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Simultaneous Scrabble is a concept for an online multiplayer game for 2-10 players. Its pace of play is significantly faster than normal scrabble, making it more accessible in a casual or party setting.

Play the game at scrabble.bencuan.me!

The base rules are the same as Scrabble. Everything should also apply to Simultaneous Scrabble (with the exception of rules relating to turn-based play).

Simultaneous Mode runs in rounds until the game ends (someone uses all of their letters). Each round consists of two phases: the Play Phase, where players can place their tiles, and the Challenge Phase, where players get to dispute questionable plays (e.g. QWXIY).

During this time, it's a free-for-all: place your tiles as quickly as possible to ensure others don't take your spot!

You can also play onto words placed on that same round, so if there are no openings it may be beneficial to wait for another player to make their turn as well.

Pressing the 'Ready' button during this phase indicates that you wish to skip your turn.

Players are not allowed to make moves during this time. If anyone wishes to challenge, you may press the 'Challenge' button next to any other player's name. The challenge works as follows:

• All words placed by the player in question from the immediately preceeding Play Phase will be looked up in the dictionary.
• If any one of the words played by that player are invalid, the challenged player loses their next turn. The letters placed remain, however (so this could be a viable strategy for getting rid of bad letters).
• If all of the words were valid, then you (as the challenger) lose your next turn.

If no challenges need to be made, players can press the 'Ready' button to advance to the next round.

If you just want to play, feel free to hop onto scrabble.bencuan.me. The following instructions are for developers and those who wish to customize the game further.

Make sure that you have nodejs installed.

1. Clone the repository: https://github.com/64bitpandas/SimultaneousScrabble

2. Install dependencies: npm i

3. Run the nodemon server: npm start

4. If doing frontend development, you can instead run npx node server which will hot-reload any frontend changes (but not backend changes).

By default, the frontend is served to localhost:3001 and the backend listens to localhost:3000. Navigate to localhost:3001 to play! (Note that you will need to enter DEBUG or localhost into the 'Server' box to avoid connecting to the main server.)

The app is best deployed with separate handling for frontend and backend.

For the frontend, run npm run build and the app should be available to you in the build/ folder.

For the backend, npm start is good enough. The backend will automatically bind to available ports (if the PORT variable is set), and falls back to 3000 if none are found in your environment.

Created by Ben Cuan using Node.js, Express, Socket.io, React

Definition lookups and wordlist are accredited to jscrab.