Obama and the British Royal Family play it, and its fans are some of the world’s most devoted. So why did the word game almost fail to take off? Hephzibah Anderson has the answer. Fancy a game of ...

Games of Monopoly are always going to get ugly. The rules are written in a way that makes the game a) a hauntingly accurate critique of capitalism and b) no fun at all to play: initial success is ...

NEW YORK — Here's the sitch, Scrabble stans. Your convos around the board are about to get more interesting with about 500 new words and variations added to the game's official dictionary: stan, sitch ...

I went looking for a giant mop of ginger beard, neat tiles of obscure words and a star-struck opponent. I found the last two. Hunched motionless over the board and calling out his word scores in a ...

Some people play Scrabble to have fun, catch up with family or friends, chill. But there is an altogether different breed of Scrabble player. And many of those show up for the weekly gathering of the ...

In the 1980s, when Brian Sheppard created a computer program that played Scrabble, he typed in a lot of words—more than 100,000 of them, from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and ...

If you’re a fan of board games like Monopoly and enjoy a good brain teaser like Sudoku, then Scrabble is right up your alley! It’s super easy to learn and play, even for newcomers to the gaming scene.