Scrabble on the Net
Reviews and ratings of websites where you can play scrabble and similar games online
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Play Scrabble (and Scrabble Type Games) Online
Play Email Scrabble
Other Websites of Interest
Word Finders and Scrabble Solvers
Associations clubs and tournaments
Scrabble Software
Play Scrabble (and Scrabble Type Games) Online
Internet Scrabble Club
www.isc.ro
Play Scrabble Online with others
Massive online scrabble site - when I looked there were around 5000 people online! And you can play in English (UK and US), French, Romanian, Italian or Dutch.
To get started you need to register (completely free) and then download Wordbiz (available for Windows, Mac and Linux), a program that allows you to play scrabble online. Once the program is installed you are prompted to open a connection (have your login and password handy) - its as simple as that! Click on "seek" to get a game.
If you want you can just observe a game. To get the full flavour of what you can do here click on the help tab.
ScrabbleOn (Windows Users Only)
www.scrabbleon.org
Play Scrabble Online with others, Play Locally
To play at ScrabbleOn, you have to download the program Networdz.
To do this you need to join the games room - easy just click on the Scrabble On link on the left hand side, choose a user name and you are in. Type in the command !download and you will be given the download address. Type in the address into your browser and the download will start automatically. Install the program on your computer. You should then read the setup help section on the website in order to configure Networdz and to learn how to connect online.
Then you are free to play online against other players - you can also chat at the same time! There are tournaments and helpful tools such as word lists. It is completely free to play at ScrabbleOn. You can also play Networdz locally against your own computer.
You need to have Wndows in order to use Networdz.
Literati from Yahoo Games
http://uk.games.yahoo.com
Play Scrabble Online with others
What Yahoo has is a game called Literati - much like scrabble. It seems to be a very busy site - I had little trouble finding an oponent. Sign up (its completely free) and get started straight away. There are no downloads. The board is a little different to an "ordinary" scrabble board but operates in much the same way. There is a section on how to play or you can just hit the play now button (there is also a list of "rooms" further down the page that you can chose to play in and you can also choose between social, beginner, intermediate, advanced, ladder and league.
Scrabble Blast
www.grab.com/games/scrabble-blast
Single Player Game
Scrabble Blast is from Games.com. You can play it free online or you can download the paid for version. Although it has the feel of a Scrabble board, it is unlike the normal game in that you are presented with a board like the one shown on the left. You make words by clicking on letters, after which those letters are removed and the ones above drop down to take their place - with new ones filling in the spaces at the top. Scoring is similar to the usual game. Occasionally a letter tile will be a "bomb" and you have to use it in a word before it reaches the bottom of the board.
Beware! This game can be quite addictive ...
Free to play online.
Scrabble Rack Attack
www.funkitron.com
Single Player Game
Like Scrabble Blast this is an AOL game. You get a rack of 7 letters and you have to make as many words out of them as possible. The game is timed and there are bonus points available if you get all words of a particular length. Great for improving your Scrabble. Choose between easy, normal and hard. Good Luck!
Free to play online.
The Man in Blue - SScrabble
www.themaninblue.com/experiment/SSCrabble
Play online against yourself. Very basic game but it plays nicely. The fact that there is no opponent means you can set up really good scores for yourself! This is a Javascript game so it shoould play in any Javascript enabled browser. It uses the UNIX dictionary.
Email Scrabble
The Pixie Pit (Subscription Website)
www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble
emailEscrabble for those of a more leisurely bent. You can view the rules of Scrabble and check out the forums for more information or you can join in the chat rooms. Allthough this is a subscription website, the cost is fairly minimal at just $12 per year.
Stupid Stuff - Crossword
www.stupidstuff.org/main/scrabble.htm
Crossword Interactive scrabble type game. There are no downloads here, just click "Play Crossword" and you can view past games or begin a new game. To play you have to enter the email adresses of the people you want to play with, and there are virtually no time limits - a game will only be deleted if it goes 30 days without play!
WordScrabbler - Crossword
http://wordscrabbler.com/crossword
This game is also called Crossword and is pretty much the same beast! Except here a game will only be deleted if it goes 20 days without play. So you have to rush with this one.
