A paediatrician who won the UK Open Scrabble Championships has described his excitement after flourishing in the competition.

The Berkshire couple brought together through a love of the board game have been married for more than 20 years ...

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Nigel Richards, a professional Scrabble player from New Zealand, has won the Spanish-language Scrabble world championship—despite not speaking the language. Competing in Granada, Spain ...

New Zealand has 16 Scrabble clubs and one online as well. Players of all levels are welcome and will probably get paired up with somebody of skill level, he says.

Nigel Richards could barely exchange pleasantries in Spanish when he arrived at a Scrabble tournament in Spain last month, his competitors recalled. Despite hardly speaking the language ...

Scrabble is fun but it’s not always the easiest of games. Especially if you happen to be playing in a language that isn’t your mother tongue. So just imagine what it would be like playing your ...

A married couple with a shared passion for the word game Scrabble have been reflecting on when love "sparkled over the board" more than 20 years ago. Graham and Helen Harding were members of their ...

and we aren’t allowed to use the Scrabble dictionary online because “there are too many silly words”. Fresh from smug undergraduate games, I once tried to play “xi” (the 14th letter of ...