

It would be nice if you could play against human opponents without the automatic computer tattle-tail ratting out your every move.Ĭonsequently, you can't make up words. Unfortunately, playing the PlayStation version of the game is like playing with your little cousins - every flipping word, the game calls your bluff, and you may even lose a turn for your perjury.
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Abo slishonist is a real word - they worked to free the slaves before the Civil War" and hope to god that her dreary 18th century Catholic high school schooling wasn't educative enough for her to have that kernel of knowledge floating around in her brain to know that I'm lying.

To me, it's not Scrabble unless you can look your own mother in the eye and say, "Why, yes mother. A round of Scrabble in our house is an hour of bold-faced lies, poker faces, and accusatory stares. Nor can you fib, and where I come from, fibbing is Scrabble. That kind of play is not possible in the PlayStation version of Scrabble. For instance, when I play a game of Scrabble with the family, I like to end the session by taking hold of the corners of the board, flipping the entire game across the room, then pointing at my grandmother and saying, "You're a cheater, Grandma, and I never want to play Scrabble ever, ever, ever again!", whereupon I am sent to my room to ponder my antisocial behavior (but instead secretly play Lynx or Game Boy games in the interim). Unfortunately, it doesn't have any of the amenities us simpletons who might enjoy a casual board game would like. The game has much that a discerning Scrabble Rabbler would want in a Scrabble game.

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In general, this is a fine translation of the board game, with a license of Merriam Webster's Official Scrabble Player's Dictionary, 3rd Edition to keep you honest, up to 3 computer AI opponents (with 8 levels of intelligence, from Novice to Grand Master) to challenge (or else add 4 human friends), and a Solitaire mode for solo play. Not that there couldn't be merit to a good game of Scrabble.
