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Top 10 facts about scrabble

Here we bring to you top ten facts about scrabble. Scrabble Day celebrates the birthday of the game's inventor Alfred Mosher Butts.
1. When Butts, who was an out-of-work architect, invented the game around 1938, he called it first Lexico then Criss Cross Words.
2. The name of Scrabble was given to it by James Brunot who was an entrepreneur and passionate games player.
3. Brunot bought the rights to the game, made some small changes to the rules and gave Butts a royalty on every set sold.
4. More than half of all homes in the United Kingdom possess a Scrabble set.
More than half of all homes in the UK possess a Scrabble set
5. Scrabble is available in more than 50 languages including Welsh (released in 2005) and Irish (2009). An unofficial Klingon version also exists.
6. There are 19 letter A tiles in Malaysian Scrabble, the most for any letter in any language.
7. On average, more than eight Scrabble games are started every second.
8. The highest possible score on one turn is 1,782, achieved by adding tiles to form the word oxyphenbutazone across three triple-word scores.
Scrabble is available in more than 50 languages
9. The only letter that cannot form part of a two-letter word in Scrabble is V.
10. The only number equal to the sum of the Scrabble tiles needed to spell it is ‘twelve’.





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