Scrabble

The second floor of 57th Street Whole Foods gives no particular indication that this is anything other than a brightly colored cafe serving artisanal coffees and food items. But every Sunday, it turns into a gamer lair, filled with…

Time to throw away your old dictionary and dust those tiles off, baby, because Scrabble receives new words. People behind Scrabble reinforce the official Scrabble player's dictionary with 300 new words to keep up with the times and give…

Lukeman Owolabi was a teenager when he started playing Scrabble. Every evening after school, the young Nigerian would get together with friends and, using an Oxford dictionary, would play the game…

Once upon a time, I was a pretty competitive Scrabble player. My high school friends and I had intense sessions lasting several hours almost every weekend. I had memorized all the practical two and three letter words (KA, IQ, JEE); I…

One of the best times of the Christmas holidays (or the worst, depending on who you ask) are the afternoon of board games. You can spend hours playing games like Monopoly, Cluedo, or Scrabble with your loved ones (although if they remain…

Ed Liebfried and Elouise Pearl have just finished an animated game of Scrabble when they spot an inexplicable mistake on the board.NF.While the official Scrabble tournament dictionaries allow a plethora of obscure two-letter words, NF is…

October 12, 2017 Frank Op by Woerd There are countless competitive players who have moved on to poker. Bertrand "Elky" Grospellier might be the most notable example, finding poker after a…

From cobblestone in arvo to stonker on tinnies to footy: the Australian slang you ARE allowed to use in the new dinky-di version of ScrabbleAustralian Scrabble will allow its players to use slang words to earn extra points…

Here's why. Men are better at playing the popular puzzle game called Scrabble because women are much less willing to waste time developing a skill they deem unnecessary, a study suggests. In Scrabble competitions there are…

Men play Scrabble better, according to a new study, because women are much less willing to waste time developing a skill they deem unnecessary. Press Trust of India | By Press Trust of India, New York Men are better at playing…

Men ARE Much Better At Scrabble Because They Play To Win While Women Only Participate For Fun, Study FindsWomen saw it as a hobby where the goal was to have fun and not to win Men spent much more time analyzing past games and…

Video: David Eldar was crowned Scrabble World Champion in Nottingham A 27-year-old Australian was crowned Scrabble World Champion in Nottingham. David Eldar was crowned the winner after defeating Sri Lankan Harshan…

As Scrabble nears its 80th anniversary, fans of the board game may not be aware of its possible Canadian inspiration. Edmonton Oilers head coach Todd McLellan recently learned that his great-grandfather, Edward…

Country Life's Jeremy Taylor took on Scrabble World Champion Brett Smitheram. That's what he learned. There are…

Renante Dela Cerna won the Sinulog Scrabble Open 2017 Professional Division title last Saturday at Cebu City Sports Institute in Barangay San Nicolas, Cebu City. Dela Cerna dominated Dart Eslao in the final round, 441-400. Dela Cerna…

The creators of Scrabble have sold 100 million games, in 29 languages, but they have been left behind by events in Wales.A bookstore in Wales has seen its Welsh versions of Scrabble dust after failing to sell a single game in two…

Braconid: a parasitic wasp and earning 176 points, eight letters, triple triple score in the 2016 Scrabble World Championship. In the final at the Grand Palais in Lille, Londoner Brett Smitheram beat his British compatriot Mark Nyman with…

The Scrabble World Championship may not attract the same media attention as other "mind sports" events such as the World Chess Cup or the International Mathematical Olympiad, but for the creators of words from all over the world,…

The King's Cup Scrabble tournament, which takes place over four days in July in Bangkok, is essentially the Wimbledon of board game, with a prize and a trophy of ten thousand dollars awarded by the Thai royal family to the winner. Among…

They call it the bearded wonder. Ok, no one actually calls it that (that we know of), but they should. He is the greatest living Scrabble player in the world and he is at the height of his powers. Tennis has Serena Williams. Golf has…

NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- These may not be the most popular toys this holiday season -- little boys ask Santa for LEGO toys, while little girls want Frozen dolls - but board games are still in demand.Compared to 2013, from Amazon (AMZN) -!-->…

My Life Games will customize the Scrabble and Monopoly boards.HandoutNan Finkenaur's career has been all about fun and games. She worked for Hasbro for 17 years, the last four as Director of Creative Services. When the company closed its…

The Chess and Checker Club of New York was on the second floor of a dilapidated building on "the worst block in town”, 42nd Street between Seventh and Eighth Avenues, above Times Square sex shops and porn…

PITTSBURGH — Like many Scrabble players, Victor tends to blame bad luck when he loses.“Sometimes I hate this game,” says Victor, a student-created Scrabble robot under the supervision…

KARACHI: The Pakistan Scrabble Association (PSA) and the newly elected body of the Pakistan Chess Federation (PCF) have teamed up to organize future events together to promote the two sports in the country.The PSA and PCF held a…

When school started this year, Thunder Hill Elementary School PTA President Jennifer Soler was ready for the pile of fliers that would come home with her kids — information about extracurricular activities ranging from the recreational…

Scrabble is a game that takes on air. It's more than a salon hobby, support his supporters. Played at the highest level, it's as complex as chess. Scrabble is so strategically sophisticated, in fact, that as readers of Slate…

Correction: An earlier version of this story said that Mattel is the company that makes Scrabble. The game is manufactured in the United States and Canada by Hasbro and by Mattel in the rest of the world. This image provided by…

These games have come a long way since their original incarnations.PA MORE MENTAL WIRE Many board games have debuted in special editions, built-in electronics (who wants to roll dice anymore?) and upgraded to fancy sculpted parts.But…

American "Gamester" John Gotti's Secret Obsession Who Bet $ 600 at Scrabble and $ 3000 Buy-In at Monopoly By Daily Mail Reporter Posted: 11:19 pm GMT, August 1, 2012 | Update: 23:29 GMT, August 1, 2012 Game-ster:!-->…

Ethan Rosenthal had a Q. The clock was ticking and the high ceiling gymnasiumwas suffocated. The round-faced, shaggy-haired 11-year-old looked at the words arranged on the Scrabble board, then arranged six letters. Q - I - N - T - A - R.…

Invented in the United States in the mid-20th century, Scrabble is now available in dozens of languages ​​and sells in the hundreds of millions. This makes it one of the most popular games in the world. This naturally piqued the…

What is a sport? It's a conversation that everyone has from time to time. We have it in the newsroom every now and then. We got it again recently when Sports Illustrated ran an article about a controversy at a National…

With a Scrabble board in front of us, Mike Weepie and I pull letter tiles from a pocket to see who goes first. Its letter is "N";…