Mattel said the use of names will add a "new dimension" to Scrabble The rules of word game Scrabble are being changed for the first time in its history to allow the use of proper nouns, games company ...

As reported by Robert Quigley over at Geekosystem, a pretty substantial change was reported as coming to a classic language-driven board game: the legalization of proper nouns in Scrabble. Robert was ...

A guest post from Slate contributor Stefan Fatsis: No, world, the rules of Scrabble are not changing. Despite what you may have heard this morning on NPR or read on Kotaku or CBS or learned from the ...