All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Scrabble Tools Scrabble, long one of the world’s most popular board games, is enjoying a tremendous surge in popularity, both online and in the real world.

In the 1980s, when Brian Sheppard created a computer program that played Scrabble, he typed in a lot of words—more than 100,000 of them, from the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary and ...