Scrabble: Genderstein

What is Scrabble: Genderstein

The „Genderstein“ (gender tile) is a promotional tile or the German version of Scrabble with the letter combination *IN and a value of 10 points. It has been released on World Scrabble Day (April 13th) 2022 and distributed at various events like Internationale Spieletage SPIEL in Essen, Germany and can also be ordered at Mattel Germany’s customer support for free.

In the German language, nouns describing people (especially job titles) default to the male form ending with -e(r), while the female form ends with -(er)in (e. g. Bäcker – Bäckerin = baker – female baker). Activist groups are demanding a neutral form using the asterisk (*) as the so-called „Gendersternchen“ (“gender starlet”). In that example, you would write „Bäcker*in“ to emphasize that you mean both genders.

Game details

Players

2–4

Age

+10

Duration

90 min

Difficulty

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Type

Expansion

Year

2022

Mechanics

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Categories

Expansion for Base-game · Word Game

Designer

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Publisher

Mattel, Inc.