The first person to play doubles the points for their first word, because the starting square is a double-word square.
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According to the official Scrabble rules, you begin the game by picking a single tile, and the person who goes first is the person who picks the tile closest to the first letter of the alphabet. In the case of English language Scrabble, this is the letter A.
The objective of Scrabble is to have the highest number of points at the end of the game, when the extra letters run out, and one person doesn't have any letters in their 'hand.'
The letter P tile is worth 3 points in an English-language Scrabble game.
The letter J is worth 8 points.
The center square on the Scrabble board is the star. It's where the tiles are placed to start the game. The person who starts the game gets double points for their word when they place their tiles on the star, but only for that one time. Double, triple points are added to a player's score, when he or she lands on the colored squares.