Hasbro (within U.S. and Canada) Mattel (outside U.S. and Canada)
Designers
Alfred Mosher Butts
Publishers
James Brunot
Publication
1948; 76 years ago (1948)
Genres
Word game Board game
Players
2–4
Setup time
2–4 minutes
Playing time
Tournament game: 50–60 minutes
Chance
Medium (letters drawn)
Skills
Vocabulary, spelling, anagramming, strategy, counting, bluffing, probability
Website
scrabble.hasbro.com
Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a 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 1938. Scrabble is produced in the United States and Canada by Hasbro, under the brands of both of its subsidiaries, 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 and half of British homes have a Scrabble set.[1][2][3][4] There are approximately 4,000 Scrabble clubs around the world.[4]
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