Table games

For my family, there is really one board game that trumps the rest - Scrabble. We've all played for years and for a long time, it was almost impossible to beat my mother who almost has a PhD in English. She got involved in swimming and retired from teaching, so she never finished her dissertation but her knowledge makes her a fierce competitor. I have to tell you that I deliberately angled the letter tiles a little off because they never stay straight on the board when you play.  I used a copy of a vintage board and Tim Holtz distressing products to make it look older but in the end, it made it look weird and the angled tiles made it look sloppy. I'll probably try again later in the week but for now, here's Scrabble.
Scrabble Fun Facts
There are 100 tiles in the game.
There are 2 blank tiles.
There are 96 two letter words that can be played. 3 have no vowels: HM,MM, and SH.
The pink square in the middle of the board is an unmarked double word score.
The letter E has 12 tiles in the game, more than any other letter.
A bingo occurs when all 7 tiles in the hand are played in one word. This is worth the word score plus 50 points.