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"Alas, I just have to marvel, because for some reason my mind doesn't anagram well. I just don't have the knack. To me high-level Scrabble playing looks like a superpower."

I feel the exact same way. Well put.

I've noticed the same thing - Boggle comes easy, but Scrabble does not.

check out this documentary - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390632/

These guys can anagram stuff like crazy, but don't know what most of the words they use even mean.

More mind-blowing, perhaps, but probably not that quickly off the tops of their heads.