/ 11 April 2024

Less competitive Scrabble

Scrabble

If you’ve been super-stressed during a particularly intense word game, toymaker Mattel has the game for you… Scrabble Together is a “less competitive” version of the 75yo classic. Mattel says it’ll offer a double-sided board, with one side being the original Scrabble and the other being “collaborative and faster-paced to make gameplay more accessible for anyone who finds word games intimidating”. It’s made that M-O-V-E because a new study of 2,000 people showed that competitiveness is on the decline. Of the respondents, 35% believed Boomers were the most competitive, followed by Millennials at 31% and Gen Z at 29%. The UK’s #1 Scrabble player Brett Smitheram reckons that “speaks to a trend in younger people … favouring teamwork and collaboration working towards a fun goal together”. How H-A-R-M-O-N-I-O-U-S…

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