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37: Designing Around Language with Zach Gage

The Secret Lives of Games

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The Importance of Inclusion in Word Games

Nick Cave: I think the answer is that people think about words and words they know. Some words we know are people's names and some words we knows are places, he says. The fun thing about word games is trying to think up a word that you know and discover it on a board said Cave. Scrabble has the same problem that chess has which is why I really bad scrabble according to Cave. He suggests three good general use words for spell tower in his new dictionary.

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