Hasbro Gaming Scrabble Game

Its Scrabble. A fun game since I was younger. I love using it to play with my son now that hes old enough. Its been a great way to encourage learning without telling him hes learning. If your child likes board games its a great way to integrate fun and learning. Classic game and love that I can still get it :)

I ordered this game to use at the monthly Secret Headquarters Comics and Games for Everyone Off-Site Game Night in Tallahassee. (Yeah, its a long name, but now Brian, our Genial Host, owes me one!) Anyway, I brought Scrabble, mainly because I did not know how to play any of the other games. When we opened it up, I think we were all expecting the look and feel of the classic Scrabble of our childhoods. You know, heavy, smooth finished tiles and tile racks and a game board that felt like it could take years of carting around and gaming. This game is sort of a lightweight version. Everything is there, but its just feels a bit small and less substantial . The tiles and racks have minimal finish on them, and the board is thinner. Now, as far as playing, this is a fine set. However, do not be expecting the original-feeling Scrabble game. I think if you want the truly classic set, you have to spend a little more. Why 4 Stars: The product lives up to its description (if not my nostalgic expectations). The price is right, and amazon delivered in a timely manner. Problem: This may be an isolated problem; however, one of the tile racks was missing. When I alerted amazon to this, as per its usual excellent customer service, it immediately arranged a replacement game to be sent to me. Thats another reason for 4 stars--I love good customer service. BTW, I learned to play two new games last Friday: Flux and Ticket to Ride Europe. And by learned, I mean that I lost my shirt. I will have to see if amazon carries these games, so I can catch up on some of this new-fangled stuff! UPDATE-24 hrs. later: The replacement Scrabble game has arrived, and all 4 tile racks are there!

I love scrabble and I know it’s a classic, however, I wish there would be an affordable option or modernistic version of this where the tiles don’t easily move around, especially considering that the squares aren’t that big. I found myself constantly readjusting the tiles on the board!

A great game to play with friends

Perfect

I am comparing the Scrabble game by Hasbro Gaming in a bright red box with white SCRABBLE on front and pictures of lots of letter tiles that I purchased on July 13, 2019 ..... AND a Scrabble game I purchased over 40 years ago that came in what I consider a purple box, some may call it dark burgundy or dark wine. My old game has gold lettering on the box, no pictures, and the box is kind of a textured cardboard, not smooth and glossy. COMPARISON: For anyone who just wants the main two differences without reading everything: 1. The new game has a larger board, but the actual playing area of the board is almost the same. The new board has a wider strip down one side to say SCRABBLE and to tell you how many of each letter there are. It tells you this on both sides of the border, facing the player who sits on either side. 2. The new game has lightweight red plastic racks to hold your letters. My old game has heavy duty wooden racks. Both WORK fine, but I prefer wood personally. If you want more exact specs and differences, as well as what HASNT changed, read on: Old Board measures a tad over 14 1/4 x 14. The actual playing area is 12 1/4 x 11. New Board measures just shy of 15 1/2 x 14. The actual playing area is 12 1/2 x 11 1/4. Both boards fold in half. Mine is still in great condition. Hopefully new board will hold up as well. The backside of the old board is purple (or wine?). The back side of the new board is black. The instructions are printed inside the lid on the old game; on a nice brochure in the new game. The box for the old game measures 14 1/2 x 7 1/2 and is kind of textured heavy duty cardboard. The new game box measures 15 3/4 x 7 1/2 and is a lighter weight standard cardboard game box. The old game tells you only on one end of the board how many of each letter, so it is upside down and hard to see for the person sitting on the opposite side. The new board has it printed on both ends of the wide border, facing in the direction of the person sitting on either side, so its easy to read for both. The Double Letter, Double Word, Triple Word colored squares on the board are the same on both. The letter tiles are the same size in both and definitely look and feel like wood to me, in both. There are 98 letters and 2 blanks in both games, and the same number of each letter in both games. (There are more of commonly used letters such as vowels, especially E and A, and Ns and Rs. And only one of letters like J, Q, X and Z, but the same number of each letter in both games.) The really big difference: the nice wooden racks in the old game vs. the cheap red plastic racks in the new game. Although I greatly prefer the wooden ones, I did not deduct a star for three reasons: 1, people who have never used the old game with wooden racks would probably think nothing of the plastic ones since most games these days have everything plastic everything. (Had the letter tiles been plastic, I WOULD have deducted a star!) 2, the plastic racks get the job done, no problem. 3, the price of this game, $11.99 when I bought it, is very reasonable for what you get, so it wouldnt be fair to expect the same quality of a game you pay considerably more for. The letters look to me like they are printed in slightly larger, thicker type on the new tiles, which is a GOOD thing. Still black letters, against very light wood tiles, which is best. The new game came with a black drawstring back, plenty large enough to hold all the letters with ease. My old game did not come with a bag, but I am fine with keeping them on the bottom of the box under the board. I consider this game a good value for the money and I would definitely recommend it, although I would point out to anyone I recommended it to that it has plastic racks, so they arent disappointed.

Its the scrabble game we all know and love, but it took me getting this for our collection to realize why my parents had the fancy one growing up. Because the tiles just lay on the board you could breath too hard and the tiles move and your whole game could be ruined. If you know youre going to be playing a fair amount or play with kids at all, just suck it up and get the more expensive one that has the little tile walls so everything stays in place! I promise it will be less of a headache!

Honestly I have no complaints of this product. It works like the board game I expected.

I just love scrabble and dont know over the years where my game ran to. I likely lent it out. I found this in the like new option and it came perfect. Sure there was the ever so slightly pushed look on a corner of the sealed box like it was packed really tight on a shelf but I had to search for that. I would never have considered that a flaw, but Amazon continues to earn my respect by trying to be transparent if something was believed to be flawed. I will enjoy the savings and not worry about the tiny blemish.

One of the best games out there. It has clear instructions on how to play the game. Explains well what each of the special squares signifies in regards to points. The board actually lists the number of each alphabet tile so you are aware if you’re ever missing any when you’re cleaning up.