Scrabble is a game that puts on airs. It’s more than a living-room pastime, its partisans argue. Played at the highest level, it’s as complex as chess. Scrabble is so strategically sophisticated, in fact, that—as readers of Slate contributor Stefan Fatsis’ best-selling book Word Freak know—there is a national Scrabble championship. (This year’s just concluded in Las Vegas.) Even when played at a middling level, Scrabble dominates the landscape. It is the default word game of nerdy American households: the vanilla ice cream of the rec room, its McDonald’s, its Coke. Continue reading at 'Slate'
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