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Original Name of Scrabble

Criss Cross

Developer of Scrabble

Alfred Mosher Butts, 1938

Marketer of Scrabble

James Brunot, 1948

Scrabble as a Trademark in the Rest of The World

Mattel

Scrabble as a Trademark in USA and Canada

Hasbro

A Variation of Scrabble

Lexiko

James Brunot's Home

Newtown, Connecticut

Meaning of Scrabble

"to scratch frantically"

President of Macy's, who played Scrabble in ___

Jack Straus, 1952

The Scrabble trademark was sold to ___ in the year ___

Selchow and Righter, 1972

____ sold Scrabble in Australia and UK during ____

JW Spear, Jan 19,1995

Selchow and Righter was sold to ___ in ___

Coleco, 1986

Host of the Scrabble Daytime Game Show

Chuck Woolery

Scrabble was inducted into the __ in __

National Toy Hall of Fame, 2004

Objective of Scrabble

Score more points than the opponent

0 Point Tile

Blank

1 Point Tile

A


E


I
L
N
O
R
S
T
U

2Point Tile

D


G

3Point Tile

B
C
M
P

4Point Tile

F
H
V
W
Y

5Point Tile

K

8Point Tile

J


X

10Point Tile

Q
Z

Light Blue Cells, tile point multiplied by two

Double Letter Scores

Dark Blue Cell, tilepoint multiplied by three

Triple Letter Score

Light Red Cell, wordpoint multiplied by two

Double Word Score

Dark Red Cell, wordpoint multiplied by three

Triple Word Score

How many tiles must be drawn by each player

Seven

Place all seven tiles and win 50 points

Fifty Point Bonus

Traceable back to __ years

History of Chess, 1500

Possible Origin of Chess

India, before 6th Century AD

Time of evolution of Chess

15th Century

Movement of Chess

India to Persia to Arabs to South Europe to Europe

Predominant Chess style in the late 15th century to 1880s

Romantic Chess

First World Chess Championship

1886

FIDE

World Chess Federation

Pawn Value

1

KnightValue

3

BishopValue

3

RookValue

5

Queen Value

9

Unchecked, but no legal moves

Stalemate

A King threatened with capture

Check

A King threatened with capture and has no legal moves

Checkmate

Number of Squares in Chess

64

Only time in Chess when more than one piece moves during a turn

Castling

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

Only occurs when a pawn is moved two squares

En Passant

When a pawn reaches the other edge

Pawn Promotion

Available promotions for pawns

Queen


Rook


Bishop


Knight