(Like “vowels”!) The goal, according to Mattel, was to make Scrabble more accessible to those daunted by the exotic vocabularies and frontal-lobe flexing the game demands from those who ...

Instead of scoring your word, you turn over the goal card you’ve accomplished and everyone says, “Great job, Dan.” Eventually, as sometimes happens in Scrabble, I ended up with a rack full ...

In Scrabble Together, players work as a team to solve challenges. Mattel During the Great Depression, an out-of-work American architect named Alfred Mosher Butts devised a new game that required ...

Marking the spot stands a Scrabble-style street sign with letters ... Butts first conceptualized the game during the Great Depression, when he was a jobless architect living in a fifth-floor ...

Scrabble struggled to take off for years until ... unemployed architect when he set out to invent a word game during the Great Depression. Studying the prevalence of letters in printed works ...

Nigel Richards is the reigning world champion of Scrabble in Spanish. Just don’t ask him to order a coffee in Madrid. The 57-year-old New Zealander doesn’t speak a lick of Spanish.

A married couple who have long enjoyed the game of Scrabble both together and separately before they even met are never at a loss for words — and attribute their wedded bliss in part to their ...

The opinions expressed in this commentary are his. Read more opinion on CNN. The Scrabble world was rocked by controversy recently when Mattel, one of the official makers of the game, introduced a new ...