Researcher would devalue Z, but Y would go up in points. Jan. 16, 2013— -- The days when "za" was the killer double-letter threat in a Scrabble game may be over if Joshua Lewis' new computer code ...

I am a tournament Scrabble player, and people often ask me how they can improve their Scrabble skills. Any expert will tell you that learning the two-letter words is a surefire way to increase your ...

The values of the letters in Scrabble were assigned according to the front page of a US newspaper in the 1930s. Is it time the scoring system was updated to reflect today's usage? All Scrabble players ...

In the popular SCRABBLE Brand Crossword Game, players create words from letters selected at random from a stockpile of 100 tiles. The tiles are laid down on a board 15 squares high by 15 squares wide ...

Board game was invented 75 years ago by American architect Alfred Butts He scored letters depending on their level of use in the New York Times Some claim values are outdated because of changes to the ...

As our language evolves, so does Scrabble: Now, you can use hundreds of new words, from “ambigram” to “zedonk,” to spell your way to victory in the beloved board game. Hasbro and Merriam-Webster have ...

"Opaquer?" What the heck kind of word is that, you might ask. A 96-pointer, U.S. Scrabble champ Dave Wiegand might answer. Wiegand, 35, a mortgage broker in Lake Oswego, recently won $10,000 and a ...

Researcher Joshua Lewis is proposing a new value system to some letters in Scrabble. Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel have more. Finally this hour, a note on the value of a letter. In the game of ...