Scrabble
Scrabble is a word game in which players use letter tiles to form words on a grid board and score points from tile values and board bonuses.
Scrabble rules: The rules governing legal plays, tile placement, scoring, exchanges, and ending a Scrabble game. They define which words and placements count during play.
Letter tile: A small game piece bearing a letter and a point value, used to form words in Scrabble. Each tile supplies a letter and contributes its assigned points.
Alfred Mosher Butts: The American architect who invented the word game that became Scrabble. Butts designed the game's early form and its letter-value system.
Words with Friends: A digital word game in which players place letter tiles on a shared grid to score points. It adapts Scrabble-like play for asynchronous online matches.
Scrabble board: The 15-by-15 grid used for Scrabble, with designated premium squares for letters and words. Its premium squares multiply tile or word scores.
Word game: A game in which skill or chance centers on forming, identifying, or manipulating words. Scrabble belongs to this broader family of games.
Lexiko: The word game Alfred Mosher Butts developed before creating the game later known as Scrabble. It was an early predecessor in Scrabble's design history.
Boggle: A word game in which players find words by tracing adjacent letters in a randomized grid. Unlike Scrabble, it rewards rapid word-finding rather than strategic tile placement.
Letter distribution: The number of each letter included in a game's tile set, together with each tile's point value. Unequal counts and values shape which plays are available and rewarding.
Lexicon: The vocabulary of a language or the set of words recognized by a particular game or system. A designated lexicon determines which attempted plays are valid.