It is learnt that the Scrabble Association of Goa will be organizing the 17th edition of the All-India Open Scrabble Championship from April 21 to 23 at St Inez. Players from various states will be in action. Each player will play 24 games over a period of three days. Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board. Scrabble is a game that involves both skill and luck. There's skill in knowing the words one can play and especially the most advantageous ways to play them. But there's also luck in the tiles you draw randomly from the bag. Word games really do help improve one’s spelling and of course vocabulary. Playing word games like scrabble would usually be the most fun way to learn new words. Hence it would be in the fitness of things to introduce scrabble in the school curriculum as a fun activity. When school students learn the game it would be prudent to have inter-school scrabble tournaments.
