scrabble

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A board game in which players draw letter tiles and take turns to make interlocking words like a crossword, scoring points according to the letters played and their positions on the board

Start by asking students if they ever watch Wheel of Fortune, or play games like Hangman or Scrabble.® Ask whether they have ever noticed any patterns in the frequency with which letters appear.

To move something about by making rapid movements back and forth with the hands or paws

Thus I lay for a long time, but afterwards stood up and cried aloud, and shrieked if anyone should haply hear me, calling to Mr. Glennie and Ratsey, and even Elzevir, by name, to save me from this awful place. But there came no answer, except the echo of my own voice sounding hollow and far off down in the vault. So in despair I turned back to the earth wall below the slab, and scrabbled at it with my fingers, till my nails were broken and the blood ran out; having all the while a sure knowledge, like a cord twisted round my head, that no effort of mine could ever dislodge the great stone.

a board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game
{v} to scratch, to paw with the hands
{i} popular board game in which players form words from letters whereas each letter has a value point which is added up and used to score the game
feel searchingly; "She groped for his keys in the dark"
To mark with irregular lines or letters; to scribble; as, to scrabble paper
If you say that someone is scrabbling to do something, you mean that they are having difficulty because they are in too much of a hurry, or because the task is almost impossible. The banks are now desperately scrabbling to recover their costs The opportunity had gone. His mind scrabbled for alternatives. Scrabble around means the same as scrabble. You get a six-month contract, and then you have to scrabble around for the next job. a game in which players try to make words from the separate letters they have. to try to find or do something very quickly, usually by moving your hands or feet in an uncontrolled way scrabble for (schrabbelen ). Game in which two to four players compete in forming words with lettered wooden tiles on a 225-square board. Words spelled out by letters on the tiles interlock like words in a crossword puzzle. Words are scored by adding up the point values of their letters. The game (originally called Lexico) was developed by Alfred Butts, an unemployed architect, in 1931. It was redesigned and renamed Scrabble by Butts and James Brunot in 1948. Tens of millions of sets have been sold in many languages worldwide
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl
{i} scribble, scrawl; scratch, scrape; scramble, struggle
an aimless drawing
write down quickly without much attention to detail
The act of scrabbling; a moving upon the hands and knees; a scramble; also, a scribble
To scrape, paw, or scratch with the hands; to proceed by clawing with the hands and feet; to scramble; as, to scrabble up a cliff or a tree
{f} scribble, scrawl; scratch, abrade. scrape; struggle, scramble; snatch, grope
If you scrabble for something, especially something that you cannot see, you move your hands or your feet about quickly and hurriedly in order to find it. He grabbed his jacket and scrabbled in his desk drawer for some loose change I hung there, scrabbling with my feet to find a foothold. Scrabble around or scrabble about means the same as scrabble. Alberg scrabbled around for pen and paper Gleb scrabbled about in the hay, pulled out a book and opened it
scrabbled
past of scrabble
scrabbles
third-person singular of scrabble
scrabbling
present participle of scrabble
scrabble
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