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Saturday, November 17, 2012

The World Most Expensive Scrabble Set

By Harsh Vardhan (Facebook) (Twitter)

We enjoy games everyday and when comes to board games Scrabble being one of the favorites. With the cheap Smartphones and platform available these days one enjoys Scrabble free and it's always fun to play. Did you know the most expensive Scrabble set till now?

Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game-board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Specified reference works (e.g., the Official Club and Tournament Word List, the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary) provide a list of permissible words.

The World Most Expensive Scrabble Set
The world’s most advanced Scrabble board comes complete with LED's, RFID chips and software that transmits the game to the Internet in real time. It’s also the world’s most expensive.

Coming to the price it leads no surprise that it worth's $30,000, the board — clad in carbon fiber — was created for the upcoming Prague Mind Sports Festival which starts on Dec. 1 and runs through Dec 4th. The board houses 225 RFID sensors underneath each square that detect the presence of tiles with corresponding RFID sensors.

Throughout the game, the software scans the board every 974 milliseconds to transmit the game to a live-stream on the web. Though expensive, it’s sure to be the most heated game of Scrabble since the creation of Words With Friends.

This high Engineered set is yet another remarkable technology gift for gamer to see the other side of real time gaming with this set.

Do let us know what you feel about this Set.

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Source: Mashable

1 comments:

it really looks very expensive..i do love to play scrabble, i was taught by my mom so that is why i am still playing scrabble until now..its very knowledgeable and educational

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