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Wonderful!

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

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

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...

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

hhp

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.

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/

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

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

Travel Scrabble.

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

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

Looks like chocolate.

n.

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…