In-tact Scrabble game!!!!

[MissMillie]

I've had it at least 25 years and it's moved with me at least 5 times. It resides in a torn-up box.

ALL OF THE TILES ARE ACCOUNTED FOR!!!!!


I was looking for something to do with Al's grandkids. Trying to keep their minds from turning to mush since they're out of school.

[Ohiogal]

1. I love Scrabble!

But I have to play it on line since no one here will play it with me!

Great idea to keep the kids busy!

[northoftheborder]

2. I play the online Scrabble ap every day. But....

They put out a notice that they had sold the game to someone else, who changed it into another word game, and the original Scrabble app will go out the end of March. The new game is cheesy, and unappealing to me. I have a real table game, but it's so handy to play on my iPad in bed or anywhere. Mad

[Little_Wing]

7. Terrible timing

Although they did say if you have it downloaded you can continue playing. Unclear whether the dictionary check will still work, though. Don’t know how this affect those playing through the internet as I only play against the CPU function. 😭

[2naSalit]

3. I have to thank Scrabble and my grandmother

for my ability to spell. My grandmother was a master at the game, she and her two sisters. They watched us a lot when I was young so being the in between kid, I was often alone with granny. She was addicted to games so she'd sit us down at the already set up game on a card table and we'd play, just the two of us. I recall I was about four when she first played "with" me, it was more like for me since I didn't know anything but the letters then.

She was a good teacher and she would show me how to make words and tell me what they meant. English was not her first language either. She would never arrange the tiles inn the tray, wouldn't even turn them all right-side up. And she always won, no matter who played her. She retired on the east coast of Florida and was known as a champion among fellow retiree gamers well into her eighties. I think I still have a newspaper article about her, a whole page article!

Scrabble is a great game for fun and education. If you can get the kids into it, that would be great. Maybe you can arrange a daily activity out of it. You can bend the rules to your liking to make for new challenges and avoid boredom.

Great find!

[IcyPeas]

4. there used to be a Junior Scrabble game

back in the 60s. my family played that then graduated to real scrabble. now we play Words With Friends.

[SeattleVet]

5. My mother got a Scrabble game in the early 1960's using S&H Green Stamps.

She was an English teacher (8th grade), and my sisters and I spent many hours playing. She used to go easy on us when we were little, but once I hit 6th or 7th grade she had to pull out all the stops.

My sisters still have that game (it is also intact with all of the original tiles). It got a LOT of use over the past 60 or so years!

[pansypoo53219]

6. would play up north(no teevee) + when we lost power. more a cards family.

[lastlib]

8. I still have my tournament chess set from high school/college days--intact!

rather nicely preserved, too. I looked on e-Bay, and similar sets, in absolutely crappy condition, were selling for north of $50.

In 1970s, my parents spent all of $10 on it for Christmas--best gift I got!