Strip Scrabble

Strip Scrabble® Rules for 2 – 4 players

Strip Scrabble® is a saucy variant of the standard Scrabble® board game which involves the partial or total undressing of the players. This version is highly flexible to suit all tastes and allows broad-minded players to achieve their desired level of extra pleasure from playing Scrabble®. The primary object of the game is to keep your clothes on and win!

1. Other than as described below, all the normal Scrabble® rules will apply. Set up and play the game as you would do normally. Have a dictionary available for use only and exclusively for resolving challenges.

2. Before beginning to play Strip Scrabble® each player counts and declares the total number of clothes they are wearing. All separate pieces of underwear, outer garments, socks or hosiery and footwear should be counted as single items. Accessories and jewellery (belts, shoelaces, spectacles, watches etc.) do not count as clothing. The highest count sets the standard for the game. Players with a count less than the highest are issued with a credit token such as a playing card or trinket for each item needed to make up the difference.

3. Everyone should agree a minimum score to be achieved in each turn to escape a penalty. This is called the safe score and will usually be between 5 and 10 points depending on the skill and daring of the players. The safe score may be changed during play by mutual agreement. Any limits of undress should also be agreed before play commences.

4. A Strip Scrabble® penalty is defined as either the surrender of a credit token or  the immediate removal of one item of clothing. This penalty is imposed on a player scoring less than the safe score in any turn while there is at least one tile left in the pool still to be drawn.

5. Any player who is unable to make a word, or chooses to use their turn to replace any or all of the letter tiles in their rack, incurs a penalty when there is at least one tile left in the pool still to be drawn.

6. If a word is challenged and found to be invalid then it is removed and its player scores zero for that turn with the consequent penalty. If the word is ruled to be valid then the challenger sustains the penalty.

7. At the end of each game, final scores are calculated according to standard Scrabble® rules. The player with the lowest score earns one penalty for every 50 points difference between their score and the highest.

8. When a player is completely naked or reaches any prearranged limit of undress they are eliminated from the game. The last person still in play after all others have been excluded is declared the winner.