He applies probability and game theory to competitive word play, and recently won his division at a New Orleans tournament after two years of competition.

I have long dreamed of a better world: one where I would unlock my phone to find a notification that my grandma has challenged me to a game of Scrabble. I would play my word. She would play hers. We ...

What do a nickname for pizza and Chinese medicine’s vital energy concept have in common? They’re definitions of ‘ZA’ and ‘QI’, two of the highest-scoring two-letter words playable in Scrabble. For the ...

Charming Holiday is a news article writer from the United States who has been working with GameRant since August 2023 and self-publishing since May 2025. He is a former cultural policy advisor who has ...

It’s not all that often that word games are bobbing near the top of the Steam charts. Word Play has been hovering near the top of the Popular New Releases since it was launched earlier this month and ...

SINGAPORE: They sit across each other, staring intently at the tables in front of them. Some clutch their heads, frowning; others are relaxed. No one speaks. The only sounds come from ticking clocks ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about TV shows, movies, video games, entertainment & culture. Here we are, the first weekend of January and it’s finally ...

What are Word Scramble Games? At its essence, Word Scramble Games are an engaging linguistic puzzle that tasks players to unscramble various jumbled letters in order to find the right words. These ...

Pakistan has achieved another remarkable feat in the game of words, Scrabble, by winning the World Youth Scrabble Championship for a record fifth time. Salman dominated the competition, winning 19 out ...

Collins, the makers of the Scrabble dictionary, added 2,000 new words, including Gen Z terms. The new Gen Z terms include "yeet," "nibling," a gender-neutral term for nieces and nephews; "floof," and ...

Millennial wordsmiths could soon be stumped with the updated Scrabble dictionary as modern Gen Z lingo becomes permissible to use in the board game. In the first major update in four years, Collins — ...