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March 11, 2014
The Great Depression and Scrabble
simply comprising of small cardboard squares with letters on them; otherwise the game was very similar to the modern version. The letters even had their signature point values. He determined these values by performing a frequency analysis on the alphabet from sources such as the New York Times. In order to combat the lazy use of plurals, he only included four ‘S’ tiles. - - Today
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Your Say
If I was playing, I would have objected to "HOC".
Posted by: Roger Drew Williams at March 11, 2014 10:08 AM
Mine was a hardscrabble childhood. Our set had four Qs and no Us.
Posted by: Roy Lofquist at March 11, 2014 10:16 AM
No one in my family will play with me anymore, I seem to always win.
Posted by: tripletap at March 11, 2014 3:37 PM