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Busselton Historical Society > Records

Travel Game - Scrabble

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Murfett Pty Ltd

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Overview

This compact game is packed in a vinyl blue pouch, and contains a foldable board with 225 squares; 100 lettered tiles; 4 racks; instruction sheet

Historical information

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by placing tiles, each bearing a single letter, onto a game board divided into a 15×15 grid of squares. The tiles must form words that, in crossword fashion, read left to right in rows or downward in columns and are included in a standard dictionary

Details

Details

Registration number

cwa-org-124-2025.291

Item type

Household Items

Leisure Objects

Themes

Popular Culture

Material

Contextual information

Murfett Pty Ltd was the original Australian publisher of Scrabble. This compact and portable design allows players to play anywhere.

Keywords

Place made

Australia

Primary significance criteria

Social or spiritual significance

Last modified

Saturday, 13 December, 2025

Completeness

88

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