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36 unusual facts about Scrabble


Allan Simmons

As well as playing top level Scrabble since the late 70's, Simmons is also known as a prolific author of Scrabble books and publisher of Onwords magazine since 1979.

Association of British Scrabble Players

The Association of British Scrabble Players oversees competitive Scrabble in the UK.

Attack on Memory

Dylan Baldi claimed that Albini spent much of the recording time playing Scrabble and blogging, and that Albini never made any suggestions to the band.

Belgian Scrabble Federation

The BSF maintains the national ranking of Francophone Scrabble players and organizes many tournaments of classic Scrabble and Duplicate Scrabble in Belgium.

Bingley Grammar School

In 2011 it was made compulsory for every pupil to partake in a house competition, fortunately this was accompanied with the additional of several competitions e.g. chess and Scrabble, and some other more strange competitions such as speed texting and an egg and spoon race.

Chambers Dictionary

In an agreement with Mattel the Chambers dictionary was also the official source of words for the book "Official Scrabble Words" (OSW), a lexicon of all words and inflections playable in tournament Scrabble within the UK and other countries like New Zealand and Australia.

TCD is widely used by British crossword solvers and setters, and by Scrabble players (though it is no longer the official Scrabble dictionary).

Chieftain Products

Chieftain Products was a Canada-based toy & game company which released games such as Scrabble, Atmosfear, etc.

Chris Reslock

Reslock was a semi-retired cab owner and operator before he began playing poker professionally, he was a highly ranked Scrabble player but went into poker because the money potential was much higher.

Cupid's Chokehold

However, she eventually becomes tired of being exploited and expresses this in a humorous scene where the two are playing Scrabble (she spells out the words 'krush', 'kill', and 'destroy').

Darryl Francis

Darryl Francis (born April 16, 1948) is a well-known author of books on Scrabble.

David Boon

Gavin and Neville also played a game of Scrabble in which the only words on the board were "Boon", while their games of Charades and I Spy consisted of the answer always being "Boony".

David Eldar

David Eldar is an Australian Scrabble player.

Emily Prentiss

Prentiss later mentions to Hotchner that while she was away from the BAU and work, she played a lot of online Scrabble with someone with the online moniker "cheetobreath", implying it was JJ keeping her company.

Feni Girls Cadet College

The House Indoor Games Room has the facilities of Table Tennis, Carrom, Chess and Scrabble.

Helen Gipson

Helen Gipson (born September 27, 1961) is a Scrabble player.

Hervé Bohbot

Herve Bohbot is a French Scrabble player who competes annually in both French and English language Scrabble competitions.

Jonathan Maitland

He likes cricket, golf, curry, Scrabble, Karaoke, watching rugby union, and eating all types of cake.

Judd Hambrick

An avid crossword puzzle expert, Hambrick also authored a series of books based on the board game Scrabble, titled Scrabble Brand Grams.

Letter frequency

The use of letter frequencies and frequency analysis plays a fundamental role in cryptograms and several word puzzle games, including Hangman, Scrabble, Bananagrams, and the television game show Wheel of Fortune.

Masak Scimitar

The aircraft was involved in a minor accident on 25 April 1998 when trying to land after hitting sinking air while ridge soaring near Scrabble, West Virginia.

Mr 100%

It features the members of the band playing Scrabble, spelling out the lyrics to the song as they it plays in the background.

Mr Bingo

He counts "beatboxing" and "Scrabble" among his hobbies, and collects pairs of trainers.

Oxyphenbutazone

The word oxyphenbutazone is part of the single play yielding the highest possible score under American tournament Scrabble rules, scoring 1,780 points across three triple-word-score squares, joining seven tiles to eight already-played tiles.

Richard E. Blanchard, Sr.

A believer that a busy mind is a sharp mind, Blanchard enjoyed word games such as Scrabble as well as collecting stamps and coins.

She's Too Young

Dawn is playing Scrabble with her mother as her sister, Tess, sneaks off to Dawn's room.

