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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...