Scrabble Typography Edition

[Chris Dean]

This topic was imported from the Typophile platform

http://www.winningsolution.com/premium-games-for-sale/scrabble-typograph...

[Joshua Langman]

Wonderful!

I've wanted someone to make me IPA Scrabble for ages.

[Nick Shinn]

Does the mix of fonts help or hinder one’s ability to play, or have no effect?

[Karl Stange]

Does the mix of fonts help or hinder one’s ability to play, or have no effect?

I suppose that depends on whether you want to use it as an excuse for losing...

[hrant]

Nick, I suspect the negative effect would be proportional to one's typophilia.

hhp

[Nick Shinn]

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.

[Chris Dean]

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/

[Ryan Maelhorn]

That deck looks distracting as hell. What do you play, Nick?

[JamesM]

There's also a typographic chess set.
http://gizmodo.com/5949215/this-typographic-chess-set-is-too-pretty-to-play

[Nick Shinn]

Travel Scrabble.

[cerulean]

It looks like it would lend itself nicely to a house rule giving a bonus for playing a word all in one face.

[Chris Dean]

Not sure I understand the rules, but it looks pretty — http://tatianalara.prosite.com/30155/314442/gallery/grid-board-game

[5star]

Looks like chocolate.

n.

[oldnick]

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…