It’s a slow time of year for Custom Box Service. To kill time, Tony started playing Scrabout, a computerized Scrabble clone. Then Nick started to play it, then Jeff. Now I’m playing it too.
Scrabble takes one of the world's most classic and revered board games and adapts it for mobile devices. But with games like Words With Friends and its sequel beating Scrabble to the punch by offering practically the same game for mobile users, the originality of this classic might not be enough to make it worth checking out. Letter Rack (Classic) is a challenging Scrabble word game with many features. Try to score as many points as you can by forming interconnecting words on the board. You start with seven letters, and the tiles have differing score values. Scrabout Scrabble Game - doglasopa. Scrabble is the official application of the famous crossword puzzle game of the same name. Thanks to this mobile version of the game, you can compete against artificial intelligence in offline games, or against your Facebook friends in multiplayer mode.The game allows you to play up to 50 games at the same.
Here’s a screenshot from my best game (click to enlarge):
During my first ten games today (against the computer on its highest difficulty level) I won three and lost seven. I averaged 295 points to the computer’s 325 points. During my second ten games today I won four and lost six. I averaged 313 points to the computer’s 332. Overall, I won seven and lost thirteen, averaging 304 points to the computer’s 329 points.
I’ve had a good two-day break. Tomorrow I’ll get back to databases.
All of the papers are touting Spider-Man’s $115 million opening as the “biggest weekend ever” for a film. It always bugs me when they do this. Of course it’s the biggest weekend ever: the damn film just opened on 3615 screens charging around $8.00 a seat. Adjust the figures for inflation! Tell me how many tickets were sold in comparison to past films! Tell me the per theater average adjusted for inflation. That would be a real telling figure. (I managed to google the top 100 films of all time after adjusting for inflation.)
Also: The president of Fantasyland: Bush vs. Science.
(The last two links are courtesy of crookdimwit.com.)
On 05 January 2003 (02:29 PM),
Kmhoup said:
I agree Scrabout is the best game ever. Unfortunately I just got a new computer and cannot find this game to download. Can you help me? If so please email me. Thanks a bunch!
On 03 February 2003 (03:34 PM),
Maxine said:
I need to download the Scrabout game and cannot find out how to do it. where do I find it> Thanks
On 09 February 2003 (12:54 PM),
J.D. said:
I can’t post a link to Scrabout or tell you where to find it. Trust me, though: it’s out there if you search hard enough. Use google to find a copy (it may take some work), or try your favorite file-swapping program. I have a copy, but I’m not about to incur the wrath of a giant corporation by distributing it.
On 25 May 2003 (07:13 AM),
Vina said:
Scrabout is the best game I ever played in a computer. I was able to play this game in a internet shop. I’d like to download one in my computer.. I cannot find this game to download from the net. I hope you can you help me? Please email me. Thanks so so much.
On 01 June 2003 (12:20 PM),
Paula said:
the best game i have love it !!!!! to find go to 100% freeware games and find the link goodluck
On 01 June 2003 (12:39 PM),
Paula said:
Scrabout Scrabble Game Online
can anyone help me with import export????? keeps telling me ‘not in dic’ &%^* its frustrating
On 11 September 2003 (03:57 AM),
analiza said:
On 11 September 2003 (07:30 AM),
dowingba said:
Oh God. That picture is more emotional than you think. Windows 98! How I miss you!!
On 11 September 2003 (08:34 AM),
tammy said:
On 11 September 2003 (08:37 AM),
dowingba said:
I wish I was. When I unwittingly switched to windows XP, I wanted nothing better than to format and get back to my happy Windows 98 life. But it’s been like a year or two and I realise that switching back to 98 would be folly. Sadly, windows 98 is becoming obsolete. XP sucks big time, though…
On 11 September 2003 (08:40 AM),
dowingba said:
It’s strange, JD, how it seems you are hooked up to two networks in that photo. Don’t workplace computers usually hook to one network and then the server hooks to the internet? How do you even use two networks? Is one of those a dial-up connection? I need answers!!
On 16 September 2003 (05:58 AM),
Mystiqik said:
On 21 October 2003 (11:31 PM),
Sanpaku said:
Scrabout/Networdz…..same format, same functions, etc
www.scrabbleon.org/get.htm
Cya there!
On 27 December 2003 (04:04 PM),
Dan said:
Can anyone help me in getting Scrabout back please? I have lost it and I have no idea where to find it again.
Thank you, Dan
On 09 December 2004 (01:22 AM),
newton kamchetere said:
On 18 January 2005 (04:10 AM),
C. said:
Hello:
I agree that Scrabout is an excellent game. After some searching around I finally found a copy of this download using dogpile.com (when google doesn’t find what you are looking for try this search engine). Anyway, this is a fully functional download guys. Enjoy!!!
http://www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble/download.html
On 21 January 2005 (09:48 AM),
Yaw Fosu said:
On 04 March 2005 (07:27 AM),
evzone said:
help! i can’t install scrabout! the game’s cannot run in winxp, i think.
On 19 June 2005 (05:26 PM),
Aaron said:
Here’s a copy of the imported dictionary files for scrabout, given a subset of the enable1 list generated with:
$ egrep “^[a-z]{2,12}b” enable1.txt >enable1max12.txt
If I include 13-letter words, the import fails.
http://216.231.49.82/share/scrabout-enable1-max12-dict.zip
On 04 July 2005 (02:39 AM),
Grace Aruta said:
hi! i am interested in dowloading and having a copy of SCRABOUT. I want my kids to learn from this educational board game.
I hope you can help me out how to have a copy of it
On 07 September 2005 (07:11 AM),
christine said:
On 07 September 2005 (07:11 AM),
christine said:
want for my computer
On 14 September 2005 (07:48 AM),
mathias sarauta said:
ardent player of the game. don’t know where to download.
On 07 October 2005 (12:44 PM),
christine said:
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