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Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)

39 pointsby indigodaddylast Sunday at 11:34 PM12 commentsview on HN

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oliwarytoday at 7:11 AM

Cool!

For anyone looking to practice, I've made two daily games featuring similar concepts:

https://clickword.org - placed words disappear, get as many points as possible.

https://spaceword.org - build a valid word grid using as little space as possible

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macqmtoday at 5:27 AM

Poland has kurnik.pl (meaning “chicken coop”) with a version of scrabble called “Literaki”. It’s been around for years.

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chrisweeklytoday at 3:46 AM

I lost too much time having fun playing Wordfeud on iOS, had to go cold turkey and uninstall it. (No idea how they dodged the copyright issues, it seems like straight-up scrabble to me...)

porphyratoday at 2:02 AM

isc.ro is one of the most old school, classic, and beloved Scrabble servers, but its implementation is really outdated and has some notable vulnerabilities/bugs. For example, the rack tiles seem to be randomly generated on the clientside, and passwords are plaintext. For a modern alternative, woogles.io is much nicer.

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maesttoday at 1:58 AM

.ro is the Romanian TLD, which explains why "Romana" is one of the language options (Although it's not using the correct diacritics)

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Aeroitoday at 2:00 AM

kind of dope, whats your stack/how'd you build it?

aw1621107today at 1:44 AM

"isc" -> Internet Scrabble Club, for those of us who didn't know