Rejoice all you word freaks on Facebook. Your favorite game is back, albeit in a new avatar.
In case you have been living under a rock or something, Rajat & Jayant Agarwalla pulled their popular Scrabble like app off Facebook last week (Pssst.. check out Scrabulous.com), after they were sued in US federal court in New York, by Hasbro Inc.
After months of uncertainty, Hasbro (who signed a deal last year with video game maker Electronic Arts to develop digital versions of the classic board games including Monopoly, Scrabble and Yahtzee), went ahead with the lawsuit after EA announced the launch of its online version of Scrabble on its portal, Pogo.com and a similar Facebook app soon.
But now the Scrabulous’s creaters have the game’s back up on Facebook in another format (Wired News), arguably different, but with all the familiar touches that we have all grown to like.
Instead of Scrabble-like square tiles, for instance, Wordscraper has circles. The tiles earning double and triple points have been rearranged, and tiles for quadruple points have been added.
So I am thinking that we can all play and get our quota if we agree not to call it Scrabble? And I am in! However my suggestion is that you use the words “tokens” and “shelf” instead of the standard Scrabble you know whats.
But I am not too happy that Wordscraper will not let me use all the seven “tokens” on my “shelf” to spell “LANGOTI”. Come on guys! We are desi, yaar! And the langoti is what we roll in!
You can now join the Über Desi group on Facebook.
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