Can i use nouns in scrabble

In Scrabble, players try to gain the highest points by making words with individual letter tiles on a grid board. Each letter tile has a points value between one and 10, based on the letter's frequency in standard English. A spokeswoman for the company said the use of proper nouns would "add a new dimension" to Scrabble and "introduce an element of popular culture into the game".

She said: "This is one of a number of twists and challenges included that we believe existing fans will enjoy and will also enable younger fans and families to get involved. Scrabble was invented in by American-born architect Alfred Butts. He later sold the rights and it was trademarked in Most Popular Now 56, people are reading stories on the site right now. BBC News Updated every minute of every day.

One-Minute World News. Add to playlist Playlist. RJ's licorice recalled after using contaminated sugar Key competitions of A and P show go ahead without spectators. Get the RNZ app for ad-free news and current affairs. RJ's licorice recalled after using contaminated sugar. The basic rules of Scrabble have been virtually unchanged since the game was first marketed in That standard applies to the sources used to determine what's a word in Scrabble in North America, the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary for home and school play and the Official Word List for club and tournament play.

That's 62 years of constancy for a game that has sold an estimated million units in its lifetime — and continues to sell 1 million to 2 million a year now — and is played in 29 different languages by literally millions of people. Scrabble isn't just another boxed board game you dust off when Grandma comes to visit.

It's part of the Mount Rushmore of games with centuries-older chess, backgammon and Go. Tinkering with the essential rules of Scrabble to allow proper nouns would be akin to deciding that the pawn gets to jump over other pieces on a chessboard.

In short, insanity. The editor sent a link to an article in the Daily Mail claiming that the corporate owners of Scrabble were "throwing out the old rule book" and, "to the horror of some purists," allowing proper names — like "Beyonce, Timbuktu, or Quorn. And, indeed, after quotations from outraged Scrabble players and a Mattel spokesman asserting the "new quirks" would "level the playing field," came the last of 21 paragraphs: The company would still be selling a game with the "old rules.

A couple of calls yielded the truth : Mattel — which controls the rights to Scrabble outside the United States and Canada; Hasbro owns it in North America — is introducing a spinoff this summer called Scrabble Trickster.