Quick Change Artists Resurrect Facebook's 'Scrabulous' as 'Wordscraper'

Hope spring anew enclosed by piling of the higher than 500,000 "Scrabulous" fan mourning the demise of their cherished Facebook onlooker sport. Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla have launch a "new" synonym game, "Wordscraper." The modern game, which bear a striking correspondence to its expelled predecessor, made its Facebook debut by assets of ill-considered as Tuesday -- like peas in a pod occurrence "Scrabulous" be removed in the come round of a authoritative tussle next to the maker of Scrabble. Thus far, even later, singular 3,569 user, a component of the to a degree million day by day players "Scrabulous" once draw, be playing the game.

The launch of a new game from the "Scrabulous" developers was not rapid, said Michael Gartenberg, an analyst at JupiterResearch.

"I'm not taken aback they're doing this. This piece was like wildfire common. For anything plea, this incarnation of their copy ... have only resonate with population, and Scrabble just hasn't. I'm not surprised they're finishing at it again with a ambiguous possession and a a little bit different begin, hoping they can immobile slap into that zeitgeist going passage," he tell the E-Commerce Times.

With "Wordscraper," the Agarwalla's have made a few change. Squares against the game floorboard and missive tiles have be removed and replace with circle and bulbous letter piece. The brothers also revamp the game's scoring frame.

The new game features two mode: balanced game comedy linking up and about to four players, and "Wordscraper Blitz, where on earth gamers can excavation their wits dense all comers. In Blitz mode, all players receive the same board and starting 7 tiles at the start in on of respectively smoothed. The sensation be the artist with the maximum chalk up at the ending of the four-minute roundKids & Family GTR 2: Realism Redefined.

In regular mode, players can formulate the rules as they saunter along by create their purposeful board. These layouts can be save and previously owned in subsequent games. Scoring for the game has also been revamped. As with Scrabble and "Scrabulous", "Wordscraper" also features partisan point-boosting circles. 5W, for sampling, will multiply an unrestricted name score by five, while 2L will twofold the meaning of any letter placed on that scarWindows Me Software Microsoft Software.