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Officially sanctioned SCRABBLE® play in Canada and the United States must obey the Official Tournament Rules, edited by the Rules Committee.
See also: the NASPA Code of Conduct, which originally took effect on July 1, 2009, and was revised effective June 7, 2011.
This edition was released on September 10, and includes minor changes since the July draft. A list of rule changes will be available later this week.
This interim draft edition was published for review, but did not ever officially take effect. A few minor changes to this edition resulted in the September 10 edition. In addition to the full rules document, a shorter list of rule changes is provided.
(As of September 3, a second revision is expected this week. Due to its delay, the date on which the rules will take effect will have to be delayed. No date for this has yet been chosen, but there will be a reasonable interval after the publication of the final version of the rules, during which members can familiarize themselves with the changes.)
Extensive changes were made to the rules, with the new edition published to this website on June 19, 2012.
The rules are available in PDF format for online viewing and printing:
Several rules changes were published in the May 2011 issue of the NASPA Bulletin and will take effect on June 16, 2011. Some of the significant changes include:
The rules are available in PDF format for online viewing and printing:
Several clarifications of our existing rules went into effect February 2, 2010. There were also several significant improvements, some of which include:
The rules are available in PDF format for online viewing and printing:
Several rule changes came into effect on August 1, 2009. Please read the list of changes carefully.
IMPORTANT: This is a clarification from the Rules Committee regarding rules that refer to “reporting error” when submitting result slips.
A result slip CAN ONLY be amended if the two players’ scores have been reversed; or if the score written on the result slip is a mistake. (i.e. The score on the result slip differs from what both players agreed upon at the end of the game.)
A result slip CANNOT be amended if an overtime penalty was not accounted for; or if tiles left on a player’s rack (or both players’ racks) were not accounted for; or if any sort of recount or mathematical adjustment takes place after the result slip has been signed and submitted.
The rules are available in PDF format for online viewing and printing:
A rewritten version of rule III.A.2 took effect on February 9, 2009. Complete version of rules:
A major rewrite of the tournament rules became effective February 1, 2009.
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