Scrabulous Dead? Long Live Scrabble?

July 29th, 2008 | Games

Love Scrabble? Use Facebook? Then you were probably among the hundreds of thousands of players of Scrabulous. Scrabulous was the game of Scrabble online.

Scrabulous was well liked not only for being a fun take on a well known word game, but for it’s interface. Stripped of any pretense of wood and plastic, play was fast and easy. Without fancy graphics or spinning pixels, players could concentrate on the words.

It’s gone now. Gone that is for those in the US and Canada. The rest of the world can still play. For the rest though, they now have the ‘official’ Scrabble game on Facebook.

Yes. The game company Hasbro has brought out yet another version of Scrabble to enjoy. This one has more bells and whistles. Sound effects and spinning pixels are there to spare.

According to the message above, Hasbro is looking at making some of those things optional. This will probably affect the number of folks that become regular players. But will that and speedier play be enough to move the masses that played on Scrabulous?

Will you take up playing Scrabble on Facebook? Will you find solace in other word games? What features will drag you in?

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Bloggers have shown Scrabulous quite a bit of love. Will they continue to do the same with Scrabble? Or will they put down some harsh words?

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patrickd88 5 months ago 2 points
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Here's what I don't get. Why is everyone giving Hasbro grief about this? Scrabulous is ripping off their work. Bloggers always complain about their intellectual property being used without permission or compensation. Scrabble IS Hasbro's intellectual property. It's their right and they shouldn't get grief about protecting it.

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Brooke 5 months ago 1 point
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I got in to comment. I have never heard of Scrabulous - I will have to check on that!

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tojosan 5 months ago 1 point
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Patrick,
It would seem that many are unhappy that Hasbro didn't just make a concerted effort to partner with an already successful product, Scrabulous. Yes, Hasbro has the North American intellectual property rights and I'd wager they were obligated to legally challenge Scrabulous.

For my money's worth, the Hasbro version will likely adopt some of the favorite Scrabulous features and call it a day. Sadly, my experience with big corps is they'll put just enough effort in and then let it die a slow death. If they were really passionate about it, they'd have brought this to fruition sooner.

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mary 5 months ago 1 point
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they did a lousy job of banning it, i still play on scrabulous.com

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