Scrabble Word Game

Scrabble Game is a game that is very open to controversy. The controversy could arise around standardization in awarding points, the words that can be used, the provisions of stringing words, and about how long a player is given time to think before stringing word.

Scrabble is a board game and the game construct words played 2 or 4 people who accumulate points based on the value of a word formed from pieces of letters on the game board boxes (15 columns and 15 rows).

Tile game of square-shaped pieces bearing the letters on either side. Players take up as many as seven copies of letters from the bag, and tried to make words horizontally or descending like a crossword puzzle. Words that are made should be a word is allowed to be played by standards in accordance with the language dictionaries that are played. Players who collect the highest total points is declared the winner.

Scrabble is sold in 121 countries in 29 languages versions in the world. One hundred million sets of scrabble games sold worldwide, and every three families in America have a set game of scrabble.

Scrabble can be played by two to four players. The purpose of playing Scrabble is to score more points than your opponent. A player collects points by placing words on the game board. Each letter has a different value, so the strategy of this game is the play of words with a combination of letters that has a high value.

Scrabble game was originally created in 1938 under the name "Criss-Crosswords" by an engineer named Alfred Mosher Butts. This game is an improved version of the game Lexiko that diciptanya earlier, but include board games and how to play like a crossword puzzle words. The game still uses letters as Lexiko pieces are made based on the calculation sprinkling frequency of use of letters in the English set out in various resources including articles The New York Times. Alfred Butts generates its own game and offer it to a variety of major toy companies but unsuccessfully.

In 1948, Attorney James Brunot, a resident of origin Newtown, Connecticut bought the rights to produce the game "Criss-Crosswords" with the promise of giving Butts a royalty on every unit sold. As the new owner, Brunot changed the name of the game to "Scrabble", a word in English which means "struggle drudge". Brunot only slightly alter the boxes "Reward" on the game board, and simplify the rules of the game. Scrabble game turned out to be sold. One of the buyers is a department store Macy's who has the Scrabble be a toy that consumers want to buy.

In 1953, Brunot sold the rights to the Scrabble game to Selchow and Righter, because production capacity is no longer able to meet the demand. As well as Parker Brothers and Milton Bradley, Selchow and Righter is one of the major toy factories that had once refused to buy the game Scrabble. In the United Kingdom and Australia, Scrabble marketed J. W. Spear & Sons Company dated 19 January 1955. J. W. Spear & Sons is now a subsidiary of Mattel. In 1986, Selchow and Righter sold the game to Coleco who then sell them again to Hasbro.

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