Like a Crossword but Worse

Please tell me I'm not the only person who can't stand Scrabble. There are few things that I find more boring and tedious besides being forced to play through an entire game of that stupid thing. Basically, Scrabble has two parts of play, split into two very distinct, alternating phases that continue to cycle until the game is completed. There is the Thinking Phase and the Waiting Phase. The Thinking Phase is brutal. This is the often incredibly long period of time where you sit at the table, trying to come up with a new word. This period becomes longer and longer the more time you spend playing, so that by the time the game is near completion, you can be trying to come up with something good for nearly ten minutes, and you'll still end up only getting about three points because you couldn't come up with anything better than "cat".*

Once you finally do come up with something, you enter the Waiting Phase. The Waiting Phase is similar to the Thinking Phase, in that it's primarily spent doing absolutely nothing, except now, you're the one telling everyone ELSE to hurry the hell up. So you're become the very thing that was annoying you not five seconds earlier. This is why you should never play Scrabble with anybody you like. Or anyone at all, really. It makes people hate each other with its incredible powers of boredom and waste.

So here we have a game where the gameplay is based entirely around being in a period of mental distress and watching other people be in periods of mental distress. Now, there are plenty of games where it's only really interesting when it's your turn, but the advantage that these games have over Scrabble is that it doesn't take twenty minutes in between every turn while you wait for everyone else to finish. And when it IS your turn, it's actually fun, an aspect that Scrabble severely lacks.

Basically what I'm saying here is that it's really goddamn boring.

*No, I don't actually know if "cat" is worth three points. The amount to which I just do not care is astounding.