Scrabble Online

by Atari

Product Features

• Enter online play and email games with ease
• Compete in tournaments with official rules
• Play solo matches and addictive mini-games
• Customize game boards, backgrounds and more

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00029QTWC
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 19, 2004
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #21,158 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
  • #70 in Video Games > PC Games > Board Games
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Now you can play a Scrabble game anytime! SCRABBLE® Online offers the best Scrabble PC experience with online play, online tournaments, email play and solo play. The online tournament play and email play encourages and enables Scrabble players of all levels to play multiple ways in head-to-head competition as well as single player. Tournament rules will emulate a real-world Scrabble tournament, complete with the player ranking system.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

39 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY THIS GAME!, April 15, 2005

By 

Adam B. Morissun "abmorissun" (Korea) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Scrabble Online (CD-ROM)

As a stand-alone game for one player, Scrabble *ONLINE* (!!!) looks great and works well. The mini-games are fun too. This is not a bad game at all.

If you want to play Scrabble *ONLINE* (!!!!) with friends or family, especially those overseas who miss playing the greatest wordgame of all time with their loved ones, then I highly recommend you LOOK ELSEWHERE!!

This game is garbage. With a clean install of Windows and Scrabble *ONLINE* (@#*&#@@!!), my online game with Gamespy crashed or was so slow as to prove unusable (the mouse hardly moved... very frustrating). I did my research and read the README file. I took down my firewall; in Windows XP this is relatively easy, so no problem. Then I downloaded a "retail patch" from the atarisupport website. After all that, the game is STILL garbage.

I have yet to play an online game with Scrabble *ONLINE*.

22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely disappointing, February 6, 2005

By 

AmandaHugginkiss - See all my reviews

= Fun:1.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Scrabble Online (CD-ROM)

After I was unable to make my original Scrabble game work on my XP SP2 computer (black screen, had to reboot every time I tried to run it), my husband gave me this version for Christmas.

I have played this version three times. The first and third times, it crashed in the middle of a game. 66% crashes??? On XP??? I have no other problems with other games or software, and have worked in IT for over 12 years, so I don't believe this is my or my computer's wrongdoing.

As other reviewers said, it's insane that you have to click OK every time it's your turn; apparently this is the creators' idea of a "pause" function, because there isn't one of those.

I actually think this was a complete waste of money, because I can't see myself playing a game that crashes 2/3 of the time.

If anyone has suggestions on getting the original version to work, I'd be glad to hear them (aside from having it run as other versions of Windows).

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good implementation - some whistles broken, December 11, 2004

By 

J. Miller - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Scrabble Online (CD-ROM)

I'm generally very impressed with the game. The gameplay is quick, the graphics are well done but not over the top, and enjoyment is high. This is certainly an upgrade from previous versions.

My criticisms:
* Analyze play crashes the game on both my WinXP and my Win98 box. Atari has not posted a patch to fix this as of my writing.
* There are very few folks playing online. I've seen no more than a half-dozen folks at GameSpy playing. This is perhaps an issue with how new the game is, but I was hoping for more.
* After every turn from the computer player, the game stops and says that it's your turn, requiring you to click a dialog box to continue. Very annoying.

Overall it was a good effort, but not as good as it could have been.