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SCRABBLEY FACTS - The Facts On SCRABBLE!
July 30th 2007 00:35
* The inventor of Scrabble, Alfred Butts, was not very good at it.
* The original name for Scrabble was ‘Lexico’.
* The original game did not have a board but was played with tiles only.
* Over 100 million games have been sold in 121 countries around the world.
* If all the Scrabble tiles ever produced were placed in a line they would stretch 50,000 miles - that’s twice around the world.
* Scrabble is now produced in 30 different languages and there is also a Braille version.
* It’s not possible to play Scrabble in Japanese or Chinese, but they play in English with a rule book in their own language.
* There are 109 permissible two-letter words containing every letter in the alphabet except V.
* The highest number of points that can be scored on the first go is 126 - with SQUEEZY or QUARTZY.
* A sure way of victory is to use the word BENZOXYCAMPHORS - a type of chemical - along the edges of the Scrabble board. It will gain the highest score, 1970 points.
* Dr Karl Khoshnaw from Manchester holds the record for the highest word score achieved in a competition, scoring 392 points with CAZIQUES - the plural for a West Indian Chief.
* The highest score for one game is 1049 by Philip Appleby from Lymington in 1989.
* The youngest winner of the UK National Scrabble Championships was 15 year old Allan Saldanha in 1993.
* The French play all competitions with a version called Duplicate Scrabble where players have the same letters for each move.
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Celebrity Obsession
Comment by Nickoftime's Sanity Corner
I didn't know half this stuff about Scrabble! Pretty neat facts here...
Good read..
Take care,
Nick
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One Too Many Chocolate Bars
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