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Typographic scrabble
Posted by Chris Dean in
13 Oct 2012 — 8:02pm
13 Oct 2012 — 8:02pm
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14 Oct 2012 — 7:05am
Wonderful!
I've wanted someone to make me IPA Scrabble for ages.
14 Oct 2012 — 10:55am
Does the mix of fonts help or hinder one’s ability to play, or have no effect?
14 Oct 2012 — 12:14pm
I suppose that depends on whether you want to use it as an excuse for losing...
14 Oct 2012 — 12:25pm
Nick, I suspect the negative effect would be proportional to one's typophilia.
hhp
14 Oct 2012 — 1:02pm
The latest theory is “hard to read makes you think more”.
I wonder if that applies here.
This would lend itself to statistical testing—evaluating a player’s scores with a normal board vs this.
I found it annoying to play with the P22 pack, but this is a different kettle of fish.
14 Oct 2012 — 1:15pm
I’m pretty sure I can say it makes no difference as I wrote a paper on a similar effect. I replicated Stroop’s 1935 study, only I used fonts and font names instead of colours and colour names. Even to typographers, there was no effect of interference.
http://readthetype.com/fonteffect/
14 Oct 2012 — 5:59pm
That deck looks distracting as hell. What do you play, Nick?
14 Oct 2012 — 9:21pm
There's also a typographic chess set.
http://gizmodo.com/5949215/this-typographic-chess-set-is-too-pretty-to-play
14 Oct 2012 — 10:36pm
Travel Scrabble.
15 Oct 2012 — 12:42am
It looks like it would lend itself nicely to a house rule giving a bonus for playing a word all in one face.
15 Oct 2012 — 12:41pm
Not sure I understand the rules, but it looks pretty — http://tatianalara.prosite.com/30155/314442/gallery/grid-board-game
15 Oct 2012 — 10:59pm
Looks like chocolate.
n.
19 Oct 2012 — 1:26am
The counterless O might be mistaken for a fine, fat rounded I but, otherwise, I see no problem with Scrabbling effectively.
Nick, the P22 deck is annoying because, frankly, it wasn't designed very well. Sometimes, you need a little more than mere novelty…