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# Claim A Scrabble Triple Word Score
- URL: https://justincox.com/blog/2021/04/claim-a-scrabble-triple-word-score/
- Published: 2021-04-13T08:02:16.000Z
- Updated: 2023-06-17T00:07:48.000Z
- Description: 📝 This Week’s Goal: Expand your vocabulary with the classic board game
- Author: Justin Cox
- Tags: Craft, #This Week In Writing, This Just In, Culture

Today is [National Scrabble Day](https://nationaltoday.com/national-scrabble-day/?ref=justincox.com) here in the United States. The day celebrates the birth of Scrabble¹⁴ inventor Alfred¹⁰ Mosher¹¹ Butts⁷ (**numbers equal the Scrabble point value*).

Scrabble, and the countless knockoffs it spawned, is a fantastic game based on words. For writers, Scrabble can help expand (**and show off*) a vast vocabulary. When else can you impress people with words like Za¹¹, Whizz²⁹, and Zombify²⁶?

What I find uniquely strange is the word “Scrabble” does not bring up a single result in The⁶ Writing¹¹ Cooperative¹⁸. Seven years of content about writing and not a single mention of the word-based board game! Today’s newsletter obviously rectifies the situation.

****What is your favorite Scrabble word?***