# Scrabulous.com Down **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 26, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362 "2008-09-26T17:04:25Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/1 "2008-09-26T17:04:25Z")
The [scrabulous.com](http://scrabulous.com) site is down…does anyone know why? Is it all over?! WHERE CAN I GET MY SCRABBLE FIX? ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/2 "2008-09-26T17:13:36Z")
Copyright infringement? ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/3 "2008-09-26T17:15:50Z")
> **[Scrabulous Is Officially Gone Everywhere In The World – Except India](https://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/scrabulous-is-officially-gone-everywhere-in-the-world-except-india)** Grr. I found this. So does anyone know any other places I can play Scrabble online? ---
**Author:** ![Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e8c25b/32.png) [@Really\_Not\_All\_That\_Bright](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Really_Not_All_That_Bright)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/4 "2008-09-26T17:30:08Z")
I like [WordBiz](http://www.isc.ro/en/download.html). You can only play 2-player games on it; I don’t know if that’s common to all internet Scrabble games. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/5 "2008-09-26T17:30:55Z")
Yeah, I just got an IM from one of my pals there who’s totally freaking out – he’s in Ireland and thought he was going to be safe from all the BS over here. And, damn, I’d just gotten my rating pretty securely over 1700 … ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/6 "2008-09-26T17:35:13Z")
On facebook they replaced Scrabulous with something called Wordscraper. It works just as well as a scrabble clone if you make your board that way, but you can also set up a game with different triple and double scores throughout the board which makes for a fun game as well. I imagine with their scrabulous website going down that they will have a wordscraper site up eventually. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/7 "2008-09-26T17:40:05Z")
Wordscraper isn’t up as an independent site yet. (Not all of us do Facebook.) ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/8 "2008-09-26T17:43:07Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Wordscraper isn’t up as an independent site yet. (Not all of us do Facebook.) Yeah, I preferred the actual scrabulous site. I’ll check out WordBiz later, though. This is so depressing. ---
**Author:** ![Pleonast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pleonast/32/1183_2.png) [@Pleonast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pleonast)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2008, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/9 "2008-09-26T17:43:10Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > Copyright infringement? Trademark infringement in the US. Not sure about intellectual property rights in other jurisdictions. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/10 "2008-09-28T12:11:15Z")
It’s back in operation as [lexulous.com](http://lexulous.com) – ratings intact, etc. Phew! ---
**Author:** ![NinetyWt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/cc9497/32.png) [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)\ **Post date:** [September 28, 2008, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/11 "2008-09-28T13:40:41Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > It’s back in operation as [lexulous.com](http://lexulous.com) – ratings intact, etc. W00! Now I can continue my futile quest to one day beat **twickster**! Some things aren’t working quite right but I’m sure that will get fixed soon. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 29, 2008, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/12 "2008-09-29T13:09:58Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > W00! Now I can continue my futile quest to one day beat **twickster**! Always glad to [del]humiliate[/del] play with a fellow Doper! (I’ll tell you what, though, if you want to experience true humility, play **Mad The Swine** – he has beaten the snot out of me every time we’ve played.) Seriously – if anyone ever wants a game, I play as “twickster” there – say hi and mention the Dope if your username isn’t the same. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2008, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrabulous-com-down/465362/13 "2008-09-30T02:55:51Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > W00! Now I can continue my futile quest to one day beat **twickster**! :rolleyes: Yeah, Like Mom & Pop can beat Wal-Mart.