Scrabble Bilingual Edition

With 38 days to the start of the first ever World Scrabble Championship taking place in Poland Mattel decided to celebrate this fact with a special bilingual Polish-English edition of Scrabble.

What's so special about it? In addition to the standard Polish edition they added an English set of tiles plus an extra rules leaflet in English. It isn't much really but I suppose this little effort could finally help Scrabble on its feet in Poland. We'll see...

Anyway, a good try Mattel :)

Hard Scrabble

10 months until next WSC and there's still not any visible action on the side of Polish Scrabble Federation regarding qualification criteria for the World Championship. Is it normal?

Probably yes if you take into account that there are only three players truely interested in playing in it.

Scrabble played in English is on the rise in Poland - at least in our small group of three. We are getting better each year so maybe we should start to be treated better? Is it fair for us to request to have more than 12 games to determine who will represent Poland at the the next WSC? Can we count that unlike last time we will get a tournament director?

Well maybe WSC is not that important after all...

Scrabble deluxe

Can anyone explain to me why the usual (Polish) Scrabble slogan "Liczy się każde słowo" (= "Every word counts" with an emphasis on counting) got changed in the Scrabble deluxe edition to "Każde słowo się liczy" (= "Every word counts" but with an emphasis on words)

And what's the use of creating a grid which doesn't hold the tiles in place because it's too shallow?