I can't believe how bad I am at Scrabble. I look at my tiles and I'm stumped. I stare at the letters, I move them around, I fiddle, I grab a dictionary and start reading, and I just can't make the letters into words of any character. Give me a crossword puzzle any day. Without the letters there bothering me, the clue and the number of spaces make a pattern in my head; it's easy. Give me a pile of letters and no other guidance, and I'm lost.
I can do jigsaw puzzles.
I can do sudoku puzzles.
Scrabble doesn't fit my brain.
How does that work? I know so many words that I have to take care when listening to people talk. Words take on new meanings, new nuances, as people use them. And then there is connotative and denotative meanings to work my way through.
I am much better at writing than I am at listening.
I'm losing every scrabble match I'm in. Maybe I should choose my opponents better; maybe I should stick to games with small children?