Scrabble rotating mechanisms and personalized graphics. An edition has been released (in association with the RNIB) with larger board and letters for players with impaired vision. The colours on the board are more contrasting and the font size is increased from 16 to 24 point. The tiles are in bold 48 point. An introduction to tournament "Scrabble" and its players can be found in the book "Word Freak" by Stefan Fatsis. In the process of writing, Fatsis himself progressed into a high-rated tournament player. The "Scrabble Player's Handbook", edited by Stewart Holden and written by an international group of tournament players,
Word square to the 10-square problem: Since 1921, 10-squares have been constructed from reduplicated words and phrases like "Alala! Alala!" (a reduplicated Greek interjection). Each such square contains five words appearing twice, which in effect constitutes four identical 5-squares. Darryl Francis and Dmitri Borgmann succeeded in using near-tautonyms (second- and third-order reduplication) to employ seven different entries by pairing "orangutang" with "urangutang" and "ranga-ranga" with "tanga-tanga", as follows: However, "word researchers have always regarded the tautonymic ten-square as an unsatisfactory solution to the problem." In 1976, Frank Rubin produced an incomplete ten-square containing two nonsense phrases at the top and eight dictionary