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

I recently played a game called Disorder, which is a neat little word-building (or more accurately, word-avoiding) game. To explain it, it...

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 contrast with the Scrabble reform proposed by Peter Roizen (see the previous post on WildWords ), Donald Sauter's complaints are more...

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...

Last month, the Scrabble world was briefly rocked by news reports saying that a new version of Scrabble would allow proper nouns to be used ...

The Scrabble board is a 15-by-15 grid, so naturally, Scrabble dictionaries have no need for words longer than 15 letters. Oddly even " ...

Since making palindromes earns players bonus points in the Applescore game (as described in this previous post on Appletters), I've com...

Playing with the sort of people that memorize lists of Scrabble-legal two-letter combinations (there really ought to be a name for these peo...