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Word Freak

Word Freak

by Stefan Fatsis

Scrabble (Game)GamesNonfictionTournamentsWord & Word Search
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About this book

Stefan Fatsis, a Wall Street Journal reporter and National Public Radio regular, recounts his remarkable rise through the ranks of elite Scrabble players while exploring the game's strange, potent hold over them -- and him. Scrabble might truly be called America's game. More than two million sets are sold every year and at least thirty million American homes have one. But the game's most talented competitors inhabit a sphere far removed from the masses of "living room players."

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Scrabble (Game)GamesNonfictionTournamentsWord & Word SearchNew York Times reviewed

Author

Stefan Fatsis

Pages

372

Read time

≈ 9h

Editions

9

Language

English

Publisher

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade & Reference Publishers

ISBN

9781299905795

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