We may earn a commission from links on this page. Word from the Scrabble makers at Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players as of this summer. [UPDATE: Not so fast concerning ...

MARK COLVIN: Names like Mozart, Obama, and Picasso might be part of common parlance but they're also set to find themselves onto a Scrabble board. The makers of the boardgame have announced a new ...

I woke yesterday morning to an e-mail from an editor at a London newspaper asking whether, as the author of a book about the world of competitive Scrabble, I had any thoughts on the news that "the ...