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The Tilecan Story


Virtually every other piece of equipment for Scrabble® has been improved by tournament players, from boards and tiles to scoresheets and racks. But the basic bag, besides getting bigger and prettier, hasn't really changed much.

The standard bag flops over the board, spills tiles, takes up too much table space, has corners or folds (or not too uncommonly, holes) that hide the tiles, and offers no protection from unscrupulous players looking at tiles as they draw them.

The Tilecan solves all those problems:

  • It won't fall over. It can't flop over the board, and even if it's knocked off the table tiles rarely fall out. Tiles are never visible in an open bag, and it's easy to put the tiles away with the funnel top.
  • Its footprint on the table is smaller than almost any tilebag laying on its side. Table space is a premium at tournaments.
  • It's easy to confirm if the bag is empty with a shake, and a quick sweep of the wide-open bottom makes counting the tiles easier.
  • The elastic opening stays snug around the drawing hand, making it easy to tell if a hand is sneaking out tiles to peek at. The drawing hand has to "pop" out, leaving cheating to the realm of magicians.
  • There's enough room in the bag to actually get a decent shake of the tiles!

Besides all that, the bag collapses and packs into its own 6.5" round, 2" thick zippered case. It's easy to carry and fit into any bag, and your expensive tiles will never fall out due to a loose drawstring.

Why?

Originally, we just wanted a neater solution to the standard tilebag. There's nothing really "wrong" with a tilebag, of course, but we thought there was a better way after seeing some incidents with holey bags or linings, tiles trapped in corners, bags flopping over boards, and spilled tiles or visible tiles in an open bag.

But after a couple of international scandals in the world of tournament Scrabble®, we thought there could be a solution for that problem too. It all came together as the Tilecan™, tested for nearly a year now in various forms at tournaments and a weekly club to insure the concept is sound and the material durable. We finally have the design ready for limited, handcrafted production, and can start filling our local waiting list and offering them at tourneys and over the web.

We also play other tile games like Carcassonne® and a non-floppy bag to pass around the table comes in handy. A set of Carcassonne® won't fit in the collapsed bag, but it's small enough to easily carry along with your boxed sets.

The Details

The can itself is 6" across and 7.5" tall, and for now only available in black. We hope to figure a way to get other colors sooner or later. The outer case is 2" thick, which holds the collapsed bag and 100 Scrabble® tiles snuggly. We have the outer cases in red, royal blue, black, green, purple, and a light powder blue. And probably other colors eventually. The outer case has a logo patch on the side, the can may have a small marking on the bottom. These are all assembled by hand, so quantities are limited for now. The price is $18 + shipping.

We had a batch at the National Scrabble® Championship-- thanks for all the support, purchases, trades, and comments from my fellow Scrabblers. Within a couple of weeks we'll have a Paypal page up to sell them online.