Number scrabble

I have a fascination for numbers and I'm not so sure why. I was thinking about su-do-ku and scrabble simultaneously, and that's how I got this idea. I'm not sure if its already out there (won't be surprised if it is!).

So this game is basically played on a scrabble board, with number tiles. These tiles have numbers from 0 - 9 and each player gets 6 tiles (not seven!)

The objective is to make a string of numbers that add of to a prime number. Like in scrabble, you play off the existing words and build more words, here the objective is to build strings of numbers (horizontal and vertical only) that add up to a prime number.

The points that one would get on each turn, would be the prime number they just made on the board.

Why 6? Well, I love the number 6. Its so curvy and it becomes a 9 when you make it upside down !! Its just so exciting ...! No, that's not why I chose 6!

I chose 6 because, I felt that this would be a fast game and 7 would make it too short. While 5 would make the strings too short.


Variations: There can be many variations to this game, instead of prime numbers, we could have numbers that are palindromes, number that end in 2,3,6 only etc.

I see this being a portable game combined with scrabble. This is a game for all those geeky kids who were good at Mathematics but had a poor vocabulary and sucked at traditional scrabble!
(For some reason, this story sounds familiar)

To make the game spicier: We can have the double word and triple word score boxes adding a negative effect on the sum!