Anyone who knows the thrill of making a word on a ‘Triple Word’ grid in Scrabble will understand why the board game has endured for over eight decades. Alfred Mosher Butts is the architect who created it in 1948 and April 13, his birthday, is now marked as World Scrabble Day. It might seem at first that the game is all about scoring the maximum number of points per word. But three avid players tell us how it’s also about strategy, and share their Scrabble memories.

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