How to pronounce “scrab” in English

How much of that is, like, actual, physical activity that their motor neurons can actually relate to versus intellectual, like if it'sScrabble or some boring thing?I can look at golf, and I'm always turned off.

So do we have any "Scrabble" players in the house?"Scrabble" players? "Words with Friends" players?Yes? "Bananagrams?" "Scramble?" I love "Scramble." I play it like half an hour a day.

And it's good that I didn't use a couple of letters, a C and an E, because I'm going to tell you a little bit about"Scrabble" scoring. Who can tell me what happens when you don't use a couple of letters in Scrabble?You lose the points.

strong countries are using their muscles to grab food leaving the poor countries to grab food leaving the poor countries to scrabble around and get what theyto scrabble around and get what they can. And so you could be in a can. And so you could be in a situationsituation that uh worst case scenario that uh worst case scenario was some was some sort of large-scale conflict

Mania what so I have Klean Mania oh okay okay you take restplay Scrabble learn more words buildvocabulary better Storyteller that's a powerful framework

So the idea that people weren't calling it Monopoly, I mean, this comes up in the depositions.It's about competitive Scrabble playing.

But we felt like it was worth it to risk it.Because by that hard scrabble work for two years and ultimately failing in Bakersfield, we learned a lot of things.We learned how to be very, very frugal.

Till today as I'm here if I pick the phone and say to my mom, "Go to the U.S. Embassy, they will give you your visa, I need you in San Francisco" she drops everything and comes.I play Scrabble and check my mails.

all this during the rough and tumble primitive days of the nfl when rosters werepopulated by hard scrabble working men who were happy to get a hundred bucks a gamewhen the great depression threatened the vitality of the country not to mention the sport of football

I can tell you-- give you a personal example, which is I used to be deeply, deeply obsessed with Scrabble.And the key dynamic in Scrabble is an inter-temporal one, a trade-off between today and tomorrow, or in Scrabble,this turn and the next turn, this battle-- this sort of dynamic programming problem-- like, scoring points today, leaving yourself good tiles for next turn.

This was invented by Abe, a grandfather, 83 years old-- Bananagrams.He wanted to speed up Scrabble.OtterBox-- quite often our products follow some other trend-- so in this case, protecting smartphones-- that emerged during the tenure of The Grommet.

we're supposed to be doing.So we're all just scrabbling around trying to please everyone, and no one knows what they're supposed to be doing.Now, it's easy to say good etiquette is to respond to an email as fast as possible.

I'm from inland California too.Bakersfield is sort of a hard scrabble place in the southern end of the Central Valley.And the editorial in the Bakersfield paper last week said "there is a quietly growing movement brewing in the interior of America.

So I'm excited to share those with you today.So do we have any "Scrabble" players in the house?"Scrabble" players? "Words with Friends" players?

And these never change.For those of you unfamiliar with "Scrabble," the S is always one, the K is always five.There's only one K in the bag.

And one, one, two, one, four, one, one, and five.I play a lot of "Scrabble." Now, with these three eight-letter bingos, if you add them vertically, youactually get a new eight-digit number, right?

40 years ago demographically but it is true that we be trying to keep an eye on somebody that we only see two or threewheelchair but you want your scrabble game or your bridge game you might need 50 people to find the people to play

You know what I mean?Wait, Scrabble? Wait, where's the girls?And we were just confused.

framework imagine a world where it works for all kind of products so to give you a an example from a very different kindof a world you are familiar with the game Scrabble right it's it's a game that helps you build vocabulary now that's reallysimple right you know uh imagine a world where people had richer vocabularies now that's a big conflict in life our

Yes? "Bananagrams?" "Scramble?" I love "Scramble." I play it like half an hour a day.I'd like to teach you a little bit about "Scrabble." And it involves bingoing.I'm going to try something with the "Scrabble" tiles here.

I'd like to teach you a little bit about "Scrabble." And it involves bingoing.I'm going to try something with the "Scrabble" tiles here.And I would like this young man here to please grab a handful of tiles out of the bag.

