SCRABBLE

Learning targets
• Define the game scrabble
• Discuss the history of scrabble
• Identify the equipment’s and material used in
scrabble

• Recognize and explain the rules of the game.

• Explain the benefits of playing scrabble
especially amidst the pandemic.
 What is Scrabble?
• Scrabble is a word game
in which two to four
players score points by
placing tiles.
• It is a mind game that
requires wide vocabulary
• The tiles must form
words which, in
crossword fashion, flow
left to right in rows or
downwards in columns
HISTORY OF SCRABBLE
▪ In 1931, Alfred
Mosher Butts
translated his
lifelong love of
crossword puzzles
into a board game.
• Butts studied the front page of The New York Times to calculate
how frequently each letter of the alphabet was used. He then
used each letter's frequency to determine how many of each
letter he would include in the game. He included only four "S'
tiles so that the ability to make words plural would not make the
game too easy.
• Butts initially called the game 'Lexiko", but later changed the
name to "Criss Cross Words", after considering "It", and began to
look for a buyer. The game makers he originally contacted
rejected the idea, but Butts was tenacious.
 • Eventually, in 1948, Butts sold
the rights to entrepreneur and
James Brunot
game-lover James Brunot,
who made a few minor
adjustments to the design and
renamed the game "Scrabble",
a word meaning "to grope
frantically" (from the Dutch
"Schrabben", to scrape or
scratch)
• He is the one who published
SCRABBLE after it was
invented and designed.
NAMES OF SCRABBLE

▪ Lexiko/lexico
▪ Crisscross word
▪ Scrabble
MATERIALS AND
EQUIPMENT
Racks
This is where
choses letters are
placed, and where
words are formed
before entering it
to the board.
Scrabble Tiles
Scrabble is
played with exactly
100 tiles. 98 of this
tiles contain letters
on them, while
there are 2 blank
tiles.
 Points Per Letter

• (1 point) A, E, I, O, U,
L, N, S, T, R
• (2 points) D, G
• (3 points) B, M, C, P
• (4 points) F, H, V, W, Y
• (5 points) K
• (8 points) J, X
• (10 points) Q, Z
A three-minute hourglass may be used to time each play.
After 54 minutes the game is over and both players now have
one more play before totaling the final scores.

SCRABBLE TIMER
(Tournament Play)Playing time 50 minutes
For each minute by which a player oversteps the time
control, a penalty of 10 points is assessed. The number of
minutes is rounded up, so, for example, if a player
oversteps time control by two minutes and five seconds,
the penalty is 30 points.
The idea of the game is to…
RULES OF THE GAME
PLAYING THE GAME
PLAYING THE GAME
SCORING THE GAME
R1 E1 A1 D2 I1 N1 G2

10
= ________
ENDING THE GAME
 Let’s try!
Identify the basic moves that is used.
 ?
Playing Through R1 E1 A1 D2 I1 N1 G2

N1
Hooking
S1

Extension Play T1
E1
Bingo A1
D2
Parallel Play
R1 E1 A1 D2 I1 N1 G2

?
Playing Through

Hooking

Extension Play

Bingo

Parallel Play
 ?
Playing Through

Hooking

Extension Play

Bingo

Parallel Play
 ?
Playing Through

Hooking

Extension Play

Bingo

Parallel Play
What are the benefits of playing scrabble
especially amidst the pandemic?