Hello everyone.
Today, I'll be sharing my response to one of this week's weekend experience prompt The board game. You can check it out.
During that time and prior to my engagement in the game, my brothers and I would normally just hang around in the evenings, outside our house and with other guys in the hood. On one of those occasions, someone brought up the talk that we should play a board game as he had it back at home. We concord. Just like that, my
Scrabble journey began. This is not to say I had neither heard of nor played
the game before. I had, but it was not as interesting to me at the time. I was not aware of the many benefits that it held. But from thence on, we began to play the game. Actually, I began to learn the game.
Prior to that time, whenever I played the game, I normally used words we were all conversant with - the regular daily words used in speaking and writing, but, when we actually started to play the professional way, the dynamics changed.
In a short while, playing Scrabble became an addiction, as we started really early in the day to late at night(sometimes 10/11pm). It was interesting. A new discovery in the area of fun and games.
We were quite a number and this doctor guy, a friend, would always beat us to it. Overtime we got to loggerheads. Maybe because we spent the greater part of our day playing, myself, my brothers and a few other guys.
Scrabble is a game of words, an intellect prickling, calculating and game-of-luck game. It requires calculation and vast knowledge of
words… especially abstract ones.
Growing on in the game, I got to learn words I could never have imagined existed and which I may not have encountered in regular books.
That time on, I got the chance to play with regional players and medal holders in my state. It was a win some , lose some situation. It stayed that way until things died down and we all got back to getting on with our lives and businesses.
It's been a while I did some Scrabbling. And writing this brings some feelings of nostalgia and excitement. I’ll get a board soon. Might be rusty now, I know.
Hope you enjoyed reading this.
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