Is this move in Scrabble possible?

Question

Player A makes a word VOTE horizontally, then player B puts an R to make VOTER and then adds A, I, and L below it to make a vertical RAIL. The judge doesn't accept player B's move. Is she right or wrong about the play?

Answer 1

Judge is completely wrong.  Most experienced Scrabble players know that to get the maximum score, you can create words in both directions with one turn.

You can place a word vertically, either using a letter already on the board or intersecting with one or more words already on the board, provided that any new words created horizontally are all acceptable words.

Answer 2

The move is fully acceptable. Tiles must use one letter from an existing word already on the board and can go in only one direction per turn, both conditions this move meets.

The player should have received the face-scores (no double letter, triple word, etc.) for VOTER plus the full score for RAIL.

I'd retire that judge, too, for not knowing the rules.

Answer 3

The judge is right.  

If the R was already there, then it would of been Ok.

But that's pretty much just making a word without adding onto something.  She didn't even need the VOTE there.  See what I mean.

Answer 4

I don't know why that move would not be acceptable. Was any reason given for disallowing it?

Answer 5

As long as the letters in RAIL don't make any other words that aren't in the English dictionary on the way down it's fine.