🇪🇸 ¡Hola! The CH, LL and RR tiles arrive in Spanish games

If you play in Spanish you know it: in that language’s Scrabble some letter pairs are a single tile. CH, LL and RR have their own tile, with two letters on it and a high value. From today you’ll find them on LexiSmash too.

Where to turn them on

When you create a room and choose Spanish as the “Alphabet & Scoring Language”, a new rust-coloured button appears below the “Scoring System”: 🇪🇸 Advanced Spanish Rules. Inside you’ll find all the rules:

• which tiles to use among CH, LL and RR;
• the chance that a drawn consonant is a double tile (6% by default);
• the values: as in Spanish Scrabble, CH is worth 5 points, LL and RR 8 points. With Custom Scoring the Master decides them;
• the strict or soft rule.

How words are read

If there’s a double tile on the board, the pair in the word counts as a single tile. LLAMA with the LL tile is made with LL + A + M + A, and the LL brings all its 8 points. A Joker can stand in for a double tile.

With the soft rule (the default), if the double tile isn’t there the two single letters count: L + L instead of LL. With the strict rule, as in official Scrabble, CH, LL and RR can only be written with the double tile or a Joker.

On the board the tile shows the two letters in a slightly smaller font. In the room’s rules summary, both in the lobby and in the ready-made modes, “🔠 Double tiles” appears with everything the Master chose. The settings are saved in the game file together with the others.

A practical tip

If you’re playing with friends who are learning Spanish, start with the soft rule: words are easier to make and the double tiles become a nice bonus to look for. For a challenge worthy of real Scrabble players, turn on the strict rule. You’ll find all the details in the game manual.