I had a grand plan, dear reader. I planned to shed quantitative light on the problem of income inequality. And I planned to do it with a million games of web-scraped Scrabble tournament data. But, ...

GRAND BLANC TWP. -- What do the words "qi," "za" and "xu" have in common? They're all potentially high scorers in Scrabble. And they really are words. "Qi" means "life force; "za" is an abbreviated ...

Scrabble players were given good news Saturday – “qi” is an official word. Editors of Official Scrabble Words, the Scrabble reference book, said qi (pronounced “chee”), a Chinese word meaning life ...

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Which one word is more useful to Scrabble players than the entire second half of the English dictionary? According to the reigning national champion, Daniel Piechnick, that word is "qi". "There's ...

Judging what is and isn't a word is a loaded topic for dictionary editors and Scrabble junkies alike. In tournament Scrabble, a definitive list of words is paramount, and coming up with that list is ...