I love books and documentaries that examine quirky subcultures. The book Word Freak provides a fascinating look inside the world of tournam...

A couple of notable Bananagrams-related events are scheduled to take place next month. 1) Bananagrams is sponsoring the August 13th instan...

As posted in the (now dearly departed) Bananagrammer forum, the Hebrew version of Bananagrams is now out. The Israeli distributor has a we...

When playing Bananagrams, 2-letter words are great for rapidly adding letters to a grid, like when you are running off a string of "PEE...

So I was playing Word 2 , and I had a rack of A R T T U _ _ and a desire to build down from the word LEND. Reflexively, I spelled DART and w...

A couple of short videos from the Bananagrams round of PAX East 2011 Omegathon have shown up on YouTube. As I understand it, there were 24...

Since this year's PAX East Omegathon paired up players into teams, the Bananagrams round was played in doubles mode. The picture below (...

PAX (Penny Arcade Expo) is a semi-annual convention for fans of video games that also includes a few sessions about role-playing games, inte...

What special property does this word grid have? ODD ICEBOX ECHOED D K H ...

First they brought us Bananagrams. Last year they introduced Appletters and Pairs in Pears. This fall, they released so many new items that ...

In my search for the longest word that you can make in a Bananagrams game , I found a few words (like "floccinaucinihilipilification...

The simple, elegant design of Bananagrams tiles lends them to a wide range of activities. They are perfect for rapidly sliding around a tabl...

If you travelled back in time to the 2010 ARGfest in Atlanta (a conference for Alternate Reality Game designers and fans), you could have pl...

In thinking about games of Bananagrams I have played, I've realized that the amount of time it takes me to finish a grid can depend heav...

I thought it would be an interesting challenge to try to make a perfectly symmetric Bananagrams word grid using all 144 Bananagrams tiles. I...

Since the introduction of the Spanish version of Bananagrams, I've been bugged by the fact that none of the online photos showed what th...

I don't normally post videos, but there are not a lot of pangram videos out there, so I am willing to make an exception. It is a 30-seco...

The Newport Review's Bananagrams writing contest ( previously previewed here ) has started with the posting of the grid of required word...

In the past, I've proposed, half-seriously, the idea of a future where Bananagrams is played on a serious tournament level, like Scrabbl...

A Rhode Island newspaper published an article on a talk that Abe Nathanson (the Top Banana at Bananagrams International) recently gave. The...