Mar
30
2013
Our Fierce Scrabble Rivalry
Author: siggyMy wife and I have a fierce scrabble rivalry. We play about once a week. When we were courting I would bring my Scrabble game and we might play three games in a row. She was intimated by me at first: she lost ten games in a row and thought she would never beat me. At first, she thought it was mercenary to count the points in a word. I told her that was the whole idea making points not just words. I taught her how to play better. It was really logic I was teaching her—how to use the premiums on the board better. She knew she had arrived when she once beat me ten games in a row. We use a Scrabble computer dictionary and play an “open” game allowing each of us to consult it any time. I really believe her vocabulary is bigger. She says I am a better player. I don’t think so. We have heated games and sometimes the winner goes down to the last turn or two. It is only by grace I have a live in Scrabble opponent.
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