Experienced Scrabble players know there’s more to the game than an expansive vocabulary. An effective player should also be able to quickly find words in a jumble of letters. Developing this skill, ...

Many people think that Scrabble is a word game, that if you can spell and know a lot of words, you can win at it. This is not true. Scrabble is a game of strategy - one of detail and spatial ...

CHRISTMAS is a time of light, joy and goodwill – until the board games come out. The skitter of dice along a table, the ...

The robot can grip, move and interact with the word blocks. — -- One of the world’s most popular and mentally challenging board games may be getting even harder to play. Taiwan’s largest ...

Last weekend, my teenage daughter and I played in a Scrabble tournament in Charlottesville, Virginia. I finished third out of 18 players with a 10–6 record, won $300, and made some cool plays: QUINOAS ...

Scrabble players, time to rethink your game because 300 new words are coming your way, including some long-awaited gems: OK and ew, to name a few. Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of "The ...

For many years during the summer, I visited my mother at her home in Missouri, and we played Scrabble. We played fervently, often as many as three games a night. Occasionally, others joined in the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- "Victor" is rarely at a loss for words. He is a Scrabble-playing robot, programmed by the robotics department at Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a bit of a trash talker.

Meg Wolitzer is the author of a book for young readers, The Fingertips of Duncan Dorfman, about kids who meet at a Scrabble tournament. Did you hear the news? The letter G went missing during the last ...

Sitting at our kitchen table late Sunday night, everything dark except for a spotlight shining down from overhead, the scene was tense. Crowded around the circular wooden table, my brother, my mother ...

The Yu family always loved playing word games like Scrabble, but siblings Olive and Adrian had an advantage over their parents, immigrants from Hong Kong. They simply knew more dictionary-approved ...