Hasbro and Mattel

Well Scrabulous is still alive, although apparently the Internet Scrabble Club is also under threat now. Can't Hasbro and Mattel (the international owners of Scrabble) see that Scrabulous and ISC are actually creating more fans of the game? It would be interesting to know if sales of the game have been affected since the rise of Scrabulous.

As Josh Quittner of Fortune suggests:

"If I were an evil genius running a board games company whose product line spanned everything from Monopoly to Clue, I might do this: Wait until someone comes up with an excellent implementation of my games and does the hard work of coding and debugging the thing and signing up the masses. Then, once it got to scale, I’d sweep in and take it over. Let the best pirate site win! If I were compassionate, I’d even cut in the guys who did all the work for a percentage point or two to keep the site running."

And now you really can join a Facebook group to save Scrabulous!

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Most likely seven-letter words

According to Scrabulous ETAERIO is the most likely seven-letter word to get in Scrabble. It refers to an aggregate fruit, like a raspberry - which is actually lots of little fruits joined at their bases. Another likely word is TAENIAE - the plural of TAENIA which was an ancient Greek hairband. Some other high-probability bingos containing five vowels, in order of likelihood, include: AEOLIAN - relating to the wind (the image is of an aeolian harp - a harp played by the wind) OLEARIA - daisy bush AIERIES - eyries or eagles' nests DOULEIA - veneration of saints in RC Church AEONIAN - everlasting AENEOUS - brass coloured or greenish-gold AREOLAE - coloured rings around human nipples AUREOLE - halo ALIENEE - person to whom a transfer of property is made EUGENIA - plant of the clove family AEROBIA - organisms that require oxygen

Four letters, no vowels

So you've got no vowels on your rack? Don't despair - here are some effective SOWPODS four letter words containing no vowels! BRRR BYRL CYST FYRD GYMP GYNY HWYL HYMN JYNX KYND LYCH LYNX MYTH PFFT PRYS PSST RYND SCRY SKRY SKYF SKYR SPRY SYNC SYND SYPH TRYP TYMP TYND TYPP TYPY WYCH WYND WYNN XYST YMPT

What to do with ZA

So your opponent plays ZA, one of the commonest ways of playing Z on the board. If only you could add some letters before it. All you can think of is RIZA. Well, that is the only four letter word ending in ZA - well done. How about these five letter words? BAIZA BONZA BRAZA COBZA COLZA FORZA GYOZA HAMZA MATZA MIRZA MOTZA PLAZA SADZA SPAZA And if you have a blank to make a second Z you can play these: HUZZA LEZZA PIZZA TAZZA ZANZA There are many words which begin with ZA - I'll come to those next time.

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