This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. A researcher believes that the popular game ...

VTDigger runs on reader support. Help us reach our goal by Dec. 31. Alfred Butts visits Spartan Industries, where Scrabble tiles were manufactured, in Fairfax in 1985. Photo courtesy of Lela Butts For ...

They may not be everyday conversational terms but, according to one American researcher, the recent inclusion in Scrabble’s official dictionary of modern and dialect words like these has rendered the ...

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 ...

It’s Scrabble Day today, in case you hadn’t noticed. It is held each year on the date of birth of its creator, American architect Alfred Mosher Butts, who came up with the game in the late 1930s. In ...