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Scrabble is a board game of filling the 15-by-15 board with words in the way of creating crossword-puzzle-like word-chains with 7 tiles randomly taken out from a bag of 100 alphabet tiles.
Crossword Puzzle Game enhances your Thinking Abilities!
National Scrabble Championship (Japan) is held every year.
Though in Japan, Scrabble Game has a little popularity. It is worldly well-known, esp. in English-Spoken countries.
Wish Ministry of Science Technology and Education may support Scrabble Game in terms of English education in Japan. For example, in Thailand, students have fun learning English, which is supported by the royal family and the whole nation.

2003 National Scrabble Championship Results & Report by Tokyo Scrabble Club Tournament Rules, TSC

Kc Hirai's Personal Review of NSC 2002 Tournament (update Dec 8) Kc Hirai's Message 'Crossword Game Has Expanded The World of A Player'

Kc Hirai Featured in Scrabble INTERVIEW on October Issue of Tokyo-Scene Distributed in Tokyo Area like HMV, Virgin, Tower Records, Pubs, etc

- Around 1929, Alfred Butts (USA) created the prototype of Scrabble Game. Since 1948 Scrabble Games are commercially available.
- Recently, it is said that 2 million game sets are sold annually. One out of three American(Canadian) households has a Scrabble Game set.
- In these countries, 35 million people enjoy playing Scrabble. There are over 10,000 tournament players who belong to one of about 300 clubs.
- Their orgainzation, National Scrabble Association, is headquartered in Greenport, New York.
- World Scrabble Championship(WSC) is held every second year since 1991. The 7th WSC is to be held in 2003 autumn, maybe in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Two Japanese players will take part.
- How is "AKMNOOOT" be anagrammatized? ............... TOKONOMA n pl. -S a small alcove in a Japanese house
Another quiz : what about AACCEENT ? The answer is somewhere below.

When I first saw this board game, it looked noble and exotic. I wondered whether the board could be filled nicely and beautifuly with those alphabet tiles.
But as I used to it, it is amazing that I can score many points with comparatively longer words.

In 2003, the song called 'COLORS' by Utada Hikaru was a big hit in Japan. She will make a debut in USA in 2004, and we all believe she will be a megastar.

I believe Scrabble Game will become popular (attracting total of a few thousands players to the clubs nationwide, which is 3 or 4 times more than the current number of players.) here in Japan in a year or so.
By the end of 2007, hoping to find and train the young Scrabble player who will represent Japan in WSC. By the end of 2013, I'm determined (strongly hope) to make a player of Japan win the World Scrabble Championship.
:) Junsei Kunieda

Based on Official Scrabble Words International (a.k.a. OSWI, SOWPODS)
(Chambers Dictionary 1998 & Merriam Webster's Dictionary 10th Ed.)
Trying to make distinction between words in OSWI(symbol #) and those in Official Scrabble Players Dictionary (a.k.a. OSPD, OTCWL) on this web

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