“Innuendo is a word I often use in Scrabble – I’m a demon at scrabble!” – Freddie Mercury
13th of April is National Scrabble Day – It’s the day Scrabble inventor Alfred Mosher Butts was born.
He gave the world an iconic board game now played all over the world. Today, more than seven decades later, we live for “Triple Word Scores”! Not to mention, the strategic use of those mysterious blank tiles.
Queen played a lot of scrabble especially Freddie and Roger
Freddie and ‘Killer’ Scrabble…..
“Scrabble was a game Freddie loved, and was exceptionally good at, having played since an early age with an elderly aunt, he told me. When the Scrabble board came out, it was a magnet to him and he would hover, interfering, or advising the current players. Usually he insisted we scrap the game and start a new one to include him. Whatever work he was doing was put on hold and thousands of pounds of studio time were wasted while Fred waited for the elusive seven-letter, triple-word square. ‘Lacquers’ was one word using all seven letters that particularly astounded him as it fell into place on the triple-word square. It came from me!




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