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"Scrabble Bingo of the Day: GEOPHAGY" cover image
Dec 1, 2016

Scrabble Bingo of the Day: GEOPHAGY [n] Geophagy is the practice of eating earth, especially chalk or clay, in famine-stricken regions. It applies to both wild animals and humans. When humans eat soil ...

"Rules Thrown Out the Window: Ogilvy & Mather's Scrabble Trickster Video Spot" cover image
Jul 1, 2016

Despite the controversy over Scrabble Trickster across the word world, Mattel's modern take on the classic crossword board game is out in stores— but not in the United States. It's only available in a ...

"Death Sentence for SCRABBLE: The Racism Debate Continues..." cover image
Jul 11, 2013

In a previous post, I wrote about how controversy changed SCRABBLE, about how the SCRABBLE Dictionary evolved thanks to Judith Grad and her crusade to rid the world of derogatory and racist words. She ...

"Former Oxford English Dictionary Editor Deleted Words from the Dictionary, Ruining Scrabble for Everyone" cover image
Nov 27, 2012

Do you have any idea how many words we haven't been saying since 1972? No, no one does, because some asshole editor went on a crazy deleting spree a couple decades ago while editing the Oxford English ...

"SCRABBLE Facts: Butts, Boards & Blasphemies" cover image
Nov 7, 2012

SCRABBLE was invented by Alfred Mosher Butts, an architect in New York, in an attempt to make a word game that combined anagrams and crosswords, which involved chance, luck and a great degree of skill ...

"Cheater Caught at the 2012 National SCRABBLE Championship!" cover image
Aug 15, 2012

Whoa. Someone just got caught this weekend cheating at the 2012 National Scrabble Championship in Florida. He was holding on to some blank tiles, which dropped on the floor mid-game. How did this kid ...

"Laser-Etched Scrabble Coasters Look Like Legitimate Letter Tiles!" cover image
Jun 26, 2012

If you're not into making your own Scrabble coasters out of Scrabble tiles, these are the next best thing (though a little more complicated). And better than having tons of tiles on the same coaster i ...

"How Scrabble Helped a Recovering Deaf Woman Get Her Words Back" cover image
Jun 26, 2012

I don't want to say too much, because it's best to read it first-hand, but it's a very nice story about a deaf woman who had cochlear implants that helped her hear again. Trouble is, a great deal of h ...

"New WESPA Ratings System Launched for World Tournament Scrabble" cover image
Jun 21, 2012

WESPA, the World English-Language Scrabble Players Association, has released its first major overhaul of the ratings system since inception,. Several known issues faced by the old system have been rem ...

"Possible Scrabble Challenge: Creating Poetry From All the Tiles" cover image
Jun 16, 2012

Now here's a challenge for the above-average Scrabble fan - can you create a good poem out of all the tiles, in iambic pentameter? The poem that's created here doesn't make too much sense, but it does ...