Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Scrabble letter distributions, Scrabble variants, List of English words containing Q not followed by U, Lexulous, Maven, A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense, North American Scrabble Players Association, The Big Snit, Challenge, Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, L'Officiel du jeu Scrabble, Internet Scrabble Club, GADDAG, Wordscraper, Official Tournament and Club Word List, SOWPODS, Bingo, Word Wars, Association of British Scrabble Players, Anamonic, Scrabble 2007 Edition, How To Win At Scrabble, Scrabble Complete, National Scrabble Association, RSVP, Tile tracking, Lexiko, Alfapet, Word Freak, Thiruthamizh, Alphagram. Excerpt: 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) provide a list of permissible words. The Collins Scrabble checker can also be used to check if a word is allowed. The name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the United States and Canada. Elsewhere, Scrabble is trademarked by Mattel. The game is sold in 121 countries; there are 29 different language versions. One hundred and fifty million sets have been sold worldwide, and sets are found in roughly one-third of American homes. Alfred Butts manually tabulated the frequency of letters in words of various length, using examples in a dictionary, the Saturday Evening Post, the New York Herald Tribune, and the New York Times. This was used to determine the number and scores of tiles in the game.In 1938, architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called Lexiko. The two games had the same set of letter tiles, whose...