Koko Lists
Start a new list
Log in
Sign up
← New random battle
Koko Battle
Tap your pick.
Scrabble
Scrabble was invented by American architect Alfred Mosher Butts during the Great Depression, who combined elements of anagram games and crossword puzzles into a new word-tile game, initially called "Lexiko" and later "Criss-Cross Words," before businessman James Brunot refined the design and renamed it Scrabble in 1948. The game's tile point-value system, assigning different point values to letters based on Butts's own statistical analysis of letter frequency in English-language newspapers, reflected a genuinely rigorous quantitative approach to game design uncommon for board games of that era. Scrabble became a significant competitive phenomenon in its own right, with the World Scrabble Championship and the National Scrabble Championship in the United States drawing dedicated competitive players who memorize extensive official word lists as part of serious tournament preparation. Scrabble's combination of Butts's statistically rigorous letter-scoring system and its subsequent development into a serious competitive tournament game has made it one of the most enduringly significant word games in board gaming history.
VS
Risk
Risk was created by French filmmaker Albert Lamorisse in 1957, originally released in France as "La Conquête du Monde" (The Conquest of the World), before Parker Brothers acquired the rights and released the game internationally as Risk in 1959. The game's core mechanic, having players attempt to conquer territories across a stylized world map through dice-based combat resolution, established one of the earliest and most influential templates for the territorial-conquest strategy board game genre that numerous subsequent games have built upon. Risk became particularly associated with lengthy multi-hour gameplay sessions given the scale of its full-world-conquest objective, and the game has been released in numerous licensed thematic variations over the decades, including editions based on major entertainment franchises reskinning the core conquest mechanics. Risk's combination of its filmmaker-created origins and its foundational role establishing the territorial-conquest board game genre has made it one of the most historically influential strategy board games ever released.
Next battle
Full comparison
About Scrabble
About Risk
Popular Battles
1984 vs. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
1 votes
Friends vs. Curb Your Enthusiasm
1 votes
Ideogram vs. Sora
1 votes
Navy Pier vs. Bishop Museum
1 votes
Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree vs. Skittles
1 votes
George Carlin vs. Oprah Winfrey
1 votes
