Tuesday 24 November 2020

I Am Hopeless At Spelling,

which is why I never play Scrabble,


but here is the thing, look at the words on the board above, image credit Finemann, from the article, 'The top players, do not win tournaments by being cleverer than the rest of us. They do it by memorizing a long list of non-words so they can avoid the problems ordinary players encounter', those words can be handy, but they're fairly incomprehensible. World-class Scrabble players don't have to know what they mean; they just have to know they are in the Scrabble dictionary. But that's not the only way elite Scrabble culture is different from that of us everyday players. Read more about top-level Scrabble culture in an article from The Spectator, Scrabble, one of those games I just let quietly pass me by.


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