Jamin Smith, Videogamer Staff Writer – Scrabble, iPad

Videogamer: Jamin Smith, Videogamer Staff Writer – Scrabble, iPad
Before last weekend, the last time I'd played Scrabble was about seventeen years ago; I was six-or-so, and forced my little sister to be my opponent. After exhausting my limited vocabulary, I'd invent elaborate meanings for barely pronounceable words, and she'd lap it all up - it was hilarious. Anyway, Scrabble was 59p on the App Store over the Easter Weekend, so I snapped it up. In the modern day version, however - with its touch screen technology and integrated dictionary - there's no way to cheat! Calling your opponent's bluff with ridiculous definitions was such a big part of Scrabble for me as a kid, and now I had to play by the damn rules. Thankfully, I was able to beat my girlfriend fair and square - or to be more precise - I was winning up until the point she got bored and decided she wanted to do something outside instead. Subsequently, I didn't actually play many games last week, hence this slightly dull account of my history with the board game Scrabble.