Scrabble

Pros: Fun, can play again and again because it will always be different
Cons: If you can't spell(like me) it can be tough to win

If you have a spouse that enjoys crossword puzzles, you might as well throw in the towell!

Scrabble is a fun game that puts players to the test with their vocab and spelling abilities. Each player always keeps seven tiles out of the pile....

Pros: Interesting Concept
Cons: Biased and Discriminatory

I hate this game. Not because it is a bad game, or that I don't understand the object behind it. I am just horrible at it. I get mad because someone takes my word, I misspelled it or the word is a pronoun. It is a well made game. The rules make ...

Pros: Fun for everyone learning or otherwise
Cons: Small parts not suited for little kids possible choking hazzard

For me as a kid spelling and reading were a grand adventure but for my 8 year old son it is somewhat of a struggle. His teacher told me he was having trouble spelling and comprehending and I thought about a game that would help him that was fairly cheap...

Pros: Expand vocabulary, Fun
Cons: Addicting!

Made in 1931, Alfred Mosher Butts invented the game of scrabble. He studies the front page of The New York Times in order to get the point value for each of the letters. He decided that the S should only have a small amount, so as to avoid the over usage...

Pros: Fun, Popular, Kids can learn new words through playing
Cons: Addictive, games take particularly long

From the makers of Monopoly comes the game Scrabble a legendary board game classic. My parents got me Scrabble for my 7th birthday which featured the original Scrabble game on one side and a kids version on the other. At age 7, I think this game lasted...

Pros: Great, intense fun
Cons: Not for "young" families, but can be "grown" into by little ones.

Amazingly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit bring out more anger and aggression in our house than watching the most tense football games. My boyfriend and I rarely get to enjoy a quiet game of either of them with the kids around, but when we do, it gets...

Pros: Challenging, fun and thought provoking like, "Is this really a word?"
Cons: One bump and your game is gone! May be hard for poor spellers.

I went to the store the other day and went hog wild with picking out new board games for my four children.

The one I knew I was going to buy before even entering the game aisle was Milton Bradley's, "Scrabble." I had never played it let alone...

Pros: Fairly easy to play quite well...
Cons: ... but of course, you need to be able to spell!

If you think you're a wordsmith
And you feel that you can spell,
Perhaps a game like Scrabble
Would be one that suits you well...
So grab some players - two to four -
Then close the windows, lock the door,
You'll play...

Pros: Great game for kids & adults. Intellectually challenging.
Cons: Intellectually challenging. Sometimes you just want a mindless, fun game!

Scrabble is one of the first board games which utilizes intellect rather than luck. Scrabble tests a player's vocabulary and his or her ability to form actual words from random sets of letters. It is a great game to play with children, helping them...

Pros: Great family game
Cons: Embarrassment when you realize that you have misspelled a word for years

Sometimes we just get to busy with our own lives and don't spend much time doing things as a family. Seems like the older our kids get the less time we spend with them.
Being the mother of three children, I am always looking for things to keep the...

Pros: Educational and fun
Cons: Kids under five can't play

Scrabble is one of the favorite games of my family. I played Scrabble as a child, then with my friends as a teen and now with my child as a mom. I find the game to stimulate a child's vocabulary and keep and adult's in tip top condition.

I...

Pros: fun, educational, challenging,,
Cons: can be a long game

We bought this game for our son when he was about nine years old. Since we have started playing it, we have laughed at the memories it conjures up. I can disagreeing with my own parents over whether a word was really a word. Can anyone play Scrabble...

Pros: helps with spelling and adding, it is fun
Cons: some people don't like it and think it is boring

Scrabble is a game I have had for ages. I think my mom got it for me years ago. I love to play it. The concept of the game is really not a hard one.
There is a board with square spaces on it. Some of the spaces are worth normal points, some two...

Pros: Fun,Simple
Cons: none

As a newly wed (7yrs ago) my new husband and I were living in Hawaii. We were just starting out so we had no T.V. and very little money. So one night we went to a local store in search of something to do in the evenings (you really can't spend all...

Pros: Excellent value for money Very educational
Cons: Perhaps not compatible with the very youngest family members

If you are the kind of person who enjoys learning and having fun at the same time, then "Scrabble" is undoubtedly the game for you. Perhaps to some the idea of constructing words on a board doesn't seem that enthralling. Add a points system to the...