Gizmodo: scrabble

Humongous Scrabble Board Makes Life One Big Game

Erica Ho — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 19:40:00 EST

Scrabble is serious business, people. That's why it's all the more fundamental to have an 8-foot Scrabble board in your backyard. Now: F, O, P, U, Y, E, letter of your choice. Go.

F = 8 points
O = 1 point
P = 5 points
U = 4 points
Y = 4 points
E = 1 point

[Atlanta Journal Constitution via CraziestGadgets]

Homemade Scrabble Keyboard: Double Nerd Score

Dan Nosowitz — Sat, 17 Jan 2009 22:00:00 EST

This wood and brushed aluminum keyboard features real Scrabble tiles with the points score slightly modded to show each key's secondary function. It's classy, it's nerdy, and it's worth a ton of points.

I'm a huge Scrabble geek, so it's great to see such a great mod made out of the 2nd-greatest board game of all time (sorry, Scrabble, but Apples to Apples is #1 in my book). The USB keyboard is really beautifully made, with aluminum accents to match the Mac it'll be paired with. Go Scrabble!
[Datamancer]

Scrabble Welcome Mat Welcomes Immaturity

Mark Wilson — Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:14:42 EDT

With "Your Welcome Mat" by designer Jeni Rodger, the swappable letters make for endless fun. I mean, you don't even need to "welcome" people anymore. You could be like, "yo, sup" instead. And then your in-laws would know that you aren't just some beast that can be tamed, groomed and shoved in a clean pair of underwear. You despise clean underwear—which is just more fodder for the mat.

These may or may not actually be on sale. But get one now before they're all the rage at Target. [design via make]

Books are Overrated—Electronic Scrabble Dictionary

Travis Hudson — Tue, 19 Dec 2006 12:41:22 EST

Who wants to get their fingers all paper-y flipping through a real dictionary when you can just type in atrociously wrong word to this little doodad. This officially licensed Scrabble electronic dictionary can ensure that there are no cheating bastards trying to take you in Scrabble. This device is also capable of building words, but using word building programs is pretty weaksauce, in my opinion. $40. – Travis Hudson

Scrabble Electronic Dictionary [uncrate]

Tripl3 W0rd Sc0r3, PwN3D!!!1

Travis Hudson — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 12:28:09 EST

These are L33T tiles for the board game Scrabble. It's an entire set of 103 tiles that can be used with any Scrabble board to create an entirely new game. The new game is based on leetspeak and the website even includes an online dictionary so you can still challenge absolutely silly words like pwnz0r1z3d. For $14.99 you receive the 103 tiles and a satin pouch to go along with your already-purchased board game. The tiles are designed to look like old-school green-on-black terminal text. Unfortunately a game mod like this would require the leetspeakers to leave their computers for once and actually interact with each other—not via IM—which may be a difficult task to begin with.

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