Table feel
Moderate interaction with a focus on strategic depth and frequent attention to other players' actions.
Rich game profile
Scrabble
In this classic word game, players use their seven drawn letter-tiles to form words on the gameboard. Each word laid out earns points based on the commonality of the letters used, with certain board spaces giving bonuses. But a word can only be played if it uses at least one alre...
Players
2-4
Time
?-?
Age
10+
Weight
2.07
Rating
6.27
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Moderate interaction with a focus on strategic depth and frequent attention to other players' actions.
Teach
2.4
Teaching signal
Replay
3.9
High replayability
Interaction
1.8
Low interaction
Scaling
3.8
Scales well
Strategy
4.5
Deep strategy
Control
3.8
More strategic control
Replay value
Scrabble offers a high level of variability with different gameboards, expansions add new content, deep strategic possibilities, low player interaction, good scalability, and moderate easiness to learn. Overall, it has a strong replayability score of 7.86 out of 10.
Luck profile
Scrabble has a moderate influence of luck. While random elements like tile draws can impact the game, players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning. The game outcome is primarily determined by player strategy and decisions, with luck playing a minor role.
Overview
What ABG knows about this game
In this classic word game, players use their seven drawn letter-tiles to form words on the gameboard. Each word laid out earns points based on the commonality of the letters used, with certain board spaces giving bonuses. But a word can only be played if it uses at least one already-played tile or adds to an already-played word. This leads to slightly tactical play, as potential words are rejected because they would give an opponent too much access to the better bonus spaces. Skip-a-cross was licensed by Selchow & Righter and manufactured by Cadaco. Both games have identical rules but Skip-a-cross has tiles and racks made of cardboard instead of wood. The game was also published because not enough Scrabble games were manufactured to meet the demand.
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Designers
1
Alfred Mosher Butts
Artists
1
C. Leslie Crandall
Publishers
4
Alga
Barnes & Noble
Borras Plana S.A.
Brio AB
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