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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by masfuerte on Thursday December 12, 2024 @07:25PM (#42404827)
Apparently his mother said, about teaching him Scrabble:

"When he learnt to talk he wasn't interested in words, just numbers. I said: I know a game you're not going to be very good at because you can't spell very well and you weren't good at English at school."

I guess the sorcery you are looking for is spite.

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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by username135 on Thursday December 12, 2024 @08:24PM (#42405167)
amen to that
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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by liquidise on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:12AM (#42406553)
> the sorcery you are looking for is spite.

Both philosophical and poetic. True brilliance.

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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by stevage on Friday December 13, 2024 @02:33AM (#42406634)
Scrabble really is a maths game. It just looks like a word game.
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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by vikingerik on Friday December 13, 2024 @03:06AM (#42406778)
Right. It's not a word game, it's an area-control game with 150,000 rules for legal placement of your resources.

Codenames is a word game. Scrabble is about arbitrary sequences of glyphs.

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Re:Scrabble star wins Spanish world title – despite not spea... by stevage on Friday December 13, 2024 @06:29AM (#42407675)
Interestingly there are versions with more restricted tilesets and hence fever words to learn. Like one that only uses the letters of BOGGLE.
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