I Scrabble before going to bed, and before dinnertime as I relax from the day’s work.
I need a challenging intellectual diversion that has no political agenda, one that will wait patiently as I puzzle things out.
In the time of Coronavirus, Scrabble is a crucial resource. (“ Squeg?” “ Dogvane?” Every day brings an opportunity to learn a new word.) Even so, I often beat it, because of superior strategy, or because by random chance I get the Z, Q, X, and J. The Scrabble app is quite an opponent it never makes a mistake or misses an opportunity, and its vocabulary includes words you’ve never heard of. My opponent is the app itself in Expert mode. Who plays this silly game? Word nerds and old people. (Why yes, that is me scoring 149 points in one turn for “REVALUES.” A fairly typical play for me, actually.)
