The English language has about two dozen words spelled with a “q” but not its ubiquitous “u” — and Conrad Bassett-Bouchard knows them all. Like any good Scrabble player, the Moraga teenager doesn’t ...

OXON HILL, Md. (Reuters) - Spelling savants traced letters onto their palms or gazed at the ceiling on Wednesday while racking their brains in hopes of advancing to the next level of the Scripps ...

OXON HILL, Md., May 29 (Reuters) - Nearly 500 word wizards were still in contention on Wednesday as the Scripps National Spelling Bee entered its second day, as the best young spellers strive for the ...

Can't quite guess those groups? Check out these visual and verbal clues for The New York Times' brain-busting puzzle… Homebody has you solving puzzles while trying to evade a 'surprisingly responsive' ...

Pehrl Davis, of Clymer, was the winner of Puzzle 11 in the Word Whiz Diggy contest and has won a $25 gift card to be spent at a participating sponsor.

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. If you were to pick up the Oxford English Dictionary (as Chrysti M. Smith often does), and flip ...