no more scrabulous?

Facebook asked to pull Scrabulous

Facebook has been asked to remove the Scrabulous game from its website by the makers of Scrabble.
The Facebook add-on has proved hugely popular on the social network site and regularly racks up more than 500,000 daily users.
Lawyers for toy makers Hasbro and Mattel say Scrabulous infringes their copyright on the board-based word game.

This seems rather poopy of Hasbro and Mattel. I’d bet that out of those half a million daily users on Facebook, most of them already have the board game, or have since bought one as a result of Scrabulous.

I sure hope this won’t affect email Scrabulous!

cupboardy?

Actually, it sounds like a fine word to me. Wandering Coyote sent this to me yesterday and I thought I’d pass it on. Lots of us are playing Scrabulous these days, either by email or on Farcebook.

If you’d like to play just drop me an email.

 

first time ever!

scrabble online

Scrabble is the favourite game at casa az.

And to further feed my addiction I have recently started playing online on a website called Scrabulous. There are several options but the one I like best is playing by email so that you and your victim opponent don’t need to be online at the same time and that people can play at their leisure.

At the moment I’ve got three games on the go, as well as an unfinished one with Nog here. It’s like a dream come true! So if anyone would like to have a game with me just click on ‘email scrabble’ on the Scrabulous website, then click on ‘play with a family member or friend’. Make sure you put your own name and email address first. Then make your first move and I’ll get an email telling me it’s my turn .

You can find my email address on the sidebar.

 

scrabble

The favourite game at casa az.

Nog and I play almost daily, which I find very generous of him since he wins maybe once every two or three months. Though the past couple of days he seems to be on a roll. He’s still only won one game so far this weekend (first since I think last March or April) but the scores are getting uncomfortably closer and he is also coming up with far too many seven-letter words . . . most annoying. Lately I’ve barely been able to cheese him! A nod to Terry Pratchett for that one - a cheesing is like a creaming only it hurts more.

The score point difference between a creaming and a cheesing is shown below, based on how many points The Winner (ie. me ) wins by.

1. basic win: under 50 points
2. creaming: 50-99 points
3. cheesing: 100-149 points
4. creamcheesing: 150-199 points
5. cheesewhizzing: more than 200 points

Had to come up with category five awhile ago - you can probably figure out why.