I'm Way Too Competitve
I worked most of the day. It's that time of the year, but thankfully I am scheduled to rotate into some position that doesn't have crazy year-end reporting deadlines in 2007.
I was working from home, so occasionally I would take a break when I was bored. What did I do during my breaks, you ask? Well, I decided to try to improve my Scrabble game.
DrT loves to play Scrabble. She received a nice game board for Hanukkah and wanted to put it to good use last week. Unfortunately, the game highlighted a big difference between us. DrT is super smart, being a Harvard grad and whatnot. I am just math s-m-r-t. Numbers don't really help me in Scrabble, except that I know that the word 'quiz' is worth 22 points, unless there are any bonus squares involved.
I put up a respectable 200+ score in our only game last weekend, yet I was absolutely destroyed. When DrT can arrange her 7 letters to spell 'Belugas' and tack on a triple word score on the same word, I know that I am not worthy. I think that turn was worth roughly 90 points.
However, I hate getting blown out in any game. I'm way too competitive to lose like that every time I play a game, but I know that Scrabble is one of DrT's favorite games (if not her favorite). I've made it my goal to not suck at Scrabble. I'll probably never beat DrT at a game that she has been playing with her family since she was a child, but I just want to improve enough so that I can give her a decent challenge. DrT likes to play the game a lot, so I want to be able to play against her and give her a good game whenever she feels like playing.
Unfortunately, I was too lazy to search for a good online Scrabble site. Yahoo has their own game called 'Literati' which is loosely similar to Scrabble, so I played a few games today. The only thing I learned is that I also suck at Literati. I lost three out of four games. It was sad.
Anyone have any good suggestions for improving my vocabulary? I am looking in the direction of the self-professing V-cabulary expert who reads this site.
I was working from home, so occasionally I would take a break when I was bored. What did I do during my breaks, you ask? Well, I decided to try to improve my Scrabble game.
DrT loves to play Scrabble. She received a nice game board for Hanukkah and wanted to put it to good use last week. Unfortunately, the game highlighted a big difference between us. DrT is super smart, being a Harvard grad and whatnot. I am just math s-m-r-t. Numbers don't really help me in Scrabble, except that I know that the word 'quiz' is worth 22 points, unless there are any bonus squares involved.
I put up a respectable 200+ score in our only game last weekend, yet I was absolutely destroyed. When DrT can arrange her 7 letters to spell 'Belugas' and tack on a triple word score on the same word, I know that I am not worthy. I think that turn was worth roughly 90 points.
However, I hate getting blown out in any game. I'm way too competitive to lose like that every time I play a game, but I know that Scrabble is one of DrT's favorite games (if not her favorite). I've made it my goal to not suck at Scrabble. I'll probably never beat DrT at a game that she has been playing with her family since she was a child, but I just want to improve enough so that I can give her a decent challenge. DrT likes to play the game a lot, so I want to be able to play against her and give her a good game whenever she feels like playing.
Unfortunately, I was too lazy to search for a good online Scrabble site. Yahoo has their own game called 'Literati' which is loosely similar to Scrabble, so I played a few games today. The only thing I learned is that I also suck at Literati. I lost three out of four games. It was sad.
Anyone have any good suggestions for improving my vocabulary? I am looking in the direction of the self-professing V-cabulary expert who reads this site.
posted by GaryGinew at 11:05 PM
2 Comments:
I think you should spike DrT's drink next time so that she gets drunk while playing. drunk DrT vs. sober Gary would probably be a pretty even matchup, no?
Honestly, best way to improve vocabulary is to read a lot (which I believe you do)...and converse with those who possess good vocabularies (which you do). Beyond that, you may need to go with the spike-the-drink approach.
Also, GO BEARS! PATS CAN SUCK IT! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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