Like poker, Scrabble is a game that can be played for fun or at the highest levels of competition. The story of the cheating incident this week at the 2012 National Scrabble Championship is ...

Australian poker pro David Eldar was crowned the new World Scrabble Champion at an event in London in late August. Eldar, who resides in the U.K., won $11,000 for his efforts at the Mind Sports ...

A year ago, I wrote a column about the similarities between Scrabble and poker. I wrote that in both games players track either the tiles or cards to know what tiles or cards are remaining. I then ...

Playing board games and cards has always been a staple pastime for friends and family. But as we wait out the coronavirus pandemic, not everyone has access to their favorite Scrabble nemesis or poker ...

Ever wanted to play a game like Zynga's Words with Friends without having to worry about your opponent having a superb vocabulary? What if the setup involved numbers, rather than letters? In Chillingo ...

Chess is a complicated puzzle for humans, but it’s not so difficult for computers to master, writes Oliver Roeder, who writes about that game and six others: checkers, backgammon, bridge, poker, Go ...

A Los Gatos software engineer wants South Lake Tahoe to come on board the world of fun words. Peter Roizen has developed a game called WildWords, which he describes as a cross between Scrabble and ...