Super Scrabble Deluxe Edition
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Toys and Games Reviews of Super Scrabble Deluxe Edition
Customer Review: Super Game !!!
Summary: 5 Stars
My wife and I are avid Scrabble players. She is actually very avid and serious. She is also very difficult to buy presents for or to surprise with something that she really likes.
When I found Super Scrabble I decided to take a chance and bought it for her for Christmas.
She was skeptical when she opened it, but we played our first game a few days later with our sons who were both home for the holidays and thoroughly enjoyed it. My wife declared that she never wanted to play normal scrabble again!!
It is a great and challenging game. It does take longer to play but does result in higher scores and somehow makes comebacks more possible than in the original version.
Yes the board is a bit flimsy, but we mounted it permanently on a piece of ¼ inch plywood and it is much more sturdy. It no longer works like a lazy susan, but that could be remedied if I was creative enough.
If you like Scrabble odds are that you will love Super Scrabble.
Ewald Wiberg
author of The Perfect Vacation: One Couple's Adventures at Sea With and Without the Kids
Customer Review: Nice new challenge for classic Scrabble veterans...
Summary: 5 Stars
I've played the traditional board for 50 years, and since my new wife and I play an average of ten games a week, it was time for something fresh. Our games had become "speed Scrabble" and were usually finished in 25 minutes, with the winner's score ranging from 325-410 or so. The $50 this version cost is equal to what we spend at the local cineplex for two movie dates with junk food. We expect to have thousands of hours of pleasure with this item. The board's ball-bearing ride does suck, as many other reviewers noted. Our solution has been to put the new larger board right on top of our old board and its lazy-susan turntable. Works fine that way on our dining table, on top of a placemat. It's been fun learning where the big score squares are, and waiting to get two "Q's" or two "X's" or two "Z's" at the same time. Our scores now, winning or losing, are usually in the mid-600's. It takes us 70 minutes for a game, cutting our play to one game a night, which doesn't hurt a bit. For anyone who likes to play regularly, with fairly competent opponents, I recommend it. You might end up making a few new words, and will definitely have fun learning the triple and quadruple letter square locations.Customer Review: Know what you're buying...
Summary: 4 Stars
I have to say, for $50 it's disappointing. As others have pointed out, it's NOT a board on a raised lazy susan turntable, as was sold in the past. It's a folding board with round metal bearings on the bottom. On a hard, flat surface, it can be rotated or slid which is convenient to move the board for each player which is really what you need. However, you need a big table to move it around on or it will collide with your racks. A friend made us a wood turntable which we put it on, so we have the benefit of the grid which holds the pieces in place as well as the elevated board which spins over the racks.
The folding plastic board is not the most rugged, and needs to be treated a bit carefully. But of course, it's not one of the super expensive Franklin Mint versions.
In our opinion, it's probably worth getting if (1) you're a big fan of super or double scrabble (2) you really like the grid boards that don't require you to be a surgeon to place the tiles (we love that feature) (3) you play on a flat, hard surface (4) you can get the board at a discount (we got a Barnes & Noble coupon and were able to get it for $38, which made us feel much better (Jan 2009)
Customer Review: Scrabble will endure through the generation of games
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been playing Scrabble for close to 50 years. Various boxes of Scrabble have accompanied me around the world to be played with anyone who had the remotest interest and also with friends who would ask "have you packed the Scrabble?"
I always felt that I had a good command of the english language and since a child have been the one who bends the corner of a page over, as a reference point for my dictionary to find out the meaning of a word on the page. I still do it to this day.
I have a life long friend in the UK and several times a month we will log on to the web and play live games of Scrabble, completing entire games in 10 minutes!!
The new super sized board has advanced the possibilities of the game even further and as the saying goes, its hard to go back!
Scrabble is a gift of learning the fun way and discovering how to bluff your family and friends into challenging a word that you know they will be uncertain about.
Adore the game, the competitiveness and 50 years on, enjoy the fact that the english language can still teach me a thing or too.
Customer Review: Absolutely love it!
Summary: 5 Stars
Super Scrabble Deluxe Edition
My husband and I play all the time. He works third shift, so our games always go on for a couple days. We play with 9 tiles so the 7-letter words are a big part of our games. With the super scrabble there are more 7 letter or more words showing up. We like the 50 point bingo that gets added to those words. Needless to say, our scores are way way up there. We are going to my mom & dad's this weekend, taking the game with us. I may have to leave it there and order another one! We really like the grid that keeps the tiles in place. The only thing we found that was just a little bit disappointing. The racks are not quite big enough to hold 9 tiles. We use the red plastic racks from a 3o year old or so scrabble game my mom gave us two years ago. We got her for Christmas a newer Deluxe Regular scrabble board, but even though it have the turn table, the letters do not stay on the board nicely because there are just little slight pockets. I was bumming for her.