Wormella said:
If yor on facebook there's a very nifty Scrabble application - very handy, all on-line, none of this actual meeting up!! (I'll happily play you).
Not over Facebook with me, you won't, Wormella
Sorry, call me a luddite and a technophobe
(You're a luddite and a technophobe - Ed.), but I prefer to play board games on a *board*, with *real opponents*. I used to think there wasn't a difference; that the rules and the system were the game, and the technologies used to play it (be it bytes in a computer memory or bits of cardboard and plastic) were interchangeable. Heck, in the absence of a human opponent, I used to be happy to play against an AI. Now I've come to the view that playing games is a social activity more than a solitary one. So it's one of the few activities I used to do on my own, but now try to do with others as far as possible. (Puerile juvenile joke possibilities acknowledged.
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So Wormella, if you want to play Scrabble, PM me and we'll sort out a time for me to bring my board down the pub.
To be Scrabble-specific for an example, there's nothing quite like putting down two seven letter words on successive turns and watching your opponent's jaw drop as though someone's just cut their mouth muscles.... When the Facebook version does *that*, I'll play.