I gave it to him because it was one letter short of the corner, which would have given him a triple word score.

If any of the letters fall on a "premium" square like triple word score, the value soars.

These red squares are worth a triple word score if used in a word.

From this a distribution of the word scores assigned to the target words was derived.

The star in the center is a double word score.

You don't want to set up a triple word score for your opponent.

The first team to guess a word scores 10 points; five words are played.

H8 is a premium square; the first player to play a word receives a double word score.

The word score is now used for the number of points that people have got in a game or sport, e.g.:

The name of the album comes from the word "score", meaning the number twenty.