If you are interested in Scrabble, you'll like reading this (Feb 2019) review of Scrabble covering it as a area-control-wargame: https://meeplelikeus.co.uk/scra

If you are interested in Scrabble, you'll like reading this (Feb 2019) review of Scrabble covering it as a area-control-wargame: https://meeplelikeus.co.uk/scrabble-1948/ https://meeplelikeus.co.uk/scrabble-1948/ . My favorite quote: >‘This isn’t the game as you have been told it is played’, said Keel. ‘If you play Scrabble this way, no-one else will ever want to play it with you. It’s exhausting to look at a board in terms of positional vulnerability. Nobody thinks you’re smart for exploiting the small, agile words in the Scrabble dictionary. They think you’re a dick. This is not fun. We get something different out of this. This is tactical. This is satisfying. Your letters aren’t parts of words. They’re weapons and you need to employ them when you can do the most damage.