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3. Teaches new words and meanings of words. Preen (verb): (to a bird) to clean feathers; (to a person) to try to look attractive tenairn.blogspot.com

4.  Practices the act of fair play with Word Challenge.

5. Develops logic and mathematical strategy.  If I play the word “WAIL”I can earn 7 points.  But if I draw a “U”, I could play EQUALITY off the word TOY, which is already on the board. However, since 3 of the 4 U’s have already been played, the chances of me drawing U are slim.

6.   http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/ http://www.hasbro.com/scrabble/en_US/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrabble  http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/gamenight/ http://www.hasbro.com/games/en_US/gamenight/ Learn more at