While most players know there are 100 tiles and that the person who picks the letter closest to A goes first, there are a few facts that even super-fans will be surprised to learn.

Becoming a Scrabble expert requires memorizing thousands of obscure words from the far reaches of the English dictionary, like "adz" (a cutting tool), "pahoehoe" (a type of lava), and "crwth" (a ...

Check out the final board from a World Scrabble Championship and you might feel like you're reading a foreign language. You'd only know all those words if, like many Scrabble champions ...

The world of Scrabble is AGOG – score 24 points if you have one G on a double-letter square and the whole word on a triple-word score; give up playing if you used it without any multipliers.

On the website sixtyandme, Pat Skene described similar experiences on the unofficial Scrabble-like app Words With Friends. "Suddenly, I'm inundated with guys wanting to hook up because they have ...

There are alternative apps to the official game such as Words with Friends and Wordmaster, which have similar rules to traditional Scrabble, but are not licensed by its owners. The BBC contacted ...