Submitted quite a while ago, if you wanted to resubmit it for its own discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018
Also, for convenience: https://woogles.io
I love scrabble, it may be going through a growth spurt at the moment, kind of like chess after all the netflix movies.
Everyone should follow Will Anderson, he runs an extremely high quality Youtube channel -> https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15
Even if you don't play often, his scrabble videos are fantastic to watch on a lunch break.
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My friends and I are playing around with vibe coding a 4+ multi player scrabble, surprisingly it doesn't really exist. (hasbro is extremely tight on their copyright)
Don't do what I just did, and waste several minutes on a puzzle. As soon as you hit "Give up," or presumably submit the valid answer, all it does is say "auth-methods-failed."
Woogles is nice.
The board looks like a regular scrabble board, but the special squares are indicated only with colours, and don't say 'Triple Word Score' etc. like on the real Scrabble board. When you hover over a square, you see the bonus as '2x letter' etc.
This behaviour is fine for experienced players, but not for children or beginners, especially those playing on iPads, which don't have 'hover'.
I made a userscript to fix this:
https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label...