You feel like playing a good game of Scrabble, but alas! Everybody in your time zone is wise to the way you can ruthlessly place the word ZYGOTE on a triple word score tile and wipe the board with the rest of the players. And now, nobody will play with you again. What can you do?
The answer is: sucker your online friends into playing, of course. If you can think of a better use of the internet, more power to ya.
Scrabulous will addict you in no time. It's easy to start an email-based game by listing yourself and up to three other friends. There's no (free) sign-up required until the monkey's on your back and you want to start playing open games.
The only downside (and it's small but annoying) is playing people who live on the other side of the world - such as Australia. They tend to sleep while you're awake. And you sit there, with your eyes boring twin pinpoint laser holes into your monitor, impatiently willing them to wake up in the middle of the(ir) night and visit their computers. But hey, it's all in good fun. I can quit anytime I want.
Sounds way fun!
Posted by: bunny | May 08, 2008 at 07:14 AM
Ah, but what do you do when you end up playing with Hugh Jackman and he tries to pass off "Russell Crowe" as a word? Remember those claws! AND he's Aussie as well!!
Posted by: Anthony | May 08, 2008 at 07:38 AM
Maybe Bunny should take on my 8yo and 13yo.
Posted by: 'mouse | May 08, 2008 at 04:12 PM
Bunny, it is way fun!
Oh, and do Australians sit about wishing that the other timezone players would damn well wake up? Nooooooo.
Posted by: boot | May 09, 2008 at 03:15 PM