<p>The play you describe is both legal and generally easier to do than the multi-cross play you cite as a rules example.</p>

<p>The general rules relevant here are that, first, all the letters for a single play must be in a single line, either vertical or horizontal, and second, that all tiles adjacent to another tile (vertically or horizontally) must be part of a permissible words in each direction of adjacency.  Finally, at least one tile of any new play must be adjacent to a tile already played (except the first play of a new game, for which one tile must be on the pink star center square).</p>

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2020-08-04T05:20:32.510Z
If BRILLIANT has been played, can a player put the letter E under B, and O under T, and no other letters? That satisfies all the conditions you set out.
Acccumulation
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@Acccumulation no, the tiles you play must form a single word.
Jontia
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Zeiss Ikon
<p>I won a game by getting lots of points doing it ;)
but was contested and I could see their point. </p>

<p>Here are two examples:</p>

<pre><code>PLACES
     OTHER
</code></pre>

<p>or</p>

<pre><code>    BRILLIANT
SCORE
</code></pre>

<p>I can see from the official rules something similar is allowed:</p>

<pre><code> PASTE
BIT
</code></pre>

<p>The difference here is that BIT, PI and AT are created. So there is more than one parallel word created.</p>

<p>But are the examples I give only one parallel word is created, is this ok?</p>

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2018-09-14T19:27:25.767Z
Sounds like you were playing with some noobies. This is pretty basic Scrabble strategy. There's a great documentary about high-level Scrabble play called Word Wars if you're interested in learning more about the game.
Our_Benefactors
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2018-09-19T10:15:22.537Z
I just watched the trailer... I think I'm going to have to see this now ;)
davesmiths
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Is adding a parallel word that only intersects the end letter of an existing word allowed in Scrabble?
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# Is adding a parallel word that only intersects the end letter of an existing word allowed in Scrabble?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2018-09-13)

I won a game by getting lots of points doing it ;)
but was contested and I could see their point. 
Here are two examples:
PLACES
     OTHER

or
    BRILLIANT
SCORE

I can see from the official rules something similar is allowed:
 PASTE
BIT

The difference here is that BIT, PI and AT are created. So there is more than one parallel word created.
But are the examples I give only one parallel word is created, is this ok?

**Tags:** scrabble

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Sounds like you were playing with some noobies. This is pretty basic Scrabble strategy. There's a great documentary about high-level Scrabble play called Word Wars if you're interested in learning more about the game.  
> **username_0**: I just watched the trailer... I think I'm going to have to see this now ;)  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2018-09-13. Score: 58 | Accepted answer

The play you describe is both legal and generally easier to do than the multi-cross play you cite as a rules example.

The general rules relevant here are that, first, all the letters for a single play must be in a single line, either vertical or horizontal, and second, that all tiles adjacent to another tile (vertically or horizontally) must be part of a permissible words in each direction of adjacency. Finally, at least one tile of any new play must be adjacent to a tile already played (except the first play of a new game, for which one tile must be on the pink star center square).

> **Comments:**
> **username_3**: If BRILLIANT has been played, can a player put the letter E under B, and O under T, and no other letters? That satisfies all the conditions you set out.  
> **username_4**: @username_3 no, the tiles you play must form a single word.  

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