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Rating:  - CRWTH--Yes!
A good old fashioned game of Scrabble should be exactly as the title suggests--scrabbling your brains for obscure or any strategically well placed words for those all important competitive "I gotcha" points! This deluxe edition enhances play with its handy tile grooves, swivel base, new look board, and covert tile holders. Most everyone has played Scrabble and some are extremely obsessed, (innocent look) but I cannot think of any other game, other than perhaps Monopoly, that can create more loving, sometimes raucous memories. More than vocabulary skills are needed here buckos--defensive, agressive, and at times, over-the-top-try-to-fool-you strategies abound! I strongly recommend having The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary handy (see my review)--CRWTH? Ah! A vowel-less word meaning an ancient stringed instrument. Richly tactile and textural, this deluxe edition is bound to be a great gift of fun and education. Pair it up with the Scrabble Players Dictionary and allow the games to begin!
Rating:  - This is the Scrabble to get!
Once you go Deluxe, you'll never go back. With the standard scrabble game, pieces are always sliding off the squares, and turning the board just creates a mess. The Deluxe game has a plastic grid that conveniently holds letters in place, and the board spins like a Lazy Susan.
As a result, you spend more time thinking about the game and less time crawling on the floor looking for missing pieces.
A must for any Scrabble-loving family.
For anyone who has not played Scrabble, it is a great game for boosting your vocabulary. In our family, we have a variation on the rules in order to maximize the chances of learning new words. Players can put any word down and are not penalized if the word is not in the dictionary (under regular rules, you would lose your turn). As a result, we've learned all kinds of funky words that we never would have known otherwise! The format also teaches children strategy, and the format lends itself to great family conversation.
Like all great games, it's also very easy to learn, but very difficult to master. The best board game on the planet.
Rating: - Scrabble is the ultimate board game - Deluxe is even better!
Scrabble is the ultimate board game. In the game (for 1-4 players), you try to get the highest score by forming crosswords of the highest possible values. When it is your turn, you have to put down a word on the board, which connects with a word that is already on the board. You get points by taking advantage of the letter values, as well as premium squares which can double or triple the letter values, or double or triple the word value! This game has given me hours of fun, and I have learned many new words in the meantime.
The advantages of the deluxe version over the standard version include the raised grid, in which your tiles easily fit into. In the standard version, my tiles are always slipping all over the place and causing a mess. Also, you can rotate the board on its spindle, so when it is another person's turn, they can have a better view of the board. Also, the bag included, makes the storage of tiles easy, and makes drawing tiles easier too.
Scrabble is a very fun and challenging board game, and with the deluxe version, Scrabble is even more fun than ever!
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