Children learn better when they are having fun and games like hangman and word searches have educational value. The whole family can sit round the table and play scrabble, probably the most popular board game using words in the world. It is played in 121 countries in different languages and has been a pastime since it came on the market in the 1940s. Word games like scrabble can be adapted into other forms to keep up with technology and there have been computer versions for several systems, including PlayStation2, Mac, Palm OS and Game Boy. It’s also possible to play as a video game or on a mobile phone.

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Eric Raymond