scrabble

     

Scrabble is a wor 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, now in its 4th edition) provide a list of permissible words, many of which are rarely found in standard English writing.

Trivia about scrabble

  • In 1998 this game celebrated its 50th anniversary with a huge game using giant letter tiles at London's Wembley Stadium
  • You'll be sitting pretty if you get a triple letter score with a Q or X in this game
  • Board game with 225 spaces & 100 tiles
  • The national assn. devoted to this board game has a website where you can learn the "Word of the Day"
  • If writing to this board game's association in Greenport, N.Y., send them a double letter (it scores more)
  • Not only "Jeopardy!" but this game show based on a letters-&-words board game debuted in 1984
  • Its inventor originally called it Criss-Cross Words
  • The Greenport, New York-based National Association for this board game develops its official dictionary
  • "The tiles and tribulations" of competetive players of this board game are examined in "Word Wars"
  • Until 1998 a plant in Fairfax, Vermont churned out the wooden tiles for this game, about a million a day
  • When you're playing this board game trademarked in 1948, you'll draw up to 7 letter tiles
  • This game to build words from lettered tiles began as "Lexico" in 1931
  • Boggle is a word search game; you make words using wood tiles in this classic board game
  • Letter tiles,triple word score,double letter score
  • While out of work, Alfred Butts created this word game by mixing anagrams with crossword puzzles
  • In 1931 architect Alfred M. Butts developed this board-&-tile game, calling it Crisscrosswords
  • The announcer called it "The crossword game you've played all your life, but never quite like this"
  • This game came out in 1948 after being developed from a spelling game called "Criss Cross"
  • Letter tiles,double word score space,triple word score space
  • In 1996 someone got 311 points for playing "craziest" in this board game
  • In 2001 Brian Cappelletto won this game's World Championship with words like vozhd for 50 points & jerrid for 44
  • This classic board game was once known as Criss-Cross Words
  • It's the popular game invented in 1948, and what do you mean "Trebek" isn't allowed?
  • In 2007 Nigel Richards took home $15,000 as the letter-perfect world champ of this Hasbro game
  • (Hi, I'm Chuck Woolery.) In this board game, the player who draws the tile nearest the beginning of the alphabet plays first