Swaps, passes and how games end

To swap, put the tiles you don't want face down, draw the same number from the bag, then put the old ones back in. It takes your turn and scores 0, and you can only do it while at least seven tiles are left in the bag. A swap, a pass, or a word taken off the board after a challenge is a scoreless turn, and a run of them ends the game: at home, when every player passes twice in a row.

1. 1Say you're swapping. Put the tiles you want to get rid of face down beside the board.
2. 2Draw the same number of new tiles from the bag.
3. 3Put the old tiles into the bag and give it a shake.
4. 4That's your turn. You score 0.

Every game ends when the bag is empty and someone plays their last tile (going out). If nobody can go out, the family rule ends it when every player passes twice in a row, with no word or swap in between: a swap starts the count over for everyone. A play taken off after a challenge counts as a pass.

When someone goes out in a two-player club game, they add double the other player's leftover tiles, and the other player doesn't subtract theirs. With three or more players, use the family scoring.

At home, with the family rule, each player loses their leftover tiles' points, and the player who went out gains them all.