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 ...
Can you spell O-U-T-R-A-G-E? That’s the sensation that gripped wordsmiths and language lovers everywhere when news began trickling out about the beloved game Scrabble getting a facelift for the very ...
Since the game Scrabble was trademarked in 1948, proper nouns have been banned from the board. Makers of the game want to give it broader appeal, so soon proper names will count. Mattel is bringing ...
The North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) advisory board is prepared to vote on banning 226 offensive terms from use in official tournaments after members called for the change, the New ...
With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, Jesse Inman earned the record of the highest-scoring opening Scrabble word ever ...
Okay, so I've started to try to write some rules for drinking Scrabble. Any serious Scrabble players are encourage to chime in with their own thoughts/suggestions. Me and some friends are going to ...
Manhattan: Re “NYPD chief backs out” (May 8): NYPD Chief of Patrol John Chell may have backed out of one political event, but he won’t back down from his political posturing and shenanigans whilst in ...
The fight against systemic racism has taken aim at Scrabble. An agreement is at hand to bar offensive terms, though some players endorse using them for points. By David Waldstein Josephine Flowers ...
Using the N-word in a Scrabble tournament won't win you any points that matter. Credit: Robert Nickelsberg/Getty Images In the latest instance of an organisation finally acknowledging racism is a ...
Extremely online Scrabble players are in luck. Roughly 500 new words have been added to the Scrabble dictionary, including stan, torrent, vibing, subtweet (though who knows how long that one will be ...
Scrabble may be a simple game to learn to play, but it sure gets complicated as a business. For a start, Hasbro owns the rights in the U.S. and Canada, and its archrival Mattel owns them for the rest ...
The North American Scrabble Players Association (NASPA) advisory board is prepared to vote on banning 226 offensive terms from use in official tournaments after members called for the change, the New ...