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30 interesting facts about scrabble
Scrabble is one of the most selling and most popular games of all time.
At over 80 years old, Scrabble is probably older than your parents!
But do you know that the game has undergone a few name changes before being resolved as Scrabble?
Or do you know why Scrabble's first world championship cannot start?
Find out why below in 30 interesting facts about Scrabble!
Scrabble was invented in 1931 by New York Architect Alfred Mosher Butts.
Back in 1931, the original name for Scrabble was 'Lexico', before becoming 'cross-cross' and finally 'scrabble'.
Alfred Butts decided on frequency and distribution of mailboxes through the latest page analysis of Times New York.
There is a floating version of Scrabble production.
The game is sold in 121 countries and has 31 different languages.
More than 150 million scrabble copies have been sold worldwide!
Down the edges of the sofa, below the carpet, eat by children and pets are the same;
Every hour, at least 30,000 Scrabble games are started.
Scrabble has a lot of celebrities, celebrities players including: Sting, Keanu Reeves, Moby, John Travolta, Carol Burmett, Jimmy Kimmel, Kylie Minogue, Mel Gibson, Joan Collins, Tom Cruise, Kate Hudson, Richard Nixon
If all scrabble tiles ever produce are lined up, they will last for more than 50,000 miles!
Can record 1782 points on a single word.
Scrabble English has 100 tiles.
In 1985, Lieutenant Waghorn Commander and Lance Corporal Gill played Scrabble for five consecutive days.
In 1992, Franklin Mint authorized and created a Scrabble version with 24k gold-plated tiles.
The original version of Scrabble, Lexico, not only one table and only played with bricks.
There are 124 words two letters can play in English games (language), containing each letter in the alphabet except V.
Scrabble is used worldwide as an English teaching means.
The name scrabble comes from the words that are wiped out, disturbing and sweeping - all means swipe or shave at something crazy.
A variation of scrabble rules that every player is called 'clabbers'.
In the UK, 53% of the total number of owners a copy of Scrabble, and in the United States, about 33% of all houses own a set.
In French Scrabble, there are five 10 points bricks, these creatures;
In London, 1991, the ScraBble World Championship for the first time stopped in front of a game that was played.
19 years old as in the Scrabble version of Malaysia.
Scrabble is ranked as the second good table game in the United States history, only second to exclusive.
In Leicester, England, a five-year-old boy called the police to tell them that his sister was deceiving at Scrabble.
A new resident at a home of an elderly who was rejected from the house in the base was 'incompatible' when she confessed that she didn't play Scrabble.
1993 Scrabble World Champion, Mark Nyman of U.K., learned 10,000 words from the American dictionary to prepare for the upcoming tournament.
There is a daily newspaper column in Thailand only for Scrabble.
Scrabble became a US day game program, held by Chuck Woolery on NBC, running from July 1984 to March 1990. The program had a revival from January to June 1993
In 2004, Scrabble was finally introduced to the US National Toy Fame Hall, joining other great toys and games like Monopoly, Etch a sketch, Lego and Game Boy.
