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Unusable Scrabble

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: September 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This product is terrible. It forces you to reduce the number of colors your monitor can display to 256, and then uses colors that make the text unreadable.

It can not be fully installed on a hard disk making it necessary to leave the cdrom loaded whenever it is used.

It is more concerned with making noise and animation than a functional game.

This apparently a 16-bit version written for Windows 3.1

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: September 21, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The version sent to me is apparently a 16-bit version written for Windows 3.1. Other stated system requirements are: processor: 486, 8 MB RAM, 2X CD-ROM drive, 5 MB free hard disk space, 640 x 480 display with 256 colors. This is in stark contrast to the higher system requirements being advertised. I'm returning the product with shrink-wrap intact for a refund.

Sucks

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 14 / 18
Date: September 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

There was misleading advertising used with this game. It indicated a MINIMUM of 256 colors is needed, but you can ONLY play it in 256 colors, meaning you must change your computer settings every time you want to play it. When I found that out, I immediately returned this ripoff.

Scrabble

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: July 05, 2006
Author: Amazon User

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.

Fixing the 256 Color Problem

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, you have to run the game in 256 color mode. Furthermore, every so often, the colors go "crazy" and you can't really see anything. To fix this, you have to pause the game (intermission), switch out of Scrabble and back to Windows, switch back to the game and unpause the game. It take 10 seconds and is a hassle, but the game is great. The computerized opponent is really good, and I rarely win on the advanced setting, which is a low setting.

Great game for Mac and any Windows but 2000.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: October 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

The Mac version runs well in the "classic" Mac OS (I use 9.2.2). It also runs perfectly in OS X (I use 10.2.8) running the "classic" environment.

This version does NOT run well in Windows 2000. I have read that it does run well in Windows XP, but I haven't confirmed this.

If you are using Windows 2000, buy version 2 of this software.

Scrabble a dud on WIndows 2000

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: February 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I've had the Scrabble CD for several years and enjoyed playing it on every platform from Win 94 to NT. I've bought it for friends and family so we can play on the internet. But I'm unable to run it on Windows 2000, no matter how many times I change the color specifications, or how many .dll files I move around. Very disappointed. I've shopped for an upgrade but don't find one.

Does NOT Work with XP either.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: April 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

For all the talk of it being back-compatible, this product does not work with XP either. Don't waste your money.

Great program that could be better

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Considering the piddling yuan you'll spend, this is a fine program and every Scrabble player ought to have it. For serious players it works well as a practice opponent. (Better than your mother-in-law.) However, as others have pointed out, it has a few flaws.

It does actually play on the Windows XP platform (at least on my machine) but imperfectly. It takes a yuga to load and doesn't exactly unload in a jiffy. It dozes while you're cogitating and wakes up slowly; and if you saunter away from the game for half an hour or so it may freeze up. It's done that on me twice this week and both times I had to control-alternate-delete to recover.

The design is not exactly Da Vinci or even Madison Avenue spiffy. The PASS button is very close to some other buttons. I hit it after checking DEFINE LAST instead of DONE which is about an inch away, and lost a turn. Also the first few times I played I got lost in the opening menu and couldn't figure out how to load Maven, the computer player. Turns out that even though I had signed in I still had to hit the OKAY button (in effect signing in again) in order to get to the screen that allows me to load Maven. If you miss that OKAY you will have no computer opponent and will have to start all over again.

If the "music" (and I use the word music advisably) is not to your liking you can turn it off. The VERY annoying chortles Maven makes after a play, especially the gloating sounds after she goes **BINGO!** with something like "zeugmas," are not to be endured for long. If you want Maven to go first you have to PASS, but sometimes she'll just pass right after you. (A strategy tip: if you set Maven at a high ranking, say 1800 or above, keep the game closed. Maven will open it up at every chance and will make a lot of seven-letter plays, and you will get buried.)

Speaking of how the cyborg Maven plays, remember she can zoom through her dictionary in a split second and find EVERY obscure word, so don't feel bad when you lose. If you set her lower, say 1400 for the average player, she will make plenty of mistakes, such as adding an unnecessary "s" to a word instead of saving the "s" for the next play, and she will EXCHANGE her letters a lot, giving you more plays.

Beware that some words that are in The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary 3rd Edition (don't play without it!) are not in Maven's dictionary, so you WILL get challenged and "poof!" will go your play, followed by Maven making an 86-point monstrosity. VERY annoying.

Still this program is a lot of fun to play, and Maven can make some very creative plays. She plays a wide-open game leaving triple-word setups all over the place, and she doesn't play much defense, which is nice.

She keeps track of all the results and gives you a rating based on your play against her. She posts your top play and your top game and how many wins you have. (Also your spouse's or your alter-ego's top score, etc.) The Review Games program that goes over your games and gives hints (under the MINI GAMES menu) is a little awkward to use and needs a better design. I haven't tried the two- and three-word practice games, etc. also under the same menu, but maybe I should!

Bottom line: until Hasbro gets serious and builds a really great Scrabble program--and they can and they will, I believe, since this is a big seller--this will have to do. It's not bad, especially when you think about the days before there were any Scrabble programs at all. In fact, it can be addictive. Watch out! Play a couple of games and the next thing you know it's lunch time. Furthermore, if you play enough games, you might get good enough to actually beat your mother-in-law. Good luck.

Scrabble rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: October 01, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this Scrabble game for my wife as she loves to play the board game. Now, we are both addicted to it!! The graphics are amazing, and the game is so easy to use. Plus, there are several levels of play based on your experience. I highly recommend this game to everyone.

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