Way to ruin scrabble casual players...

[@Li3n]

I blame consoles, as always!

http://www.colbertnation.com/the-co...30/april-06-2010/scrabble-allows-proper-names

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/06/entertainment/main6368179.shtml

There are three constants in life: Death, taxes, and no allowing proper nouns in Scrabble. But that is about to change.

Mattel has announced it will sell a new version of the classic board game that will, for the first time in history, allow players to count the names of people, places, companies and brands.

A spokeswoman for Mattel told BBC News that allowing proper nouns would \"add a new dimension\" to the game that would \"enable younger fans and families to get involved.\"

A triple word score for rapper Jay-Z, for example, would net the player 69 points.

But CNET's Daniel Terdiman reports that the executive director of the American Scrabble Association, John Williams, told him the news is not true.

Williams said in a phone interview that what's happened is that Mattel, which owns the rights to Scrabble in England, is going to release a completely new version of the game there called Scrabble Trickster, in which anything goes, including the use of proper nouns, spelling words backwards, stealing letters, and so on.

It's nothing more than a PR ploy by Mattel, Williams suggested.

Mattel has since confirmed that the new version will in fact be called Scrabble Trickster.

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in the United States and Canada, did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

The game was invented in 1938 by New York architect Alfred Butts, rights to the board game in which letter tiles are use to spell words were later sold to entrepreneur James Brunot. He changed the named to Scrabble, and the game was trademarked in 1948.

Hasbro controls rights to Scrabble in the U.S., while Mattel markets the game in the rest of the world. More than 150 million Scrabble sets have been sold to date.

Although special editions have been created (including a 3-D version with stackable letters, a children's version with colored tiles, and a \"scramble\" version with letter dice), the basic Scrabble game has been unchanged for 62 years.

Until now.

London's Telegraph quotes a Mattel spokesperson as saying the new changes represent \"the biggest news for Scrabble lovers in the history of the game and will provide a great new twist on the old formula.\"

The new version will be introduced in July.

 

[Bowielee]

I'm usually not a fan of being a purist, but I'll be damned if I'd accept Nyquil, or Young Jeezy as playable words in scrabble.

 

[Reboneer]

It's just a spinoff game, it doesn't affect regular Scrabble at all. Did you panic when Upwords was released as well?

 

[figmentPez]

Cue Linkara quote:

"Because poor literacy is kewl!"

 

[Chazwozel]

Mommy mommy TRIPLE WORD SCORE! JENNA JAMESON!

 

[Raemon777]

It's just a spinoff game, it doesn't affect regular Scrabble at all. Did you panic when Upwords was released as well?

This. Seriously.

 

[Calleja]

This was all a clever-ish marketing ploy from Mattel. They're not changing Scrabble, they're creating a new spin-off (it's like the 42nd scrabble spin-off, even) that has weird rules, one of which is the use of proper names. The media reported it as they changing a 50 year old game we all love, outrage ensued and Scrabble got all this free publicity.

 

[Cajungal]

Even if the real Scrabble WAS changing, my house rules would not.

 

[phil]

Failure to accept proper nouns in new scrabble will land you in prison for an amount of years equal to the proper noun's score.

 

[Shegokigo]

Even if the real Scrabble WAS changing, my house rules would not.

You play Russian Scrabble Roulette too? Awesome! :biggrin:-

 

[Cajungal]

Even if the real Scrabble WAS changing, my house rules would not.

You play Russian Scrabble Roulette too? Awesome! :biggrin:-[/QUOTE]

If you box in a triple word score, I cut off one of your fingers.

 

[@Li3n]

It's just a spinoff game, it doesn't affect regular Scrabble at all. Did you panic when Upwords was released as well?

This. Seriously.[/QUOTE]

Ditto.

People get upset over this? Really?[/QUOTE]


IT'S THE PRINCIPLE OF THE THING DAMMIT....

 

[bhamv3]

Now there's an atrocity. Playing with your bank notes and rubbing it in people's faces to show how many $500's you had was part of the fun.

And then you have to hand it all over when you land on Boardwalk.

Monopoly hates me.

 

[Silver Jelly]

Van Damme?

 

[figmentPez]

Here we have a Monopoly \\\"Van Dam tot Dom\\\" edition.
In that version they didn't really change any of the rules, but they changed the form of money from cold hard cash to a credit card! You can't even check your balance without using a card reader.

That sounds similar to the "Here and Now" edition in the US

It gets worse:

Monopoly Revolution (via Gizmodo)

Circular board, electronic money, translucent plastic markers instead of the classic tokens, and I can't find pictures of the dice!

 

[Calleja]

how are the dice!?

 

[Cajungal]

Ew. I'm the person who pisses off cashiers counting pennies to make exact change... that game would not reflect my real-life behavior regarding money.

 

[Calleja]

I actually love the design of the tokens.. and the board is pretty interesting design-wise, too. Electronic money has never been a good monopoly idea in my opinion, though, how are you supposed to gloat with a plastic card!? How can you know who's the richest player so everyone can silently gang up on him!?

 

[@Li3n]

Here we have a Monopoly \\\\"Van Dam tot Dom\\\\" edition.
In that version they didn't really change any of the rules, but they changed the form of money from cold hard cash to a credit card! You can't even check your balance without using a card reader.

That sounds similar to the "Here and Now" edition in the US

It gets worse:

Monopoly Revolution (via Gizmodo)

Circular board, electronic money, translucent plastic markers instead of the classic tokens, and I can't find pictures of the dice!

[/QUOTE]


That looks like Steve Jobs puked all over Monopoly...