I’m a writer, so how does my statistician partner beat me at word games?

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When we do puzzles together, something dark and fierce takes over. I feel a frenzied desire to win.

Most mornings, as we sip our coffees, my partner and I play Wordle. It’s a guessing game, dictated largely by chance, and so the outcome doesn’t matter at all. Sometimes his guess wins, sometimes my guess wins, sometimes we yell out the word together.The trouble comes when we play Spelling Bee, which is not at all a game of chance. In Spelling Bee, one must unscramble a series of letters to find as many words as possible, including at least one word using all seven letters.

So when we do word puzzles together, something dark and fierce takes over. I feel a frenzied desire to win. I told my partner I was a “Sudoku expert” on one of our very first dates, and it has been an accepted truth in our relationship since.Now, in a less robust relationship than ours, this rogue competitive streak of mine might cause problems. But fortunately for us, he finds it extremely amusing. And fortunately for me, I am better than him at Sudoku.My Sudoku prowess is very important to me.

 

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