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Play Scrabble in your web browser, implemented in CSS and Javascript. Impressive, but start the countdown to a cease and desist letter from Hasbro

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6 comments
Peter says:

"'WARBLED' is not in the dictionary"? it is in mine.

» by Peter on Jan 30, 2004 at 12:13 PM
Sharon says:

The developer addressed the dictionary question on the intro to the discussion. The basic version uses the Unix dictionary. He or she also provides a version (larger file) that uses the full Scrabble Players' dictionary.
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble/long.htm
So there ya go. ^_^

» by Sharon on Jan 30, 2004 at 01:21 PM
Søren Dalsgaard says:

what's the big deal? - I've been playing a nicer scrabble (called literati) with friends on-liner on yahoo games for years...

» by Søren Dalsgaard on Jan 30, 2004 at 06:49 PM
Wade says:

That was just what I needed. I cleared all the tiles with 470 points. I think it would have had higher but it didn't accept alot of my words... I think my biggest word ended up being 5 letters.

» by Wade on Jan 31, 2004 at 03:46 AM
mendel says:

I tried Literati on Yahoo Games and lasted about one game -- not using Scrabble tile values and bonus squares and dictionaries makes it a little unfamiliar, but not being able to manage your rack by trading in tiles and not using a standard letter distribution (you can get a rack of all Z's, and you can't know that a Q on the board means you won't get a Q) means that you can't play a strategic game at all, which isn't very much fun.

» by mendel on Jan 31, 2004 at 01:13 PM
Dave says:

If you want to play true online scrabble their is a great version here. It uses all the same rules as real scrabble and it emails you when it's your turn. Great fun!

» by Dave on Feb 01, 2004 at 06:30 PM

 
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