Customer Reviews

Scrabble Complete (Jewel Case)

5 star:		(11)
4 star:		(12)
3 star:		(5)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(22)

 

 

Don't waste your money on this game. It would be better to just throw your money in the trash and not risk harm to your computer. Not only did it not work at times leaving me with a black screen at start up, it would also go totally black in the middle of a game and I would have to drag the mouse over the entire screen to make the picture reappear. I love Scrabble, but not this game!!

This is a piece of junk. After installing it and clicking on the icon to start it, your entire computer goes black and you can't do anything. You can't even quit. We tried installing it three times and finally did a search on Amazon and read the similar reviews, so we know it wasn't us. DO NOT BUY THIS. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

I wasted my money on this game. I had the same problem as previous user and tried for over an hour using all resources given and can't get this came to work. I did manage to get it start to play but the program would crash after attempting to play. Why advertise as Windows XP if a game won't play on it?

I downloaded the patch from the Atari site. I disabled ZoneAlarm firewall. I turned on ZoneAlarm and allowed total access for the Scrabble executable. I tried several different options for Compatability Mode. I turned off internet access altogether. I tried to do ALT-ESC and ALT-TAB to get out of the program and figure out what was going on.

None of these made any difference. Each and every time I tried to start this on Windows XP SP2 the program give the Black Screen, requiring a reboot to recover.

Playing a game should not be this much work. Highly *not* recommended.

This game is a waste of time and money. Doesn't work with WindowsXP, all I got was a blank screen. Save time and download from gateway games.

I had the same problem as the others with XP. Pay attention to the reviews, unlike me. All the program did was lock up my laptop. Got a black screen and the only way to shut it off was to take out the battery. Then i had to do a system resore to get rid of all the damage it did.

this cd worked for a few days then it began when ran to give a dark screen and dispite uninstalling it and reinstalling continued to display a dark screen and not come on i would like a full refund for this product it does not work with windows xp

I bought this Scrabble Complete game to replace the Atari version of Scrabble. When I bought a new computer, I was annoyed to find that the Atari version would not install because it had already been installed on another computer. That seemed like a rip off to me. I don't know if the Scrabble complete game will allow installation on multiple computers or not. My biggest complaint with either version is that you can't minimize the program while its running. If you need to do something else with your computer in the middle of a game, you have to shut down the program. The Scrabble complete program is nearly identical to the Atari version but it lacks an animation that keeps the game from going to screensaver when you get up to answer the phone or use the bathroom. The animation at start up is not as fancy either but the opening animation is unimportant, just a waste of time while you wait for it to load before you can turn it off. I liked the Atari version better than the Infogrames version but not by much. Both versions are a little bit better than the free Scrabout program and both are a little better than the limited time trial version that comes with your new Hewlitt Packard computer.

I love Scrabble and this CD-ROM is in many ways more fun than playing with the family--the computer player never stomps off in a huff when it loses! You can choose a computer player from 6 different skill levels--this allows you to win constantly or really challenge yourself. My only gripe is that the CD-Rom "takes over" my computer--it doesn't allow users to minimize the screen to access the Internet or other programs on their computer while Scrabble Complete is open.

This game was a decent buy considering the price, but it seemed to be lacking in the dictionary. The music is decent and the players are pretty good when you turn up the difficulty. It has the ability to tell you which letters are still left to play and will tell you what score you might get for the word you're putting down on the board. However, the game's internal dictionary seems to be either bugged or incomplete. I was playing against 3 computers and the game challenged the word ZONE. I lost a triple word score with the word and I couldn't do anything. Perhaps a bug in the game? Other than this issue, it seems to be worth the money. I didn't have any problems playing the game with Windows XP, Service Pack 2.