Kenya's Allan Oyende (right) in action against World Champion Nigel Richards in Goa, India during the World Scrabble Championships. [Washington Onyango, Standard] Kenya seed one Allan Oyende won 20 ...

Team Nigeria has officially gone into battle mode ahead of the 2025 World English Scrabble Players Association Championship (WESPAC), with camp opening in Lagos on Tuesday and the energy is ...

Scrabble has been a part of Madhav Gopal Kamath’s home for as long as he can remember. The 14-year-old was first introduced to it at the age of six when he saw his father, Sudhir Kamath, play the game ...

Cheaters are the scourge of word-based competitions, and although Ed Martin might be innocent this time, it’s time to crack down hard on those skirting the rules of fair play. I’m looking at you, ...

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious cannot fit across a Scrabble board, but that does not mean participants did not try at the ...

It was once a gentle, afternoon pastime. But, for an increasing number of players, making up words on a board is a serious ...

The ‘All Island Senior Citizens’ Tournament 2025’, organised by the Sri Lanka Association of Senior Citizens, was held ...

This Monday night is like most others for several local members of the National Scrabble Association (NSA). Sequestered in the adult-activities room at a Coral Gables youth complex, they huddle around ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand man playing his first-ever competitive Scrabble game in Spanish, a language he doesn’t speak, has won the board game’s Spanish-language world title. Nigel ...

Only the absolutely nerdiest shindigs require their own specialized dictionaries. Latin club, Klingon conventions, Scrabble championships–all havens for people who never got to spend their own lunch ...