Thiruthamizh

Thiruthamizh is a Tamil-language board game based on the English-language game of Scrabble.

Invented by G. Rajakumar of Chennai in 1990,[1] Thiruthamizh consists of a 21×21-grid board, and 272 tiles: 186 tiles which have letters in Tamil script, and 86 transparent tiles with diacritic marks such as dots and tails that, when combined with the letter tiles, give new letters.[2]

In 2002, the Directorate of Tamil Development recommended the game to the Tamil Nadu state government[3] for use in schools, as a means of building students' vocabularies.[4]

The first World Championship of Thirutamizh is also being planned.

References
  1. "Metro Plus Chennai / Arts and Entertainment : Tamil through tiles". The Hindu. 18 October 2007. Archived from the original on 22 October 2007. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  2. "Words worth : Simply Chennai - India Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. 14 January 2008. Retrieved 8 May 2014.
  3. "Is Stalin upset with MK?". Oman Tribune. 14 July 2011. Archived from the original on 15 July 2011. Retrieved 23 August 2020.
  4. "Want to learn Tamil, play scrabble - IBNLive". Ibnlive.in.com. 30 January 2008. Archived from the original on 9 May 2014. Retrieved 8 May 2014.


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