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87: Fighting Words with Everybody House Games (Babble Royale)

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games

CHAPTER

The Evolution of Scrabble

Babel is a first-person word game that lets you use letters to spell out words. It's being played by people who have never really anagrammed before, and it's working for them. The high level of gameplay doesn't look anything like what Scrabble looked like in the '70s or '80s when players would be using all these different kinds of items at once.

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