Actually, let me first tell you about bingoing.Here's how we bingo at a competitive level in "Scrabble." You take something like the tisane list, that's T-I-S-A-N-E, tisane.It's a type of herbal tea.

L. L. You can spell "elastin," which I think is a type of protein.You actually don't have to know what they mean in "Scrabble." You just have to know they're words.And you can keep me honest with this dictionary from 1996, which was my best friend in high school.

Even if you wanted to build a senior unit in a lot of these places, you'd have to buy two spaces.I'm trying to remember-- it's not Scrabble.

So anyway. Scrabble-- and sometimes I let them win, because you don't want to be so, so mean.

I said is there any way you can scrabble up a hundred thousand dollars in cash and fly out here to California and give me the cash and go home and don't ask

at any point to make sure there's still plain scrabble and haven't turned on the television

or later that day, on the board.I played far, far too much Scrabble in graduate school, played the Scrabble tournament scene.

you know imagine a world where people had the power of vocabularies so uh this is from the work that you know uh uh oilwe the agency that I worked with earlier in advertising did for Scrabble inIndia one two hey you two come

television and Netflix and social media and apps and websites all like scrabbling for this this tiny scrap of our attention I mean the conditions are

So the idea that people weren't calling it Monopoly, I mean, this comes up in the depositions.Like you can't study up for it the same way you can Scrabble.

And of course you would like to challenge him on a game of Scrabble, a game of chess, and this is where you have a certain advantage.

of conflicts just get worse because m uh strong countries are using their musclesstrong countries are using their muscles to grab food leaving the poor countries to grab food leaving the poor countries to scrabble around and get what theyto scrabble around and get what they can. And so you could be in a can. And so you could be in a situation

this turn and the next turn, this battle-- this sort of dynamic programming problem-- like, scoring points today, leaving yourself good tiles for next turn.And I think I very legitimately think I learned lessons about saving and being kind to my future self through my Scrabble obsession.So I think this is a real thing.

That's right. The lessons-- and the lessons come fast and furious.Like, I can play a lot of games of Scrabble, or a lot of hands of poker, or whatever it is.And they're sort of these miniature, crystallized, little models of the world.

And she now is working on a line of games.This was her first game, which is essentially like Scrabble with numbers.Dr. David Meadows and his son Derek created the company PureWine.

But the actual positive psychology, the strengths will come out of playing games that you are bad at, which is why we played a game that youguys would-- you guys, you're surprisingly good at massive and multi-player Scrabble, though.It was good. Good.

But at the end-- because it was like totally crazy, jibber jabber scrabbling.

But the problem is, we didn't have any money.We had about 50 to 60 thousand dollars that we had pulled out of two years of hard scrabble work in Bakersfield.And that's not nearly enough.

I've been told, though, that K is the most difficult letter in Scrabble, so I don't feel so bad about that.

I think that we do legitimately learn things from games and take them to our real lives.I can tell you-- give you a personal example, which is I used to be deeply, deeply obsessed with Scrabble.And the key dynamic in Scrabble is an inter-temporal one, a trade-off between today and tomorrow, or in Scrabble,

When I read the title was Talk About Puzzles, I thought it was going to be about Sudoku or Scrabble.

Like this is your first tour, so you're thinking, like, yo, bro, it's gonna be crazy.Ooh, Beastie Boys! And you know, like, Ad-Rock wants to play Scrabble.You know what I mean?

And most of the large animals were crawling on, or burrowing in, or scrabbling around over the sea floor because that was the interesting place where

you go to Thanksgiving, you play your friend-- after dinner, you break out the Monopoly board or Scrabble, and you want to beat all your friends and family,

Verification Inspection Commission. And that's the only way you can turn those-- anyway, Scrabble friends might be interested.

Like my friend Janet, she was like, so he wrote "I love you" on the Scrabble board.

there's a person there who's developed a robot that or rather artificial, an expert system that plays Scrabble, and the expert system

and to cover up, actually, for its less than superb Scrabble playing skills.