Benefits of Playing Scrabble
When you think of the game Scrabble, you think of how fun and challenging this popular word game can be. However, Scrabble has more benefits than just being fun or challenging for us and the people we play against. Some benefits Scrabble can give us fall into such categories as: physical, emotional, mental, and social.
In this article, we will go through these four benefits of playing Scrabble and go into detail of just how they can improve your life.
Physical Benefits
Believe it or not, there are actual physical benefits that come along with playing Scrabble. The biggest one has to be that it can help boost your immune system. When you feel positive and happy emotions while playing Scrabble, the endorphins increase in your body. This, in turn, helps the immune system stay strong. By having a boosted immune system, you will not be so easily taken down by illness!
Second way it can help is through lowering blood pressure and as you get older, high blood pressure can be extremely dangerous. Now this will not have much effect if you have low blood pressure, but if high blood pressure plagues you, then consider playing a daily game of Scrabble!
Finally, by playing this word game you can help your memory. Alzheimer’s and such other memory disorders are common. Plus, the older you get the higher the risk you have of being afflicted with one. Scrabble is not some magic cure or something but playing it even just a few times a week can have an incredibly positive effect on your overall health.
Best thing about it? You do not need a doctor subscription for any of these things. Just buy Scrabble and you are already ready to go.
Emotional Benefits
The next type of benefit Scrabble can give you deals with your emotional health and wellbeing. One way it can do this is by building your confidence! It sounds a bit unbelievable but trust us when we say Scrabble can help with this. The more you play the game of Scrabble, the more confident you are going to get in your overall skills. You can apply this to other parts in your life by sticking at something and remaining confident you can achieve success.
Another emotional benefit you can gain from it, is that it improves creativity. By trying to figure out which word you want to spell out on the board, you are using that creative skill. The more you play (and study with the help of those trusty dictionaries) the bigger your creativity is going to grow.
The final emotional benefit it has is pretty simple. It makes you happy! We discussed how this can help you physically, so we will not touch on it here. Just makes you realize that some of these benefits end up being tied up with each other.
Mental Benefits
Next, we are going to focus on the mental benefits that Scrabble can bring to your overall health. The first way it can help is by enhancing your concentration skills. It should be no surprise that Scrabble requires a lot of concentration. By continuously playing Scrabble, you are going to grow your concentration skills due to you focusing on creating words.
Second thing it can help is your overall intelligence level. This reason is pretty self-explanatory. Scrabble is a word game and through it you are going to learn a lot of words you did not even know existed in the English language. Playing will open your mind to many new words, which ties into growing your intelligence level.
Finally, boredom is one last mental benefit that can go along with playing the game of Scrabble. Like with raising your intelligence level, relieving your boredom is pretty self-explanatory. When you are bored, sometimes it can lead to negative feelings or cause you to fill that boredom void in less than healthy ways—like eating for example.
Scrabble is a great healthy and safe way to get rid of that boredom you may find yourself having.
Social Benefits
The last benefit that Scrabble can help you with is for social benefits. One way it does this is through bonding. You play Scrabble with other people so it makes sense that there will be some bonding involved. Sure, you are playing against them, but this does not mean it will not foster some bonding between you and your opponent.
Business skills are the second social benefit it can have. How do you ask? Well, it can teach you to plan your moves, which can tie into business. You want to make sure that you are careful when it has anything to do with a business because money is involved. This really is a great lesson to take from Scrabble.
And finally, social cooperation is the last social benefit you can gain from this word game. Scrabble involves competing with other people so obviously there is some sort of social cooperation involved. All the players need to take turns and when one person loses and another wins, they need to handle it well. This is where social cooperation comes in.
For those who may not have the best social skills, this might be a surefire way to raise your social skills without having to be exposed to a huge crowd.
Final Thoughts
So, there we have it my fellow Scrabble lovers! Scrabble is more than just a word game you like to play either casually or competitively against friends, family, or acquaintances. This game has actual tangible benefits that can affect you long term. Physically, it boosts your immune system (which is needed in times of Covid to be honest). While emotionally and mentally, it can help lower the chances of suffering from mental illness. Finally, socially it helps people bond and communicate more easily.
All these benefits mean one thing: Scrabble is definitely something every household needs to try at least once.
What have you got to lose?
