Wordsteal Formats -

1. STACKERS

You may only lay tiles left to right

2. NO S STEALS

A single S cannot be added to the end of a word - a word being two letters or more, unless you change the beginning also. In front of a word or on single tiles is ok!

3. INVISIBLE S:

The letter S CANNOT be played in any way, at any time.

3a. INVISIBLE LETTERS:

The stated letter CANNOT be played in any way, at any time.

4. NO PINKS:

The pink squares may not be used at any time.

5. NO PEACH:

The peach squares may not be used at any time.

6. PEACH GROVE:

You may not clear the board(use a pink square) until you have 4 bonus points. (Peach dots by your name). Please let other player know you have the 4 BEFORE clearing to avoid misunderstandings.

7. CROSSWORD OX:

No 2 letter words may be used at any time (filling in to make a 3 letter word is allowed). Example below - black are the original words - the red is the 'filler' word.

C __A __ P

A __P __ E

P __E __ N

8. 2 TILE:

You may only play 2 tiles per go.

8a. 3 TILE:

You may only play 3 tiles per go.

9. BORDERLINE:

The very outside edge of the board cannot be used (including pinks).

10. BORDER ESCAPE:

The very outside edge of the board cannot be used except for ANY of the FOUR centre pinks to clear. Then only the ONE tile on the pink - no other tiles allowed on the outside edge.

11. QUADRO:

No word on the board, anywhere, should be more than 4 letters long - example: if you lay ires or horn, it CANNOT be added to.

12. SETTERS CHOICE:

The player that sets the table chooses the rules.

13. JUMPERS CHOICE:

The player that joins the table chooses the rules.

14. NO S, EVER ON THE END OF A WORD: (HISSING ESSES!)

Words such as - chaos, his, ass, is, os, es CANNOT be used at all.

15. CORNER PINKS ONLY:

You can only clear on any for the FOUR corner pinks, the centre pinks are not to be used at all.

16. CLEAR ON YOUR OWN PINK ONLY:

You can only clear on the ONE pink square nearest to where you 'sit'.

17. CLEAR ON CENTRE/MIDDLE PINKS:

You can only clear on any of the FOUR centre pinks, the corner pinks are NOT to be used at all.

18. ODDBALL RULES:

Other rules will be explained by the hosting TD