accessory: The Scrabble Turn-Table

The history of the board game Scrabble is one of ingenuity and perseverance. When the game really began to find popularity and to fly of store shelves, manufacturer Selchow & Righter knew they had a hit. Around 1954, one of the early years of Scrabble's popularity, the firm devised a turntable or lazy susan device to solve one of Scrabble's tiny drawbacks--the board reads just one way and the player facing it may have an advantage. The turntable device solves this problem simply and elegantly. The device may have been sold separately, or it may have been included with very deluxe game sets. The manufacturers created a similar device during the 1970s, sold with its official "deluxe" games.