Is it wrong that my little VW has more torque than my F-150? Here's my new plate for the VW :)

No one wanted to pit their vocabulary against mine (either that or they had better things to do on new year's eve), so I had to play alone. It was serrendipitous, however, as I came up with a new kind of Scrabble: Communist Scrabble.

All players share the same score and work together to allow each other to obtain higher scores. Normally, Scrabble players will forsake a relatively high-scoring play for one that scores lower, but thwarts the ability of their opponents to score well in subsequent turns.
However, since in this version of Scrabble this sort of strategy does not help a player win (because 'winning' is now a collective effort), players may do the opposite, likely going so far as to sacrifice their own turn with a relatively poor play so as to enable a subsequent player (or team-member) to score higher than the than they otherwise would have. The greater good is served.

It is interesting how, on a microscopic scale, we're able to turn our generally selfish human natures on their ears by a slight change of rules. What we've done here is increase the boundary of 'me' for each player, or one's sphere of concern. Unfortunately, this technique to improve the greater good doesn't translate very well to economics since increasing the boundary of one's self to include individuals never met by, nor having anything in common with, a 'player,' is nearly impossible. Just ask Suzanne Summers.

Regardless, it turned out to be a rather fun game.