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Wanna play Scrabble? – Check out Scrabulous.com.

My friend Jasmine introduced me to this cool site that allows you to play Scrabble online for free, either with yourself, with a friend sitting halfway around the world or with total strangers who share your love of Scrabble.

The software that the site uses is lightweight and really easy to use. It almost feels as if you are sitting in a room with the Scrabble board in front of you ready to go to vocab war. There is almost no learning curve and as long as you know the basic rules you are ready to go as soon as you log in. I am totally addicted. Did I mention that the site also allows you to chat with your opponent during the game?

I have observed a few games (you can just drop in and watch other games in progress… there are some amazing scrabble players in there) and have played a couple of games with Jasmine. I lost both times ( ) but Jazz, in true Arnie style, I WILL BE BACK!

Couple of tips from Scrabble-guru Jasmine:

1. Use the online dictionary before forming a word you are not sure exists (I do that all the time), it will save you some precious seconds.
2. Familiarize yourself with the Two Letter Words list… they come in very very handy in crunch situations and earn some very useful points.

My username for the site is varunvnair, so if you join add me as your buddy and drop me an email or an offliner and we will have a game sometime. Continue reading →