![]() ![]() ![]() Yet, after only a few visits to SCRABBLE events, Fatsis felt drawn to the game and the SCRABBLE-playing community at a much more personal level. Stefan Fatsis (C’85), author of “Word Freak: Heartbreak, Triumph, Genius, and Obsession in the World of Competitive SCRABBLE Players,” spoke before about 30 people, some of whom were competitive SCRABBLE players of the sort described in his book.įatsis, a sports writer for The Wall Street Journal, explained that his investigation of the world of competitive SCRABBLE players started as a “sociological exploration.” “I knew that this world existed-that there were people who spent hours and hours studying lists of words and playing this board game-and I initially just wanted to see what they were like.” SCRABBLE, the board game found in everyone’s living room, took on an obsessive dimension at a Nov. ![]()
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