Scrabble makes ‘woke’ change to entice more Gen Z players.
(www.news.com.au)
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This reeks of desperation. I would assume that Scrabble sales have been down for a while, so a change has been prescibed to try and salvage the situation. Making the game social rather than competitive may boost appeal, but it hard to market a word game to the illiterate.
No one is being hit harder by the collapse of the education system than Scrabble.
Scrabble just added FOLX and ARO to their official dictionary.
Woke.
I don't see anything in the article that actually makes it woke, they just tried to make a version if the game that's more cooperative.
"The flip side of the classic game, called Scrabble Together, will include helper cards, use a simpler scoring system, be quicker to play and allow people to play in teams.
"The makers of Scrabble found that younger people, Gen Z people, don’t quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble,” Gyles Brandreth, who co-hosts the language podcast Something Rhymes With Purple, told BBC Radio 4 Today.
"They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words.