You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Scrabble is one of the most beloved board games of all time, with millions of people worldwide ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

David Wiegand, a 31-year-old mortgage underwriter from Portland, Ore., is the new national Scrabble champion. He was crowned in Reno, Nev., after... Strategy Shines at Scrabble Championship David ...

The conventional wisdom has always been that a good Scrabble player is someone with a hefty vocabulary—the kind of person who can drop an eight-letter word you’ve never even heard, complete with Qs ...

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Scrabble Web (which can be played here) offers PvP matches against players from around the world, as well as friends. There’s also a mode where people can test their skills against a computer program.

I've noticed that beginner players are often afraid of using one of the most useful tactics in the game: exchanging your tiles. Even though it doesn't score any points, exchanging your tiles can rid ...