{"id":3094,"date":"2008-07-31T21:43:53","date_gmt":"2008-08-01T01:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2008-08-01T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2008-08-01T15:28:39","slug":"word-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3094","title":{"rendered":"Word games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So <a href=\"http:\/\/news.cnet.com\/8301-13577_3-10003366-36.html?part=rss&amp;subj=news\">Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper<\/a>. Which is great, except I think I&#8217;m actively disliking this new version.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bestweekever.tv\/2008\/07\/31\/scrabulous-replaced-by-wordscraper-triple-word-score-replaced-by-circle-of-wowzamadoo\/\">Best Week Ever<\/a> goes a long way to explaining what I don&#8217;t like about it. <a href=\"http:\/\/gerrycanavan.blogspot.com\/\">Some people<\/a> really like the &#8220;random rules&#8221; feature, but from the couple of games I&#8217;ve played, it seems to just make the scoring complex and arbitrary. Not a single one of the games has actually been <i>fun<\/i>. It&#8217;s still early, so I may stick with it &#8212; although, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bretterrill.com\/2008\/08\/scrabulous-did-not-relaunch-as.html\">as this blog suggests<\/a>, the application may not actually be &#8220;new&#8221; &#8212; but I&#8217;m not loving what I&#8217;ve seen thus far. If Hasbro can fix the bugs in their system, add some of the features that are currently missing, and cut back on some of the tedious animations, I think I&#8217;ll stick with them.<\/p>\n<p>Because, see, what I liked about Scrabulous&#8230;? That it was, y&#8217;know, Scrabble.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So Scrabulous returns as Wordscraper. Which is great, except I think I&#8217;m actively disliking this new version. Update: Best Week Ever goes a long way to explaining what I don&#8217;t like about it. Some people really like the &#8220;random rules&#8221; feature, but from the couple of games I&#8217;ve played, it seems to just make the &#8230; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3094\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[238],"class_list":["post-3094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}