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 ...

Playing made up words that sound like the real thing to fool your relatives has been a long-standing tradition in the game of Scrabble. Now players have a chance to nominate a word they’d like to see ...

The Scrabble dictionary is getting an update. But it’s not going so well, and the world’s best players aren’t happy. Much of the press coverage of the update has focused on added millennial argot.

EAST LONGMEADOW, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--How many words can you create using the letters A-C-E-R-S? “Ear,” “Care,” and “Races” are a few of the words that could be unscrambled in this letter puzzle.

Merriam-Webster published the new edition of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, containing 300 new words, on Monday. Among those words are twerk — to dance by shaking the buttocks while ...

And today's last word in business today is: crowd-sourcing. It's been a buzzword for years now, thanks to fundraising websites, like Kickstarter. But it is still not a legal word in the game of ...

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, says it's "changing the official rules of its Scrabble game to make clear that slurs are not permissible in any form of the game." The ...

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, says it's "changing the official rules of its Scrabble game to make clear that slurs are not permissible in any form of the game." The ...

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, says it's "changing the official rules of its Scrabble game to make clear that slurs are not permissible in any form of the game." The ...

Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, says it's "changing the official rules of its Scrabble game to make clear that slurs are not permissible in any form of the game." The ...