Scrabble Slam! Scrabble Slam! Scrabble Slam! is a card game as well as word game by Hasbro. It was released on June 20, 2009. It is based on the popular board game, Scrabble. This game is also available on the Nintendo DSiWare in North America on April 26, 2010, and on "Scrabble Showdown" on The Hub. The game features 55 cards. Each card has 2 letters on them. One on the front and one on the back. The game can have 2 to 4 players. Each player pulls four letters out of the deck to form a four letter word. Afterwards, each
Scrabble CH in the "Collins Scrabble Words" lexicon. In 1938, American architect Alfred Mosher Butts created the game as a variation on an earlier word game he invented called "Lexiko". The two games had the same set of letter tiles, whose distributions and point values Butts worked out by performing a frequency analysis of letters from various sources, including "The New York Times". The new game, which he called "Criss-Crosswords," added the 15×15 gameboard and the crossword-style game play. He manufactured a few sets himself, but was not successful in selling the game to any major game manufacturers of the day.