Watch “Top 5 Games better than Scrabble with Coach Troy,” a board game entertainment video for Scrabble from Coach Troy on BoardGameVideo.
Description provided by Coach Troy on YouTube:
Here I go through a list of games that do what scrabble does but better. Let me know what you think.
5 Word on the Street
4 Qwirkle
3 Quinto
2 Paperback
1 Anagram
Honorable Mentions:
Bananagrams
Sagrada
Jati
Werewords
Boggle
Tapple
Unspeakable Words
Dishonorable Mentions:
Foil
Upwords
Quiddler
Some how-to-play and reviews. Scrabble is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 10 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 7 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 26 other videos.
2 - 4 players
90 min
Medium weight: Teach it in one sitting
About Scrabble, from BoardGameGeek:
In this classic word game, players use their seven drawn letter-tiles to form words on the gameboard. Each word laid out earns points based on the commonality of the letters used, with certain board spaces giving bonuses. But a word can only be played if it uses at least one already-played tile or adds to an already-played word. This leads to slightly tactical play, as potential words are rejected because they would give an opponent too much access to the better bonus spaces.
Skip-a-cross was licensed by Selchow & Righter and manufactured by Cadaco. Both games have identical rules but Skip-a-cross has tiles and racks made of cardboard instead of wood. The game was also published because not enough Scrabble games were manufactured to meet the demand.