Ron Rules

Ron Rules, as my friends and family call them, are a frame that mostly applies to LetterByLetterWordGames such as Scrabble, Boggle, Upwords, BuyWord?, Anagrams, Quiddler, LetterHead?, AlphaPlayingCards?, and so on. The Golden Ron Rule is just this: Any word played is acceptable if all players agree it’s acceptable. (If your word is rejected, letters go back into your hand.)

When you play a word, if it’s not an ordinary English word, it’s your job to convince the other players to accept it. Good reasons to accept a word include the following:

• It makes you laugh.
• It’s clever.
• It ought to exist (for example, many kids think the present tense of misled is misle).
• It occurs somewhere in print (words of this kind include hobbit, muggle, droid, phaser, and so on, not to mention DeciGame? and MultiFrame?).

Have fun with this frame and don’t be too hard-nosed about judging opponents’ words. The player whose word you just rejected may decide to reject your next word out of spite.