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. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  2. "Words worth : Simply Chennai - India Today". Indiatoday.intoday.in. 2008-01-14. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  3. "the edge of knowledge". Oman Tribune. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
  4. "Want to learn Tamil, play scrabble - IBNLive". Ibnlive.in.com. 2008-01-30. Retrieved 2014-05-08.
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