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		erispoe on Jan 22, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Rise of German Board Games Scrabble, at a top level, is a game of memorizing as many words and combinations as you can. Some top players in english don't even speak english very well. That's a pure memory game.

T-hawk on Jan 22, 2018 [–]

Scrabble isn't a word game. It's an area-control game with 150,000 rules that define legal placement for your resources.

cdelsolar on Jan 31, 2018 | [–]

Basically, yes, and it's a deep, fantastic game at the highest levels

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