In London, 1991, the first ever Scrabble World Championship came to a grinding halt before a single game was played.In the French Scrabble there are five 10-point tiles, these being K, W, X, Y and Z.In Great Britain, 53% of all homes own a copy of Scrabble, and in the United States about 33% of all homes own a set.This is an anagram of Scrabble, in which players play their words in any order they want to and play the letters in any order so long as the letters can make an anagram of a word. One variation of the Scrabble rules that people play is called ‘Clabbers’.These words all derive from the Dutch word ‘Schrabbelan’, which most likely integrated into American diction from Dutch settlers to North America. The name Scrabble comes from the words Scrabbling, Scrabbled and Scrabbles – all of which means to claw or scrape at something frantically.Scrabble is used all over the world as a means of teaching English.There are 124 playable two-letter words in the English (language) game, containing every letter in the alphabet except for V.The original version of Scrabble, Lexico, did not have a board and was played with tiles only.Although it has long since sold out, copies of this golden- Scrabble can be found on eBay for roughly £350 ($440). In 1992, Franklin Mint commissioned and produced a version of Scrabble featuring 24k gold-plated tiles.
Not by choice, mind, as they were both trapped in a crevasse in Antarctica! In 1985, Lieutenant Commander Waghorn and Lance Corporal Gill played Scrabble for five continuous days.The most tiles are in Italian and Portuguese Scrabble which both have 120 tiles. To get those points, competition player Benjamin Woo played it across the top of the board, hitting three Triple Word Score squares whilst also making seven crosswords downwards. It’s possible to score 1782 points on a single word.If all the Scrabble tiles ever produced were lined up, they would stretch for more than 50,000 miles!.Scrabble has quite a celebrity following, those celebs who play include: Sting, Keanu Reeves, Moby, John Travolta, Carol Burnett, Jimmy Kimmel, Kylie Minogue, Mel Gibson, Joan Collins, Tom Cruise, Kate Hudson, Richard Nixon and Queen Elizabeth II.Each hour, at least 30,000 Scrabble games are started.Down the sides of sofas, underneath carpets, eaten by children and pets alike somewhere in the world there are over a million missing Scrabble tiles.Over 150 million copies of Scrabble have been sold worldwide!.The game is sold in 121 countries and comes in 31 different languages.There is a Braille version of Scrabble produced.Alfred Butts decided on the frequency and distribution of the letter tiles through analysing the front page of the New York Times.‘ Lexico‘ is a shortened version of the word ‘ Lexicon‘, which is another term for ‘ Language‘ or ‘ Vocabulary‘. Back in 1931, the original name for Scrabble was ‘ Lexico‘, before becoming ‘ Criss-Cross Words‘ and eventually ‘ Scrabble‘.Butts invented the game in an attempt to create a word game that combined anagrams and crosswords, which involved luck, chance and a great deal of skill. Scrabble was invented in 1931 by New York architect Alfred Mosher Butts.Worldwide, over One hundred and fifty million sets have been sold with sets being found in nearly one-third of American homes. Scrabble is sold in 121 countries with 29 different language versions. In the United States, the name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc.
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