Alfred Butts, an unemployed architect, dreamt up this still successful spelling board game in 1931 |
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Crossword board game (8) |
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Frantically grope |
The Guardian Quick |
15 Feb 2024 |
Santa Claus initially takes on rabble at board game (8) |
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Scrawl; doodle (8) |
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Word game |
The Guardian Speedy |
03 Dec 2023 |
Struggle frantically in board game |
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Scratch frantically |
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Wordy board game |
Family Time |
23 Jan 2023 |
It scores at least 14 in itself |
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Disorderly struggle in anagrammatic game |
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Bravo for Mike in rush for game |
The Guardian Cryptic |
14 Jan 2022 |
Bravo for Mike in rush for game |
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Game starts to slide, creating unruly crowd |
The Telegraph Cryptic |
14 Sep 2021 |
Unruly crowd holds up South Carolina game |
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Anagram Bible snatcher not in the crossword game! |
The Telegraph Toughie |
21 May 2021 |
Classic word game with tiles |
Eugene Sheffer |
15 May 2021 |
Game in which the answers to the starred clues are legal plays but cannot be formed even if you have both blanks |
New York Times |
26 Jan 2021 |
Game originally named Criss-Crosswords |
Universal |
06 Jan 2021 |
In the English version of this game, the total value of tiles is 187 |
The Times Specialist Sunday |
27 Dec 2020 |
Scratch from game |
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Board game with letters |
Irish Times Simplex |
10 Sep 2020 |
The dimensions of its playing surface 8 and 1 put together from scratch |
The Telegraph Toughie |
03 Jul 2020 |
Game played from scratch |
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Special constable, tailed by mob, in scrape |
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Grub that is given to hoi polloi |
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Grope for board game |
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Scratch cards vacuously rejected by mob |
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Bends over books by lecturer on 'European game' |
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Board game from Hasbro, which involves forming words with tiles on a grid |
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Caught by mob after Sunderland's opening game |
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Chapter on mob after second game |
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