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Scrabble: The Best Board Game Ever

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Scrabble Addiction!

What is it about Scrabble that makes it so addictive? Is it the simplicity of the game, the great design or just the fact that we all like to show off our wordpower?

For me, it's based all of these things.  Some of the best Scrabble players I know aren't necessarily the best wordsmiths, they can just see the patterns in the board and know where to play their highest scored letters (or block you from getting that great triple word score!).

It's this combination of tactics and vocabulary that make Scrabble the best board game ever!

Scrabble® Facts 

Here are a few short facts about the marvellous world of Scrabble®
  • The Scrabble® prototype was invented in 1938 by Alfred Mosher Butts and named Criss-Crosswords. It only developed into the version we all know now when the rights were acquired in 1948 by a lawyer named James Brunot.
  • The highest recorded single word score in English is 392 for CAZIQUES. This means native chiefs of West Indian aborigines'
  • The Malaysian version of the game has the highest number of single letters - 18 As
  • An easy way to use the letter Q, is to construct the word Qi. This is a chinese word meaning 'life force' or 'spiritual energy'
  • Scrabble is used to decide the answer to the ultimate question in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams

What the web says about Scrabble 

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Scrabble - Take that, Grandma!

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Heather Graham on Scrabble!

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Pierre Palmade-Le Scrabble

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"Scrabble"

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Posted December 03, 2007