Alfred Butts visits Spartan Industries, where Scrabble tiles were manufactured, in Fairfax in 1985. Photo courtesy of Lela Butts For 20 years the wooden pieces for every Scrabble set in North America ...

FAIRFAX, Vt. -- Friday spells the end for the only U.S. factory making those little wooden Scrabble tiles. Hasbro Inc. is hanging a C-L-O-S-E-D sign at the Milton Bradley Wood Products Co., which has ...

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Researcher Joshua Lewis is proposing a new value system to some letters in Scrabble. Audie Cornish and Robert Siegel have more. Finally this hour, a note on the value of a letter. In the game of ...

Researcher would devalue Z, but Y would go up in points. Jan. 16, 2013— -- The days when "za" was the killer double-letter threat in a Scrabble game may be over if Joshua Lewis' new computer code ...

Here's one way to attract readers: Spell out your title in Scrabble tiles. It worked for Stefan Fatsis's Word Freak in 2001, though that's not all that worked for that wonderful book, which remains ...