Showing posts with label Scrabble. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Scrabble. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Word Freak by Stefan Fatsis

Hmm. I'll need to check the spelling of his name ...

I actually finished this on Saturday, but with all the excitement of Christmas I haven't got round to reviewing this one yet!

I found this book in a second hand shop, reduced a number of times until I eventually bought it for 50p. I actually had a friend in mind when I bought it, and still hope to pass it on to him. This book is all about competitive, professional Scrabble, and since our friend plays competitively I thought he might also enjoy it. I play living room Scrabble occasionally with my husband, and I have found this a very insightful book. However, I wouldn't let my husband play some of these words, and I wouldn't expect him to let me play them either! It's quite amazing, thinking about how people memorise so many words and anagrams.

I played against my husband again tonight. If he had opened the game and played an R, I could have got a bingo with CREDITOR. But I had started ... Later I had ErOTICA, but again, nowhere to put it. Two bingos but no cigar. My husband won. 297-218. Not the sort of score that is mentioned much in this book ... !