Scrabble

I am currently taking on all comers in online Scrabble on FB. That is to say I am playing a couple of random people and a friend's mother, who is giving me a good run for my money.

There's an interesting blog piece on Scrabble, exalting more women to give it a go, here. I watched the documentary Word Wars and it was fascinating. It features a group of people as they try and win the 2002 National Scrabble Championship. Something I found surprising is that they just memorize words (particularly all of the two letter ones allowed) but they don't know the meanings of them. One said he started learning the meanings but realized that he just didn't have the memory space for all of that. I assumed they would all be interested in the meanings and uses of obscure words as well as playing Scrabble; but no. Anyway, if you like word games I would recommend this documentary. I just borrowed the dvd from the library; easy peasy.

Here's the YouTube trailer: