Scrabble

Pros: Challenging, easy to set up / put away, great fun...
Cons: ... not for those vocabularically-challenged (unless they're willing to learn!)

In terms of games that lexophiles love, surely there will never be anything that can challenge the popularity of Scrabble. It’s been around for decades and has several new versions, including those with bigger boards and / or more tiles, but ...

Pros: learn some new words, help with spelling
Cons: several tiles to lose

Ah yes! Scrabble. I think I have yet to win this game, but it is still one of my favorites. It is a great game to play to help improve spelling, reading, and even a little basic math. CONTENTS The Scrabble set consists of several ...

Pros: Endless possibilities for word combinations
Cons: Cheap set, pieces slide around

I was one of the lucky children whose parents made an effort to help me learn how to read long before I ever started first grade. After school started, I had an interest in reading for a while, but it eventually dropped off thanks to television and ...

Pros: Fun, challenging, educational, easy to learn and play
Cons: Lots of pieces to lose

My husband and I are huge baseball fans. But watching games most nights of the week eats up a lot of time. We try and find other activities to do while we watch the games. One of the more intellectually stimulating ways we pass the time is to play ...

Pros: Great game with educational value and enduring play value
Cons: can't play if you can't read

This game is very easy to learn, the rules are simple yet the game is flexible enough to be enjoyable to the novice or the "walking dictionaries" among us.
It is easy enough for those just learning to read and spell to practice and perfect their...

Pros: interesting, fun, enhances your word power
Cons: tedious, repetitive

This game is obviously the best way for a child to start learning how to spell at an early age. It may be frustrating for some when they don't know which letters to put together in order to form a real word. Scrabble is more for the intellectual type of...

Pros: Loads Of Fun, Great way to improve spelling
Cons: Pieces are quite small, much to small to have left out near children

I always enjoy a good game of Scrabble, although I am not very good with spelling, I often find myself being able to make bigger and better words each time. It is a matter of practice, and of course it helps to have a dictionary on hand. You can create ...

Pros: Great for teaching
Cons: None

For many years Scrabble has been 1 of the #1 games out there. Made for all ages considering there is also a scrabble Jr as well. I believe it to be a good way for the family to all get together for a night of fun.
Scrabble takes a while to play the...

Pros: good family game
Cons: loose pieces really easy

My children didn't really seem interested in this game to much at first but as we got into the game they seemed to love it.this toy was very useful in a way that it can help your children with there spelling words and there lettering.my children seem to...

Pros: Very friendly game, good source of knowledge concerning english language!
Cons: A play can last for a very long time!

The scrabble is an excellent way to spend a good time with your family and friends. It is a game very easy to understand and to play with and it constitutes a big source of knowledge for the children (and even for adults sometimes :).

It may...

Pros: Makes great family time, hours of fun for all ages.
Cons: Easy to cheat if you don't have a dictionary

For my son's ninth birthday, my parents got him the old favorite, Scrabble. I must admit that I forgot how much fun this game can be. We spent hours the first night over the board laughing, and arguing a little.

Scrabble has been around for...

Pros: Good adult game
Cons: Not good for kids

I don't think scrabble is a good game for kids. It's really hard for some adults. I have the game for my self. My kids do not want to play with me because they think the game is boring and seems more like school work. Also a lot of kids do not have a...

Pros: teaches my children to spell and read
Cons: I have not found any yet

I have a large family, and we always spend at least 1 evening a week playing scrabble. It is nice to get the kids away from the television and doing something togeather, while at the same time they are learning something. They dont even realize that...

Pros: It's very entertaining to mix and match the words
Cons: There is ALWAYS an argument about whether something is really a word or not.

I've played the classic Milton Bradley game Scrabble many-a-time and almost always end up enjoying myself. Scrabble is a game in which each of the players is given seven little wooden tabs with a letter printed on each of them (* unless you get a blank...

Pros: Fun for the whole family; Never outdated; Seems to brighten a child's day
Cons: Sometimes gets too competitive; Arguments can start over if the words are actually words.

Scrabble is an awesome game in my opinion. It developes young adult's language skill, and it is inexpensive. It costs around 15 dollars. It is great to have around the house for a family game night, or just for friends to play when they're bored. It also...