Scrabble makes ‘woke’ change to entice more Gen Z players.
(www.news.com.au)
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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.