When you haven’t got the words, try a game of Scrabble

Scrabble is now 80 years old and, even with the explosion in technology, it is a game that has never lost its charm, writes Niamh Hennessy.

The board game, Scrabble is something many people will have tucked away in a cupboard or deep under the stairs. It could make a brief special appearance at Christmas or the odd dinner party.

This year marks 80 years since Scrabble was invented by unemployed US architect, Alfred Butts in 1938 in New York.