SMK Bandar Utama

The school's Scrabble team which comprises both the Under-18 and Under-15 teams emerged as runner-ups in the preliminary round of the 2007's Interschool Scrabble Competition, thus qualifying for the Zone Level Interschool Scrabble Tournament.

Stewart Holden

Stewart Holden (born 5 September 1979) is a competitive Scrabble player from the United Kingdom.

The Big Snit

A married couple gets into an argument while playing Scrabble.

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

Arthur attempts to determine the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything by reaching into a Scrabble bag made from Ford's towel and pulling out letters randomly, hoping Deep Thought's computational matrix in Earth would have rubbed off on his subconscious.

Tom Haverford

He plays online Scrabble against his superior, Ron Swanson, during work time and loses on purpose in order to further his career.

Vehicle registration plates of Italy

The abbreviations even count as valid words in Scarabeo, the Italian version of the board game Scrabble.

Walter C. Young Middle School

Scrabble Club - This club is a group of about 30 students that train weekly for the United States Scrabble Open (the National Scrabble Competition) for children in 6th-8th grade.

Westminster Under School

There are regular inter-house competitions during the school year, including music, Scrabble and Chess.

Wordfeud

Wordfeud is a two-player game similar to Scrabble.

Zoophyte

On an episode of The Bob Newhart Show, the lovable yet befuddled Howard uses the word "zoophyte" during a game of Scrabble for a triple-word score.


4th Computer Olympiad

As with each year's Computer Olympiad, computer programs competed against each other at a variety of games, including Awari, backgammon, bridge, chess, Chinese Chess, draughts, Gin rummy, Go, Go-Moku, Othello, Renju and Scrabble.

Association of British Scrabble Players

Former ABSP Chairman Allan Simmons is a prolific Scrabble author and the ABSP website was formerly maintained by Countdown series champion Stewart Holden, who now holds the post of publicity officer for the association.

Canadian National Scrabble Championship

The finals saw 1995 World Champion David Boys, a programmer analyst, win confidently against student Dean Saldanha by 3-1 (scores 465-304, 336-418, 402-291, 414-344).

Contestant

There are links between game show contestants and other games and hobbies, such as Scrabble players who take part in word-based game shows like Countdown and BrainTeaser.

Game Gurus

The first two rounds consist of a variation of board games like Jenga or Scrabble.

Hervé Bohbot

He is also an administrator on the online Scrabble site Internet Scrabble Club, the president of the French matchplay Scrabble committee and an official on the International Scrabble Federation.

How to Win at Scrabble

Includes the first published description of the "atomic bomb of Scrabble learning", a technique invented and promoted by former World Champion Joel Wapnick.

Jim Kramer

On November 17, 2006, Jim Kramer was invited to compete against "Genius", a computer Scrabble opponent running the newest version of RealNetworks' Scrabble.

Joe Edley

Joseph Edley (born 1947) is a professional Scrabble player and author, and the first player to win the National Scrabble Championship three times.

Mental exercise

Playing Scrabble and Sudoku are both ways to enhance cognitive ability as well.

Milton Bradley Company

In 1920, it absorbed the game production of McLoughlin Brothers, formerly the largest game manufacturer in the United States, and in 1987, it purchased Selchow and Righter, makers of Parcheesi and Scrabble.

Runecraft

In the years following Runecraft rapidly expanded on the back of a number of successful projects including Spec Ops, Mat Hoffman's Pro BMX, Caesar's Palace, Scrabble and Barbie.

Scrabble Showdown

The program is based on the well-known board game Scrabble and is hosted by entertainer Justin Willman.

Shane White

More recently, his first graphic novel North Country, a 96-page full-color memoir published by NBM Publishing, reveals the hard-scrabble life of living in a blue-collar mill town in upstate New York.

Sioux language

Traditional stories have been translated, children’s books, even games such as Pictionary and Scrabble.

The Big Snit

The Big Snit inspired a Scrabble scene in the second episode of The Simpsons' first season, "Bart the Genius".

World Scrabble Championship 2013

The Scrabble Champions Tournament 2013 (formerly World Scrabble Championship) was held in the Andel's Hotel, Prague, Czech Republic, from 4 December to 8 December 2013.