A board game in which words are formed from letters in patterns similar to a crossword puzzle; each letter has a value and those values are used to score the game.
... his experience of the first extra-terrestrial planet on which men had landed. He did kick up some pebbles—water-rounded—and one of them had flecks of what looked like gold in it. Al regarded it excitedly, and then thought of freight-rates. But he did scrabble for more. Presently he had a pocket-full of small stones which would be regarded with rapture by his nieces and nephews because they had come from the stars. Actually, they were quite commonplace minerals. The flecks of what looked like gold ... — Operation: Outer Space • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
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