speed scrabble
once a week me and my friends get together to play scrabble, but sometimes we have to postpone our games till the weekend because scrabble after dinner makes us stay up too late. but we finally figured out a possible solution, which we tested out this weekend: speed scrabble. we all agree ahead of time to focus on speed rather than points. we use a minute timer. shockingly, though, our scores are still in keeping with our averages. apparently the issue isn't that we take a long time to make words, but rather that we talk too much. i have to admit, speed scrabble goes by way too fast for the kind of socializing we like to mix in. maybe we should take up dominoes or cribbage--games that, i swear, require less concentration and allow for more shooting the, uh, breeze.
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