Scrabble but each tile is worth its alphabetical position! 

Is it possible to do a modified dictionary variant? I'd be interested in seeing a game with the dictionary limited to say the 10,000 most frequently used English words from the normal Scrabble dictionary (or however many makes sense), effectively simulating the word knowledge of a casual player who hasn't looked into some of the more esoteric words specifically useful for Scrabble.

I wanted to say that this was a bagging, but here is the math. Mack drew 47 tiles total, Bot drew 51 tiles. The point differential on tiles drawn was -127 in Quackle's favor. But this does include the IJO tiles that the bot never played that Mack got as points at the end. So the bot was drawing on average about 10 points more than Mack after each play... I would say that is significant. You should run this Scrabble variant again and see if you might draw more favorably!

It was a bit of a bagging, the bot having TUUUY while you had ABCEF says it all.

This variant makes overlaps really powerful

I'd be more interested with this set up but in reverse. So A's would be 26 and Z's 1. In regular scrabble the G, Z, X, V, J ect are already high scoring so this game still is in line with what we expect. But making letters like the vowels and C, and D high scoring would be a fascinating run!

On the ROmAN turn I think something like L12 FOHN for 151 looks decent positionally, keeping AR? for huge triple triples as well as keeping the right side of WAGE open. Something like TRUANTrY scores 1,121! The triple-triple might also be tough to block if Quackle has a ton of consonants. After a worst case scenario like TUYER, the board is just so dead (even if it scored considerably less). Still, Quackle was clearly outdrawing you by quite a lot. Fun variant, and will have to give it a try sometime!

You should try Scrabble but the double/triple premium tiles are reversed (DLS squares become TWS, DWS squares become TLS squares etc.) Early-game triple triples are bound to happen

The legendary UUU leave. What a variant

O great video. Such a good idea for a variant

very entertaining, and crazy that you played so well with such a different strategy and recalibration required

What about “scrabble but every word is valid”

Finally! Some justice for Quackle!!

you can also do it in reverse order

I think you might have missed higher scoring plays in certain spots simply because the word might have been very bad in normal scrabble. For example, overlapping plays are much more valuable in this variant because so many tiles late in the alphabet form a lot of 2 letter words; and you might just be overlooking these plays because the tiles are all one pointers in regular scrabble

Bingos are so much less valuable in this game. Is it possible to change the value of a bingo? If not, are non integer tiles possible?

Can you do a variant where the game is scored differently? For example, points based on the length of each new word created. Not sure if you can do this with quackle, so you may need a human opponent like to your lowest score wins games.

It may be too late to get a reply, but I am curious. If you were to replace the two blank tiles with any letters, what would they be?

what about: scrabble but every tile is worth 1