From Novice to Expert with Scrabble World Champion David Eldar
Forcing Function Hour
The Challenge Penalty in North American Scrabble
In scrabble, there's no rule against putting down fake words or what's called phonies. In north america, if you challenge the word and the word is legitimate, you actually have a penalty of losing your turn. There's this gamesmanship of putting down a phony where you don't have a real word, and sort of daring your opponent to challenge it. The one where you lose a turn for either challenging or playing a false word, is called double challenge.
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