Proper nouns come into play in Scrabble rule change

BBC ^

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The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said.

Place names, people's names and company names or brands will now count.

Mattel, which brings out a new version of the game containing amended rules in July, hopes the change will encourage younger people to play.

[sand lake bar]

Hmm...not sure I approve.

[occamrzr06]

Bush’s fault, I would bet.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

How much were they paid?

[applpie]

is this an effort to dumb the game down because too many folks have trouble coming up with more than four letter words?

[lurk]

The very last guardrail separating society from disaster has now been breached.

When the rules of Scrabble change, it’s all over.

[centurion316]

txt spk also ok. Yo from da hood be cool too.

[Jewbacca]

Good, maybe “Jew” will finally work in Microsoft Scrabble.

(Muslim works, but Jew does not. Maybe I am paranoid.)

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

Hmm...not sure I approve.

I know that I don't approve. This is stupid. Think of all the crazy names people make up for their kids. Will those all be in the Scrabble dictionary? Will little "Flapboggle's" mommy sue Scrabble for leaving her son's name of out the dictionary?

It will make playing a lot easier, too. There is no need for this. I can't believe we've come to the point where we're dumbing down Scrabble. I've been playing Scrabble practically all of my life and I honestly think that this will take the fun out of it.

[Anti-Utopian]

It won’t help sales. Games businesses that rely on an educated public will continue to see a sales slump thanks to public schools and universities.

[cantfindagoodscreenname]

I play “Jew” all the time in Scrabble on Facebook and it takes it.

[Above My Pay Grade]

This is sacrilge. This is like changing the rules of baseball so that a batted ball caught in the air is no longer an out.

This will be great for cheaters, though. “I’m telling you, my college roomate’s name was ‘Qzyjkxwy’. That’s 53 points, plus the double letter scores on the z and x, times 9 for the 2 triple word scores, plus 50 points for using all my letters...2,436 points! Your turn.”

[T Minus Four]

Hmmmph. Well, in my house, it’s MY house rules. No proper nouns!

[lastchance]

One is never prepared for a Sign of The Apocalypse in their own life time.

[dfwgator]

So if I name my kid Qaklzwx, that will now count.

[mountainbunny]

FTA: The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company Mattel has said.

Hmmmm. How to I put this? Heck, no. Not in our house!

We play Scrabble to have fun and improve our vocabularies. We do not play to make everyone feel good or to artificially boost self esteem.

The old rules are perfectly cromulent. We're not going to change them.

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[NautiNurse]

Plaxico or Shaniqua with triple word score!

[Hot Tabasco]

When the rules of Scrabble change, it’s all over.

Wait until Monopoly allows sub-prime refinancing..........

[righttackle44]

Might as well. American English usage is in the dump, anyway. Verb tenses are disappearing. “I seen him yesterday.” “I seen it was true.” Et cetera. These are becoming prevalent on Free Republic, for example. One of the things about corrupted language is that it seems to have appeared in the daily intercourse of societies and countries that have begun to go down the tubes. Classical Greek changed—some say corrupted—into Koine Greek along the way when Classical Greece was disappearing.

[tophat9000]

As a dyslexic I hate that game... Satan makes the really bad people in hell play Scrabble