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Scrabble wasnt invented until 1933

posted 4 years ago by [deleted]
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Yet they show Scrabble pieces to represent her rearranging words and even show them being dropped on a table as though she grew up playing it.

[–] NotoriousRio (12927) 4 years ago

The Game's Afoot!

1933 and created by A. Butts. 😋

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Actually, they would have been tiles from the Anagrams game which was popular in the Victorian era. Scrabble was not the first game that used letter tiles.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Source?

[–] sslssg (34222) 4 years ago

They played Anagrams in the Jane Austin book Emma which was written in 1815.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

And sets of Anagrams or "Word Making & Word Taking" from the 19th through early 20th centuries are readily available in antique stores and on ebay.

[–] [deleted] 4 years ago

Point taken.

[–] ATG6 (3000) 4 years ago

the lack of a Scrabble board or Scrabble dictionary were also clues