Take Two

Take Two
Take Two (also called Speed Scrabble, or the commercial variant Bananagrams) is a fast-paced, non-turn-based Scrabble variant played without a board. Tiles are placed face-down in the middle of the table in a communal pool and each player is given a small number of face-up starting tiles (5 is typical). From their starting tiles, each player tries to build his own valid Scrabble grid—players do not use each other's grid or tiles. When a player successfully uses all of her face-up tiles, he shouts "take two", and every player takes two more tiles. Play continues until there are no more tiles left to draw. The person who creates the first complete grid when all the tiles run out is the winner.

Local variants include the banning of 2 letter words;

Variants
See also Generic House Rules.

Different takes
Taking a different number of tiles (one or four, for example).

Tile-exchange
Some variants allow for the exchange of unwanted tiles.

Scoring
A calculation based on word length is used to determine the winner.

Variations on this may include a bonus of 50 points for building the word "chicken", a bonus for longest word (number of letters in word, not tile values; and only if a single player has longest word), etc.