Posted 09/24/08 at 02:00:00 PM by Thomas McDonald

There’s a game that’s become part of my daily regime. It’s one of the first things I do after firing up the laptop over my morning coffee and the last thing I do before shutting down the laptop with an evening gin. It never takes more than a few minutes, and I do it throughout the day, like answering email. In fact, it is answering email, except with little lettered tiles.

Yes, I am completely addicted to Scrabulous (www.scrabulous.com). Email games are certainly nothing new, but good, well-supported, free email games that a wide variety of people can play without any initial purchase are pretty rare.     

Scrab on, after the jump!

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Posted 07/31/08 at 10:34:26 PM by Mark Edward Soper

The Mashable social networking blog reports that the creators of the now-offline Scrabble clone Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, have now launched Wordscraper. Wordscraper, like its now-vanished sibling, is for Facebook users only.

Wordscraper doesn't look like Scrabble, as it uses circles instead of squares for letter placement. Although Wordscraper uses multiple letter and word scores like Scrabble, it implements them with different-colored circles, and the default board uses a much different layout than Scrabble.

To learn more about what makes Wordscraper different, and maybe better, than its predecessor, join us after the jump.

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Posted 01/14/08 at 07:47:12 PM by Erin Simon

Popular Facebook application Scrabulous faces the wrath of Hasbro over possibly infringing Scrabble's trademarks

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