Too damn right.
I hate going for a dinner to a certain manager's home, only to have the host (or said host's grown son) insist on Scrabble because he relishes a challenge and imagines he can beat me.

I demur but they insist. Can't be rude and not play! So spend the rest of the evening mostly waiting while he tries, but fails, to come up with anything more than words like ess and re.

In order to prevent my brain from aspolding, I refuse to stoop to his level, instead make 7-letter words with 50-point bonuses and double/triple points and 3 additional words.

If he has been especially annoying, I deliberately use obscure words so he will challenge them and lose his turn. And block his use of the Q and other high-value letters so he ends up with all of them on his rack at game's end.

You'd think with all these strategy lessons, he'd learn a trick or two.
( kila is reading clocks upside-down as usual, Fri 29 Apr 2011, 11:47, Reply)