December 2018

I am a nationally ranked Scrabble player, and there is a huge difference between the way experts play the game and casual players.Expert Scrabble players manage to use all of their letters in one spin,…

The archetypal "family board game" Scrabble already has a heritage that rivals that of a small European nation. At…

LOS ANGELES: Scientists created the world's smallest noughts and crosses board using dynamic DNA origami tiles - microscopic organic structures that can be programmed to transform into predefined patterns. The team at the California…

This is simply not correct! Bronx Scrabble scholar Joel Sherman has started a war of words, campaigning against the inclusion of "OK" on the game's official roster. Sherman wants to prevent the North American Scrabble…

LA VEGAS and ATLANTE, December 20, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- Scientific Games Corporation (NASDAQ: SGMS) ("Scientific Games" or the "Company") has extended its long-term license agreement with Hasbro, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAS) and Hasbro International…

Welcome to The Riddler. Each week, I propose problems related to the things that are dear to us here: math, logic, and probability. There are two types: Riddler Express for those of you who want something small and Riddler Classic…

Checkmate.Competitive and casual chess players now have a new enemy. In addition to computers, there is a new AI platform called AlphaZero that can totally beat us all. SEE ALSO: An AI Wrote The Script For This Movie, And Let's Just Say…