This year, Scrabble celebrates 62 years as a marketed game. Here are pieces of trivia about the game:
l. Over 150 million games have been sold in 121 countries around the world, produced in 29 different languages.
2. 54% of homes in Great Britain have a Scrabble set.
3. There are 4000 Scrabble clubs around the world.
4. Somewhere in the world there are over a million missing Scrabble tile.
5. Alfred Butt, the inventor, decided on the frequency and distribution of letters by analyzing the front page of the New York Times.
6. There are over 260,000 legal words that can be used in the game.
7. There are 124 permissible two-letter words, containing every letter in the alphabet except V.
8. The highest number of points that can be scored on the first go is 128, with 'muzjiks' (Russian peasant).
9. The late Dr. Karl Khoshnaw from Manchester holds the record for the highest word score achieved in a competition, scoring 392 points with "caziques", the plural for a West Indian chief.
10. The highest score for one game is 1049 by Philip Appleby of UK in 1989.
11. Scrabble is used all over the world as a method of teaching English.
12. The world's largest game of Scrabble took place in Britain's Wembley Stadium to mark the game's 50th anniversary in 1998. Each tile measured an enormous 6-foot square and took two strong men to lift. The game is recorded in Guinness Book of Records.
13. The English Scrabble World Championship takes place every other year. The current winner is Pokorn Nemitrmansuk from Thailand. French and Spanish world championships also take place.
14. The world record for the most number of games being played simultaneously by one player is held by Malaysian player Ganesh Asirvatham who played 25 games at once. These took place over two and a half hours and he won 21 of the games.
15. In 1988, a guitarist in USA rock band won $2 million dollars in a scratch -and-win competition sponsored by Mc Donald restaurant chain.
16. Underwater Scrabble was played at Portsmouth University on December 12, 1995, in aid of Children in need. Special laminated boards were used, and the tiles had lead weights attached.
17. If all the scrabble tiles ever produced were placed end to end they would reach the equivalent of eight times around the earth.
18. The Association of British Scrabble Players was taken to court in 1995 by an irate player for allowing too little time for him to go to the toilet between games.
19. In 1996 a woman was charged with assault in USA, when she struck her husband with a Scrabble board.
20. A resident in a UK old-people home was thrown out when she admitted she didn't play Scrabble.
21. A five-year-old boy phone police in UK to complain his sister was cheating at Scrabble.
22. In 1985 two army officers played Scrabble continuously for five days when trapped in a crevasse in Antarctica.
23. The youngest national champion (UK) was Allan Saldanha from London who was just 15 in 1993 when he won the title.
24. In English-speaking Scrabble if you draw seven tiles on the first move, there's a one-in-eight chance that they will make a seven-letter word.
25. The longest playable word with only vowels is "euouae" - it can be converted into a bingo by adding "s".
26. To celebrate the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and Scrabble, which both occurred in 2008, a portrait of Prince Charles made from Scrabble tiles was created.
27. Celebrity Scrabble players include current USA President Obama and Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Mel Gibson, Kylie Minogue and many others.
28. Scrabble is the best-selling word game in the world.
29. Waseem Khatri became the youngest player to win the Pakistan Scrabble Championship in 2008 when he was only 19. He defended his title in 2009 and will be making a hat-trick attempt in 2010.
30. Scrabble is a real word. It means "to write down quickly"
2. 54% of homes in Great Britain have a Scrabble set.
3. There are 4000 Scrabble clubs around the world.
4. Somewhere in the world there are over a million missing Scrabble tile.
5. Alfred Butt, the inventor, decided on the frequency and distribution of letters by analyzing the front page of the New York Times.
6. There are over 260,000 legal words that can be used in the game.
7. There are 124 permissible two-letter words, containing every letter in the alphabet except V.
8. The highest number of points that can be scored on the first go is 128, with 'muzjiks' (Russian peasant).
9. The late Dr. Karl Khoshnaw from Manchester holds the record for the highest word score achieved in a competition, scoring 392 points with "caziques", the plural for a West Indian chief.
10. The highest score for one game is 1049 by Philip Appleby of UK in 1989.
11. Scrabble is used all over the world as a method of teaching English.
12. The world's largest game of Scrabble took place in Britain's Wembley Stadium to mark the game's 50th anniversary in 1998. Each tile measured an enormous 6-foot square and took two strong men to lift. The game is recorded in Guinness Book of Records.
13. The English Scrabble World Championship takes place every other year. The current winner is Pokorn Nemitrmansuk from Thailand. French and Spanish world championships also take place.
14. The world record for the most number of games being played simultaneously by one player is held by Malaysian player Ganesh Asirvatham who played 25 games at once. These took place over two and a half hours and he won 21 of the games.
15. In 1988, a guitarist in USA rock band won $2 million dollars in a scratch -and-win competition sponsored by Mc Donald restaurant chain.
16. Underwater Scrabble was played at Portsmouth University on December 12, 1995, in aid of Children in need. Special laminated boards were used, and the tiles had lead weights attached.
17. If all the scrabble tiles ever produced were placed end to end they would reach the equivalent of eight times around the earth.
18. The Association of British Scrabble Players was taken to court in 1995 by an irate player for allowing too little time for him to go to the toilet between games.
19. In 1996 a woman was charged with assault in USA, when she struck her husband with a Scrabble board.
20. A resident in a UK old-people home was thrown out when she admitted she didn't play Scrabble.
21. A five-year-old boy phone police in UK to complain his sister was cheating at Scrabble.
22. In 1985 two army officers played Scrabble continuously for five days when trapped in a crevasse in Antarctica.
23. The youngest national champion (UK) was Allan Saldanha from London who was just 15 in 1993 when he won the title.
24. In English-speaking Scrabble if you draw seven tiles on the first move, there's a one-in-eight chance that they will make a seven-letter word.
25. The longest playable word with only vowels is "euouae" - it can be converted into a bingo by adding "s".
26. To celebrate the 60th birthday of Prince Charles and Scrabble, which both occurred in 2008, a portrait of Prince Charles made from Scrabble tiles was created.
27. Celebrity Scrabble players include current USA President Obama and Richard Nixon, Hillary Clinton, Queen Elizabeth, Marilyn Monroe, Madonna, Sharon Stone, Mel Gibson, Kylie Minogue and many others.
28. Scrabble is the best-selling word game in the world.
29. Waseem Khatri became the youngest player to win the Pakistan Scrabble Championship in 2008 when he was only 19. He defended his title in 2009 and will be making a hat-trick attempt in 2010.
30. Scrabble is a real word. It means "to write down quickly"
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