![]() Its benign neglect led first to the rise of the elegant copycat Scrabulous on Facebook, which Hasbro shut down and replaced with an inferior program, alienating hundreds of thousands of users. Hasbro, Scrabble's corporate daddy, pretty much missed the boat online. What's changed in the world of Scrabble since you first wrote Word Freak ten years ago?Ī lot (buy the new edition!). I caught up with him via email to hear about what's happened, to him and to Scrabble, since his book was first published in 2001. ![]() He started this year's tournament 7-1, with help from some pro-level plays. It's taking place right now in Addison, and it happens to coincide with the release of the 10th anniversary edition of Stefan Fatsis' Word Freak, the best first-person narrative board-game book ever, assuming Joan Didion never finished that Chutes and Ladders memoir.īut Fatsis - who will sell and sign the new paperback edition at 6:30 tonight at the hotel - isn't just a chronicler of competitive word obsession. That's right: There's a national championship of America's favorite word-based board game. It's just the world's best Scrabble players shaking for Qs and Us. ![]() It's not a rattlesnake handlers' convention. If you find yourself in the Hotel InterContinental up north this week and hear a bizarre, intermittent rattle coming from the second-floor ballroom, worry not. ![]()
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