But if you're a hardcore Scrabbler who's used to the real game, you're going to want to find a place to play Scrabble. Scrabulous was, indeed, cleaner, sleeker, more user-friendly than Hasbro's online application.
Which game are they choosing?įor a lot of people, I think this is less about the specifics of Scrabble the game than it is about loyalty to the old Scrabulous - and there is some anger at Hasbro for shutting down the game in the first place. So I guess Scrabble fans can vote with their fingers.
So when you have eight letters on a rack - and I just played a game of Lexulous today - it feels unnatural, and trying to anagram those eight letters feels more difficult. Seven turns out to be the number of pieces of information that our brains are built to process well. Sort of like how 90 feet is the perfect distance between the bases in baseball. He experimented for years with all of these issues - the size of the board, the number of letters and blanks - and he didn't realize just how right he got it. It was invented during the Depression by this architect named Alfred Butts. We're so used to seeing Scrabble the way it is. What does your brain do differently when you play this new version of the game?Įight is a weird number to have in terms of the number of letters. This matters not only aesthetically, but it also matters in terms of what your brain does when you play this game. You play with eight tiles instead of seven the premium squares are in different places the tiles have different values - the Q and Z are worth 12 points instead of 10, for instance - and the numbers of each letter has been tweaked. There's a grid and tiles and premium squares - double and triple words and letters - but it's not Scrabble. How is Lexulous different from Scrabulous?Īs part of the settlement, were allowed to create a disemboweled version of Scrabble. And it created its own version of Scrabble, an authorized version, that you can get on Facebook. The brothers reportedly wanted several million dollars to sell the game to Hasbro - Hasbro declined. So, last summer, it sued the Argawalla brothers in India who created the game, on intellectual property grounds. Hasbro absolutely had to protect its ownership of the game here. Scrabble is owned in North America by the toy and game company Hasbro. Stefan Fatsis: was exactly Scrabble: Same board, layout, colors, tiles. Stefan Fatsis, NPR's resident Scrabble guru, talks with Michele Norris about this new, pseudo-Scrabble experience. Now, the creators of Scrabulous have quietly relaunched a somewhat adulterated version of the game called Lexulous. Last year, the popular, albeit unauthorized Facebook version of Scrabble known as Scrabulous disappeared in a puff of lawsuits - leaving hundreds of thousands of word enthusiasts in the lurch. For fans of online word games, an old friend is back.
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