Double Challenge
Double challenge is most widely used in North American club and tournament play. Suppose player A makes a play, then player B challenges. If the challenged word(s) are found to be acceptable, player B loses his turn. If the challenged word(s) are unacceptable, player A removes his played tiles and forfeits his turn. In NASPA tournament play, only exception occurs when the first play of the game misses the center star, in which the opponent may challenge the play off the board, regardless of its validity.
A criticism of double challenge is that it is more conducive to bluffing. A player may play a word he knows is invalid in the hope that his opponent will not risk a challenge.
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Famous quotes containing the words double and/or challenge:
“He does me double wrong
That wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“She might have been old once and now, miraculously, young again—but with the memory of that other life intact. She seemed to know the world down there in the dark hall and beyond for what it was. Yet knowing, she still longed to leave this safe, sunlit place at the top of the house for the challenge there.”
—Paule Marshall (b. 1929)