httpwebwitch - 2:23 pm on Aug 1, 2008 (gmt 0)

WordScraper rivals Scrabble in its gameplay without stepping on any trademark or copyright toes. And it works. The interface does have some obvious Scrabulous DNA, and IMHO it's better than Scrabulous was; apparently the Ajarwallas have had some time to refine and polish the UI.

Wordscraper is platform on which you can build word puzzle games.

The ironic thing is, with Wordscraper, you can BUILD a Scrabble game on their 15x15 board, by putting the triple-word, double-letter etc spaces into their Scrabble positions. Thus Wordscraper is a metagame, a supergame, of which Scrabble is a possible expression. Scrabble thus becomes a subset of WordScraper, just like Poker is a subset of Playing Cards.

IMHO it's a brilliant response to Hasbro.

The Official Hasbro Scrabble game for Facebook was one of the clumsiest and badly- botched game launches in recent memory. Hasbro did have a chance to win this competition with the legal upper hand, but now my gameplay is going to happen at WordScraper, not Scrabble.

Sorry Hasbro, you lose!
Again!