60 Facts About Scrabble

From the Telegraph:

19) The French play all competitions with a version called Duplicate Scrabble where each player plays with the same letters for each move.

24) The world’s largest game of Scrabble took place in Britain’s Wembley Stadium to mark the game’s 50th anniversary in 1998. Each tile measured an enormous 6ft square and took two strong men to lift. The game is recorded in the Guinness Book of Records.

27) A ballet called Scrabble had its premiere in South Africa in the 1980s.

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I want to play me some Duplicate Scrabble.