Happy Scrabble Day

Happy National Scrabble Day...the game that reminds us ingeniously That letters are important...especially a triple letter Q or Z! Thank you Alfred Mosher Butts who despite your unfortunate name Created a game that has brought joy to many as well as world wide acclaim. Scrabble teaches patience when with consonants or vowels we are stuck It helps us understand life’s randomness...and how sometimes we just need some luck. Scrabble teaches us to take risks and that in losing there should be no shame It remind us it’s not always where we end up but how we have played the game. As an extra added bonus Scrabble allows our vocabulary to grow Because after a few games of Scrabble...look at the obscure words that we know! XI is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet, ZED stands for the letter Z QAT is a shrub from Africa and QI a word for Chinese philosophy. OE is a Scottish expression and OY can be used quite the same XU is money used in Vietnam, AUK...a bird with a funny name, KI is a Sumerian God meaning Earth, a mountain carved by a glacier is CWM If you see the letters M L P G H & E...put them together to spell the word PHLEGM. If you start the game with Z K J I S U M, don’t get your nose out of joint Just spell MUZJIKS...a 7 letter double word...and smile...that’s 128 points! But knowing an arcane term for a Russian peasant when the Scrabble game is done As impressive as that is...it’s still only part of the fun. Because if you think about it, as we thank Mr. Butts for a game that truly transcends... Without Scrabble, the little game he created long ago...today there’d be no Words With Friends.