player needs to advance to successful tournament play. Not to be confused with Drue K. Conklin's 1976 The Official Scrabble Player's Handbook, The Scrabble Player's Handbook is available for free download. Documentaries Numerous documentaries have been made about the game, including: Scrabylon (2003), by Scott Petersen, which "gives an up-close look at why people get so obsessed with that seemingly benign game" Word Slingers (2002), by Eric Siblin and Stefan Vanderland (produced for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)), which follows four expert Canadian players at the 2001 World Championship in Las Vegas Word Wars (2004) by Eric Chaikin and Julian Petrillo, about the "tiles and tribulations on the Scrabble game circuit" See also Anagrams - Public domain game, predecessor to Scrabble Anamonic Blanagram Boggle Countdown (game show) RSVP (board game) Scrabble in Hong Kong Upwords Words with Friends Wordscraper References Further reading An article relating how Scrabble has been adapted to other languages, describing how it was prepared for the Tuvan languages, and giving directions about how to adapt it. External links Scrabble at Hasbro.com Scrabble at MattelGames.com .GCG specification describes a computer file format for recording and annotating Scrabble games. Scrabble Word Database (Multi-language) – Game apparatus – Expired patent for the jagged edges of bonus squares, which were added so that one need not lift previously placed tiles in order to see the bonus. Player associations Association of British Scrabble Players NASPA Games (formerly North American Scrabble Players Association; sanctions club and tournament play in North America) Scrabble Australia World English-Language Scrabble Players Association (WESPA) Board games introduced in 1938 Game.com games Multiplayer games Tabletop games Word board games American board games American inventions Mattel games Parker Brothers games Selchow and Righter games