What happens if a player discovers eight tiles on his or her rack instead of seven?
There is no discussion in the boxed rules of SCRABBLE about what to do in this situation. The National Scrabble Association has devised a rule that seems to work very well for our SCRABBLE clubs and tournaments: The opponent randomly draws three tiles from the offending player’s rack, looks at them all, and then chooses which two to return to the pool of letters. The remaining tile goes back to the player’s rack. If a player overdraws two tiles, then the opponent randomly draws four tiles from the player’s rack, chooses which two to replace in the pool, and returns the other tiles to the player. And so on. In each case, the offending player may see all the tiles seen by the opponent. This overdrawing penalty influences most players to draw their tiles more carefully. One further note about overdrawing: If the overdrawing player realizes s/he has overdrawn before mixing any of the new tiles with the old ones, then the opponent should randomly choose tiles only from the group of newly dr
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