National Scrabble Day

National Scrabble Day is April 13th

National Scrabble Day is held annually on April 13th.  Alfred Mosher Butts was an American architect that invented the game of Scrabble in 1938. He gave the world an iconic board game, and more than eight decades later, we live for “Triple Word Scores.” His birthday (April 13th) is now celebrated as National Scrabble Day we think its time to get a game of scrabble going!

Like chess and bridge, competitive SCRABBLE game play is hugely popular and continues to add players every year.

Did you know….. fun facts about Scrabble!

• Scrabble is ranked as the second-best board game in U.S. History, second only to Monopoly.
• 1993 Scrabble World Champion, Mark Nyman of the U.K., learned 10,000 words from the American Dictionary in order to prepare for the upcoming tournament.
• The game is sold in 121 countries and comes in 31 different languages.
• If all the Scrabble tiles ever produced were lined up, they would stretch for more than 50,000 miles.
• It’s possible to score 1782 points on a single word. That word is Oxyphenbutazone. To get those points, competition player Benjamin Woo played it across the top of the board, hitting three Triple Word Score squares whilst also making seven crosswords downwards.
• English Scrabble has 100 tiles. The most tiles are in Italian and Portuguese Scrabble which both have 120 tiles.
• There are 124 playable two-letter words in the English (language) game, containing every letter in the alphabet except for V.
• Scrabble is used all over the world as a means of teaching English.

North American SCRABBLE Players Association

Each year, the North American SCRABBLE Players Association (NASPA) hosts a National SCRABBLE Championship in a major U.S. city. The tournament attracts more than 500 highly-skilled and competitive adult players who compete in 31 rounds of one-on-one play over a five day period.

NASPA has thousands of players with official tournament ratings who compete in weekly competitions at sanctioned clubs across the U.S. and Canada. You can get involved and find out more about the NASPA by visiting scrabbleplayers.org. Read more about Scrabble here.

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