Celebrate 60 years of winning words!  This anniversary edition unfolds to to reveal a colorful, rotating gameboard that allows each player to see the letters upright. The raised-grid style of the board guarantees that your words won’t slip or slide out of place. Pieces store away in two built-in side trays. (Parker Brothers/Hasbro, Ages 8+)

What Canadian Parents are saying…

Our family plays scrabble every chance we get so we jumped at the chance to play with the newest board!  We really like that it folds for storage and trips to the cottage.  The best part is the base of the board pivots which makes it easy for all players to see the board when it is there turn - no more upside down letters and words!  The raised board means the pieces don’t move around and that is especially good when you have younger players.  The drawers on the side make it easy to store the pieces away when you are done playing.  — Brenda & Brian

 Tips & Tricks worth mentioning…

If you are going to play Scrabble you have to have a dictionary. We highly recommend the Scrabble Dictionary. It makes playing easier and more fun!

The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, DK Canada (2008)
The wildly popular word game, Scrabble®, was conceived by Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect out of work during the Depression, and was trademarked in 1948. More than 40 years later, over 100 million Scrabble sets had sold worldwide, including 30 million in the USA alone. And, in 1991, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the first worldwide Scrabble tournament had been scheduled. With so many Scrabble aficionados, and the solid success of other Scrabble dictionaries, especially the Merriam-Webster titles, the time is right to add an illustrated dictionary to the Scrabble lexicon, using the Merriam-Webster text.

Posted on November 11th, 2008 by helen
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