Scrabble has been around for the better part of a century and remains one of the most popular board games in the English speaking world. However, it's a uniquely modern game, invented from the ground up and with a fully traceable history. more »
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Scrabble has been around for the better part of a century and remains one of the most popular board games in the English speaking world. However, it's a uniquely modern game, invented from the ground up and with a fully traceable history. more »
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Speed Scrabble is Scrabble played fast and loose with a street hustler spin. It’s usually played with two or three players, even though some choose to play this variant with teams. For Speed Scrabble, no game board is required, just a full set of letter tiles. Note that some players may prefer to play without using those pesky... more »
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Alfred Butts developed the Scrabble Board Game in the early 1940s, which was later refined, trademarked and sold as a game that combines luck and skill in 1948. Since then, more than 100 million Scrabble games have been sold across the globe to word enthusiasts who love the challenge of combining their spelling skills with mathematics... more »
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The popular board game, Scrabble, was invented during the Great Depression by Alfred Mosher Butts. He named it Lexico first, and then changed the... more »
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works (e.g. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) provide a list of permissible words. The Collins Scrabble checker can also be used to check if a word is allowed.
The name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada and of Mattel elsewhere. Scrabble was a trademark of Murfett Regency in Australia, until 1993 when it was acquired by J. W. Spear & Sons (now a Mattel subsidiary). The game is also known as Literati, Alfapet, Funworder, Skip-A-Cross, Scramble, Spelofun, Palabras Cruzadas ("crossed words") and Word for Word.
The game is sold in 121 countries in 29 different language versions. One hundred and fifty million sets have been sold worldwide, and sets are found in one out of every three American homes.Burkeman>
History
In 1938, architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko. The two games had the same set of letter tiles, whose distributions and point values Butts worked out meticulously performing a frequency analysis of letters from various sources including The New York Times. The new game, which he called "Criss-Crosswords," added the 15-by-15 game board and the crossword-style game play. He manufactured a few sets himself, but was not successful in selling the game to any major game manufacturers of the day."fatsis">Fatsis, Stefan. Word Freak : Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive Scrabble Players. ISBN 0-14-200226-7
In 1948, James Brunot, a resident of Newtown, Connecticut — and one of the few owners of the original Criss-Crosswords game — bought the rights to manufacture the game in exchange for granting Butts a royalt read more at » http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble
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