Jul 29th, 2008 · Bradley Robbins, a giant in the Scrabble community, is on the verge of winning his division in the National Scrabble Championships in Orlando, Fla. He is also 11 years old. Stefan Fatsis of the Wall Street Journal also talks about Bradley and the popular Facebook application, Scrabulous.
Jul 25th, 2008 · Claiming intellectual property infringement, the toy company Hasbro is suing a pair of brothers from Calcutta, India, who created the Internet phenomenon Scrabulous, a Web-based knockoff of Hasbro's board game Scrabble.
Jan 15th, 2008 · Scrabble is one of the most popular board games with more than 100 million sets sold worldwide. An online version of the game, called Scrabulous is getting a lot of attention. But Hasbro, the maker of Scrabble, isn't happy. That's because it isn't the maker of Scrabulous.
Oct 4th, 2006 · The Decemberists are a rock group from Portland, Oregon, with a strange demeanor. Their lyrics sound like they were written by an expert Scrabble player, and their songs are often period pieces that suggest odd folk tales. Their new CD, The Crane Wife, takes its title from an actual folk tale, and according to critic Will Hermes, it's as remarkable musically as it is verbally.
Aug 26th, 2005 · David Wiegand, a 31-year-old mortgage underwriter from Portland, Ore., is the new national Scrabble champion. He was crowned in Reno, Nev., after winning three out of the five games in the final match against Panupol Sujjayakorn, 21, an economics student from Thailand.
Aug 7th, 2004 · In New Orleans, 30-year-old classical pianist Trey Wright beat out more than 800 competitors in the National Scrabble Championship, but not before creating a furor by using a word that is on the official list of banned words. NPR's Scott Simon talks with The Wall Street Journal's Stefan Fatsis about the controversy.