Scrabble launch new 'less stressful' edition in 75-year first

Called ‘ Scrabble Together,’ the game will be played by teams instead of individuals and will move at a faster pace than the original edition.oday, 2023 Irish national Scrabble champion Feargal Weatherhead said the aim of the new version is to make Scrabble less intimidating to new players.

“It’s still essentially Scrabble but it will also involve cards you can pick up and things like that – it’s going to be a more fun version for beginners.“You don’t need to have a massive vocabulary to be a good Scrabble player, there are plenty of good players who only use common everyday words we all use,” he said.

“You need to know quite a lot of your three-letter words and it helps if you know seven-letter words so you can play all your tiles in one move to get a really big score.”“Normally our tournaments would last for about 14 or 15 hours over a Saturday and Sunday which is a tough mental workout,” he said.

“A lot of people have taken it up and are now starting to come to competitive tournaments; it’s incredible and some of them are improving rapidly.

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