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.