Damon Saddler is a Key Lead Designer for Mattel, where he's worked since 2009, and he is currently in the Games Division designing some of the most well-known games in the portfolio, including UNO Attack!, UNO Power Grab, Pictionary Showdown, and Scrabble Speed.

He's received over a dozen U.S. patents for his inventions and designs. Prior to working at Mattel, he was a product designer for Educational Insights for nineteen years, where he designed over 100 educational toys and games. He's a graduate of California State University Long Beach, where he received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Industrial Design.

My passion for drawing started at the age of seven while riding the school bus every morning. Sitting next to an eighth grader one day, I was mesmerized by the superhero drawings he was sketching out of a comic book. He was kind enough to allow me to sit next to him everyday and taught me how to draw the same characters. (Thanks Maurice Kane!) My passion for all things creative has fueled my appetite for areas such as drawing, painting, sculpting, photography, 3D Computer modeling, and product design. My influences have been artists such as Norman Rockwell, J.C. Leyendecker, Ernie Barnes, Diego Rivera, Charles White, Archibald Motley, Thomas Blackshear, and Kadir Nelson.

Scrabble Duplicate plays similar to Scrabble in that you're trying to create words from letter tiles that will score you more points than anyone else — but players are using the same letters each round and not everyone will place their words on the game board!

In more detail, the game includes one hundred letter tiles, as in the original Scrabble game. On a turn, someone flips seven letter tiles face up, then each player writes a word using some combination of these letters on their personal dry erase board, trying to score as many points as possible. You write down the score for your personal word, then whoever has the highest score uses the face-up tiles to place their word on the shared central game board. Everyone else then writes this word on their dry erase board in place of whatever they had.

You then refill the tiles so you again have seven face up, then each create a new word on your board, building off the word already there. Collectively you'll build a shared interlocking grid of words, but you're scoring individually for your creations. Who will up with the most points?