GIRL SCOUTSARIZONA CACTUS-PINE COUNCIL, INC.
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WORDS ROCK!

For girls in grades 5-12 What has 100 tiles.225 squares.a multi-colored board.and millions of fans of all ages, backgrounds and locales? The answer, of course, is SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game, which took America by storm in the early 1950s-and has continued to grow in popularity. It all began when in 1931 an out-of-work architect named Alfred Mosher Butts translated his life long love of crossword puzzles into a board game. After studying existing games, he realized that games fell into three categories: Number games like dice and bingo, move games such as chess and checkers, and word games like anagrams Mr. Butts, attempting to create a game that would use both chance and skill, combined features of anagrams and the crossword puzzle-and called his new game "Criss Cross Words." Today the game is in over one hundred million households worldwide and about two million sets are sold each year. Starting in 1991, the National SCRABBLE Association began the School SCRABBLE Program. It is now in thousands of schools across the country and starting in 2007 used by Girl Scouts of the USA as a troop activity. Players of all ages can use the game, and we encourage you to learn more about it. You can share the experience with your younger brother, your Grandmother or your best friend. As with most sports there are special events across the country where enthusiasts gather to play. One is the National School
SCRABBLE Championship where 100 teams of students in grades 5-8 gather to compete to see which
team is the best. In May 2007, Girl Scouts AZ Cactus Pine Council sent the first troop to be represented at the National Championship.
SCRABBLE , the associated logo, the design of the distinctive SCRABBLE brand game board, and the distinctive letter tile designs are trademarks of Hasbro in the United States and Canada. 2007 Hasbro. All Rights Reserved. How to purchase the Words Rock patch: Upon completion of listed requirements, submit the attached patch order form to: Girl ScoutsArizona Cactus-Pine Council Shop, 119 East Coronado Rd., Phoenix, AZ 85086. Cost: $1.50 per patch. For more information contact the Girl ScoutsArizona Cactus-Pine Council, Inc. at: 602 253-6359 or visit our website: www.girlscoutsaz.org.
WORDS ROCK! Patch Program cont.
ACTIVITIES: Complete the following number of activities to earn your WORDS ROCK! patch. Junior Girl Scouts: 6 of the 10 including starred activities Cadette Girl Scouts: 7 of the 10 including starred activities Senior and Ambassadors Girl Scouts: 8 of the 10 including starred activities The School SCRABBLE website http://school.scrabble-assoc.com will be a great resource for you.
Research Alfred Mosher Butts at the library or online and see if you can find out: a) The year he was born? b) Is he still alive? c) What were the two other names given the word game before it was changed to SCRABBLE in the 1950s? d) What man did Alfred Butts sell his game to? HINT: It was this man that changed the name of the game to SCRABBLE.
Every game or sport has certain equipment that is needed to play. The game of SCRABBLE is no different. This particular board game includes a game board, tile racks, tile bag and 100 tiles. See if you can find out: a) How many of each letter are in a set of tiles? b) Explain why do you think some letters have more tiles than others? c) See if you can find how Alfred Butts decided how many letters would go in each set.

SCRABBLE is a game of words, right? Well consider this, the best SCRABBLE players in the world are
often mathematicians, musicians or from the science field. a) How many tiles are there in a SCRABBLE set? b) What are the 4 highest point tiles? List them and their values. c) The first play must cross the center pink star on the game board. Look for other pink squares and determine how you would score the first play? d) Although a very special move, sometimes players can make a play that crosses two TRIPLE WORD score squares. How would you score that amazing play? Can you answer these numbers questions?
WORDS ROCK! Patch Program cont. 4. The official word source for the SCRABBLE game is Merriam Websters Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition. Its slang name is OSPD4. Proper nouns are not acceptable in SCRABBLE play. A proper noun has a first letter that always appears in upper case. Example: Phoenix; the capitol of the State of Arizona. Many words that can be played look like proper nouns, but they are not capitalized because they have a second meaning. a) Look up the word PHOENIX and see if it has another meaningand if it is acceptable in SCRABBLE game play. b) Look up your name and see if it is an acceptable word for the game. If so, what is its definition? For instance JANE is acceptable and is listed as: JANE n pl.-S a girl or woman c) Find words that are usually considered names and proper nouns, not including jane, and make a list of them and their definitions. Junior Girl Scouts: Find 10 words Cadette Girl Scouts: Find 15 words Senior and Ambassador: Find 20 words 5. The best SCRABBLE players in the world will tell you that the Q tile can be your best friend in a gameor your worst nightmare. As long as you have a U or a blank tile it is almost always a guaranteed point maker. Well heres a secret! We have all heard that a U always follows the letter Q. Right? Well maybe not always. Actually there are 32 words that use a Q but no U. a) Find the number of words listed below that use a Q but no U. Junior Girl Scouts: Find 10 words Cadette Girl Scouts: Find 15 words Senior and Ambassador: Find 20 words b) Which of your words take an S to make it plural? 6. Sometimes its easier to learn words to play in the SCRABBLE game if there is a theme; for the theme Food. Here is some food for thought: BABA BANGER BAP BIFFIN BREWIS PONE instance,
n pl. S a rum cake n pl. S a sausage n pl. S a small bun or roll n pl. S a cooking apple n pl. BREWISES a broth n pl. S a corn bread

RUSK SPELT WHEY YAM ZITI

n pl. S a sweetened biscuit n pl. S a variety of wheat n pl. WHEYS the watery part of milk n pl. S an edible plant root n pl. S a tubular pasta

SCONE n pl. S a flat, round cake
a) Can you come up with a list of 10 acceptable words with the theme Money. b) Share this list with your SCRABBLE partner and see how many she knows. c) See if your troop can come up with other themes to explore.
WORDS ROCK! Patch Program cont. 7. TROOP is an acceptable SCRABBLE word. Is the word SCOUT? Using the Official SCRABBLE Players Dictionary, Fourth Edition (OSPD4) find: a) All the words that begin with TROOand list them. b) How many of these words did you already know? c) How many of these words are related to one another? 8. Using each letter of the alphabet below, list as many words as you can that you think relates to GIRL SCOUTING. Put a bcheck next to the ones that are acceptable SCRABBLE words. A B C D E F G H I J K L M 9. Honor Arizona Badge N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z SCRABBLE!
An anagram (Greek ana = "back" or "again", and graphein = "to write") is a type of word play, the result of rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to produce other words, using all the original letters exactly once. Here are some fun ones: See if you can anagram five of the words below: (the answer key is at the bottom of last page.) a) prewrap b) ice tea c) marine d) field e) ocean f) able g) baker h) friend
WORDS ROCK! Patch Program cont. 10. Like many activities, the game of SCRABBLE has a vocabulary of its own. Certain words thatmay mean something to one person will mean something special and different to SCRABBLE players. See if you can find out what the words below mean to SCRABBLE players? For instance, to many people, the word BINGO refers to a game played with randomly generated numbers and a printed card. To a SCRABBLE player the word means Using all seven tiles in one turn. By the way, SCRABBLE players get fifty extra points for laying a BINGO! Define five terms as they relate to SCRABBLE players (not their dictionary meaning. (Hint: use the School Scrabble website to find answers to this question http://school.scrabble-assoc.com) a) bingo b) hook c) ospd4 d) spread e) bluffing f) alpha gram g) rack h) double word score i) j) phoney nssc
Answers to question 9: a) wrapper b) eat ice c) remain d) filed e) canoe f) bale g) break h) finder
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