Handmark Scrabble + Monopoly PDA Expansion Card

by Handmark

Product Details

• Item Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006JI9M
• Item model number: 715
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 29, 2002

Product Description

Scrabble and Monopoly for Palm brings you all the fun of two classic board games, in a portable version you can take anywhere! Built-in Official Scrabble Dictionary makes disputes over words no problem Use IR ports for multiplayer gaming Automatic save feature For use with the Palm m500, m505, or m125, as well as any Palm with an SD/MMC port

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Games, January 31, 2003

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Randy Given (Manchester, CT USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Handmark Scrabble + Monopoly PDA Expansion Card (Office Product)

Both Monopoly and Scrabble work great. I have a color PalmOS PDA and love both of them. I was afraid that the screen size would limit the functionality, but that turned out not to be the case. In fact, I think it is easier than on my PC screen programs with 4 and 16 times the number of pixels -- superior design went into implementing it on the PDA version!

My son, 9 years old, also loves playing both. Of course, he sometimes hits the "accept word" (after spell-checker flags it) when he spells words wrong just to get high points (e.g., "XJQVY"), but he usually spells them right and this helps in his vocabulary and spelling.

Monopoly is just as easy and has helped my game playing tremendously. I am not thinking about going pro, but if I were, I would certainly have this game in my arsenal.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Perfect, June 16, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Handmark Scrabble + Monopoly PDA Expansion Card (Office Product)

If you wait in line all the time, or if you are at airports all the time, buy this card. It will occupy your time. Both games are identical to their physical counterparts and they are color as well.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Scrabble is great, Monopoly is OK, May 20, 2007

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Crunchy - See all my reviews

= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Handmark Scrabble + Monopoly PDA Expansion Card (Office Product)

The Scrabble game is great. Computer players have 3 different skill levels to choose from. Placing tiles are easy, and the accompanying dicitionary makes it possible to check on words. On the "intermediate" level, I find myself winning once every four times, which is what to be expected when you have four players.

As for Monopoly, well... It certainly plays well, but the computer cheats. You can offer a trade with a certain player which would benefit both of you greatly, and the computer player will deny you. That same player will then turn around and offer a sweet deal to another computer player that practically hands the game away to that other player. So the player you tried to make a deal with turned down an opportunity to be in a good position, so that it could put both itself and you in a WORSE position.

It's still possible to win, but you have to get one property of every set, just so the other computer opponents can't give one of the computer players a set through trades, which they WILL do if given the opportunity.

In the end, while it's still fun, the computer game play is not realistic and takes away from what is otherwise a great game.