ext_6170 ([identity profile] 19-crows.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] calimac 2007-09-19 08:07 pm (UTC)

Thanks for this interesting review. I've heard of this documentary and would like to see it. I do enjoy doing crosswords, and work on one every evening during dinner. I don't try to do them fast and usually take several days to finish one, which is fine. I look at the answers when I get stuck. I also do the NY Times online acrostic, though it's harder.

What I don't understand is Scrabble. I'm terrible at it and I don't see its appeal at all. I like crosswords because it's about the meaning of words. You look at a clue and think of what it must be only it won't fit - then after you come back to it you remember another way the clue could be interpreted. Aha! (I remember the first one like this that I got: "the 'center' of the face" = nose)

Scrabble just seems like manipulating letters. I can barely figure out a word to make out of my tiles, and then somebody says "why didn't you spell (something else) over here so you could have gotten a triple word score?"

(I looked on YouTube for the Indigo Girls and they are not to my taste.)

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