With this alternate spelling of muzhiks, Jesse Inman earned the record of the highest-scoring opening Scrabble word ever played in 2008. Who knew this common English word has more than one spelling?

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One of the world's most popular word games is getting a new version. Just ahead of National Scrabble Day, Mattel unveiled Scrabble Together this week adding a second side to the classic Scrabble ...

Board game makers are evolving their products and re-imagining classics to stay competitive in a booming industry paired with new consumer trends. "We now have a generation of people where game play ...

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After 75 years, Scrabble is tinkering with its format. The C-H-A-N-G-E -- worth 12 points in traditional Scrabble, by the way -- comes in the form of a new double-sided board. Mattel announced that ...

NEW YORK — Scrabble is getting a bit of a makeover, at least in Europe. Mattel has unveiled a double-sided board that features both the classic word-building game and Scrabble Together, a new ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (AP) — Scrabble is getting a bit of ...