Word Board Games

Growing up and being thrown into a complex and hectic adult world can sometimes cause you to take a retrospective point of view on the unconcerned times in life when you were a child. The museum The Strong in Rochester, NY gives you the opportunity to relive this feeling as you walk through their National Toy Hall of Fame. We asked two of the people in charge about how the word game Scrabble was inducted.

In early January Brigitte Brath, a German Scrabble tournament player, attended the UK Open. Between returning to Germany and taking off to attend her next tournament, the Israeli Open, she gave us an interview about her tournament experience and offered tips for Scrabble players.

Even though Christmas time has passed now, we are happy to be giving presents to select readers of our site. At word-grabber’s Happy Holidays Raffle you had the chance to win a Scrabble Deluxe Edition as well as other things. Read how our first prize winner Jeff Kelley, a passionate Scrabble player, didn’t really get first prize – but was lucky after all.

Scrabble is the ideal way to learn and play with letters. Read the following three game reviews and choose the right one for your kid.

Scrabble in India is about increasing numbers of players, associations, tournaments and even about hosting the worldwide championship in 2007. Time to have a look to the new trend of the subcontinent.

From 4th to 8th December the 12th international Scrabble Champions Tournament took place in Prague. Among 110 players, who came from all over the world, three-times-winner Nigel Richards won the first price and took $10.000 as prize-money with him.

There are many Scrabble versions out there, one of the most recent once is Scrabble Twists and Turns. It seems younger, more modern and a bit more creative. Read about our experience with it in this article.

Are you a word geek? Have you ever fumbled through the Sunday New York Times, pen in hand, for the crossword puzzle? If so, Wordplay is for you.

It is as old as gaming itself. Many might have thought about it in desperate situations in gaming, whether they should or they should not pick this unfair method to fool their opponents. Cheating is always used, when a player has a problem, that he can´t solve with his own abilities.

Diehard Scrabble players know that it’s not enough to have inexhaustible vocabulary to win a game, but to have at least as much luck on your side. To what extend these two aspects influence a game, shows a study of a professor in Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University, Andrew C. Thomas.