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One variation of the Scrabble rules that people play is called 'Clabbers'. This is an anagram of Scrabble, in which players play their words in any order they want to and play the letters in any order so long as the letters can make an anagram of a word.

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Proverbs

The crab that walks too far falls into the pot.

Haitian Proverb

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The crawfish season is screwed, the crabs aren't getting peeled either.

Kevin Dartez

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Decapod means "ten-footed". Crabs have 10 legs, however, the first pair are its claws which are called chelae.

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This hook nose and crab meister attitude has gotten me every job I've ever had. And more divorces than I care to remember.

Norman Fell

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Crabs are decapods from the crustacean family.

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You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.

Aristophenes

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Crabs have a thick external skeleton called an exoskeleton. It is a shell made of calcium carbonate and provides protection for the soft tissue underneath.

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A pound of Alaskan king crab legs and buffalo shrimp = happy Travie.

Travie McCoy

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Scrabble has always been immensely popular, so it's easy to see why online Scrabble is just as lauded.

Jason Schreier

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It's by following his friends that a crab lost its hiding place.

Creole Proverb

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A lame crab walks straight.

Afghan Proverb

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Big sisters are the crab grass in the lawn of life.

Charles M. Schulz

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Scrabble has quite a celebrity following, those celebs who play include Sting, Keanu Reeves, Moby, John Travolta, Carol Burnett, Jimmy Kimmel, Kylie Minogue, Mel Gibson, Joan Collins, Tom Cruise, Kate Hudson, Richard Nixon and Queen Elizabeth II.

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David hasslehoff has a crab named after him.

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Scrabble was invented in 1931 by New York architect Alfred Mosher Butts. Butts invented the game in an attempt to create a word game that combined anagrams and crosswords, which involved luck, chance and a great deal of skill. Butts died at the age of 93 in 1993.

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There is a Braille version of Scrabble produced.

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Each hour, at least 30,000 Scrabble games are started.

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Scrabble has quite a celebrity following, those celebs who play include Sting, Keanu Reeves, Moby, John Travolta, Carol Burnett, Jimmy Kimmel, Kylie Minogue, Mel Gibson, Joan Collins, Tom Cruise, Kate Hudson, Richard Nixon and Queen Elizabeth II.

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If all the Scrabble tiles ever produced were lined up, they would stretch for more than 50,000 miles!

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English Scrabble has 100 tiles. The most tiles are in Italian and Portuguese Scrabble which both have 120 tiles.

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Scrabble is used all over the world as a means of teaching English.

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The name Scrabble comes from the words Scrabbling, Scrabbled and Scrabbles all of which means to claw or scrape at something frantically. These words all derive from the Dutch word 'Schrabbelan', which most likely integrated into American diction from Dutch settlers to North America.

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One variation of the Scrabble rules that people play is called 'Clabbers'. This is an anagram of Scrabble, in which players play their words in any order they want to and play the letters in any order so long as the letters can make an anagram of a word.

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In the French Scrabble there are five 10-point tiles, these being; K, W, X, Y and Z.

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In London, 1991, the first ever Scrabble World Championship came to a grinding halt before a single game was played. Why, you might ask? Because there were no Scrabble tiles present.

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Scrabble is ranked as the second best board game in U.S. History, second only to Monopoly.

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1993 Scrabble World Champion, Mark Nyman of the U.K., learnt 10,000 words from the American Dictionary in order to prepare for the upcoming tournament.

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Scrabble became an American daytime game-show, hosted by Chuck Woolery on NBC, which ran from July 1984 to March 1990. The show got a revival from January to June in 1993.

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In 2004, Scrabble was finally inducted into the American National Toy Hall of Fame, joining other great toys and games such as Monopoly, Etch A Sketch, Lego and The Game Boy.

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