Game Review

Super Scrabble, more spaces on the board,

 more tiles to play!

Supersized Scrabble, the word game gone wild!

The new gameboard is a 21 by 21 grid (the original is 15 by 15) with some quadruple premium bonus squares. The game includes two hundred tiles with a new distribution of letter tiles (not just a double set of the original distribution). The "Deluxe" version of this game adds a revolving game board.
Words at their finest with 2-4 players ages 8 and up.
Words and a dictionary are all you need for this extended classic game!  Best played with 4 players who have access to their thinking caps. More spaces, more tiles , more opportunities for scores!

Did Ya Know?

Who invented Qwirkle? Qwirkle is a tile-based game for 2-4 players, designed by Susan McKinley Ross. Qwirkle is published by MindWare.Qwirkle shares some characteristics with the
 game Scrabble as well as Rummikub.  Qwirkle is considered by MindWare to be its most awarded game of all time. In 2011, Qwirkle won the Spiel des Jahres, widely considered the most prestigious award in the gaming industry. A sequel, Qwirkle Cubes, was released by Mindware in 2009^.

 Where did Scrabble come from?
During the Great Depression, Alfred Mosher Butts, an out-of-work architect decided to invent a board game. He did some market research and concluded that games fall into three categories: number games, such as dice and bingo; move games, such as chess and checkers; and word games, such as anagrams. Butts wanted to create a game that combined the vocabulary skills of crossword puzzles and anagrams, with the additional element of chance. The game was originally named Lexico, but Butts eventually decided to call the game "Criss-Cross Words."