The word TWELVE is worth 12 points in a game of Scrabble.

Originally, snooker only had five colored balls (red, yellow, green, pink and black). The blue and brown balls were added later.

The line a darts player must stand behind to throw is called the oche.

The most productive set of letters in a game of Scrabble is AEINRST. It can be rearranged to play nine different seven-letter words: anestri, antsier, nastier, ratines, retains, retinas, retsina, stainer, and stearin.

There is around a 15% chance that the seven tiles you pick out of the bag at the start of a game of Scrabble will be able to spell a seven-letter word.

Chess has been played for at least 1,500 years. But the alternating black and white board was only introduced in the late 11 th century. 

Potentially, the highest-scoring word that can be played in a game of Scrabble is the chemical name oxyphenbutazone. That would mean playing your seven tiles across eight tiles already located on the board, in such a way that you hit all three possible triple-word scoring squares in a row! In the unlikely event that that would indeed happen, oxyphenbutazone would score you 1,778 points.