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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.
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.
Alongside the English language version of Scrabble the company also produced the first Afrikaans language version of the game under the name Krabbel, an Afrikaans translation of "Scrabble". This language set of the game had the following 100 tiles: 2 blank tiles (scoring 0 points) 1 point: E ×15, A ×9, I ×8, N ×7, O ×6, S ×6, T ×6, R ×5 ...
Lexiko was a word game invented by Alfred Mosher Butts. [1] It was a precursor of Scrabble.The name comes from the Greek lexicos, meaning "of or for words". [2]Lexiko was played with a set of 100 square cardboard tiles, with the same letter distribution later used by Scrabble (see Scrabble letter distributions), but no board.
It featured a message with Scrabble pieces that said, "Congratulations on your wedding day" — while their wedding cake said, in Scrabble letters, "Helen and Graham." For more Health articles ...
Scrabble, one of the world’s best-loved word games, is to get a new “collaborative” and “accessible” version. Mattel launches new, less ‘intimidating’ version of Scrabble Skip to ...
Some have slammed Scrabble Together for dumbing down word games in a world where people are reading less than ever before. Scrabble dumbs down as people become less able to spell. #fixeditforyou ...
Anagrab is a word game which is usually played with Scrabble tiles. The name is an amalgam of the words anagram (the basic game mechanism) and grab - because a player's words may at any time be taken by opponents. The game was first described in 1976 in Richard Sharp's The Best Games People Play, [1] but his description suggests that he did not ...