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  • August 2008

    • C-E-R-T-A-I-N Scrabble Winners

      Mental Floss Magazine  |  Aug 30, 08 10:01 AM CDT

      C-E-R-T-A-I-N Scrabble Winners

      (Newser) - Sure, Bart Simpson could fake it at Scrabble—but for those of us playing against a wit sharper than Homer's, here are some gems Mental Floss magazine dug up that actually mean something: Cwm: A valley created by glacial shifts. Adz: An axe-like woodworking tool. Xu: The currency of Vietnam. More »

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      mental health  • intelligence  • Scrabble  • words  • board games  • intelligence tests

  • July 2008

    • Scrabulous Creators Spite Hasbro With 'Wordscraper'

      Silicon Alley Insider  |  Jul 31, 08 2:53 PM CDT

      Scrabulous Creators Spite Hasbro With 'Wordscraper'

      (Newser) - The creators of Scrabulous are determined: Just 2 days after Hasbro forced Facebook to ditch their wildly popular online Scrabble impersonator, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla have introduced Wordscraper, Silicon Alley Insider reports. The new game looks less like Scrabble than Scrabulous and offers a few rule changes, but it may yet provoke another takedown order. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • Hasbro  • Scrabble

    • Facebook Y-A-N-K-S Scrabulous

      PC Magazine  |  Jul 29, 08 10:52 AM CDT

      Facebook Y-A-N-K-S Scrabulous

      (Newser) - Facebook took down the wildly popular ‘Scrabulous’ this morning, PC Magazine reports, following a legal attack against the game's creators by the rights holders of Scrabble. The site finally folded to pressure after receiving a takedown notice from Hasbro, as well as Mattel, which owns international rights to the original Scrabble. More »

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      Facebook  • Mattel  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous

    • Hasbro Sues Scrabulous, Warns Facebook

      ABC News  |  Jul 24, 08 9:05 PM CDT

      Hasbro Sues Scrabulous, Warns Facebook

      (Newser) - The makers of Scrabble say Scrabulous must go. Hasbro today sued the creators of the online knockoff, which is wildly popular on Facebook, and warned the social networking site to dtich the game, ABC News reports. No word yet on whether that will happen. Hasbro recently released its own online version of Scrabble, also available on Facebook, in conjunction with Electronic Arts. More »

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      Facebook  • copyright  • Hasbro  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous

    • Scrabble Seduces Senegal

      BBC  |  Jul 21, 08 4:06 PM CDT

      Scrabble Seduces Senegal

      (Newser) - Despite the country’s 40% literacy rate, Senegal considers Scrabble as important as the national soccer team, and this week hosts the Francophone Scrabble World Championships. Senegalese dominated last year’s event, the BBC reports, and hope to repeat on home turf. “Nowhere else in the world can you find such excitement and dedication to the game,” an admiring French champion says. More »

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      Scrabble  • Senegal

    • End of Scrabulous Finally Near?

      TechCrunch  |  Jul 8, 08 4:27 PM CDT

      End of Scrabulous Finally Near?

      (Newser) - Facebook users anticipating a goodbye to the site’s popular unofficial Scrabble game may finally see it happen when an official one comes out later this month. Hasbro and Electronic Arts are preparing the alternative to Scrabulous, which Hasbro says infringes on its copyrights. “We are keeping our legal options open,” a Hasbro rep told TechCrunch regarding its on-again, off-again battle against the hugely popular rogue version. More »

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      Facebook  • Electronic Arts  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous

  • March 2008

    • Sellers, Fans at Odds Over Scrabulous

      New York Times  |  Mar 2, 08 4:10 PM CST

      Sellers, Fans at Odds Over Scrabulous

      (Newser) - Scrabble knock-off Scrabulous is a hit online, but sellers of the original board game have cried piracy and may take their claim to court, the New York Times reports. Tens of thousands of Scrabulous players have threatened to boycott Hasbro and Mattel if they shut down the Facebook-friendly game, which was invented by two brothers in Calcutta—and has given Scrabble an unexpected popularity surge. More »

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      Facebook  • social networking  • boycott  • Mattel  • Hasbro  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous  • board games

  • January 2008

    • Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous

      TechCrunch  |  Jan 22, 08 2:44 PM CST

      Tonight May Be Game Over for Scrabulous

      (Newser) - Scrabulous—the wildly popular Facebook app based (without permission) on Scrabble—may have to fold up its board tonight. Hasbro and Mattel, which jointly own the rights to the board game, have set the deadline for the online game to either shut itself down or sell itself to Electronic Arts, which owns the online rights. More »

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      Facebook  • copyright infringement  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous

    • Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

      Fortune Magazine  |  Jan 12, 08 6:00 AM CST

      Hasbro Attacks Fabulous Scrabble Clone

      (Newser) - Hasbro, maker of the classic board game Scrabble, is moving to shut down Scrabulous, a widely popular—and virtually identical—online knockoff. It's currently the ninth most popular application on all of Facebook, with 2.3 million users. Scrabulous’ developers estimate their app brings in about $25,000 a month, about which Hasbro is none too pleased. More »

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      Facebook  • Electronic Arts  • Scrabble  • Hasbro  • Scrabulous  • knockoff

  • December 2007

    • Scrabble Players Flock to Facebook

      New York Times  |  Dec 17, 07 12:21 PM CST

      Scrabble Players Flock to Facebook

      (Newser) - The hottest application on Facebook these days is Scrabulous, based on the Hasbro boardgame. Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla, a young brother duo from Calcutta, developed an online version of Scrabble in 2005. They put it on Facebook in June in the hopes of targeting 0.01% of the website's citizenry, but now it's got over half a million daily users. More »

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      Facebook  • Scrabble  • Scrabulous  • board games

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