I have a friend who misses playing online Scrabble with her circle of friends. Turns were passed and the next player would play when she could. IOW, not played in real time–a good system for people with lives. Their site shut down and now they are looking for a new one, preferably one that won’t load them up with spyware and virii. Anybody know of one?
facebook has scrabulous. I’ve only played one-on-one, but it has the option for more. of course, you and all your friends have to join facebook first.
These people are in their 50s. I don’t think they are Facebook’s core market.
Nonsense. I am 45 and on Facebook and have 4 Scrabulous games going on right now. One of them is multiplayer. IMO, it’s MySpace that is less older folk friendly. Facebook has a nice clean look to it–and you can add as much as you want to it etc. The people I’m playing Scrabulous with (it’s just like Scrabble) range in age from 25 to 55. We all happen to be friends in RL, too. Go join–it’s fun and I might just “friend” you (I think it should be “befriend” but no one listens to me).
Well, I’ll keep that in mind. Any others out there?
Scrabulous also has their own site where people can play, if your friends aren’t interested in joining Facebook.
I’ve been using this one for a few years now.
To keep things running smoothly, he had to switch to subscription basis a couple years ago, but it’s only $10 for a year. Offers both basic scrabble and super scrabble, as well as rooms for varying numbers of players. Notification of turn and updates via e-mail. A nicely done site, IMHO.
We have Scrabble online, licensed by Hasbro for Encore (encore.com) It allows you to play with anyone who can get online.
I was going to mention the Pixie Pit, where I play. But I see Monstre beat me to it. 
And I have a Facebook, but I’ll admit that it’s not normal for peeps my age, though it’s growing.
Why can’t they just each keep a board and do it by e-mail? No need to worry about malware or viruses*.
If that is what you meant by virii, because the plural of virus is viruses…
Probably because trying to keep track of other players’ tiles would remove the randomness of randomly drawing your tiles. Every player would have to announce all of their tiles every time, to make sure that somebody else doesn’t also use that J or Q or Z that you’re able to stick on a triple word score (huzzah!). Guts some of the game’s strategy, that.
It’s easier to cheat that way, which strains friendships, and nobody who has a life also has a place to keep a Scrabble board sitting for days at a time where it won’t be knocked over. “Virii” is jargon and only refers to the computer type and “viren” never caught on. No problem with it being jargon, since nobody playing Scrabble would use it because having too many vowels is rarely a problem.
Says YOU. I’ve had trays full of them more often than I’d care to think about, tyvm! :eek:
Yup–as I stare at the 3 I’s I have, along with one U and a G (near the end of the game, so no more tiles). WTH am I gonna do with those?
Okay, maybe** I** is an exception. Maybe the guy who created the original letter list overloaded it with Is. In retrospect, I can recall having what seemed like a tray full of them. Made me wish “virii” had caught on.
Here’s another site for online, non-realtime play. Their version of Scrabble is called “Wordgame”.
I didn’t know any of these were out there! I’d love to do this with my family.
In one of my recent Facebook games, I had a rack of 5 I’s, and I can’t remember what the other two letters were, but it was something useless. It was early enough in the game that I was able to swap some, but it’s turned out to be such a closely fought match that it really pains me to have given up any points.