The first contestant to solve three words wins the game and $ 500, and goes on to the Scrabble Sprint round.

John Litchardello ( right ) is trying to beat George Sealy's time in Scrabble Sprint

In its original format, the Scrabble Sprint round was played between the winner of the Crossword game and the returning champion.

The winner from the first half played Scrabble Sprint to establish a time using four words.

The Bonus Sprint round, also introduced on December 29, 1986, played very similarly to the Scrabble Sprint round.

The contestant who won the most money faced the contestant with the fastest Scrabble Sprint time of the week, and whoever guessed four words in the fastest time possible at the end of the Friday episode won $ 25, 000 in cash.

Future game show contestant coordinator Laura Chambers competed as a contestant on the pilot, and " won " the $ 25, 000 bonus in the Scrabble Sprint.

PES also directs TV commercials, including spots for Kinder Surprise ( 2011 ), Washington State Lottery ( 2010 ), Scrabble ( 2008 ), Sprint ( 2007 ), Sneaux Shoes (" Human Skateboard ", 2007 ), Orange Telecom ( 2006 ), Bacardi ( 2005 ), and Coinstar ( 2005 ).

He is the all-time top money winner in the history of Scrabble, and earned a particular reputation by clinching victory in major events before the final round.

In some Scrabble tournaments, a system known variously as " modified Swiss ", " Portland Swiss ", " Fontes Swiss " or " speed pairing " is used, whereby first players are placed in groups of four, and play three rounds of round-robin play, and subsequently are paired as in Swiss pairing, but using the standings as of the second to last round, rather than the last round.

The final round took place on April 15, and Jonathan Hatch was the winner of the first official Scrabble tournament.

Chamish was the winner of the 1987 Israeli Scrabble Tournament and the runner-up in 1988.

* Scrabble Crossword Game

Clabbers is a game played by tournament Scrabble players for fun, or occasionally at Scrabble variant tournaments.

If a game has a board, the board is usually irregular rather than uniform or symmetric ( like Risk rather than chess or Scrabble ); the board is often random ( like Settlers of Catan ) or has random elements ( like Tikal ).

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a gameboard marked with a 15-by-15 grid.

Though he left most of the game ( including the distribution of letters ) unchanged, Brunot slightly rearranged the " premium " squares of the board and simplified the rules ; he also changed the name of the game to " Scrabble ," a real word which means " to scratch frantically.

Upwords, recently renamed " Scrabble Upwords " by Hasbro, is a board game invented by Elliot Rudell and originally published by the Milton Bradley Company ( which is now a division of Hasbro ).

The game is based on Scrabble, except that letters can be stacked on top of other words to create new words.

Unlike Scrabble, which is controlled by competitors Hasbro ( in the U. S .) and Mattel ( in Europe ), Upwords is at this time solely under the worldwide licensing control of Hasbro, making it the only such worldwide word game property that can be Internet-marketed and Internet-offered with complete licensing control.

* January 19 – The game Scrabble debuts.

Their use has since spread to tournament Scrabble, shogi, go, and nearly every competitive two-player board game, as well as other types of games.

After finding pieces of their Scrabble game missing, they decided to create their own game.

Subway has also used " instant win " games, based on the game Scrabble.

A version of the game seems to be popular among tournament Scrabble players.

The tradition of game show reruns continued into the 1990s with the $ 25, 000 and $ 100, 000 Pyramids, the early 1990s revivals of The Joker's Wild and Tic-Tac-Dough plus other well-known shows such as Scrabble, Sale of the Century, Talk About and Caesars Challenge.

Now the game comes in a less expensive jewel case, or as part of a collection, the Classic Game Collection ( also including computer versions of Monopoly, The Game of Life, and Scrabble ).

In 1986, she appeared on a special " Teen Week " episode of the NBC-TV game show Scrabble.

* In the King of the Hill Unfortunate Son episode, Cotton Hill describes the battle during a Scrabble game.

The game is similar to Scrabble, but instead of letter tiles, players draw short strips of cardboard containing pre-built English words.

A noted tournament Scrabble player, Kinsella became more involved with the game after being disillusioned by the 1994 Major League Baseball strike.

In 1993 U. S. News & World Report used the word in its original meaning with reference to a debate about new words being used in the game of Scrabble ; " Honorificabilitudinity and the requirements of Scrabble fans dictated that the New Shorter English Dictionary's makers be open-minded enough to include dweeb ( a boringly conventional person ), droob ( an unprepossessing or contemptible person, esp.

" However, practically this word cannot be used in an actual Scrabble game because it is longer than the word length possible on a Scrabble board.

Mark Nyman ( born 14 October 1966 ) is a Scrabble player originally from London, England now resident in Cheshire.

Former ABSP Chairman Allan Simmons is a prolific Scrabble author and the ABSP website was formerly maintained by Countdown series champion Stewart Holden, who now holds the post of publicity officer for the association.

( 1969 ), H. Rap Brown writes that the children he grew up with employed the Dozens to kill time and stave off boredom, in the way that whites might play Scrabble.

Arthur attempts to determine the Question to the Ultimate Answer of Life, the Universe and Everything by reaching into a Scrabble bag made from Ford's towel and pulling out letters randomly, hoping Deep Thought's computational matrix in Earth would have rubbed off on his subconscious.

Also, an inter-school Scrabble competition, in which 54 primary schools participated, was held to kick off the year's events in April 2002.

Dawn is playing Scrabble with her mother as her sister, Tess, sneaks off to Dawn's room.

In Scrabble tournaments a player with such a strong lead will often be paired against the highest-placed player who cannot possibly finish in the prize-winning zone ; this process is known as Gibsonization ( also known as the Gibson Rule ) after it was first applied to the U. S. Scrabble Champion David Gibson in the 1995 All-Stars tournament.

Debuting on August 18, 1986, Double Talk struggled in the ratings against the second half of The Price Is Right on CBS and Scrabble on NBC and failed to find an audience.