends in easy mode. In normal, you will
only have 4 minutes, while in hard, you only have 3 minutes.

In One Rack you play a single one-round game. While Rounds and Extreme offers
multiple rounds.

So, when you now start a game, the computer will generate you seven letters.
And your playfield will show you all possibilities with 3-, 4-, 5-, 6-, and
7-letter-words. So you can see that you can, for example, combine 21 3-letter
words, 8 4-letter-words, and so on. When you now combine a word, the
corresponding hidden word will reveal itself and you score the points. When
you succeed in finding all words in a category (like all 3-letter-words), you
receive bonus points. If you produce a wrong word, it just will be rejected,
the same goes for words you already have found.

If you playing with rounds, than you have a round limit you must reach, before
you can proceed to the next level.

But that’s not all in a level. You will see how many points you have on your
Scrabble Scoring Meter, and you will see the bonus flags there too. Reaching
the Double Word Flag will double all your points you get now, then you can
aim for the Triple Word Flag , which will triple your words. Furthermore,
there is a 1-Minute-Time-Flag , which will give you an extra one minute, if
you play a time based game. And finally, there are the bonus points on top of
the Score Meter, to catch them, you must find all words. But hurry, the longer
you need, the fewer these final bonus points will be.

The third game modus, Extreme, is really extreme. Here you can’t allow
yourself to make errors. Errors (wrong words) in the other modes will just get
rejected, but here you will loose one word. So if you produce a typo,
regardless the length of your word, one of the 3-letter-hidden-words will turn
into X’s and you can’t find that word anymore, if all 3-letter-words are
found/lost, it continues with the 4-letter-words, and so on.

You have two possibilities to play the game, either mouse based (clicking the
letters) or keyboard based (typing the letter). Once you found a word, it will
reveal itself. You can click on it, and Maven will give you it’s definition
(both description and grammar) and sometimes you can that way figure out more
words, like the plural form to a word you found. If you are stuck, you can ask
Maven for a help (help button), and he will help you, first only with the
beginning letter of a word and the amount of letters in it, but, if you ask
again, he will also give you all letters (unsorted) in the word. And with
every new help you will get a bit more from the beginning of the word, until
the whole word is revealed. If you end the round (by going to the next level,
or quitting), the game reveals all words you don’t find, and you can ask Maven
for it’s definitions.

In additional to that all, the game offers 3 different highscores, one is
total-point-based, one is round-based, and one is word-point-based.

The dictionary, the game uses is the North American Official Scrabble Players
Dictionary, 3rd Edition , and with this you may get stuck in a game, because
it contains many non-regular words.

Scrabble Rack Attack