I started a scrabble group

[flowerseverywhere]

I have been looking for a scrabble group in my area, and talked to the librarian about it to see if I could set up a group in the library. She reserved a time for me and put a notice in the library bulletin and we had our first meeting this weekend. It was below zero on the day of the meeting and ... 17 people showed up :0!

I was so excited. We ran it very informally, if you wanted to look words up you could, and we had lots of friendly banter. One table was the serious table, they used timers and followed the rules down to the last minute detail.

It was great fun and I met some new people who invited me to join their book club. I wanted to post this to plant the seed in case anyone else wanted to pick up the idea. It was really a lot of fun, had zero cost and got a lot of people out of the house on a day they would have stayed home.

I am doing this once a month and also am setting up an evening group because a lot of people asked for it. The librarians were mad they had to work! They wanted to play.

[Stella]

That is so great flowerseverywhere! That does sound like a lot of fun. I love Scrabble. My DH and Dad are actually playing Scrabble as I type this.

I really like this idea. I am going to put it on the list for my neighborhood group.

[Mrs-M]

Scrabble, is almighty, supreme!

[iris lily]

That is so great, what a good winter activity! Glad that the library hosted it.

[lizii]

my grandkids love to play scrabble with me. It's fun and they are learning new words and how to spell them too.

[Dhiana]

That's Awesome Flowers! That sets a great example for the rest of us =)

[flowerseverywhere]

That's Awesome Flowers! That sets a great example for the rest of us =)

thanks, but it was so super easy to do. Just took a short visit with the librarian.

I was greeting people as they came in and talked a little before I started playing. I told them I wanted this to be super casual. No rules, come if you want. No organized snacks, bring something if you want it. No secret santa, nothing complicated- that was really well accepted. When I made the "no secreat santa" remark some of the people laughed, coming off of Christmas people are just plain burnt out.

Simple as can be - anyone can do it at their library, church or other gathering place.

[treehugger]

That sounds really fun. I love playing Scrabble, even though I am not that good at it.

Kara

[KayLR]

That's awesome! and sounds really fun! I have been thinking about joining a Spanish conversation group at my library---it meets tonight---this gives me a bit more courage. I haven't spoken Spanish regularly for oh, maybe 8 years, but really want to keep it up. Think it would be good for my brain.

Thanks flowerseverywhere!

[beckyliz]

If anyone plays WordsWithFriends on Facebook or their smart phone, I'm organizerBecky - would love to play!

[steve s]

I am curious.

What types (i. e., skill level) of players showed up?

In particular, were there the sharks who memorize lists of three letter words, etc.? Or was it mostly "average type" Scrabble players.

[flowerseverywhere]

I am curious.

What types (i. e., skill level) of players showed up?

In particular, were there the sharks who memorize lists of three letter words, etc.? Or was it mostly "average type" Scrabble players.

Out of the 17 there were about 5 who memorized the lists and followed the rules to a T. some played tournaments. one guy came to watch, he is in the process of memorizing all the 2 and 3's, Z, J, Q, X and lists of seven letter words and won't play until he does that. The rest of us were average to above average ( most below average scrabble players don't like to play much), and just used English words that came to our head. We didn't worry much if someone put a wrong word down, we just had the person take it back and were low key. The scrabble game in the next town draws about 35 and they usually have a tournament table, with eight to ten serious play. It seems to work out because the really serious players don't want to play against someone too average and I for one don't want to play against someone who is putting ultracentrifuges or lignocellulosicers on a triple word space! Kind of takes the fun out of my dazzling high score words like zone and quilt.

[babr]

chiming in on how great this turned out to be; you had an idea for yourself and it turned into one that the community needed as well! i have always loved scrabble; i would need to be with the old timers due to my brain problems but still love to play

Enjoy!

[steve s]

That is great you have all sorts of levels of play.

I like to play at a pedestrian leve, but it si fun to watch the experts.