Word Games

>>8687883
bump

>>8687883
scrabble is not a word game. the best scrabble players rely on brute force memorization and pattern recognition, and everything is just strings of letters to them. the best scrabble players are competitive in scrabble competitions in completely foreign languages.

>>8688435
if anything it's a pure STEM hobby

>But the game isn't just about words, Fatsis says: "It is a game of mathematics. It's a game of strategy, it's a game of spatial relations and board geometry. You have to have a math brain to be great at Scrabble."

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/07/21/424980378/winner-of-french-scrabble-title-does-not-speak-french

>>8687883
Bananagrams is the fun version of scrabble, fyi, but as someone else said, it can be gamed with memorization of certain words and patterns. The best bananagrams player i know is a pure-math major with a big vocabulary. But he's pretty good at puns too

>>8688474
>Bananagrams is the fun version of scrabble, fyi
but I can't play that online :(

>>8688435
all games with strictly defined rules and a definite win condition are like this.