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Toys : Scrabble Deluxe
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Rating: 
- A total disappointment. Cheaply made rubbish.
I was totally disappointed to offer this 'deluxe' version of Scrabble as a gift this Christmas. I purchased it on the understanding that it has a 'Highly finished wooden framed board with rotating base' which it simply isn't. The board is made from injection moulded plastic which doesn't fool anyone for wood.
It also claims to include a 'velvet tilebag' - which again it doesn't. The tile bag is mock polymer velvet which feels even cheaper that the original Scrabble bag.
Notice a trend? Plastic, plastic plastic. Cheap plastic too.
It looks as if they tried to make it look extra classy by simulating what a Scrabble board would look like were it painted on a canvas using oil paint. But it instead just looks cheap and can be vaguely hard to read if the angle/light is wrong due to glare.
To add salt to the wound, they now fail to provide you with a score pad and pencil, instead, you have to photocopy the score sheet in the middle pages of the booklet. Now that is deluxe..
I'm not the only one complaining - check out the amazon.com website reviews.
A letter to Mattel is in the post.
A huge disappointment which will be returned and my money refunded.
Rating:
- Great game. Well made and well worth the purchase!
Scrabble Deluxe is a great game and does live up to its name in my books. It looks great and everything works very well!
Board: A very nice wooden board although some say plastic, but i think its wood. The board has a raised grid surface which does actually hold the tiles very well. The turntable underneath is a lifesaver when passing play to another player.
Tile bag: A very nice velvet bag with the scrabble logo and string round the rim to close it. Very nice.
Tiles: What would scrabble be without them? Well, these tiles are high quality indeed. Wooden and clearly displaying the letter and score in black, they really are the business.
Racks: This is my only critisism. The racks do look nice, but theres one problem. They are basically cheap grimy plastic made to look nice. It would have been better if they were wooden, but maybe they did this because some players lift their racks during play and they didn't want them to be heavy. Just misses five stars because of this. Oh well.
Overall, the game is amazing and could be said to be better than the original. I loved it and im sure others will too. Go on, buy it today!
Rating:
- Absolutely Fabulous!!
A friend sent me this as a gift as I have recently become a Scrabble convert. It is so much easier to play on this deluxe rotating version and I am supremely chuffed - the kids can have my bog standard version now. It seems to me to be more than worth the price - add a little luxury to your game!!
Now I just have to see if I can actually win!!
Rating: - Good but not as good as the orginal
I enjoy playing this game with family and it was purchased one christmas to repalce a slightly tired version.
However, we were disappointed. The spinning function doesn't appear to work and causes problems, on the old orginal we had a working spinner.
The tiles can be difficult to read, for my nan.
And what grates the most is the clear lack of scoring facility. Sure there are pages in the book, but on the old version, non deluxe i add, we had a score keeper on the top of each tile holder with scoring in 1's and then 10's and 100's, with pegs which as a child I loved.
I still enjoy the game and find it useful as a dyslexic to play this, sometimes with my dictionary (I know it's cheating but even with it I have no chance of winning!), but I wish we had stuck to the orginal.
Rating: - An abomination of a Scrabble set
Let me first make this clear - I adore the game of Scrabble. Having played the odd game with family and friends over the years, I began to take a serious interest in the game at the end of 2002, and have since improved my game to that of tournament level. Ask anyone that I have spoken to on the scene, and you will get a similar answer; 'If you want a decent board, you're almost certainly going to have to order from abroad.' The sad truth is, they are all correct. The faults with this board are legion. The idea that this is a wooden board is a complete fallacy. It sort of looks like wood, but in the end appears to be some kind of plastic - the kind often found on cheap furniture. The raised divisions between the squares are so shallow, that they might as well not be there. Worst crime of all though is the size of the squares. Many serious players now use 'protiles' which are infinitely superior to any provided in a normal Scrabble set, being clearer, more durable, and having no raised lettering allowing one to 'feel' the letters coming from the bag. With this board, the makers have clearly found that they could shave of a little more of the cost of production by shrinking the squares just enough so that protiles won't fit. In the set I saw, they didn't even provide wooden tile racks.
My advice, therefore, would be this: If you are looking for a family set, or one for a casual player, then stick to the 'Original' version, which is about a third the price, and differs little in quality. If you are in any way serious about this wonderful game, then check online for some custom board makers in America or Canada. They are more pricey, but you do get what you pay for.
