The Wall Street Journal, with an interesting article about how Nigeria is changing the strategy of Scrabble:
Nigeria is beating the West at its own word game, using a strategy that sounds like Scrabble sacrilege. By relentlessly studying short words, this country of 500 languages has risen to dominate English’s top lexical contest.
Last November, for the final of Scrabble’s 32-round World Championship in Australia, Nigeria’s winningest wordsmith, Wellington Jighere, defeated Britain’s Lewis Mackay, in a victory that led morning news broadcasts in his homeland half a world away.
I’m always fascinated by new ways of thinking and strategizing at games that seem to have had the same techniques for years.