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Saw a fascinating documentary on the odd world of competitive Scrabble. "Word Wars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_War
by skc 11y ago
Saw a fascinating documentary on the odd world of competitive Scrabble. "Word Wars" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Wars http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_Wars
Rather interesting that to this day players still pull tiles out of a bag (which is open to cheating as the article states). Seems to me there should have been any number of low tech solutions to this in play by now.
- kaffeemitsahne 11y agoI thought "word wars" was a good pun already but then I read the subtitle.
- dansingerman 11y agoWord Freak (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Word-Freak-Eccentric-Heartbreak-Competitive/dp/0224060619 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Word-Freak-Eccentric-Heartbreak-Comp...) the book that preceded the film is also a similarly fascinating read.
- FreeFull 11y agoI imagine one could have something like a pez dispenser, but that dispenses tiles instead. Randomisation would still be an issue though.
- duaneb 11y agoIsn't this basically a shuffling machine with blocks instead of cards? Surely a solution is a smart engineer away.