Super Scrabble

[dougo]

I just read this, from a report by Steve Kurzban about the American International Toy Fair posted to Spielfrieks:

"Super SCRABBLE" is licensed from Hasbro and adds 3 more rows on the familiar board, including quadruple letter and quadruple word squares. The number of letters doubles and permits much more complex words to be formed.

Sounds interesting, but for some reason I'm skeptical. Why hasn't anyone tried this before? Also, I dread the thought of having a rack of 7 "U"s...

Comments

[vivasuperstar.livejournal.com]

some people will go to any lengths to add PIZZAZZ to the SCRABBLE® words they play.

[dougo.livejournal.com]

Yes, but don't get distracted by their RAZZMATAZZ.

Winning Moves should use this slogan: "Super Scrabble will make your scores ZENZIZENZIZENZIC!"

[dougo.livejournal.com]

I guess that should be "increase your scores to the ZENZIZENZIZENZIC"; it's a noun, not a verb. And I'm assuming there are four blanks, which would probably be a bad idea.

This is currently the only hexazetic word in the English language. (Though perhaps "currently" is stretching it, for a word last used in 1557.)