Are you interested in engaging in a game while enhancing your vocabulary? Then say yes to SCRABBLE!
Scrabble is a board game that is played with two to four players scoring points. The players have to place tiles bearing a single letter on each tile, onto the game board. It is divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words in a crossword way. They should definitely read left to right in rows or downward in columns and must be included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. The game duration for a tournament is 50 minutes. Scrabble needs techniques of skills such as one’s vocabulary, spelling, anagramming, strategy, counting, etc. It enables your critical thinking as chess does. The game has given much popularity in 121 countries and is available in more than 30 languages.
Have you ever heard of a game produced in twenty-nine different languages and has sold over 150 million copies worldwide? Yes, it’s Scrabble indeed! And, why is it so popular?
What are the befitting facts regarding playing scrabble? Of cause, it is more than just a game.
Scrabble contributes to improving your mentality. It enables widening your linguistic approach through syntactical and morphological patterns. It elaborates on critical thinking while having a better memorizing ability. Scrabble helps you to encourage to learn something novel, especially for non-native English speakers.
Learning new vocabulary is the most obvious impact of playing scrabble. One could practice spelling with scrabble. New words can be learnt which would benefit not only during a game of scrabble but also during the use of the language itself at any instance. Learning a language is quite stressful. One of the main benefits of scrabble is learning new words and how to use them in an entertaining and sportive manner.
Scrabble could make you a language wizard. So, why don’t you give this mind-bogging game a try?