The King's Cup Scrabble tournament, which is held over four days each July in Bangkok, is basically the board game's Wimbledon, with a ten-thousand-dollar prize and trophy awarded by the Thai royal ...

IOWA CITY — Yes, “Scrabble” is in the Scrabble dictionary of allowable words. So were a lot of obscure words being used in a typical Sunday afternoon meeting of the Iowa City Scrabble Club on March 27 ...

VTDigger runs on reader support. Help us reach our goal by Dec. 31. Alfred Butts visits Spartan Industries, where Scrabble tiles were manufactured, in Fairfax in 1985. Photo courtesy of Lela Butts For ...

It is played around the world, and even beyond, but the invention of Scrabble did not spell immediate success. The board game has sold 165 million copies worldwide and is the favourite pastime of ...

As Barbie fever fades to a muted pink, Mattel ruffled feathers anew yesterday with news that it would be updating Scrabble to make the board game less “intimidating”. A new double sided board will ...

Last week a winter storm blew into town, and as effortlessly as a drunken gunslinger sweeps a bartop full of shot glasses onto the saloon floor, the wind upended all the potted plants on the porch. I ...