- A total disappointment. Cheaply made rubbish.I was totally disappointed to offer this 'deluxe' version of Scrabble as a gift this Christmas. I purchased it on the understanding that it has a 'Highly finished wooden framed board with rotating base' which it simply isn't. The board is made from injection moulded plastic which doesn't fool anyone for wood.
It also claims to include a 'velvet tilebag' - which again it doesn't. The tile bag is mock polymer velvet which feels even cheaper that the original Scrabble bag.
Notice a trend? Plastic, plastic plastic. Cheap plastic too.
It looks as if they tried to make it look extra classy by simulating what a Scrabble board would look like were it painted on a canvas using oil paint. But it instead just looks cheap and can be vaguely hard to read if the angle/light is wrong due to glare.
To add salt to the wound, they now fail to provide you with a score pad and pencil, instead, you have to photocopy the score sheet in the middle pages of the booklet. Now that is deluxe..
I'm not the only one complaining - check out the amazon.com website reviews.
A letter to Mattel is in the post.
A huge disappointment which will be returned and my money refunded.
Rating:
- Great game. Well made and well worth the purchase!Scrabble Deluxe is a great game and does live up to its name in my books. It looks great and everything works very well!
Board: A very nice wooden board although some say plastic, but i think its wood. The board has a raised grid surface which does actually hold the tiles very well. The turntable underneath is a lifesaver when passing play to another player.
Tile bag: A very nice velvet bag with the scrabble logo and string round the rim to close it. Very nice.
Tiles: What would scrabble be without them? Well, these tiles are high quality indeed. Wooden and clearly displaying the letter and score in black, they really are the business.
Racks: This is my only critisism. The racks do look nice, but theres one problem. They are basically cheap grimy plastic made to look nice. It would have been better if they were wooden, but maybe they did this because some players lift their racks during play and they didn't want them to be heavy. Just misses five stars because of this. Oh well.
Overall, the game is amazing and could be said to be better than the original. I loved it and im sure others will too. Go on, buy it today!
Rating:
- Absolutely Fabulous!!A friend sent me this as a gift as I have recently become a Scrabble convert. It is so much easier to play on this deluxe rotating version and I am supremely chuffed - the kids can have my bog standard version now. It seems to me to be more than worth the price - add a little luxury to your game!!
Now I just have to see if I can actually win!!
Rating:
- Good but not as good as the orginalI enjoy playing this game with family and it was purchased one christmas to repalce a slightly tired version.
However, we were disappointed. The spinning function doesn't appear to work and causes problems, on the old orginal we had a working spinner.
The tiles can be difficult to read, for my nan.
And what grates the most is the clear lack of scoring facility. Sure there are pages in the book, but on the old version, non deluxe i add, we had a score keeper on the top of each tile holder with scoring in 1's and then 10's and 100's, with pegs which as a child I loved.
I still enjoy the game and find it useful as a dyslexic to play this, sometimes with my dictionary (I know it's cheating but even with it I have no chance of winning!), but I wish we had stuck to the orginal.
Rating:
- An abomination of a Scrabble setLet me first make this clear - I adore the game of Scrabble. Having played the odd game with family and friends over the years, I began to take a serious interest in the game at the end of 2002, and have since improved my game to that of tournament level. Ask anyone that I have spoken to on the scene, and you will get a similar answer; 'If you want a decent board, you're almost certainly going to have to order from abroad.' The sad truth is, they are all correct. The faults with this board are legion. The idea that this is a wooden board is a complete fallacy. It sort of looks like wood, but in the end appears to be some kind of plastic - the kind often found on cheap furniture. The raised divisions between the squares are so shallow, that they might as well not be there. Worst crime of all though is the size of the squares. Many serious players now use 'protiles' which are infinitely superior to any provided in a normal Scrabble set, being clearer, more durable, and having no raised lettering allowing one to 'feel' the letters coming from the bag. With this board, the makers have clearly found that they could shave of a little more of the cost of production by shrinking the squares just enough so that protiles won't fit. In the set I saw, they didn't even provide wooden tile racks.
My advice, therefore, would be this: If you are looking for a family set, or one for a casual player, then stick to the 'Original' version, which is about a third the price, and differs little in quality. If you are in any way serious about this wonderful game, then check online for some custom board makers in America or Canada. They are more pricey, but you do get what you pay for.