My husband loves to play scrabble, but we both insist on turning the board to face us when playing our turn nad we kept jittering the board and screwing up the pieces.  The tile lock feature works well and we are quite pleased.  Our only complaint is tha the board and pieces are smaller than our traditional board.  While still perfectly readable - to get 5 stars the board and pieces should be bigger. Also I was under the impression from the description that the board would be felt backed to help it slide smoothly to face the different players.  There are just four rubber feet, they work, but a full felt backing would work better.