Apr 24th, 2009 · It's hip to be square this weekend at the annual National School Scrabble Competition in Providence, R.I., where fifth- through eighth-graders are facing off. The winning team gets $10,000, and there's a hot bonus prize: The team that makes the highest play using the letter Q wins one of Shaquille O'Neal's basketball jerseys.
Feb 21st, 2009 · Host Scott Simon talks with Leslie Cohen, a Scrabble enthusiast who helped set a record for the highest-scoring Scrabble tournament game. Cohen says one word in particular put her over the top — and gave her 230 points.
Jan 14th, 2009 · Last year, the popular, albeit unauthorized online version of Scrabble disappeared in a puff of lawsuits — leaving hundreds of thousands of word enthusiasts in the lurch. Now, the creators of Scrabulous have quietly relaunched a new version of the game — but Scrabble guru Stefan Fatsis says it won't cut it for the purists.
Jul 29th, 2008 · Bradley Robbins, a giant in the Scrabble community, is on the verge of winning his division in the National Scrabble Championships in Orlando, Fla. He is also 11 years old. Stefan Fatsis of the Wall Street Journal also talks about Bradley and the popular Facebook application, Scrabulous.
Jul 25th, 2008 · Claiming intellectual property infringement, the toy company Hasbro is suing a pair of brothers from Calcutta, India, who created the Internet phenomenon Scrabulous, a Web-based knockoff of Hasbro's board game Scrabble.
Jan 15th, 2008 · Scrabble is one of the most popular board games with more than 100 million sets sold worldwide. An online version of the game, called Scrabulous is getting a lot of attention. But Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, isn't happy. That's because it isn't the maker of Scrabulous.
Oct 4th, 2006 · The Decemberists are a rock group from Portland, Oregon, with a strange demeanor. Their lyrics sound like they were written by an expert Scrabble player, and their songs are often period pieces that suggest odd folk tales. Their new CD, The Crane Wife, takes its title from an actual folk tale, and according to critic Will Hermes, it's as remarkable musically as it is verbally.
Aug 26th, 2005 · David Wiegand, a 31-year-old mortgage underwriter from Portland, Ore., is the new national Scrabble champion. He was crowned in Reno, Nev., after winning three out of the five games in the final match against Panupol Sujjayakorn, 21, an economics student from Thailand.