Scrabble

• North American high school Scrabble champ spells out lofty goals

  Toronto student Ruth Li recently became the first female to win the high school division at the North American Scrabble World Championships.

  Canada

  Apr 18, 2023
  
• Scrabble, Dodgeball tournaments hosted in Kingston, Ont.

  Competition descended on the Limestone City as the Canadian Scrabble Classic and the Ontario Dodgeball Provincial Championships were hosted over the weekend.

  Canada

  Feb 18, 2023
  
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• Scrabble players look to ban racist, homophobic slurs in game

  The world of tournament Scrabble is split over whether to remove slurs from official dictionaries, as governing bodies debate the rules in light of Black Lives Matter protests.

  World

  Jul 9, 2020
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• Grandmothers join Edmonton high school students in charitable game of Scrabble

  Philanthropic grandmas are spelling out a good cause to help their counterparts elsewhere in the world.

  Canada

  Feb 20, 2019
• ‘OK’ and ‘ew’ among new words added to Scrabble dictionary

  Merriam-Webster released the sixth edition of “The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary” on Monday, four years after the last freshening up.

  Entertainment

  Sep 24, 2018
• World Scrabble Championship won by Brit with ‘braconid’

  Competitors from 30 countries took part in the event, held as part of the Mindsports International Championships in Lille, France.

  World

  Sep 5, 2016
• Shediac to host 1st Atlantic International Scrabble Tournament

  Atlantic Canada's first international Scrabble tournament is set to take place in Shediac this fall, in celebration of the world's first crossword board game, which was developed in the small town.

  Canada

  Jun 8, 2016
• Toronto students take part in Scrabble tournament

  A hush was in the room, an intensity in the air. About one hundred students competing to be Scrabble Champion is serious stuff.

  Mar 4, 2015
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• Little green army men, Rubik’s Cube make Toy Hall of Fame

  It's mission accomplished for little green army men, which were inducted into the U.S. Toy Hall of Fame, along with the 1980s stumper Rubik's Cube.

  Lifestyle

  Nov 6, 2014
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• 24-year-old Oregon man wins national Scrabble championship

  Conrad Bassett-Bouchard started his championship Scrabble game Wednesday with the word 'zilch' and finished with the opposite - the $10,000 prize and the title of national Scrabble champion.

  Lifestyle

  Aug 13, 2014