Bitmap solutions to Tic Tac Toe.

I thought Scrabulous would have been shut down by now. All the threats to take it down by a specific date have come and gone w/o anything happening.

Scrabble is old enough, that I think there is some chance that it could be shown that it is already in the public domain. It would be ironic if this is the case that will unearth something that shows that to be the case.

Anyone have a Scrabble board that was published w/o a copyright notice prior to 1977? There's the smoking gun!

Like the MIT physics simulator - a game played by drawing physical objects to solve a series of puzzles. Best played with a tablet.

What kind of hutzpah do you have to have to release "Scrabulous" which is a direct rip-off of Scrabble (same tile distribution, same board layout, same dictionary).

I don't know which of these components are are protected by copyright law - it seems reasonable to me that Scrabulous has violated not only copyright but also the trade mark of Hasbro.

Hasbro cannot protect the "idea" of an anagramming word game. This is an opening to create a "open source game design". We just need a group to create the following components and license under an open source license:

- Board design
- Tile distribution
- Word list
- Scoring rules

I recently did an analysis of the tile distribution of Scrabble as compared to a standard corpus of English words. I found these major differences. Of the 98 tiles in Scrabble, it has:

- Too few H's (should have 6 instead of 2).
- Too many I's (should have 7 instead of 9).
- Too few S's (should have 6 instead of 4).
- Too few T's (should have 9 instead of 6).

Our friends told us about this really fun anagramming game, so I snapped one up when I saw it for sale today. There are 144 letter tiles. Each person races to complete a valid Scrabble-style crossword with his own letters.

After we played I checked the letter distribution. Interestingly, they are long on a few letters (from what you'd expect in normal English letter distribution: two each of JQXZ (expect 0), and they are really short on H's: 3 included (expect 9).

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Fun story.

Quoted: On Oct. 12, in the basement of a Unitarian church on the town green in Lexington, Mass., a carpenter named Michael Cresta scored 830 points in a game of Scrabble. His opponent, Wayne Yorra, who works at a supermarket deli counter, totaled 490 points.