![]() ![]() So, last summer, it sued the Argawalla brothers in India who created the game, on intellectual property grounds. Hasbro absolutely had to protect its ownership of the game here. Scrabble is owned in North America by the toy and game company Hasbro. Stefan Fatsis: was exactly Scrabble: Same board, layout, colors, tiles. Stefan Fatsis, NPR's resident Scrabble guru, talks with Michele Norris about this new, pseudo-Scrabble experience. ![]() Now, the creators of Scrabulous have quietly relaunched a somewhat adulterated version of the game called Lexulous. Last year, the popular, albeit unauthorized Facebook version of Scrabble known as Scrabulous disappeared in a puff of lawsuits - leaving hundreds of thousands of word enthusiasts in the lurch. "It's not Scrabble," says Fatsis.įor fans of online word games, an old friend is back. Players have eight tiles instead of seven, and the tiles have new values. Lexulous has premium squares - double and triple word and letter scores - but the squares are located in different places than on the Scrabble board. ![]()
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