{"id":4229,"date":"2013-01-01T22:41:50","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/?p=4229"},"modified":"2016-04-19T03:11:50","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T11:11:50","slug":"how-did-missing-scrabble-pieces-lead-to-the-creation-of-trivial-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/legendsrevealed.com\/entertainment\/2013\/01\/01\/how-did-missing-scrabble-pieces-lead-to-the-creation-of-trivial-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"How Did Missing Scrabble Pieces Lead to the Creation of Trivial Pursuit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is the latest in a series of examinations into urban legends related to board games and whether they are true or false. Click here<\/a> for an archive of all board game urban legends so far.<\/p>\n

BOARD GAME URBAN LEGEND<\/span><\/u>: For lack of a Scrabble tile, Trivial Pursuit was born.<\/p>\n

Scott Abbott and Chris Haney were two 30-year-old Canadian journalists who were also good friends. They would routinely play Scrabble with each other, evenly matched enough that both men got a more or less equal chance to brag. However, a little before Christmas in 1979, the two men decided that they would have a knockdown, dragged out grudge match Scrabble tournament for complete Scrabble bragging rights.<\/p>\n

That tournament would ultimately change board game history forever, for a surprising reason!
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\nTheir problem was that they were unsure that either man had a complete Scrabble set, so Haney went out to buy a new set, to make sure that the tournament would go smoothly.<\/p>\n

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