All letters are placed face down on the board. Each player then draws one tile. The player drawing the letter nearest to the beginning of the alphabet plays first.
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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 first person to play doubles the points for their first word, because the starting square is a double-word square.
After the flop in a game of poker, the player to the left of the dealer goes first.
In poker, the player to the left of the dealer goes first after the flop is revealed.
In a hand of poker, the small blind goes first.