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

The original premium square color scheme is still the preferred scheme for Scrabble boards used in tournaments.

* Scrabble as a tool for language preservation in Tuvan.

*. GCG specification describes a computer file format for recording and annotating Scrabble games.

The Mind Sports Organisation ( MSO ) is an association for promoting mental-skill games ( Mind Sport ) including Contract Bridge, Chess, Go, Mastermind, and Scrabble.

The National Scrabble Association has published a set of rules for competitive Anagrams play in tournament setting.

Others are chosen for logical but less obvious reasons, though " Dinmutz " ( the late Bert Danher in the Financial Times ) was produced by random selection of Scrabble tiles.

The North American National Scrabble Association publishes the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary ( OSPD ), which is also suitable for Boggle.

* Blank ( Scrabble ), a Scrabble tile that does not have a letter on it and can be substituted for any letter the player desires

Director David Silverman had difficulty devising a legible Scrabble board for the opening scene that would convey the idea that the Simpsons were only able to devise very simple words.

His comment on the experience was, " I don't like to be paid £ 500 a week for sitting down and playing Scrabble.

He later stabs his grandparents in their bed, in retaliation for the man cheating at Scrabble and the woman " invading his privacy "; the act arouses him sexually.

In an agreement with Mattel the Chambers dictionary was also the official source of words for the book " Official Scrabble Words " ( OSW ), a lexicon of all words and inflections playable in tournament Scrabble within the UK and other countries like New Zealand and Australia.

Unfortunately, the company went into receivership and thus only one new game ( Scrabble for the Game Boy Color ) appeared.

A pilot of Scrabble was taped for syndication on August 1, 1990, hosted by Los Angeles personality Steve Edwards.

Another version, entitled Scrabble Challenge but with rules more similar to the board game rather than the 1980s version, was planned exclusively for GSN with host John O ' Hurley.

NBC stations in the Central and Pacific time zones usually preempted Scrabble at 11: 30 for local news and aired Super Password at 11: 00.

* L ' Officiel du jeu Scrabble, the reference dictionary for Scrabble in French-speaking countries

Generations was the third to occupy the time slot vacated by Search for Tomorrow in 1986, following the game shows Wordplay ( which was cancelled due to poor ratings ) and Scrabble ( which was relocated to a morning time slot ).

Non-candy products featured in Seinfeld include Rold Gold pretzels ( whose advertisements at the time featured Jason Alexander ), Kenny Rogers Roasters ( a chicken restaurant chain ), Oreo Cookies, Triscuits, Ben & Jerry's, H & H Bagels, Baskin-Robbins, Dockers, Drake's Coffee Cakes, Ring Dings, Pepsi, Mello Yello, Snapple, Clearly Canadian, Bosco Chocolate Syrup, Kix ( cereal ), Cadillac, Saab, Ford Escort, Tyler Chicken ( a parody of Tyson Chicken ), Specialized Bicycles, Nike, BMW, Volvo, Toyota, Tupperware, Calvin Klein, Klein Bicycles, Ovaltine, Yoo-hoo, Arby's, TV Guide, Trump Tower, Glide Floss, Gore-Tex, Entenmann's, J. Peterman clothing catalog, and the board games Risk, Boggle, Trivial Pursuit, Scrabble, and Battleship.

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.

* Alfred Mosher Butts ( 1899 – 1993 ), invented Scrabble in 1938, and perfected it at Community Methodist Church.

Lydney Twonkers Scrabble Club play their home games at the town's library.

After realizing that he always won at the game Pictionary, but lost more than frequently at the game Scrabble, Tait decided to make a game where everyone could win at something.

* Speak Good English Weekend held at The Arts House at Old Parliament saw the collaboration of SGEM partners like Asian Storytelling Network ( ASN ), British Council, Institute of Technical Education ( ITE ), Julia Gabriel Speech & Drama Centre, National Library Board ( NLB ), News Radio 93. 8FM and Regional Language Centre ( RELC ) to organize activities related to English such as Scrabble, poetry, and tongue-twister sessions.

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.

Over the years, Scrabble had several special weeks, including Soap Week ( which featured some soap opera stars from Days of our Lives, Santa Barbara and other soaps ), Teen Week, College Week, and others, as well as two Tournaments of Champions ( February 1985 and May 1986 ), at least one Tournament of Teen Champions ( 1986 ) and a $ 100, 000 All American Tournament ( 1986 ).

They also have a spoken language: the only word known is jozxyqk, meaning " the sound you make when you get your sexual organs trapped in something " ( although it is strongly implied this is merely an attempt to cheat at a game of Scrabble ).

Another Scrabble system based on Swiss pairing is known as " Chew pairing ", and has been used at recent North American National and Canadian National Scrabble championships, and since 2005 at the World Scrabble Championship.

During an appearance on the game show Scrabble in 1987, he told the national TV audience that he appeared as an underwear model in the 1959 Sears catalogue ; he would have been 17 at the time.

The problem with Alpha Beta is that some Scrabble endgames require 14 moves to play out, and it is not possible to search that deeply.

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

", and once cheated Steve in a game of Scrabble because he played it better than she ).

Brunot made a few minor adjustments to the design and renamed the game " Scrabble ", a word meaning " to grope frantically " the Dutch " Schrabben ," to scrape or scratch

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.

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 ).

Includes the first published description of the " atomic bomb of Scrabble learning ", a technique invented and promoted by former World Champion Joel Wapnick.

In some cases the names refer to aspects of McGee's character, such as " McTardy ", a reference to McGee being late, " McSneaky ", as a reference to his ability to get almost any computer-related document, and " McCheat ", a reference to McGee supposedly cheating at Scrabble.

The Twonkers were Western Area Scrabble League champions in 2001 and 2005 and were twice runners-up in the National Scrabble Club Knockout Tournament in 1999 and 2003.

The World Scrabble Championship 2001 was the sixth World Scrabble Championship.

By three games to one, Brian Cappelletto was declared World Scrabble Champion 2001.