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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