While most players know there are 100 tiles and that the person who picks the letter closest to A goes first, there are a few facts that even super-fans will be surprised to learn.

Scrabble at its highest level is very different from the board game you grew up playing around the living room table. I would know — I've been a tournament Scrabble player for more than 10 years ...

If you’re new to Scrabble, the board-and-tile game is all about competing to form words with lettered tiles on a 225-square ...

Check out the final board from a World Scrabble Championship and you might feel like you're reading a foreign language. You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions ...

A New Zealand team of professional Scrabble players have won the Trans-Tasman Scrabble Challenge for the first time in 14 ...

don't quite like the competitive nature of Scrabble," he said. "They want a game where you can simply enjoy language, words, being together and having fun creating words." In the new game ...

The game moves quickly and we find ourselves - in Tim's words - "rocketing through", winning goal cards at every turn. The whole experience feels a bit like cheating. Scrabble is, for me ...