Obama and the British Royal Family play it, and its fans are some of the world’s most devoted. So why did the word game almost fail to take off? Hephzibah Anderson has the answer. Fancy a game of ...

Our columnist went on a journey to try and get very good at the classic crossword game. By Isaac Aronow It started, as so many of my obsessions do, with a YouTube video. The New Yorker posted a ...

Three prominent members of the global Scrabble players’ organisation have quit over the removal of words from official game lists. They have complained that as Scrabble is a game of words, as long as ...

NEW YORK — Here's the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game's official dictionary: stan, sitch ...

Well, that’s it: They made Scrabble woke. Conservative news outlets have been making a meal the past few days of the news that Mattel is introducing “Scrabble Together,” a cooperative variation on the ...

In the 1980s, when Brian Sheppard created a computer program that played Scrabble, he typed in a lot of words—more than 100,000 of them, from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and ...

If you’re a fan of board games like Monopoly and enjoy a good brain teaser like Sudoku, then Scrabble is right up your alley! It’s super easy to learn and play, even for newcomers to the gaming scene.

I went looking for a giant mop of ginger beard, neat tiles of obscure words and a star-struck opponent. I found the last two. Hunched motionless over the board and calling out his word scores in a ...