Scrabble

by Hasbro

Product Features

• Play over a LAN
• Brilliant artificial intelligence responds instantly to every move
• 5 different selectable skill levels - Exiting Sound effects, 10 Classical music scores, and 10 origional compositions.
• For 1-4 players
• Includes Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary, 3rd Edition

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00002SUV5
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: July 1, 1999
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,612 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #4 in Video Games > Mac Games > Board Games
  • #39 in Video Games > PC Games > Board Games
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Match wits against the computer Maven, friends, or strangers online with Scrabble for Windows or Mac. The graphics and music are sharp and customizable, players can take on opponents of varying challenge levels, and there are plenty of tutorials and practice games available.

Rate yourself against the world's champions or just play one-on-one with anyone in the world over an internet connection.

Product Description

Put your tiles to the test against Maven, the games challenging artificial intelligence, or play friends directly over the Internet with complete dictionaries and full challenge capability.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

56 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Scrabble for the Mac, February 17, 2003

By 

Robert C. Mundt (Salem, OR United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Scrabble (CD-ROM)

According to the Amazon.com information, this version of Scrabble was for Win 95, win 98, and ME, plus Mac OS. What I got was for Win 3.1, and Win 95, plus Mac. It would not load on my Mac I BOOK, OSX. I think this is a very old, old, version and not made to work on Mac OSX. I rated it a "1" because I can't load it, therefore can't use it.

40 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a bad Scrabble software game, excellent value, October 30, 2002

By 

Joanna Daneman (Middletown, DE USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Scrabble (CD-ROM)

This is an excellent version of computer Scrabble, with one reservation which I will note.

The graphics are lovely--this looks like a Scrabble board, with wooden tiles and the correct distribution of letters, premium board tiles and scoring. You can even have sound effects to give the impression you are playing on cardboard and wood (you get the option to have clicks and whooshes in the sound effects.)

The software gives you the possibility to play over a local area network with another player, over the internet with an ISP (like MSN Game Zone) or against a computer player "Maven." You can play with optional hints for the "best" play (debatable, as the computer is not a particularly defensive player) and get a table of remaining letters and a game recap in the info section. A built-in dictionary can be customized. The rack can be organized by ascending, descending letter or vowels first, or you can shuffle to find your word combinations.

The only quibble I have with this software, which I deem an excellent value for the money, is that "Maven" is an annoying player. You can choose how good Maven is, from average, to champion, but it seems that the software algorithm to make Maven a Scrabble champ is to give YOU nothing but vowels. Exchanging the rack is no help--they just come back again. While I realize that making a Deep Blue computer version of Scrabble would require a Cray Supercomputer and the efforts of a thousand programmers, it's still somewhat annoying to play against Maven at a reasonable level. Still, if you can pull off a 123-point bingo word on a triple-word tile, it can be sweet, indeed. In your face, Maven!

Highly recommended.

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Scrabble, July 4, 2006

By 

Vincent C. Kempf (ramsey, NJ) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Scrabble (CD-ROM)

This release is so old that it can only be played on a machine where the video card will go down to the 256 color mode. It is useless on a modern machine.