More than 400 terms including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults were taken off the game’s official online words list, GB News reports.
According to Spectator columnist and player Jonathan Maitland, many people are quitting the board game because of the changes. Mattel, Scrabble’s owner, said it made the changes to make the game more culturally relevant but some exclusions have left players confused.
The ban, which was announced last year, includes words such as jesuitic – meaning ‘a member of an order of priests founded by St Ignatius Loyola in 1534 to do missionary work’ – which is worth 200 points on the board.
Mattel has not released a full list of the banned words but has changed the official word lists available on the Scrabble’s online dictionary.
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