[ SECRET POST #3937 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3937 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Many families with kids own one, yes. But how many grownups do you know that still enjoy actually playing the game?

[(Anonymous)]

...honestly, most people I know are down for a game of scrabble on a slow evening.

[nightscale]

I know couples who have a bunch of standard board games and Scrabble is one of them, I've played it at their houses too as a silly time-wasting game.

Granted not when it's more than about 4 people over.

[(Anonymous)]

my parents played scrabble with each other all the time when I was younger tbh

one year my dad got my mom the fancy 50th Anniversary edition with a spinny mounted board and stuff for her birthday

on the other hand, my parents are definitely huge nerds

me and dad play iphone scrabble now

[syncing_feeling]

My dad got himself one of those fancy spinning ones with the ridges so the tiles don't slip, and I don't know how we ever managed without it. Only took one nudge from the dog or something and none of the words made sense anymore.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't think it's "nerdy" for adults to have a board game night. That's not really abnormal, at least not if it's one of the big name games - Monopoly, Scrabble, etc. Maybe not Settlers of Catan or something (though that one is becoming more mainstream) but like... normal board games aren't all that nerdy. Sure, board game night might only happen when you have friends over or if the power has gone out and you can't watch TV, but nonetheless.

[(Anonymous)]

At least Settlers of Catan makes for an interesting, strategic game. But regurgitating a dictionary? what kind of fun is that?

[(Anonymous)]

Wow. You sound scarily unimaginative.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm not sure you entirely understand what strategy is, if you don't think there's strategy in Scrabble. Or have you just never played?

[syncing_feeling]

Seriously. I used to play with someone who left triple-worders open every turn and thought that it was basically just about putting down the longest possible word.

[(Anonymous)]

No strategy to scrabble? Are you trolling or just that obtuse? You need a good vocabulary, you need enough sense to hold out on words until you can get a good placement with high value letters on bonus squares, you need to prevent others from easily accessing bonus squares like triple word score. That is strategy.

[(Anonymous)]

I don't really think that's true? Like... I think mostly anyone who cares enough as an adult to have a regular board game night knows about things like Cataan and other game nerd games. Not counting families, I mean groups of adults playing board games with each other regularly - I don't really think people do that with Monopoly, do they? Poker, or video games, or like parlor games or drinking games, or even chess, I could see - but not really your classic mainline Americana board games.

[(Anonymous)]

SA

Maybe, like, Apples to Apples or Cards Against Humanity

[(Anonymous)]

I think you're thinking of a very specific demographic. People are reasonably likely enough to have classic games in their closet that they've just inherited at some point. Maybe not all your early-twenty-somethings (though some, absolutely). I have several mid-to-late twenties friends that have reasonably stocked game cupboards.

[(Anonymous)]

But I'm not just talking about having classic games in the closet, I'm talking about whether people play those games regularly or semi-regularly IRL.

I just don't think there are all that many people (outside of families and kids and stuff) for whom it is true both (A) that they have a regular or semi-regular game night and (B) that they primarily play and are aware of classic, non-hobby board games like Monopoly or Scrabble.

I mean, I'm not even saying that people don't play Scrabble! I just don't think it's on regular IRL game nights, they use their phones.

[(Anonymous)]

The secret seems to be about why someone would have scrabble tiles to use in a seance at all. It doesn't mean they necessarily play it every week. We have a scrabble set in our house and it gets used maybe 4 times a year.

[(Anonymous)]

We have a couple of bars around here whose entire premise is based around playing board games. They supply the games, you come in with a group of friends or make an impromptu group there and play. They're a popular hangout spot because of it.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, same. Literally last weekend, I was at a board game bar on a Saturday night... playing Scrabble with a friend. There was an extremely ruckus game of drunk Jenga going on beside me. So I'm amused by this secret.

[(Anonymous)]

We have game night at one of the bars I go to and there's always a few dozen people that show up to play each week.

[(Anonymous)]

My mum *loves* Scrabble. She particularly loves beating the shit out of everyone else at Scrabble. I quite enjoy it myself.

[rosehiptea]

I once got in a nasty argument in college with a guy who claimed I was cheating at Scrabble when we were playing it for a language class. (I wasn't cheating, though I'll admit I wasn't taking it all that seriously, because... it's a game?) He was honestly angry and took me outside to give me a scary lecture about how his family played Scrabble. Apparently some adults take that game really seriously.

[philstar22]

Most of them?

[(Anonymous)]

Our local friend group doesn't have nor want kids and we own a couple board games, scrabble one among them.