Editing Scrabble (section)

{{Short description|Board game with words}}
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{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2019}} <!-- first use: Revision 622226 of 05:49, 21 January 2003 by [[User:Mav|Mav]] -->
{{Infobox game
| italic title = no
| title = ''Scrabble''
| subtitle = 
| logo = Scrabble logo by hasbro.png
| logo_size = 200
| logo_caption = 
| image = Scrabble game in progress.jpg
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| caption = A game of [[English-language Scrabble|English-language ''Scrabble'']] in progress
| manufacturer = [[Hasbro]] (within U.S. and Canada)<br />[[Mattel]] (outside U.S. and Canada)
| designer = [[Alfred Mosher Butts]]
| publisher = James Brunot
| date = {{start date and age|1948}}
| genre = [[Word game]]<br />[[Board game]]
| players = 2–4
<!-- | ages          = 8+ -->| setup_time = 2–4 minutes
| playing_time = Tournament game: 50–60 minutes
| random_chance = Medium (letters drawn)
| skills = [[Vocabulary]], [[spelling]], [[anagram]]ming, [[Strategy game|strategy]], [[Mathematics|counting]], [[Deception|bluffing]], [[probability]]
| web = {{Official website|1=https://shop.hasbro.com/en-us/scrabble-words|name=Official website (Hasbro)}}<br />{{Official website|1=https://shopping.mattel.com/en-gb/collections/scrabble|name=Official website (Mattel)}}
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}}
'''''Scrabble''''' is a [[word game]] in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a [[Board game|game board]] divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in [[crossword]] fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard [[dictionary]] or [[lexicon]].

American architect [[Alfred Mosher Butts]] invented the game in 1931. ''Scrabble'' is produced in the United States and Canada by [[Hasbro]], under the brands of both of its subsidiaries, [[Milton Bradley Company|Milton Bradley]] and [[Parker Brothers]]. [[Mattel]] owns the rights to manufacture ''Scrabble'' outside the U.S. and Canada. As of 2008, the game is sold in 121 countries and is available in more than 30 languages; approximately 150 million sets have been sold worldwide, and roughly one-third of American homes and half of British homes have a ''Scrabble'' set.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of Toys and Games: ''Scrabble'' |website=history.com |url=http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57162&display_order=4&sub_display_order=4&mini_id=57124 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080424165147/http://www.history.com/minisite.do?content_type=Minisite_Generic&content_type_id=57162&display_order=4&sub_display_order=4&mini_id=57124 |archive-date=April 24, 2008 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The History of ''Scrabble'' |website=Mind Sport Olympiad |url=http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/proprietary/scrabble/features/history.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110608001552/http://www.msoworld.com/mindzine/news/proprietary/scrabble/features/history.html |archive-date=June 8, 2011 }}</ref><ref name=Burkeman>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2008/jun/28/healthandwellbeing.familyandrelationships |title=Spell bound |newspaper=The Guardian |date=2008-06-28 |location=London |access-date=2009-01-02}}</ref><ref name=tele/> There are approximately 4,000 ''Scrabble'' clubs around the world.<ref name=tele>{{Cite news |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3776732/Scrabble-60-facts-for-its-60th-birthday.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/3776732/Scrabble-60-facts-for-its-60th-birthday.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Scrabble: 60 facts for its 60th birthday|newspaper=The Daily Telegraph|access-date=2016-03-31}}{{cbignore}}</ref>