NATIONAL SCRABBLE DAY (THE SEQUEL)

 Happy National Scrabble Day…celebrating a game that makes the case

for the importance of the letters Q and Z especially on a triple letter space!

Thank you Alfred Mosher Butts who despite your unfortunate name

created a game that’s brought joy to many and to you world wide acclaim.

Scrabble teaches us patience when with only consonants or only vowels we are stuck

It helps us understand life’s randomness...how sometimes we just need some luck.

Scrabble teaches us to take risks and that in losing there is no shame

It remind us it’s not always where we end up but how well we have played the game.

As an extra added bonus Scrabble allows our vocabulary to grow

Because after a playing only few games...look at the obscure words we now know!

XI is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet, ZED stands for the letter Z

QAT is a shrub from Africa and QI a word for Chinese philosophy.

OE is a Scottish expression and OY can be used quite the same

XU is money used in Vietnam, AUK...a bird with a funny name, 

KI is a Sumerian God meaning Earth, a mountain carved by a glacier is CWM

If you see the letters M L P G H & E…rearrange their order and they spell PHLEGM.

If you start the game with Z K J I  S U M, don’t get your nose out of joint

Just spell MUZJIKS...a 7 letter double word...and smile...that’s 128 points! 

But knowing an arcane term for a Russian peasant when the Scrabble game is done

as impressive as that is...it’s still only half the fun.

Because when you think about it, as we thank Mr. Butts for a game that truly transcends...

Without Scrabble, the little game he created long ago...there’d be no Words With Friends.

I’ve always had one question I wold have liked to ask Mr. Butts, however:

Why did you create…a game that uses seven letters to form words…

but christen it with a word that uses eight?