You can learn a lot about a person from the way they play Scrabble. Do they show off their SAT vocabulary or only know dirty words? Are they rule-sergeants or are they so competitive that they will ...

A player in a national Scrabble tournament in the US has been disqualified for cheating. The young male was caught hiding blank 'wild card' tiles that he could have used to score extra points, reports ...

Pleased by the, errrm, feedback about our coverage of research on the comparative mortality rates of chess pieces (17 August), we turn to what over-engineered computer modelling can tell us about ...