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> <channel><title>Comments on: Scrabble, Just Right for Tough Times</title> <atom:link href="http://www.appcraver.com/scrabble-iphone-game/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.appcraver.com/scrabble-iphone-game/</link> <description>App Reviews for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch</description> <lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:33:55 +0000</lastBuildDate> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>By: Joseph</title><link>http://www.appcraver.com/scrabble-iphone-game/#comment-13460</link> <dc:creator>Joseph</dc:creator> <pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 06:20:02 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.appcraver.com/?p=9882#comment-13460</guid> <description>@Shiraz: it&#039;s funny, but I find the colors on the app to not be a distraction at all, and I&#039;ve been playing the game for nearly a quarter century. I think this is due to &quot;DL,&quot; &quot;TL,&quot; &quot;DW&quot; and &quot;TW&quot; being placed on the premium squares; I&#039;m using v1.6.78, so they may not have been present in earlier editions. Ironically enough, I find these same new colors very distracting on actual gameboards.@Rich: I&#039;ve just checked CONSONANT and it is indeed valid on the app&#039;s TWL dictionary.As for my take on the app, I&#039;d have to give it a solid 9/10. It&#039;s a great app with a few flaws, none of them dealbreakers:*In single-player, the human ALWAYS goes first. This should be randomized.
*The leftover points from tiles are distributed in the +X/-X fashion. In tournament play, they are distributed in the +2X/0 fashion, thus preserving the same point spread. This should be a selectable option in the game.
*I have only been playing against Hard AI, so I&#039;m not sure if this is already offered, but I&#039;d like to see separate records and other statistics offered against each AI. For that matter, average score for and against would be lovely to have.
*I&#039;d like to be able to see the last few completed games in single-player, not just against other people.
*It is sometimes difficult to maintain Facebook login credentials; I find that I have to log in nearly every day, even having to put in my information with every log-in.
*I&#039;d like to see Clabbers (a Scrabble variant) and Maven (a Scrabble analyzing tool) support in the near future; these could be in-app purchases, and I would gladly pay for them. Of course, I recognize that this may make the file prohibitive in size.
*The Teacher seems to have a bit of trouble offering the highest-scoring play for racks with two blanks; in my last game, I played MUSTacHE for 63, but it offered a 30-point play as the highest-scoring play.At any rate, it&#039;s still a fabulous app that gets lots of my time!</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>@Shiraz: it&#8217;s funny, but I find the colors on the app to not be a distraction at all, and I&#8217;ve been playing the game for nearly a quarter century. I think this is due to &#8220;DL,&#8221; &#8220;TL,&#8221; &#8220;DW&#8221; and &#8220;TW&#8221; being placed on the premium squares; I&#8217;m using v1.6.78, so they may not have been present in earlier editions. Ironically enough, I find these same new colors very distracting on actual gameboards.</p><p>@Rich: I&#8217;ve just checked CONSONANT and it is indeed valid on the app&#8217;s TWL dictionary.</p><p>As for my take on the app, I&#8217;d have to give it a solid 9/10. It&#8217;s a great app with a few flaws, none of them dealbreakers:</p><p>*In single-player, the human ALWAYS goes first. This should be randomized.<br
/> *The leftover points from tiles are distributed in the +X/-X fashion. In tournament play, they are distributed in the +2X/0 fashion, thus preserving the same point spread. This should be a selectable option in the game.<br
/> *I have only been playing against Hard AI, so I&#8217;m not sure if this is already offered, but I&#8217;d like to see separate records and other statistics offered against each AI. For that matter, average score for and against would be lovely to have.<br
/> *I&#8217;d like to be able to see the last few completed games in single-player, not just against other people.<br
/> *It is sometimes difficult to maintain Facebook login credentials; I find that I have to log in nearly every day, even having to put in my information with every log-in.<br
/> *I&#8217;d like to see Clabbers (a Scrabble variant) and Maven (a Scrabble analyzing tool) support in the near future; these could be in-app purchases, and I would gladly pay for them. Of course, I recognize that this may make the file prohibitive in size.<br
/> *The Teacher seems to have a bit of trouble offering the highest-scoring play for racks with two blanks; in my last game, I played MUSTacHE for 63, but it offered a 30-point play as the highest-scoring play.</p><p>At any rate, it&#8217;s still a fabulous app that gets lots of my time!</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Rich</title><link>http://www.appcraver.com/scrabble-iphone-game/#comment-13234</link> <dc:creator>Rich</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:09:24 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.appcraver.com/?p=9882#comment-13234</guid> <description>I love the regular board game and this application is a very good representation.  I noticed the color change on the bonus squares but it doesn&#039;t bother me, -the screen is very visually appealing. I wonder if the original colors didn&#039;t display well on the iPhone?I did find one problem, the scrabble dictionary on the phone didn&#039;t show &quot;consonant&quot; as a valid word.  I&#039;m wondering if the dictionary can be trusted?</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I love the regular board game and this application is a very good representation.  I noticed the color change on the bonus squares but it doesn&#8217;t bother me, -the screen is very visually appealing. I wonder if the original colors didn&#8217;t display well on the iPhone?</p><p>I did find one problem, the scrabble dictionary on the phone didn&#8217;t show &#8220;consonant&#8221; as a valid word.  I&#8217;m wondering if the dictionary can be trusted?</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> <item><title>By: Shiraz</title><link>http://www.appcraver.com/scrabble-iphone-game/#comment-3059</link> <dc:creator>Shiraz</dc:creator> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 04:23:31 +0000</pubDate> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.appcraver.com/?p=9882#comment-3059</guid> <description>I find it unforgivable that they changed the colors of the bonus squares.  That&#039;s something you&#039;d do if you were pirating the game, not if you were a legal copyright holder!For experienced players of the game, those colors are hard-wired, and the completely arbitrary choice to change them makes this a constant irritation to anybody who actually loves the game.  I&#039;d give it 3 out of 10, if that.</description> <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I find it unforgivable that they changed the colors of the bonus squares.  That&#8217;s something you&#8217;d do if you were pirating the game, not if you were a legal copyright holder!</p><p>For experienced players of the game, those colors are hard-wired, and the completely arbitrary choice to change them makes this a constant irritation to anybody who actually loves the game.  I&#8217;d give it 3 out of 10, if that.</p> ]]></content:encoded> </item> </channel> </rss>
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