My complaint about scrabble has always been that it takes forever and it's super frustrating. I know, I know, some people say challenging, but I never really enjoyed it. I always felt like I should enjoy scrabble more since I love vocabulary type games, but I never really had fun when I sat down to play. Then we got a bananagram set and in less than two months we've played more than 15 times with friends we've had over or just between ourselves. It's deceptively simple and tons of fun. We've won over skeptical friends too -- everyone who has tried it has had fun. Some friends who came to visit actually went home and immediately ordered themselves a set of bananagrams (and promptly gave their scrabble board to Goodwill!) I consider this a really good investment.