The Merriam-Webster Official Scrabble Players Dictionary Illustrated Edition | 
 enlarge | Author: Dk Publishing
Publisher: DK ADULT
Category: Book
List Price: $35.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 1920
Media: Hardcover
Edition: Ill
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 696
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.2
Dimensions (in): 10.1 x 7.9 x 1.6
ISBN: 0756639999
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.734
EAN: 9780756639990
ASIN: 0756639999
Publication Date: October 20, 2008
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Product Description
The wildly popular word game, Scrabble(r), was conceived by Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect out of work during the Depression, and was trademarked in 1948. More than 40 years later, over 100 million Scrabble sets had sold worldwide, including 30 million in the USA alone. And, in 1991, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the first worldwide Scrabble tournament had been scheduled. With so many Scrabble aficionados, and the solid success of other Scrabble dictionaries, especially the Merriam-Webster titles, the time is right to add an illustrated dictionary to the Scrabble lexicon, using the Merriam-Webster text.
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Disappointing October 28, 2008
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
One would think that an illustrated Scrabble dictionary would illustrate the obscure words that we struggle to learn. How about a picture of a hoatzin, or an obol? But rather this dictionary has pictures of everyday things that everyone knows. I will say that it is beautifully set. Much nicer looking than the non-illustrated version,
but as a reference it is no better than the other and probably it isn't worth the extra money. The only improvement is that it contains more lists at the end including 3- and 4-letter words, 4-vowel sixes and 5-vowel sevens and eights. Of course, you can get those lists in plenty of places.
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