Finding Joy In Daily Holidays. Let's Celebrate National Scrabble Day! Celebrated Every April 13th.

  Let's Celebrate National Scrabble Day!

Celebrated Every April 13th.




National Scrabble Day is a day to celebrate the game of Scrabble 
and its inventor, Alfred Mosher Butts.

A Few Scrabble Facts...
  • The game was initially called Lexiko, then renamed Criss-Cross, and eventually, Scrabble.
  • The inventor of Scrabble, Alfred Mosher Butts, was an architect.
  • The game was invented in 1938.
  • The rule book for Scrabble is 50 pages long.
  • There are over 4,000 Scrabble Clubs around the world that meet to compete.
  • The longest Scrabble game recorded was in 1984, which lasted 153 hours.

A Few Ways to Celebrate National Scrabble Day...

1-Gather family and friends and play a game of Scrabble.
2-If you don't have a Scrabble game, go out and buy one or look online for one.
3-Find an online Scrabble game that you can play. 
4-Read about the history of Scrabble.
5-Try a different version of Scrabble, a card game called Scrabble Slam, which is a bit more kid-friendly and very fast-paced.

How will I celebrate National Scrabble Day? I just ordered the game Scrabble Slam and will play it with my oldest grandkids.

KathieyV

 

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