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===Scrabble=== | ===Scrabble=== | ||
# Some poskim consider Scrabble a kli shemelachto li'isur since it is a game which involves writing down the score.<ref> Sefer Tiltulei [[Shabbat]] pg. 24 </ref> | # Some poskim consider Scrabble a kli shemelachto li'isur since it is a game which involves writing down the score.<ref> Sefer Tiltulei [[Shabbat]] pg. 24 </ref> | ||
# It’s forbidden to play a game that one normally writes when playing the game. (See the page on [[Kotaiv]].) <Ref> Chaye Adam ([[Shabbat]] 38:11) </ref> Therefore, some say that scrabble shouldn’t be played on [[Shabbat]] because one normally writes when playing the game. < | # It’s forbidden to play a game that one normally writes when playing the game, since we are concerned that one might absent-mindedly write while playing the game. (See the page on [[Kotaiv]].) <Ref> Chaye Adam ([[Shabbat]] 38:11) </ref> Therefore, some say that scrabble shouldn’t be played on [[Shabbat]] because one normally writes when playing the game. <ref>Children in Halacha (Rabbi Simcha Bunim, pg 135), Tiltulei [[Shabbat]] (Halachos of [[Muktzeh]] pg 24), The Shabbos Home (Rabbi Simcha Bunim Cohen, Vol. I, pg 12) </ref> | ||
# | # However, playing scrabble does not violate the melacha of koseiv according to many poskim, since all you are doing is arranging letters that are already formed, and not writing any new letters<ref>The Shabbos Home (Rav Simcha Bunim Cohen, Vol I, pg. 12)</ref>. However, if the scrabble board has individual squares for each tile, then this may violate koseiv since now you are arranging the letters in a more permanent way. | ||
==Card Games== | ==Card Games== | ||
