English-language Scrabble Japan. English-language Scrabble English-language Scrabble is the original version of the popular word-based board game invented in 1938 by US architect Alfred Mosher Butts who based the game on the letter distribution in "The New York Times" in English. The Scrabble variant most popular in English is standard match play, where two players compete over a series of games. Duplicate Scrabble is not popular in English, and High score Scrabble is no longer practised. Although English is a worldwide language, the official list of allowable words and some tournament rules change between territories. The main Scrabble associations in North America
Scrabble Complete and the music. The game offers support for the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and a hint system for novice Scrabble players. In addition to the main stand-alone mode, Scrabble Complete offers network play. There are also several educational word games, such as word riddles and anagram search, included with Scrabble Complete. Some copies of the game also include the 1997 Boggle computer game as a bonus. Reception to Scrabble Complete was generally favorable with a 75.67% rating at Gamerankings. GameSpot gave the game a 7.2 rating stating: "Scrabble Complete is basically just Scrabble, which, if you're a fan of the