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Old 04-10-2024, 05:07 AM
 
Location: Vermont
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No real good place to put this. Story about Scrabble for Gen Z.

https://nypost.com/2024/04/09/lifest...e-in-75-years/
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Old 04-10-2024, 02:50 PM
 
Location: Georgia, USA
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Sigh.

When I met DH's family the first time, I was relieved of my coat, introduced to my future father in law and brother in law and found myself in a killer Scrabble game. The dictionary to referee word choices was Webster's Third International.

That was 1970.
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Old 04-10-2024, 03:24 PM
 
Location: Vermont
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Sigh.

When I met DH's family the first time, I was relieved of my coat, introduced to my future father in law and brother in law and found myself in a killer Scrabble game. The dictionary to referee word choices was Webster's Third International.

That was 1970.
We play Upwords and Scribbage although I think there is a Scrabble game around here somewhere. I still like it, all these years later.
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Old 04-10-2024, 04:13 PM
 
Location: U.S.A.
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Oh, I love Scrabble. Grew up playing board games, they're great fun w/ the right people!



I wonder if Gen Z knows how to play 52 pickup..
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Old 04-12-2024, 10:17 AM
 
Location: USA
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Oh, I love Scrabble. Grew up playing board games, they're great fun w/ the right people!



I wonder if Gen Z knows how to play 52 pickup..


Any game that requires someone to play "against" another person, is too competitive for Gen Z. So, no 52 Pickup for them either and don't get me started on Monopoly!

"The new launch is a double-sided version of the famous board game — one side with the original game for those who want to stick to the long-time traditional version, and one side with a “less competitive” version to appeal to Gen Z gamers."

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Old 04-13-2024, 10:14 AM
 
Location: Rural Wisconsin
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My husband and I play on a SuperScrabble board, with quadruple scoring in the corners https://www.ebay.com/itm/22567059174...EaArZyEALw_wcB but we had two of the regular versions, so I added a lot of the tiles from those games in with the SuperScrabble tiles, so that if we could use ALL the tiles, it would cover almost 90% of the board. A good game is when we have only three tiles left over.
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Old 04-14-2024, 05:58 AM
 
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Scrabble is my favorite game. I play the computer while drinking and smoking cigars. Scoring is part of the fun. it will remove competition element from the board game.
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Old 04-15-2024, 12:06 PM
 
Location: So Cal
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Scrabble is my favorite game. I play the computer while drinking and smoking cigars. Scoring is part of the fun. it will remove competition element from the board game.
Exactly. I don't get it.
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Old 04-15-2024, 10:22 PM
 
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I played a lot of Scrabble in college but what I remember even more was Risk. People got savage over that one
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