Dimwits are especially drawn to it because, for unfathomable reasons, they tend to outsmart their intellectual betters. Third, anyone can play it - children, teenage delinquents, the middle-aged, princes, drunkards, fascists, hospital patients, dimwits. ![]() Second, it deploys a commodity common to every human being, namely words. First, it's a game of skill (like chess) that depends on the luck of the tiles you get (like cards). While other board games flourish and wither (whatever became of Trivial Pursuit?), Scrabble forges ahead, selling two and a half million sets worldwide every year. ![]() It may be 73 years old, but the venerable word game never dies or goes out of fashion. ![]() What is it that Robbie Williams can be found doing at half past midnight on a Saturday, after singing in front of 100,000 people? What does Kylie Minogue desperately want to be "The Face of."? What has become the subject of two Hollywood movies and a documentary? What is it that both Nigella Lawson and her husband, Charles Saatchi, enjoy (and so, allegedly, do Christina Aguilera, Sting, Avril Lavigne and Alison Steadman)? There's only one activity that links all these people and events, one subject that attracts such an eclectic fan club, and it's not sex, drugs or rock'n'roll.
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