Sunday, March 2, 2008

Addicted to Scrabbulous?


You're not alone. According to today's New York Times, Scrabulous has over 700,000 players a day and nearly three million registered users.
As you may know Mattel and Hasbro, the companies that own the rights to Scrabble, aren't happy about all of this. They call the online version of the game piracy and are threatening legal action.
And it's true, Scrabulous is identical to Scrabble in a lot of ways. For example, it has an identical board and exactly the same number of tiles with the same point values. And the guys who made Scabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, are raking in the dough -- $25,000 a month in advertising.
Meanwhile, Scrabulous is insanely popular with many users having a dozen or so games going at any one time. How many Scrabulous games do you have going right now?



If you're looking for new Scrabulous partners, I have two friends who probably have multiple games going right now, but are looking for new challengers nonetheless. Find Ali and Simon on Facebook and challenge them to a game. Tell them the Web Archaelogist sent you.

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