Grid
There are many language games in the world which are based on
composing the words in some sort of a grid: for instance
various types of cross-word puzzles. The most famous game which
has lived to see its main expansion in recent years is
scrabble which was devised (as David Crystal states in his
Language Encyclopaedia) by an ingenious American, Alfred
Butts, in the 1920's. This now most popular of all language
games has originally been devised for English, which is, by
its very nature, very appropriate for this kind of games, but
the scrabble can be played with the other languages as well,
and Czech is no exception here. Below is an example of
a Czech scrabble configuration:
n
e
p l ž
chlapec e l
ř praskati
vinný t
n rok l
a upír
c
How would you proceed if you have the following letters at
your disposal:
ď, ý, e, m, h ?
Renata Blatná, Vladimír Petkevič, ©2001