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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Strategy. Precision. Obsession. For SCRABBLE enthusiasts, playing can evoke these words, and not just to score points. Since its birth in the 1930s, the tiny tiles have helped shaped the way we view ...

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 ...

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.

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