Shoppers escaping frigid temperatures packed the halls of the Wyoming Valley Mall on Saturday for its largest craft show to date.

I have long dreamed of a better world: one where I would unlock my phone to find a notification that my grandma has challenged me to a game of Scrabble. I would play my word. She would play hers. We ...

What do a nickname for pizza and Chinese medicine’s vital energy concept have in common? They’re definitions of ‘ZA’ and ‘QI’, two of the highest-scoring two-letter words playable in Scrabble. For the ...

Simply defined, “diopters” is the pluralized form of a measure of reflective power in an optical lens. It’s not a word in everyone’s mental lexicon, but if you play your tiles right, it can earn you ...

Adam Logan is a quiet fellow. The mathematician from Ottawa has no working phone and no presence on social media. He is a man of many words, however. On Sunday in Ghana, Mr. Logan won the World ...

Scrabble is more than just a family pastime for Portland resident Nigel Peltier. For him, it’s been a decadeslong pursuit. Peltier first entered the tournament scene as a teenager, quickly rising ...

In a nearly silent ballroom, surrounded by cameras and leaderboards on jumbotrons, underdog Nigel Peltier of Portland placed his final tile, spelling the word “kolo” to win the North American Scrabble ...

Mack Meller strolled into the Sedona Taphouse in Palomar with a brown leather briefcase. It had been a while since the 25-year-old joined the weekly gathering of the Lexington Scrabble club. Travel ...

Crafts for kids don't have to be complex. Using your child’s senses, imagination and problem-solving skills, you can use these crafting projects to fight boredom blues at any age. Kimberly McLeod, a ...

It’s not all that often that word games are bobbing near the top of the Steam charts. Word Play has been hovering near the top of the Popular New Releases since it was launched earlier this month and ...

It looks like it hasn’t been updated since 1996. It has sound effects that you’ve not heard since the glory days of AOL. Yet the Internet Scrabble Club puts the game’s official apps to shame. There is ...

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