Samuel Kaplan, a top-50 ranked player in the North American Scrabble Players Association, will lead a five-session Scrabble strategy course at Bryant Library starting Sunday, Oct. 19. The program, ...

In the 1960s, when chess mavens discovered that Scrabble was a complex game that could be hustled for money, some basic strategies quickly emerged. One of them: Short words are important for scoring.

Nigerian Wellington Jighere defeated Britain’s Lewis Mackay at the Scrabble world championship in November. His strategy–to use shorter words–sounds like Scrabble sacrilege. Here’s how the game ...

"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 ...

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 ...

You can learn a lot about a person from the way they play Scrabble. Do they show off their SAT vocabulary or only know dirty words? Are they rule-sergeants or are they so competitive that they will ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is an author of fiction, cookery books and poetry anthologies. Her latest book is ‘The Dinner Table’ ...

The Spanish-language Scrabble world champion might not even know what "el diccionario" means.