Scrabble Together - despite being far from the first Scrabble variant - has captured false outrage from right wing media, generated significant controversy online and for little apparent reason, writes Jeff Yang. at Cnn.com

During the Great Depression, an out-of-work American architect named Alfred Mosher Butts devised a new game that required players to spell out different words using nine random letters. His invention—called Lexico—eventually became Scrabble, at Msn.com

Conservative news outlets have been making a meal the past few days of the news that Mattel is introducing “Scrabble Together,” a c at Slate.com

This simple word game has players fighting to make words that both score points and empty their hands, even as theyre made to draw ever-increasing numbers of cards each round. Its up to them to spot the best word options they can, because any cards left behind in the end will cost them points. at Msn.com

Some devotees have slammed Scrabble’s update as unforgivable. If it gets younger players off their phones, it could be worth it. at Smh.com.au

NEW YORK (AP) — Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe. Mattel has unveiled a double-sided board that features both the classic word-building game and Scrabble Together, a new rendition designed to be accessible “for anyone who ... at Sfgate.com

Scrabble Together has proved contentious since it was launched earlier this year as some players support the change while others claim it has been negative. at Express.co.uk

Scrabble Together’ is a new version featuring team play and no scoring to be less “intimidating". Fans aren't exactly on board. at Indianexpress.com

Scrabble fans are invited to help raise money for Literacy Volunteers-Androscoggin by playing the game on Sunday, April 28, at the High Street Congregational Church. The event is set for 1-4:30 p.m. at 106 Pleasant St. at Sunjournal.com

Double-sided board features ‘more inclusive’ Scrabble Together version for those intimidated by classic word game at Theguardian.com

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Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary or lexicon. at En.wikipedia.org

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