The makers of Scrabble have sold 100m of the games, in 29 languages, but they have been left lost for words by occurrences in Wales. One bookshop in Wales has seen its Welsh language versions of Scrabble gathering dust after it failed to sell a single game in two years. Waterstones in Carmarthen bought in five copies of Scrabble yn Gymraeg – Scrabble in Welsh – in 2014 in the hope it would prove popular. When Scrabble yn Gymraeg was released with the backing of the Welsh Book Council, there were hopes it would be popular with native speakers at home and abroad and learners of the language. There are no letters X or Z, which are not in the Welsh language, and common letters such as Y and W are worth only one point.

Source: The Guardian September 24, 2016 00:09 UTC