The Daily Camera covers the Boulder Scrabble Club, a group of hardcore players who are likely to make you feel both welcome and humble on your first few visits.

The piece has a few nice quotes. The club director: “I’m willing to devote lots of time to a pointless activity that I’m good at.”

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UNO Attack is the game of UNO, with an electronic doodad you must press when you should normally draw a card.

Instead of drawing one card, the doodad physically shoots a bunch (2-8) cards into your face. This is supposed to be fun. Sounds like a) even more random, b) something to break, and c) many cards suddenly added to the game means a longer, more tedious game.

On the other hand, if you like to see cards flying into the face of your mom, it may work for you.

Sorry! Card Revenge plays nearly identically, without the shooting. It plays a lot more like UNO than like Sorry (though the special abilities of the Sorry cards are still there). You still press the electronic doodad once in a while, and it shouts at you how many new cards to draw.

This is supposed to be fun. In my experience, repetitive mechanical voices quickly become annoying.

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A followup to the Guess Who? (only released in 1987, did you know that?), Guess Where has you asking yes and no questions in order to determine the location of all eight family members in six rooms.

Seems more like Battleship than Guess Who?, but not really as captivating as either one.

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