Scrabble club

Last Thursday evening I attended the inaugural meeting of the Southern Vermont Scrabble Club. I’ve always been something of a words guy, and when I read Word Freak a while back I found a renewed interest in Scrabble, which I hadn’t really played much in the last many years.

The club is being organized by another Brattleboro newcomer, who posted an announcement on iBrattleboro.com. Altogether, we had ten players. I won one and lost one. Managing the scoring, the clock, etc., proved surprisingly difficult for me, and I made some terrible plays. Hopefully once I get a little more comfortable with the mechanics of the whole thing my vocabulary will reemerge.

We had our meeting at the Millennium Pizzeria on Canal St., and I’m sorry to say our reception there was unfriendly and we will not be going back. Of all the foods to eat while playing Scrabble, greasy pizza might not be ideal anyway.