• Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]
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    8 months ago

    My only Scrabble-related memory as a kid was playing the word "rape" because I'd seen it online but didn't know what it meant. Things got a bit awkward.

  • 420stalin69
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    8 months ago

    Games are not meant to be fun. Games are meant for instilling discipline and life lessons. Losing at Scrabble made me the self made landlord that I am today.

    • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Chutes and ladders leads many children to developing a nihilistic, absurdist world views in adulthood smdh

  • regul [any]
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    8 months ago

    How do you make Scrabble easier? The difficulty entirely depends upon your opponents.

    • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      They're taking out the scoring system and you have to do challenge cards such as getting a word on the border, making it horizontal or it has to have so many letters. The winner is the first person to do 20 of those. You can also make teams.

      • yoink [she/her]
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        8 months ago

        sounds like a good move tbh, as someone who plays a lot of Scrabble and Bananagrams there's a reason 80 percent of the time I reach for the latter. The scoring in Scrabble is probably the most annoying part of it - the "meta" that forms around specific placements thanks to 3X scores, the amount of times you will all just sit there in silence trying to find the maximum score instead of having fun

        very keen to try an updated Scrabble

        • Tabitha ☢️[she/her]
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          8 months ago

          also the dictionary being rather small, in almost every game I've played, there will be many common words not in the dictionary, but plenty of obscure words.

      • TraschcanOfIdeology [they/them, comrade/them]
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        8 months ago

        My first thought was that. Many smaller board game makers are doing well with cooperative games, and it sounds like an easy way to do that with an established brand. Cooperative scrabble sounds like a lot of fun to me.

        • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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          8 months ago

          Sounds like the woke mind virus has gotten to you. Everyone knows Scrabble is about crushing your opponents and spicing your letter tiles with their tears.

  • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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    8 months ago

    Scrabble trying to atone for all the broken marriages and friendships. Love to see a villain get a redemption arc.

  • itappearsthat
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    8 months ago

    the youths like bananagrams anyway

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]
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    8 months ago

    Honestly?

    This is probably just another desperate attempt by Big Board Game to stay relevant

    Because I legitimately am having a hard time trying to figure out what they could possibly change in order to make it more inclusive or less competitive aside from just inventing a cooperative version where you try to fill the board with as many big letter words as you can and add the points collectively

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      8 months ago

      The death of the American Board Game is nigh. Long live the reign of Eurogames.

      Better game nights are possible when you realise that board games don't have to be all the exact same 50+ year old Parker Bros shits that either take 5 hours, are incredibly bullshit games of chance, or both.

      • barrbaric [he/him]
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        8 months ago

        You can take my Ameritrash bullshit from my cold, dead hands. Well, some of it, anyway.

        • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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          8 months ago

          Okay, yes, there are some decent American board games, but the crap ones are finally circling the drain and that makes me happy as a boardgame enjoyer.

          Ooh also I got a really good deals on some nice puzzles from Buffalo last week and got 3 of 'em for $7 US and I'm very happy about it

    • itappearsthat
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      8 months ago

      Word games in general are massively popular on mobile these days, not just wordle. These are all basically some variant of the core challenge of scrabble so they're probably trying to figure out how to surf this wave.

    • Adkml [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      It's just a rules update to make game play faster so a game isn't just 2 hours of looking at a hand of useless vowels.

      They could be accused of trying to copy video game like objectives but board games have also been largely replaced with digital versions of the game so makes sense.

  • Egon
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    3 months ago

    deleted by creator

  • robinn_IV
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    8 months ago

    A new version of Scrabble is set to be released for the first time in 75 years

    Absolutely zero research done. Let's forget Tile Lock Scrabble and Scrabble Deluxe (and Deluxe Travel Edition) since they don't alter gameplay substantially, but the existence of Super Scrabble (from 2004), Scrabble Junior (from 1958, which is 66 years ago), Scrabble Overturn (1989), Scrabble BINGO (recent), Scrabble Trickster (~2010), and Scrabble: World of Harry Potter (also recent, but ignoring this is fine) clearly refutes their point. And then for looser spin-offs (ex. Scrabble Cards—not to be confused with Scrabble Slam! and Scrabble: Alphabet Scoop (yeah, tell me SAC came out more than 75 years ago)), they didn't specify what a "version of Scrabble" entails, so I'd say it's at best misleading even if we didn't have the other versions.

    HexFact Rating: 5/5 Pinocchios

  • Chump [he/him]
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    8 months ago

    How do you release a more inclusive version of letters and a board of squares for those letters to occupy?