Though the game has gone through a few name changes since being created in 1938, people of all ages continue to enjoy Scrabble. The board-and-tile game, which features 225 squares, gives two to four ...

It’s a familiar feeling to anyone who regularly plays Scrabble – at the end of a hard-fought intellectual battle, everyone scrambles to add up the scores that were hastily written on a scrap of paper ...

Board game was invented 75 years ago by American architect Alfred Butts He scored letters depending on their level of use in the New York Times Some claim values are outdated because of changes to the ...

I am a tournament Scrabble player, and people often ask me how they can improve their Scrabble skills. Any expert will tell you that learning the two-letter words is a surefire way to increase your ...

In Scrabble, two-letter words are often used only as a last resort. In a race to use up your final few tiles at the end of the game, low-scoring pairs like AD, AS, AN, and AT can suddenly become ...

Scrabble - or Words With Friends as it’s known in the app world - can be very “mazy” (18-point word for resembling a maze), particularly for inexperienced players. High-scoring Scrabble staples like ...

It's the Scrabble equivalent of the four-minute mile: Mark Landsberg's tournament score of 770, set at a 1993 tournament in Eagle Rock, Calif. For 18 years, no one came close to the mark in the ...

What does the game of Scrabble have to do with startups? Not much, other than being a game board sitting on the shelf in the break room. However, there are some valuable strategies you can apply from ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK — Scrabble players, time to rethink ...

"CRC, automatic marriage and Scrabble" (March 23): I would like to invite Hovde (and others who would like to refine their game) to the Portland Scrabble Club, which meets at the Lakewood Center for ...

The values of the letters in Scrabble were assigned according to the front page of a US newspaper in the 1930s. Is it time the scoring system was updated to reflect today's usage? All Scrabble players ...