"One goal of this was to figure out how much of the variance in score comes from the tile order and how much comes from the board, given that a tile order would be expected. It turns out to be about half-bag, half-board. [...] The blank is worth about 30 points to a good player. [...] The Q is a burden to whichever player receives it, effectively serving as a 5 point penalty."

Street Scrabble - giant tiles played onto an entirely-chalked board. Maybe they couldn't find a big enough grid of paving stones.

Well, "go anywhere without a slight breeze" - a printable Scrabble board, but with cut-out paper tiles. Maybe I'll work on a tileless paper version.

An utterly ruthless bunch of card-counting, Scrabble-board-scanning client-side robots to help you win unfairly at Yahoo games. Includes a Quantum-Leap-style pool-aiming laser overlay, ludicrously.

Deep-sea Scrabble. "We had to make sure the board wasn't going to get washed away or dissolve under water, so I had to get a metal board made up." Remember the gnomes.

A horrible contrived maximum (Scrabble dictionary legal) score.

Scrabble AI that does most of its work in the final moments: "Maven's game play is sub-divided into three phases: The "mid-game" phase, the "pre-endgame" phase and the "endgame" phase."

The Guardian plays gestalt Hay Festival guests at Scrabble. Dylan Moran: "My word doesn't have to connect with the other words, does it? Or is that one of the fundamental principles of the game?"

Photos of racks with terrible letters.