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Why do I suck at Scrabble?
Thursday, April 03, 2008 @ 3:28 PM
I have what is generally considered to be a good vocabulary. I subscribe to Word of the Day, and more often than not, I already know the word. When I get bored, I practice anagrams for fun. And yet, in my entire life, I have only ever won ONE game of Scrabble. It was against my father and my great-grandmother. I was losing the whole game, but finally won by using all my letters for the word "pregnant." My brother - who is BARELY LITERATE - has beaten me at Scrabble. Multiple times. I don't understand.
So I've been practicing my technique on Scrabulous - which I thought would make Scrabble much easier for me, since I could use an unlimited amount of time to try different words and see which one scores the most points. I'm still a big loser. Alex has now beaten me twice, and R.J. snatched victory from my clutches at the last second by using all his letters to spell "dandiest."
I understand why I'm not good at things like driving and long division and flirting and giving directions... but I should be good at Scrabble, and I'm not. And I want an explanation.
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5 Comments:
At 1:23 PM,
m.e.d. said…
goddamn it, i have the same problem. i should most definitely rock the scrabble house. and yet i lose. every. fucking. time.
At 5:42 PM,
Kellie said…
Maybe we should start a club. The "I should rock at Scrabble but instead I suck" club.
At 10:37 PM,
m.e.d. said…
or we could call it the
"I Owe The US Dept. Of Education My Firstborn For A BA In Creative Writing And I Still Can't Spell Shit in Scrabble" club.
yeah.
At 3:22 AM,
Josh said…
Maybe you're just bad at games. Did you ever play Magic? You know, like really play?
At 5:48 PM,
Kellie said…
I never played Magic. But I'm good at Monopoly. And Taboo and Guesstures. And I'm pretty good at Euchre. At least I think so.
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