Today we played an interesting game of scrabble. When i asked if i could join 3 others playing the game, they smiled and said yes happily. In a minute i realised that they played the game differently!

They found letters from the bag and placed them on to the preset words on one side of the game board. This was done in turns by the players. At first i was surprised. Then i asked them if they always played like this, and they said, “Yes! Is there another way of playing this game?”

I then suggested to them the regular way of giving each of them seven chips of letters and then making words that get attached to each other every time the player makes a word and so on and so forth. No scores though! We spent a good hour playing scrabble and it was real fun.

I had to struggle to make the simplest of words like ’joy’,’shine’ to get them to understand the real word game. At the end of an hour i said, “hey you know, I’m tired! Can we do something else?” Then Chetan looked at me and smiled and said “Ok, but can I issue this game and can we play by ourselves when you are away?” After a long time, i really enjoyed a simple game of scrabble.

Sandhya