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A detail of a scrabble board at Boston Market restaurant in Palo Alto, California on Monday, August 15, 2005. National Scrabble Association club 512 meets every Monday night at Boston Market on the El Camino Real in Palo Alto. (Jim Gensheimer/ San Jose Mercury News)

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PUBLISHED: October 6, 2014 at 11:24 p.m. | UPDATED: August 12, 2016 at 8:40 a.m.

Copyright fight: Who owns Scrabble s word list? Look, but don t touch or smell the plants in the Poison Garden. Color-full: on the 120 Crayola crayon colors. And behold the cow-milking world championship doping scandal.

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