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none dared call it SCRABBLE…it is LEXULOUS!
Living without electricity for 8 days was a painful experience. Without a well pump there was no water. No baths. No showers. A real stinky deal.
The food in the refrigerator spoiled. Any cooking was done outside over a fire. Thank heaven the weather was good!
For me one of the most disgruntling aspects was losing the use of my computer. I missed deadlines. I could not blog. And I lost the ability to play on-line SCRABBLE through the SCRABULOUS application that two brothers in Calcutta have created. This fantastic application became embroiled in a lawsuit. The owners of the SCRABBLE copyrights, Hasbro and Mattel went after the Agarwalla brothers in court in India. That lawsuit has apparently been resolved in part.
I learned about the court’s decision after I tried to log on to the SCRABULOUS website and discovered that the site had vanished. Perplexed - I checked Google News and found several news stories about that litigation. The court ruled in favor of the Agarwalla brothers. There was also a judgment that the Agarwallas needed to change the name of their application because SCRABULOUS was too close to SCRABBLE.
I kept checking the news knowing that the Agarwallas would quickly create a new website under a new name. Last night I was surfing the net and I found a mention of the new website. I clicked on it. I tried to start a game. Nothing happened. Then, right before my eyes the site went from some sort of beta test mode to the real deal. The familiar game rooms appeared along with my personal statistics. Nobody was in any of the game rooms.
I clicked on my favorite game room, SOWPODS JUNCTION. I was alone there for a moment. Then Minna, from Sydney, Australia clicked in. We played a game. She stompled me. It was heavenly!
To play the new on-line game that is exactly like that game we won’t ever mention in the same breath click on www.LEXULOUS.com.
I just did a search on Google News for LEXULOUS and didn’t get a single match. You heard it here first…..
I’m in heaven! I’m in heaven!
Vick Mickunas
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By dr larry myers
August 1, 2009 10:02 PM | Link to this
this Scrabble meltdown is worthy of a scene in my new play “My Space Scrabble” am in Dayton interviewing participants & guests thank God for literacy Im a former Ohio Prof at Kent & Cincinnati—a decade a decade of great peopleBy vick
November 21, 2008 1:45 PM | Link to this
2 months later I am hopelessly addicted to LEXULOUS. I have played over 500 games. It is wonderful!By eeeeee
September 30, 2008 5:02 PM | Link to this
They are working on fixing all the links and the Lexulous site should be fully functional very soon (according to one of the Agarwalla brothers). Tons of people on Facebook are pestering them to get the site working! (myself included) … It’s their own fault, they created this mass dependency on the online word game that dares not speak its name.By vick
September 28, 2008 10:42 PM | Link to this
Keep trying. I also have a Mac. They are fine tuning the site so keep trying and you’ll get on.By lmj
September 28, 2008 9:43 PM | Link to this
Are they Mac friendly? I couldn’t get on : > (