At the World Scrabble Championships last Friday, one player insisted that his opponent be strip-searched after a letter mysteriously went missing. Here, a brief guide to the scandal: What happened?

How Scrabble has been hijacked by geeks (and why it's a four-letter fiasco) By MATTHEW ENGEL Updated: 06:54 EDT, 1 February 2010 ...

In this week's contest, write something using all 100 tiles in a Scrabble set (your choice of blanks). Plus new words that would score 15 Scrabble points.