This year, Scrabble celebrated its 60th anniversary. For the past six decades, Americans of all ages have been playing this famous crossword game, with its blue “double letter score,” pink “double word score” and red and much-sought-after “triple word score” squares. Millions of adults and children have wracked their brains (and improved their spelling skills) trying to come up with words from odd combination of wooden tiles like K, N, R, Q, Z, L and S — try making a word out of that. Hasbro is releasing the Deluxe Diamond Anniversary Edition of the game this summer ($48), with a more modern look and a carrying case and two slide-and-store trays for the letter tiles. Scrabble fans can enter the “Diamond Initial Necklace” sweepstakes, where a few lucky people will win a necklace spelling out “DIAMOND” in jewel-encrusted letter tiles — just the thing for your next Scrabble party. For those of you who can’t wait, you can find Scrabble tile jewelry, cufflinks and key chains at Uncommon Goods. I’m a big fan of the classic Scrabble game ($13) with its homespun wooden letter tile racks. Another good choice is Scrabble Deluxe ($30), which has a rotating board so that none of the players have to look at the board upside-down. Scrabble Edicion en Espanol ($13) is the Spanish-language version of the game. For children, Scrabble Junior: The Dora Explorer Edition ($12) has an English-language board on one side and a Spanish-language version on the other. One of the fanciest versions of the game is Scrabble Onyx Edition ($50; pictured), exclusively from Barnes & Noble. It has a rotating board, is colored black and silver, comes with a tiny hourglass filled with black sand, and is accompanied by a silver-accented score book. Of course, any Scrabble fan needs a copy of The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary ($7.50), which contains more than 100,000 playable two- to eight-letter words.










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