Scrabulous is dead, but Wordscraper lives. The Agarwalla brothers who brought us Scrabulous are locked in a lawsuit with Hasbro, the copyright holders of Scrabble. Hasbro recently forced the Agarwallas to remove the Scrabulous app from Facebook. Now they're back with a new game: Wordscraper, which has many similarities to Scrabulous, but round tiles.
Hasbro's Scrabble app on Facebook has been plagued with bugs but nonetheless has 64,000 users on Facebook, but a rating of 1.2 out of 5 stars based on 300 reviews.
So far, Wordscraper has less than 4000 users but a rating of 4.8 stars based on 40-odd reviews.
We'll have to wait a few weeks to find out which word game ultimately wins or whether fans have room in their schedules for both.
