Scrabble Memories

If you've played Scrabble many times at all, I have a feeling you ended up with some impossible groups of letters.

Q, T, Z, I, C, H,W.

Sure, I can work with that!  Only if there already some letters on the board - maybe an A that can create "what," "cat," and "hat."

There's another problem with Scrabble... those little 2 and 3 letter words that mean no more words can really be built and you are destined for a short and ineffective game.

My Dad was pretty good at those three letter words, and he would somehow place them on triple letter or triple word scores.  One I learned playing Scrabble with him was adz.

Yes, adz.  Look it up - it is a word!

Scrabble was created in 1938 by Mr. Alfred Mosher Butts.

If we randomly pull seven letters from his name - A, R, D, S, E, U, S - there would have to be a few words to start today's game of Scrabble on National Scrabble Day. Which is always (for some reason) today on April 13.

Dress is a word from that; as is Sear, and suer (one who sues).

Board games that many of us grew up with are fading a bit these days... instead we do the online or laptop version of the games that we can play solo instead of at a table with three or four other people.

Which is not the same!

If you can't get a game together today, plan one later this week.  Get out your game, dust it off, and play. 

And save the Q, K, or Z for one of those triple letter or triple word scores tiles!