Vintage Scrabble Games

 I ended up finding two great Scrabble games at a church yard sale. I never knew Scrabble even had variants. Of course I had to purchase both, the price was right. I paid .25cents for Scrabble Crosswords/Dominoes and $1 for Scribbage.

Fast forward 3 months and I found even more Scrabble games while thrifting. This time I was at Unique in South Plainfield. I grabbed Scrabble Slam! The Card game for $2.99. I bought a bag of baseball tiles for crafting for .99cents, but after noticing little numbers on the letter tiles I guessed this was from a Scrabble game. Sure enough Scrabble MLB edition was a limited release in 2007.

I played the Scrabble Crosswords/Dominoes with my two brothers. It was fun and challenging. If your tired or bored playing Scrabble I definitely recommend purchasing it used on Ebay. The game play is somewhat different. First of all there is no game board, we used a large box that my vacuum cleaner came it. However we were running out of space, a large table or even the floor would be the ideal playing area.

What makes this version particularly challenging was that all letters must be used to make a word. There can be no letter hanging off a main word that doesn't form a word on it's own. For this reason game play is longer, at times you maybe forced to play small insignificant words or skip your turn and trade in tiles. 

More to come on this subject after I've played these other versions.