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I cannot seem to find a clear answer to this scrabble question.
Say player one plays, "scrabble" as their first word. Is it valid for player two to then play, "hello," parallel to "scrabble" but starting with the "h" in "hello" next to the "e" in "scrabble" to make the second word, "he." Here is an example:
HELLO
SCRABBLE
The official rules state:
New words may be formed by:
Adding one or more letters to a word or letters already on the board.
Placing a word at right angles to a word already on the board. The new word must use one of the letters already on the board or must add a letter to it.
Placing a complete word parallel to a word already played so that adjacent letters also form complete words.
And in the scoring examples, the last example shows a similar case to yours - the word BIT is played underneath PASTE as such:
P A S T E
B I T
with the player scoring for the words BIT, PI and AT which are formed from the running parallel words. So yes, your example is valid - it is a single word, played parallel to an existing word, such that all adjacent tiles result in forming valid English words.
