We may earn a commission from links on this page. Word from the Scrabble makers at Mattel is that proper nouns will be fair game for Scrabble players as of this summer. [UPDATE: Not so fast concerning ...

MARK COLVIN: Names like Mozart, Obama, and Picasso might be part of common parlance but they're also set to find themselves onto a Scrabble board. The makers of the boardgame have announced a new ...

Any Scrabble fan will tell you that knowing how to spell Beyonce, Timbuktu, or Quorn would never help you win the game. But now, to the horror of the purists, the game's makers are throwing out the ...