All about word play

Chances are that you have played the physical version of Scrabble at some point, considering how ubiquitous the popular word game is. But 30-year-old musician Kahini Panjabi switched to the app version once the lockdown started. "It's quick and you can play multiple games simultaneously. So, you can make a word in one game and then switch to another one, coming back to the first game whenever your opponent has finished their turn," she says. Panjabi adds that another convenient feature is that you aren't stuck to your phone while playing. She says, "There are times when I have gone back to a game the next day after it started. And now when everyone has chores at home, you can finish your jhadoo and return for your round." There is one complaint, though. Panjabi says, "I think some of the words aren't actually part of the English language, in the sense that they can be French terms. I mean, I don't know what 'qi' means, but here, you can get 30 points for it."