SCRABBLE!!! Benefits:
- Brings families together (Scrabble World Championships every holiday in Dallas between myself and Aunt Debbie)
- Learn new words!
- Learn to follow rules
- Learn to live with changing rules when other players make up new ones in the middle of the game
- Begin to think of words in points: "That Zig Zag on that picture is pink. That's 10+1+3, or is G worth 4?..."
- Learn to add quickly!
- Train yourself to always look first for the Triple Letter in all you do (Triple points at Starbucks?)
- Scrabble parties!
- Goes great with wine!
Downsides:
- Can pull families apart [read: Aunt Debbie not talking to me because I beat her for first time in years]
- You may start counting words
- You may start having long pauses in conversations as you calculate the points in the words you are going to use
- People may stop playing games with you because they are afraid they will never beat you
- May cause fatigue after all-night tournaments in Dallas with Aunt [see above] accompanied by serial episodes of The Tudors and classic movies.
- People may stop coming to your parties because you only want to play Scrabble
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