1. A method comprising the steps of: obtaining a set of multilingual tiles, each tile bearing a first character of a first language and also bearing a second character of a second language, in which the second character is not a transliteration of the first character; and positioning selected tiles to form words; and wherein at least one of the following is also present: a player gains points for words made in a language that is not the player's native language; a player loses points for words made in a language that is the player's native language; extra points are awarded if tiles form multiple words in multiple languages; or extra points are awarded if tiles form related words, namely, synonyms and/or antonyms.