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[stevage]

Scrabble really is a maths game. It just looks like a word game.

[vikingerik → stevage]

Right. It's not a word game, it's an area-control game with 150,000 rules for legal placement of your resources.

Codenames is a word game. Scrabble is about arbitrary sequences of glyphs.

[stevage → vikingerik]

Interestingly there are versions with more restricted tilesets and hence fever words to learn. Like one that only uses the letters of BOGGLE.