Saturday, March 08, 2008

Scrabble

Scrabble is a very popular pastime in our community.

The verb "to scrabble" also means to scratch, scramble or scrape about.

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works (e.g. The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, now in its 4th edition) provide a list of permissible words, many of which are rarely found in standard English writing.

The name Scrabble is a
trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the US and Canada and of Mattel elsewhere. Scrabble was a trademark of Murfett Regency in Australia, until 1993 when it was acquired by Spear. The game is also known as Alfapet, Funworder, Skip-A-Cross, Spelofun and Palabras Cruzadas ("crossed words").

The game is sold in 121 countries in 29 different language versions. One hundred million sets have been sold worldwide, and sets are found in one out of every three American homes.

Scrabble in the Bible

"And David laid up these words in his heart, and was sore afraid of Achish the King of Gath.

And he changed his behaviour before them, and feigned himself mad in their hands, and scrabbled on the doors of the gate, and let his spittle fall down upon his beard."

(I Samuel chapter 2 verses 12 and 13 in The Authorised Version)

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