Milton Bradley Scrabble Brand Crossword Game - the Game Folio Edition

Pros: Clever design allows for easy play anywhere.
Cons: Tiny tiles, itty-bitty lettering are a bit hard to see.

I love Scrabble. I love it so much that I need to be close to Scrabble at all times. Now, most of my day is spent near a computer, either at home or at work, and this means I can feed my addiction with Scrabulous, like everyone else on the planet. But ...

Pros: An excellent edition of our most played game
Cons: It is small...but whose complaining.

Scrabble is a game where tiles with letters of different point value printed on them are put down on a board that also has point values. Each person takes a turn adding their own word to existing ones collect points at each turn. After a turn the played ...

Pros: Makes traveling with Scrabble easy
Cons: Letters must be snapped onto and out of the board

My husband and I are Scrabble addicts. We play several games a week after the kids are in bed. In fact when traveling we used to go into Scrabble withdrawal. At some point we got smart and purchased a travel version of our favorite game, the Folio ...

Pros: Standard Scrabble on a smaller, portable scale.
Cons: Takes some practice to figure out how to get the letters on the board.

I was looking for a game for my husband and I to play together when I spotted this edition of Scrabble at the book/toy store where I now work. I thought "Man! I used to love playing Scrabble with my sister when I was a kid!" and snatched it up. My ...

Pros: Game zips into case, tiles snap to board, well-designed
Cons: Tiles sometimes pop up, board needs coaxing once in a while to lay flat

A while back, before discovering the Scrabble Game Folio, I had stumbled upon the Deluxe Travel Edition. The game featured a hard, maroon colored plastic case, which folded open to reveal a board. Underneath the board was just enough...

Pros: Compact size is great for travel.
Cons: Tiles pop out of board. Tiles fixed on tray crippling capacity to create new words.

I am going to give away this game having bought it new a few years ago. It is just too frustrating to use. The tiles pop out of their little holders in the board, the board itself pops up and needs to be pushed down. But the main problem is that the tiles also are snapped into little slots on the tile holder - and in playing Scrabble, one is forever shuffling the tiles about on the holder in order to make words before placing them on the board - without being able to do this, this task has to be done in your head without that visual / mechanical benefit. Also, the font is small given the tiny little tiles and slots. I spend more time making sure the tiles don't pop out or retrieving them from the floor than enjoying the game.