I have a bag of Scrabble tiles with no numeric values, only letters
About 20 years ago I purchased what I thought was a bag of Scrabble tiles. They look exactly like Scrabble tiles but they only have the letter - there's no numeric value next to the letter. Are these considered actual scrabble tiles, or were they from some other game perhaps?
I appreciate any information you can give me!
Hi - You can be certain that these are not Scrabble tiles. There are lots of games that have copied Scrabble's concept of lettered-tiles, but they do not copy the numerical subscripts for fear of copyright infringement. Bananagrams
is a modern example (see the picture at the top of this post). It sounds like you've come across an older one.
Neither Hasbro nor Mattel (the current owners of Scrabble), nor any of their predecessors, have ever released Scrabble with number-less tiles. In fact, it's hard to imagine how such a game would work.
I hope that helps.