The Unusual Origin of Scrabble

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@TodayIFoundOut 6 жыл бұрын

Now that you know where Scrabble came from check out this video and find out How Hieroglyphics were Originally Translated: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gHu0dmR8mNWmjLs

@micahphilson 9 жыл бұрын

My great-grandparents played it every day and my mom got their board, which has a really worn out area where my great grandpa tapped his fingers while waiting. I think it's from one of the earliest manufacturings of the game after it became popular, and it's really old. The best part is they left their score cards in the box and we can see their scores, which average around 400 points per person per game! To me, at least, that's really good.

@anthonylaniohan8555 9 жыл бұрын

When I was in the 5th grade in 1987; my school teacher was on the scrabble game show... She did so well she stopped being a school teacher and we never saw her again.

@BrianH1313 9 жыл бұрын

Anthony Laniohan I remember that game show.

@StuartGotNoFriends 5 ай бұрын

Butts is my friend great grandpa. Kinda cool to know someone like that

@CreativaArtly 7 жыл бұрын

We have a Scrabble board game and we absolutely love it. It's actually a holiday tradition for mom and I to have Scrabble battles. I also love playing on the World's Largest Scrabble Board at our MS Children's Museum.

@jdawn1982 7 жыл бұрын

I remember watching the game show back in the 80s when I was a girl. My mom rarely watched tv but that was one of her favorite things to watch. She was always a big fan of board and word games. I think I inherited it from her. When she was diagnosed with cancer and was going through chemo, I'd drive home on weekends and we'd just spend the whole weekend playing board games.

@Musicradio77Network Жыл бұрын

“Scrabble” is still an iconic board game. There was a very successful game show which ran from 1974 through 1990 and then revived in 1993 for a short period, and then came “Scrabble Showdown” in 2012 where that game show went to a different direction. And also, there were electronic word games based off of “Scrabble”. The first “Scrabble” electronic game was “Senor” released in 1978 where the object is to put in a hidden word from a programmer, while a player can put in the same hidden word, and you’re right off the bat. “Scrabble Sensor” was a decent game, but it went on to put out a series of “Scrabble” electronic word games during the 1980 and right up through the 2010’s.

@SlyPearTree 8 жыл бұрын

Scrabble was my mother's favourite game, I don't remember ever sawing her loose.

@szczurek2725 8 жыл бұрын

0:40 the words on the board are English but played with Polish tiles (different points for letters) and on a Polish board :D

@Silkendrum 9 жыл бұрын

I'm impressed that you got so close on pronouncing "Poughkeepsie". Almost nobody who hasn't visited the place gets it right. It's derived from a Wappinger Native tribal word meaning “reed-covered lodge by the little water place", or "good place to catch little fish", depending on who you talk to, so it doesn't necessarily follow English pronunciation rules. We who have lived there pronounce it "p'-KIP-see". That first syllable is barely sounded. Just the slightest hint of "poe".

@clintbandura9018 9 жыл бұрын

I live in Newburgh a little south west of Po town

@Silkendrum 9 жыл бұрын

+Clint Bandura Ex-IBMer here. Lived in Highland, currently retired in NJ (moved to be closer to new grandbaby). I know Newburgh well, friends there, but all my favorite riverfront restaurants have closed in the past few years. Sad.

@texasforever7887 8 жыл бұрын

Yet he mispronounce Mattel. I guess it is just caused by the Americanised English pronunciation.

@bxdanny 7 жыл бұрын

He needs to learn how these company names are pronounced: Coleco (accent on the second syllable, which is a long "e"), and of course Mattel (accent on the "el").

@Puremindgames 7 жыл бұрын

I seem to be like the only person who can never make a word with their pieces and essentially end up turning it in to a title collector until I have like 50 tiles then I can usually make a 4 letter word

@courtneywoodbury5198 8 жыл бұрын

One time my mom and I were playing a Scrabble type game on her reading tablet. It was us vs the AI and the AI, no joke, totally cheated! We were one point behind and had one letter left (an i). There was an accessible N available so we could make 'in' which would give us the 2 points we needed to pull ahead and win... But then the AI just declared no more moves available and called it game over! I almost want to be mad, but it's just so damn bizarre! Was it a glitch? An error? Or did the AI of a knock off scrabble game on a reading tablet seriously have the capacity to cheat, and WHY?

@clintbandura9018 9 жыл бұрын

I live near Poughkeepsie, never knew scrabble was created there.

@gailraby1722 7 жыл бұрын

+Omedchazak613 sometimes its not what you new when you were younger. their is always times to learn somethink you didnt no. it won thing I like about growing up, you get nothing fore three these days, their is always a price two pay.

@tomeikawalker9087 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite games

@sincostanlogin 8 жыл бұрын

The only good thing to come out of an abandoned school house

@matthewrobinson4323 7 жыл бұрын

My parents were avid Scrabble players. On April 2, 1967 my dad died playing Scrabble with my mom. Really. True.

@lliamarden8560 9 жыл бұрын

First, let me stress that this and toptenz are two of my favorite channels and I very much like the host. But in addition to voice over is better than visible narrator (production values, not personal) but sweet mary, please check on pronunciations!!!!! Not only do you still trip up on place names and well name names ( mostly American), but it's MA TELL, not mattle. Dude! But please keep going. Great stuff. ( if with some really odd quirks!)

@QuintonJewett 7 жыл бұрын

I'd say cuh-lee-coh. yours would sound like cleeko

@momcat2223 4 жыл бұрын

Bonus Fact #5: Mr. Whistler deliberately mispronounces as many place/product/company names as possible in order to generate comments. Either that or he fancies himself the real-life Megamind.

@alisgray 4 жыл бұрын

this man's eyeglass frames style was prescient!

@bytheway1031 2 жыл бұрын

🎂Alfred Mosher Butts 04-13-2022

@54032Zepol 9 ай бұрын

AH! A beardless Simon!

@retrofuturistic8 7 жыл бұрын

OCD me can't get past the fact that "VAINS" (visible starting at 1:48 of the video) is not a word. It's an adjective. You can make an adjective in English a plural. I would challenge whoever made that word. And I would win.