Wordplay At Its Best
Celebrating The Classic Game That Keeps Minds Sharp
On National Scrabble Day & Every Day!
It's National Scrabble Day. Do you enjoy a good game of Scrabble? I certainly do and so does my entire family. Fair warning: things can get pretty competitive around our game table. But beyond the laughs and friendly rivalry, Scrabble offers real mental benefits. It challenges you to build your vocabulary, spot patterns, and think strategically with limited letters. Each round is a satisfying brain workout—especially valuable for keeping those “aging” minds (like mine) sharp.
HOW MUCH DO YOU KNOW ABOUT SCRABBLE?
15 FUN FACTS ABOUT SCRABBLE:
- More than 165 million Scrabble sets have been sold in 121 countries since its creation in 1931.
- 1.5 million Scrabble games are sold each year.
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Over a third of American households own a Scrabble game.
- Scrabble has been translated into 30+ languages. Scrabble is also used all over the world as a means of teaching English.
- English language version of Scrabble has 100 tiles. The most amount of tiles are in Italian and Portuguese Scrabble, which both have 120 tiles.
- Nigeria is considered the most Scrabble-obsessed country and the Scrabble capital of the world where top players get paid to play! The USA is the second biggest Scrabble playing country.
- The highest scoring word in Scrabble is OXYPHENBUTAZONE, worth 1,784 points.
- There's also a Braille version of Scrabble, as well as an on-line version of the game.
- Each hour of the day, some 30 Scrabble games are started.
- Well-known people who love Scrabble include: Madonna, Martha Stewart, Barack Obama, Bill and Hillary Clinton, Keanu Reeves, the “Junk Bond King” Michael Milken (who hosted a Scrabble tournament in prison), Queen Elizabeth II, John Travolta, Mel Gibson, Joan Collins, Tom Cruise.
- If all the Scrabble tiles ever produced were lined up, they would stretch for more than 50,000 miles!
- Scrabble is ranked as the second-best board game in U.S. history, second only to Monopoly.
- In 1994, controversy hit when Hasbro removed nearly 200 “offensive” words from its dictionary. They later published two versions—a clean one for schools and a full version (yes, with the dirty words) for tournaments.
- It's estimated that over a million Scrabble tiles are currently missing, often found under sofas or carpets.
- Macy’s placed the first big Scrabble order in 1952. Scrabble history notes that the president of Macy’s played the game while on vacation and ordered a few games for his store. Sales soared and within a year, the game was a huge hit and games were rationed to stores around the country.
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Happy National Scrabble Day! 🎉 Whether you're a word wizard, a tile tactician, or just in it for the family fun, today’s the perfect day to break out the board and let the letters fly. May your words be long, your points be high, and may your Q's always find their U's!
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