Having played a lot of Scrabble with my wife I can feel for your father a bit. I think its probably less about having memorised them, and more about two players

Having played a lot of Scrabble with my wife I can feel for your father a bit. I think its probably less about having memorised them, and more about two players of dramatically different skill levels playing the same game. Eventually I came to terms with it and just considered anything within a two hundred points or so of my wife's score as a personal win, but it can still be frustrating to feel you're playing your best and losing to someone who's barely trying. The moral of this story I think is not to play an English graduate at Scrabble unless you're OK with losing.