NORTHAMPTON – Sizy. It means sizelike; viscous; glutinous; as, sizy blood. And, it garnered Marilyn Schmidt, of Easthampton, 56 points in a recent Scrabble game with the Northampton Scrabble Club.

For tournament Scrabble players, there is a lot of quirky knowledge to be obtained on the way to the top. John D. Williams Jr., executive director of the National Scrabble Association, explains that ...

Ever since he was a kid, Samuel Kaplan has been a whiz at unscrambling letters. And as soon as he learned to play Scrabble at age 10, he was hooked. “When I was young, I would do the Jumble in the ...

Although you won't find it in the NCAA record book, if you could spell Mike Krzyzewski's name in a game of Scrabble, you'd receive 42 points - 5 for K, 1 for R, 10 for Z, 4 for Y, 10 for Z, 1 for E, 4 ...

Kristy Zurbrick is momentarily stumped. Rearranging the letters on her Scrabble rack, she eyes a triple-word bonus that, if reachable, would put her back in the game. A little more letter juggling ...