- Scrabble was invented in 1948.
- The inventor of Scrabble, Alfred Butts, was not very good at playing his own game.
- The original name for Scrabble was 'Lexico'.
- Scrabble is produced in more than twenty-nine languages.
- Scrabble is also manufactured in Braille.
- Scrabble is the number two game in America, following behind Monopoly.
- The world has more than four thousand clubs devoted to playing Scrabble.
- One in three American homes own a Scrabble game today.
- Over 100 million games have been sold in 121 countries around the world.
- Scrabble is now produced in 30 different.
- It's not possible to play Scrabble in Japanese or Chinese, but they play in English with a rule book in their own language.
- If a person uses all seven tiles to make a word, they get fifty bonus points.
- The normal Scrabble dictionary contains no adult words, but the one for competitions does contain such words.
- In 1995, some students at Portsmouth University played Scrabble underwater with special boards for charity.
- There are 109 permissible two-letter words containing every letter in the alphabet except V.
- In France, Scrabble competitions are played differently than the rest of the world. They play duplicate Scrabble in which all players have the exact same letters for each turn.
- Scrabble was once produced in pink to support breast cancer research.
- When Prince Charles turned sixty in 2008, Scrabble also turned sixty. A portrait of the prince was made from Scrabble tiles in his honor.
- The highest number of points that can be scored on the first go is 126 - with SQUEEZY or QUARTZY.
- If all the Scrabble tiles ever made were placed end to end, they would wrap eight times around the globe.
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