Wednesday, April 07, 2010
Will Scrabble be more fun in England now that proper nouns are allowed?
This just in: Mattel of the Isles (British, that is) endorses the legality of proper nouns of the generally capitalized kind. Ultimately, it is believed, that UK Scrabble players will find that words spelled backwards (e.g. sdrawkcab) will soon be acceptable. And, if you can imagine this, bachelor words, completely unconnected to anything else already on the board, will some day find their home in England's parlors.
Of course, that's Mattel's doing. And Mattel only owns the rights to Scrabble in England. Here in the States, it is sold by Hasbro, who, it is believed, will never endorse such basic violations of the essential game.
It's almost 15 years since I worked at Mattel. During much of my tenure I advocated, nay, begged Mattel to consider such bizarre reframings of the Scrabble rules. They resisted me. I resisted them. And then I quit.
I am feeling belatedly justified. Perhaps, in their newly acquired wisdom, Mattel will go so far as to endorse variants of the wackier kind - such as these - varying further the very reasons for playing Scrabble.
Let us play.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
Of course, that's Mattel's doing. And Mattel only owns the rights to Scrabble in England. Here in the States, it is sold by Hasbro, who, it is believed, will never endorse such basic violations of the essential game.
It's almost 15 years since I worked at Mattel. During much of my tenure I advocated, nay, begged Mattel to consider such bizarre reframings of the Scrabble rules. They resisted me. I resisted them. And then I quit.
I am feeling belatedly justified. Perhaps, in their newly acquired wisdom, Mattel will go so far as to endorse variants of the wackier kind - such as these - varying further the very reasons for playing Scrabble.
Let us play.
from Bernie DeKoven, funsmith
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