Meredith Scardino is a writer on The Colbert Report who cut her teeth at The Late Show With David Letterman. Her other credits include Best Week Ever With Paul F. Tompkins and the popular sketch series Human Giant.
The Gameological Society: What are you playing this weekend?
Meredith Scardino: I mostly play Scramble With Friends. I basically go home and then totally ignore my boyfriend while I play word games with people I spend most of the day with.
Gameological: So these are people you work with?
Scardino: Yeah. We all play each other. And there’s a total hierarchy for respect because there’s some people—like, I’m in the mid-range of being okay. But then there are two guys that get, like, a hundred words a round at least. Sometimes more. But they’re in their own stratosphere. I have a lot of respect for them now, on a different level. Whenever there’s a two-second lull in a meeting, you’ll get a notification that someone just finished scrambling you.
Gameological: That could totally be a way to get in trouble—if someone’s supposed to be doing something and their boss sees they made a move on Scramble With Friends.
Scardino: The thing is, we have a very cool work atmosphere, and I also think that people’s minds can operate on multiple levels. When I first started “scramblin’,” I couldn’t do anything else at the same time. But now you can kind of, like, be listening to something while you’re scramblin’. I think if everyone was too obsessed with it for too long, it’ll get annoying, and things will have to change. Right now, there’s been no collateral damage.
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