Scrabble Adds Its First Crowdsourced Word: Geocache

A month after turning to fans for the first time to propose a new word for its Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, Hasbro revealed the winner: geocache.

The eight-letter word, which will be challenging to implement since players only have seven letters at a time, beat the No. 2 word in the running, the far more useful "Zen." It also beat out "bitcoin," "cosplay" and "ew." Geocache is a verb with the definition "to seek items by means of a GPS device as part of a game."

In March, Hasbro, the owner of the game, asked fans to nominate their picks on the company's Hasbro Game Night Facebook Page. Read more...