Net-Scrabble
http://photojar.com
No downloads neeeded to play online. Register to get started and then you can create games - public or private - or signify that you want to join other games. Having said that, there were no public games available to join when I logged in, but you can always create one yourself!
Bug Cafe
http://us.bugcafe.net/language/en/
Bug Cafe has 3 games you can play: Backgammon, Chess and Bug Words. There are no downloads and these are essentailly email games - you have your turn and your opponent receives an email telling them its their go a nice leisurely way to play! There are lots of people signed up to Bug Cafe so there should be no shortage of opponents. You can play 2, 3 or 4 player games. Recommended.
Braingamez - InterWebWord
www.braingamez.com
Braingamez has several word games and puzzle games to play. The one most like scrabble is Interwebword where you place letters on a grid - but in my view this is not as good as many of the other games listed on this page. But try it out - you might like it! It is another email word game with no downloads. You can find opponents on the site if you like or play with a friend.
Other Websites of Interest
Scrabble Stop
scrabblestop.com
Links, tips, tricks, downloads, word-lists, and many other resources for Scrabble players of all ages.
Scrabble Challenge
www.braunston.com/kevin/scrabble/wsc.html
Play a word on the current board displayed and the best turn will be entered on the board - and the roll-of-honour. The board is updated at 15 hour intervals, so I hope you are not in a hurry!
Time To Teach
www.timetoteach.co.uk/links/iccubescrabble.html
Ice Cube Word Scramble - practise making scrabble words. Good for children.
Word finders and scrabble solvers
Wordfinder
www.wordfinder.co.uk
Download. Free program that allows you to search for Anagrams, Matching Patterns, Words containing certain letters, All words which can be made from certain letters, Words with predominantly vowels or consonants, Words which contain a 'Q' not followed by a 'U'. Fast download and quick installation, plus its very easy to use.
Interactive Wordplays
http://www.wordplays.com/p/index
Great website with lots of useful tools for the word game addict as well as some nice little word games to play such as boggler, word morph and may more. Tools include anagram finder, crossword helper, word finder and crypto cracker!
Scrabble Solver
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/scrabble.htm
Finds all 2-7 letter words plus there is a crossword solver, useful words lists, anagram solver and lots more. Online and free to use.
Avalanche's Scrabble Word Finder
www.scrabblewordfinder.com
With this online scrabble word finder you can play it alongside your game and type in your oponent's words as they are played! Of course, we would only advocate the use of this website for practise purposes!
Scrabb
www.geocities.com/scrabb2001
A program that searches for the highest scoring word for each move. It's shareware so you have to pay.
Scrabble Rack
www.boulter.com/scrabble
Online word checker, word lists and word finders for scrabble. Free to use.
TextTwist
http://grecni.com/texttwist.php
Type in letters and you get all the word combinations. Don't know what dictionary is used, but could be useful.
Associations clubs and tournaments
Association of British Scrabble Players
www.absp.org.uk
Includes news, calendar, results, ratings and games plus advice for new player and a list of all Scrabble culbs and leagues.
Scrabble Australia
www.scrabble.org.au
In addition to clubs and tournaments, there are word lists, quizzes, rules, strategy and much more.
Scrabble Club
http://scrabbleclub.com/
US clubs, events and tournaments listed.
National Scrabble Association (US)
www.scrabble-assoc.com
Tournament listings, clubs, championships, school Scrabble, Scrabble in Canada.
Worldwide Scrabble Organisations
http://home.teleport.com/~stevena/scrabble/world.html
Contacts for major Scrabble organizations worldwide.
Scrabble Software
Scrabble - UK (Europe) version (PC CD)
This is not a download - you get an actual CD! This is the Mattel version of Scrabble and has the following features:
• The official Collins Scrabble dictionary is included and is updatable
• Six different game modes
• A coach to improve skills
• Up to four players on the same computer
• Up to 100 players via the Internet in Duplicate mode.
You can buy this software here:
Amazon - www.amazon.co.uk
Scrabble - US version
Yahoo
http://get.games.yahoo.com
You can buy Scrabble software from Yahoo Games.
This particular Scrabble game is the North American (Hasbro) version. You can play against the computer or human opponents plus if you get stuck there are hints available. This version includes Merriam-Webster's The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
