Many families have a box of Scrabble in their drawers… This board game, first published in 1948, has established itself as a classic of the genre, and not only in France. The giants Hasbro and Mattel market it in no less than 121 countries! For generations, it has brought together young and old, as long as we know how to read, around one principle: to form as many words as possible, on a grid, with the letters that have been distributed to us.
Often, Scrabble games are an opportunity to discover new pearls of the language, or the scene of heated debates around the spelling of a complex word…
To win, everyone has their own strategy: some prefer to string together short and simple words, others prefer to rack their brains and put together long, complex words to win as many points as possible in a single round. Because, obviously, certain letters in the game offer more points than others. In French, these are those that are more rarely found in everyday language: for example, X, W, Z, Y…
Also, if you are from the “short words” team, nothing is stopping you from making a big impact with these easy to use little words:
They will earn you 22 points. However, if you are aiming for a bigger gain, discover in our slideshow the words that can earn you up to 49 points in a single round, according to the media Femmes d’Aujourd’hui and the site scrabble-triche.fr