I'm sure most people reading this blog will have heard about the litigation brought by Hasbro against Scrabulous (a.k.a Lexulous). If not, it was on the news, where have you been? Well, the latest update is that a settlement has been reached. Lexulous, and by association, Wordscraper, have modified the rules of the game to be different enough from the Scrabble rules. So the lawyers are all happy now, or at least will be once the cheques have cleared. Hoorah!
We have been keeping up with changes to ensure our users can benefit from using Scrabulizer with the customisable "Lexulous" rules. For a while now you have been able to setup your own board layouts, tile scores, tile distribution and since last week we also support 8 letter racks. For those using our Wordscraper plug-in, there is a new version (v1.0.2) that you should update to in order to get all the new feature benefits. Otherwise you will find it all by clicking the "Game Design" button.
To follow the Lexulous rules, our scoring continues to give a 50 point bonus for using 7 rack tiles, plus an extra 10 points for using 8. At least until they change their minds again.
Finally, may we wish you all a merry Christmas and new year, and we hope you play lots of Scrabble over the holidays :)
Archive for the ‘announcements’ Category
8 Letter Racks
19 December 2008
Farewell Scrabulous, Hello Wordscraper and Plugins!
3 September 2008
I hope most people will agree with me that Scrabulous has done wonderful things for Scrabble, and despite it's numerous short-comings, the fact is people loved it, so it's a real shame that it's been forced out of Facebook. But this isn't the end of Scrabble online!
You can still play the official Mattel/Hasbro Scrabble applications on Facebook, but if this feels too much like treachery, then you can play Scrabulous on their official site or the replacement Facebook application, Wordscraper, from the same people who brought you Scrabulous. We've even written a plugin which lets you import your games from Wordscraper directly into Scrabulizer so no more tedious board setups!
Site Relaunch
13 March 2008
Hello Everybody!
We always like to hear from you, and we thought that just maybe you'd like to hear from us, so we've started a blog!
First thing to mention is the re-branding that many of you will have noticed. We are now Scrabulizer! The old scrabblesolver.co.uk name will continue to work, although you will have to log in again if you had asked to be remembered.
Second, we've taken this opportunity to add lots of goodies that you've been asking us for, such as:
We always like to hear from you, and we thought that just maybe you'd like to hear from us, so we've started a blog!
First thing to mention is the re-branding that many of you will have noticed. We are now Scrabulizer! The old scrabblesolver.co.uk name will continue to work, although you will have to log in again if you had asked to be remembered.
Second, we've taken this opportunity to add lots of goodies that you've been asking us for, such as: