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Tag: Scrabble

  • Digital

16 Year Old Wins $3 Million Playing Fortnite While Scrabble Champion Wins $7500. What’s Up With That?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 30, 2019

A sixteen-year-old boy from Pennsylvania, Kyle Giersdorf, ultimately beat out 40 million other people playing…

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  • Games

What Do Morse Code, Baseball and Scrabble Have in Common?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on June 9, 2019

 Whether or not you believe Scrabble or Baseball are perfections, take a moment and appreciate…

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  • Games

“Really Bad Chess” and Games that Aren’t Fair

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on October 28, 2016

Have you heard about a game called "Really Bad Chess"? I hadn't either until I…

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  • Games

Girls and Chess; checkmate

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on July 9, 2016

"Why, in a sport where physical differences do not matter, are boys and men so…

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  • Games

Anagrams; Scrabble’s Grandfather

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on December 5, 2015

In my last posting, "What Was the First Word Game?", I began a modest (and…

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  • Books

6500 New Scrabble Words; “AUGH”

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 22, 2015

  "Spew" by sculptor Ron Ulicny Serious Scrabble players spend a great deal of time…

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  • Games

Scrabble: Oldest, Newest, Biggest, and Smallest at The Strong!

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on March 30, 2015

The National Toy Hall of Fame at The Strong inducted Scrabble in 2004. Since then…

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  • Games

Screen-Play: Television Characters Ruin Game Night, Too

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 29, 2014

My friends and I embrace game nights: snacks, beverages, stuffed mascots, inspirational posters. Some people…

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Amazon,Twitch and the Future of Gaming; Are Gamers Athletes?

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on September 7, 2014

“Broadcasting and watching gameplay is a global phenomenon and Twitch has built a platform that…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

PART TWO: 9 Best Game Board Pieces of All Time + 1 that is Dangerous (Numbers 6-9+1))

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on August 27, 2013

This is Part Two of my list of the "9 Best Board Game Pieces of…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

9 Best Game Board Pieces of All Time + 1 that is Dangerous (Numbers 1-5)

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on August 26, 2013

I recently noted that the world’s oldest game pieces have been discovered in Turkey.  The…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

Wooden Bricks Inspired by Lego

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 5, 2013

I love these wooden versions of Lego bricks from Mokurokku.  It really says something about…

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  • Posts by Richard Gottlieb

National Scrabble Day was April 13…and I Missed It

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on April 19, 2012

Well, let me begin by saying that I did not know there was a National…

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  • Uncategorized

The Name Game

  • by Global Toy News
  • Posted on May 5, 2010

When I was a kid I hated my name, because I didn't know any cool…

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