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Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon.
A board game based on this version was released by Selchow & Righter as TV Scrabble in 1987. It was the only home version which was originally a board game itself until Trivial Pursuit: Game Show released by Parker Brothers in 1993 and Celebrity Name Game released by Playmonster (formerly Patch ) in 2016.
4 point: H ×2, J ×2, P ×2, Õ ×2, B ×1; 5 point: Ä ×2, Ü ×2; 6 point: Ö ×2; 8 point: F ×1; 10 point: Š ×1, Z ×1, Ž ×1; C, Q, W, X and Y are absent because these letters are only used in foreign words and are not an official part of the alphabet. Arguably F, Š, Z and Ž do not exist either, but they were included so that ...
Scrabble, one of the world’s best-loved word games, is to get a new “collaborative” and “accessible” version.. The game has been around for more than 75 years, entertaining and ...
English-language Scrabble is the original version of the popular word-based board game invented in 1938 by US architect Alfred Mosher Butts, who based the game on English letter distribution in The New York Times. The Scrabble variant most popular in English is standard match play, where two players compete over a series of games.
More than 165 million games have been sold in 120 countries around the world since 1948, according to Mattel, with an average of 1.5 million games sold globally each year.
In the United States, the PC version of Scrabble sold 260,000 copies and earned $2.5 million by August 2006, after its release in July 2000. It was the country's 78th best-selling computer game between January 2000 and August 2006.
Read moreMattel launches a new version of Scrabble. Scrabble’s fan base is full of people who take their board games seriously. If you’re intimidated by the classic word game, a new version is