Thursday, August 19, 2004

Bored of Poker? Try Scrabble

Bingo! The deal with Scrabble

If you're always looking for the next 'big thing' - try Scrabble. The wordgame has been puzzling players since it was invented during the Depression by an out of work architect - and its now the subject of a documentary "Word Wars"

Following 4 top-ranked players, the film follows the eccentric adventures of four 'tile shufflers' as they progress from preliminary rounds of a National competition

And how is scrabble compared to poker? Well, according to one of the players, Joel Sherman:

"Poker has one small advantage over us in that it doesn't really require the amount of study, yet Scrabble is still very accessible...Chess and poker are kind of artificial ... but Scrabble is put together out of things that we absolutely use everyday - language and math skills."

What's most amazing is that the top prize for a National scrabble game was a massive $100,000 - and televised on US TV last year.

Time to get my head in a dictionary...

More Links:
- Internet Scrabble Club
- Official Scrabble Homepage
- National Scrabble Association

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