When Zynga meets Chatroulette: 6Rounds

Eric Peters
Reminds me of scrabb.ly http://www.startupmonkeys.com/2010/09/building-a-scrabble-mmo-in-48-hours/ or what evolved into WordSquared (http://www.wordsquared.com/).
Reply · 1 · · August 1 at 12:25pm

P Pramod Nair · Senior Member Technical at D. E. Shaw & Co.
umm.. won't this get a C&D from Hasbro? Looks too much like Scrabble!
Reply · 1 · · August 1 at 11:26am

Sheena Allana · Top Commenter · UC Davis
ikr! I'm surprised this hasn't happened already..
Reply · · August 1 at 11:34am

P Pramod Nair · Senior Member Technical at D. E. Shaw & Co.
Looks like Zynga learnt from what happened to Scrabulous and avoided some silly mistakes like using Scrabble in the name, linking to official Hasbro rules for Scrabble and noting in their website that it is a place to "play free Scrabble". Also helps that there are no Triple Word Boxes on the 4 corners I suppose :-) http://www.thelegality.com/2008/01/23/does-scrabbles-cd-spell-the-end-of-scrabulous/
Reply · 1 · · August 1 at 11:46am

Charlie Levenson · Manager, Electronic Communications at Multnomah Athletic Club
If you took a picture of "words with friends" and a picture of a Scrabble(r) board and showed them to a "reasonable person" they would instantly believe they were the same thing. Perhaps Hasbro is simply waiting for Words with Friends to be making enough money that Zenga won't just close it down and THEN they file.
Reply · · August 12 at 8:20am

Joan McDonald · Perth, Perth and Kinross
Can't wait looks great very Scrabble like but the layout on the board looks different and no doubt there will be other differences.
Reply · · August 3 at 8:28am

Cory Grassell
Uh oh. More fuel for my addiction. Thanks a lot, Zynga.
Reply · · August 1 at 1:08pm

Fernando Andre · Pedrouços, Porto, Portugal
Looks like we are going to see revamps of old games to the web. Are they still developing this on top of flash ?
Reply · · August 1 at 11:13am