A new “less competitive” version of Scrabble is coming soon. “Younger people, Gen Z people…want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words.”
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The Guardian version of this press release included this:
I should wish that Generation X scored higher than an implied 5%, but I can’t be bothered.
Meh.
There's totally an opportunity for Scrabble to do something interesting here, but just judging from the photos it looks like they're adding rules/goals and not necessarily moving towards exploring words/language. I wish they'd moved in a more Bananagrams direction.
I still love Scrabble because I grew up in a culture that worshipped (figuratively not literally 😁) language and words. My biggest problem is the current rules makes it hard to form long words after about 3-5 turns because the existing letters start to bunch together. I would love it if they could loosen the rules to allow overlapping words to allow the game to go on longer.
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