Scrabble

Enter The World Of Competitive Scrabble

Scrabble is a timeless word game that was invented by an American architect named Alfred Mosher Butts during the Great Depression. He studied the front page of the New York Times and came up with the tile distribution. He had calculated the number of occurrences of vowels and consonants and how many times they appeared within the English language. He used checker boards and pasted blueprints of the game onto the board. The tiles were pasted on balsa wood and cut to the size of the squares on the board. The original name was Lexico, and later called Criss-Cross Words, and in 1948 it was evenutally name Scrabble. It was very popular in 1950 and sold in the Macy stores. Eventually the trademark was sold to Selchow and Righter giving them exclusive rights to the brand merchandise. Coleco purchased Selchow and Righter in 1986 and finally in 1989 the game was purchased by Hasbro.

There are many homes who own this enduring and challenging word game. After 50 years this popular board game has undergone a face lift. You can now purchase the Scrabble Deluxe edition of this time honored game. It has a swivel base that allows the board to turn so players don't have to work upside down. Also a plastic grid helps to keep each tile in line, and the tiles can be stored in a very handy bag when not in use. The object of the game is still the same where two to four players battle it out to attain high scoring words from seven little letters.

You can enter the future with the Scrabble Express Handheld edition. It is an electronic handheld version of the classic word game. Excellent for those long plane or train rides when there's nothing else to do. There are four games, nine skill levels, and it also allows for either solo or two players options. When you increase the computers IQ level it uses harder then normal words. Also comes with sound that can be turned off if you want.

How about taking the game to the next level with the Super Scrabble Board Game. The classic game has been updated to quadruple point squares, a larger playing board, and twice the amount of lettered tiles that gives you the chance to create words that were not possible in the original game.

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