Comments on: Scrabulous: Cease and Desist!

By: Jake

Jake — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:42:06 +0000

Only a company like Hasbro would try to sue people for making an online social version of one of America’s greatest pastimes. Come on, Hasbro, you should know that nobody can own a game like Scrabble. Long live Scrabulous!

By: Mister Catshit

Mister Catshit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:46:34 +0000

oopps, the link is
The petition. is at
http://www.petitiononline.com/1927612/petition.html

By: Mister Catshit

Mister Catshit — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:43:46 +0000

My father is a serious Scrabble and Scrabulous player. He emailed me encouraging everyone sign an online petition.

As Dad points out, this has helped revive a lot of interest in Scrabble too.

By: Judge Jewdy

Judge Jewdy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:54:03 +0000

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By: tallwookie

tallwookie — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 02:33:52 +0000

good luck on making money hasbro – in this online version its highly unlikely that you will get poisoned by shoddy chinese manufacturing – the same cannot be said for ALL of the rest of your toys

By: huskergrrl

huskergrrl — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:33:21 +0000

Hasbro should thank their lucky stars the Scrabulous people brought this old game back into the mainstream. I started playing an online game with my kids in November. We all had so much fun, I bought everyone Scrabble games for Christmas and we played throughout the Christmas break. Our family alone bought four board games and one software game. I hadn’t played Scrabble for at least 20 years prior to discovering Scrabulous on Facebook.

Hasbro, buy them or work out some licensing agreement, but don’t shoot yourselves in the foot and sue them.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:39:40 +0000

Does anyone know how long the game of scrabble can be owned by anyone? This game was developed in the 1930′s.

Likewise, just what is it that is owned? Trademarks and copyrights should expire in a few decades and are easily avoided.

By: Mark Derail

Mark Derail — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:10:00 +0000

It’s purely a business decision.

Cheaper to sue them than to buy them.

From a publicity standpoint, where all publicity is good publicity, you get more with suing.

So it’s win-win for Hasbro.

Now let’s see them suing the makers of the FLASH game Hungry Hungry Hyppo !

By: rectagon

rectagon — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:00:20 +0000

Dear Hasbro. Pay these guys a million bucks for saving you all the time and effort to make this thing. They only make $25,000 per month from the ads. Best million they will ever spend.

You can’t suggest words that can’t be played people!! Besides.. look at his tile holder… he’s got ultra crappy letters. Best move I can see is gooD/Hud… if hud is a word. 13pts.

By: Angel H. Wong

Angel H. Wong — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:57:28 +0000

“Uh, wonder who will win?”

Duh, the one who can afford the best lawyers and delay the trial long enough until the other one can’t afford to pay their lawyers’s fee.

By: bobbo

bobbo — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:31:49 +0000

#1–Nice call. Whoever placed “BE” exposed the high point depending on what the board development was.

“ABET” would get some points rather than turn those letters back in.

By: eggman9713

eggman9713 — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:31:43 +0000

I play Scrabulous a lot and if it goes away I will have 6 extra hours in my day to do something productive. WAAAAAHHH!!!

By: Mister Uncle Ben

Mister Uncle Ben — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 18:17:27 +0000

Wow! They got away with it for that long! Well done chaps!

By: god

god — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:19:16 +0000

At least they didn’t try Scrabulous R’ Us.

By: Ryan Vande Water

Ryan Vande Water — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:15:35 +0000

Someone with an “I” and an “X” could kick some serious ass by playing “IBEX” in the lower left corner. Sadly, “X” was already played in “MAXI” in the upper right.