The box says “10 and up”, but today’s Scrabble Word of the Day begs to differ:

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This seems a particularly odd choice for a Sunday’s anagrammatical edification, given that the official Scrabble dictionary has been Bowdlerized to the point of excluding even the rather mild FART (try RAFT or FRAT). It is, however, quite in keeping with the “adult-games” label included in Scrabble’s home page URL:

http://www.hasbro.com/games/adult- games/scrabble/home.cfm?page=home.

This would not be the first time the avowedly family-friendly word game has ruffled feathers among the more delicate tile-ticklers. There was the time horrified parents discovered that virtual opponents in the Nintendo DS version of the game will use, and worse yet define, some rather explicit terminology (Sorry kid, but who among us, man or machine, could possibly resist playing F*CKERS on a triple to go out and win?) .

Continue on for the sordid history of the Scrabble dictionary, including a list of all words deemed too hot for your living room.

Tags: ::GAMES::, ::HUMOR::, bowdlerism, GI Joel Sherman, Panupol Sujjayakorn, scrabble, word of the day, word play