GAMES
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You might
imagine that with all the activities listed elsewhere I would not be able to
cram any more in, but my capacity for wasting time is limited only by the
hours in a day. Here are a couple more ways of staving off intrusive and
annoying activities (like work). Bridge My
grandparents taught me to play bridge thirty years ago. Fortunately I had a
roommate some years later who was able to repair the damage. Bridge is the
ultimate card game, and it is the most difficult game to learn. (All games
worth playing require hard work if you want to play them well, but bridge
demands intense study if you wish to play it at all.) Its rewards are
commensurate with its difficulty. Two links are below. The first is for the
ACBL, the American Contract Bridge League. The second is for a good online
server run by good on (and off) line friends of mine, Laila Leonhardt and
Matt Reklaitis. Scrabble™ Scrabble™
is much easier to learn than bridge, but in some ways it’s a higher
maintenance game. As Nack Ballard, one who is great at several different
games put it: “First you have to memorize the dictionary, then you have to
learn the extra 50,000 words in SOWPODS for the world championships, and then
after you’ve done all that, you have to constantly review them so you won’t
forget.” Fortunately, you don’t have to do that the first night. You get at
least a few weeks grace period before someone looks at you in disbelief, and
says: “You don’t know the word ‘crwths?’” I play at
the two clubs here in Tucson, NSA 363 and NSA 565. The link below is to the
Tucson Scrabble website. |
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