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  • 42 of 42 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 kineticspade

    Member since 07/12/2005

    Reviews written: 453

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Gets your brain working

    Disadvantages Disadvantages None

    This game is a game to be played with 2 to 4 players and can be a pretty good game to play, however you need to be a pretty good speller to be able to play a proper game and get good scores. What comes in the box 100 Scrabble letters Scrabble board 4 tile holders 1 bag 1 set of instructions How to play I always play it where to start with you all pick a letter out of the bag, the closer one to A will go first then it will go in a clockwise position for other players in turn. It is important to chose who goes first in a fair way as you do start off on a double word score. After you have picked ... more
  • 34 of 34 Ciao users found the following review helpful
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    Level 7 mozzie76

    Member since 21/08/2008

    Reviews written: 564

    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages Enjoyable and educational

    Disadvantages Disadvantages none

    As a youngster one game that we played a lot, especially when away on a holiday and it was raining, was the Mattel game, Scrabble. There have been many versions of this game over the years, but the original is still the best. I purchased this game from amazon for £18.99. Scrabble is a game of words and the better your knowledge of words are, the easier you will find the game. As a young child, it helps to improve your use of the English language and you get to learn new and obscure words. This game is easy to play with 2-4 players required. The game comes with the following pieces, a Scrabble ... more
  • 6 of 6 Ciao users found the following review helpful
    User recommends the product

    Advantages Advantages educational, simple rules, scope for strategy

    Disadvantages Disadvantages Not suitable for very small children due to small parts and nature of game

    Scrabble is a paradoxically simple yet hugely sophisticated word-based board-game that was originally conceived back in the late 1940s. Each player takes 7 individual letter-pieces from a shared pool of unknown pieces and must use those letters to create words on a large board divided up into squares, replenishing their used letters with new one every time they are successfully employed on the board. Players take turns at making words, keeping tabs on the accumulating scores, with different letters being worth more points depending on their rarity and the difficulty of employing them ... more
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