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50 Cards in this Set
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- Back
Original Name of Scrabble |
Criss Cross |
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Developer of Scrabble |
Alfred Mosher Butts, 1938 |
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Marketer of Scrabble |
James Brunot, 1948 |
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Scrabble as a Trademark in the Rest of The World |
Mattel |
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Scrabble as a Trademark in USA and Canada |
Hasbro |
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A Variation of Scrabble |
Lexiko |
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James Brunot's Home |
Newtown, Connecticut |
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Meaning of Scrabble |
"to scratch frantically" |
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President of Macy's, who played Scrabble in ___ |
Jack Straus, 1952 |
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The Scrabble trademark was sold to ___ in the year ___ |
Selchow and Righter, 1972 |
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____ sold Scrabble in Australia and UK during ____ |
JW Spear, Jan 19,1995 |
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Selchow and Righter was sold to ___ in ___ |
Coleco, 1986 |
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Host of the Scrabble Daytime Game Show |
Chuck Woolery |
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Scrabble was inducted into the __ in __ |
National Toy Hall of Fame, 2004 |
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Objective of Scrabble |
Score more points than the opponent |
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0 Point Tile |
Blank |
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1 Point Tile |
A E I |
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2Point Tile |
D G |
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3Point Tile |
B |
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4Point Tile |
F |
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5Point Tile |
K |
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8Point Tile |
J X |
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10Point Tile |
Q |
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Light Blue Cells, tile point multiplied by two |
Double Letter Scores |
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Dark Blue Cell, tilepoint multiplied by three |
Triple Letter Score |
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Light Red Cell, wordpoint multiplied by two |
Double Word Score |
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Dark Red Cell, wordpoint multiplied by three |
Triple Word Score |
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How many tiles must be drawn by each player |
Seven |
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Place all seven tiles and win 50 points |
Fifty Point Bonus |
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Traceable back to __ years |
History of Chess, 1500 |
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Possible Origin of Chess |
India, before 6th Century AD |
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Time of evolution of Chess |
15th Century |
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Movement of Chess |
India to Persia to Arabs to South Europe to Europe |
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Predominant Chess style in the late 15th century to 1880s |
Romantic Chess |
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First World Chess Championship |
1886 |
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FIDE |
World Chess Federation |
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Pawn Value |
1 |
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KnightValue |
3 |
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BishopValue |
3 |
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RookValue |
5 |
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Queen Value |
9 |
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Unchecked, but no legal moves |
Stalemate |
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A King threatened with capture |
Check |
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A King threatened with capture and has no legal moves |
Checkmate |
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Number of Squares in Chess |
64 |
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Only time in Chess when more than one piece moves during a turn |
Castling |
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Steps in Castling |
1) No pieces between a Rook and a King 2) Neither Rook nor King must have been moved beforehand 3) King moves two spaces towards the Rook 4) Rook moves over King to its previous tile |
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Only occurs when a pawn is moved two squares |
En Passant |
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When a pawn reaches the other edge |
Pawn Promotion |
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Available promotions for pawns |
Queen Rook Bishop Knight |