My 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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