What's the difference between Lexulous and Wordscraper?

February 24, 2009 10:14 AM

What's the difference between Lexulous and Wordscraper?
posted by box to sports, hobbies, & recreation (7 comments total)

Lexulous has the same board and tiles as Scrabble. Wordscraper has the elements of Scrabble, customizable into your own game boards and tile sets.
posted by lampoil at 10:40 AM on February 24

Lexulous does not have the same board/tiles as Scrabble. But, yes, Wordscraper lets you customize the board and tiles (although it forbids you from customizing them into the standard Scrabble versions).
posted by equalpants at 11:31 AM on February 24

Ah! They changed it. It used to be the same. So...Lexulous has a fixed board that looks kind of like a Scrabble board and has slightly altered but fixed rules/tiles. Wordscraper looks different and is customizable.
posted by lampoil at 2:19 PM on February 24

The Lexulous board looks a lot like a Super Scrabble board, though. What about the points-per-letter and tile distribution?
posted by box at 2:49 PM on February 24

Wordscraper was replacement for Lexulous after it was taken down due to the legal action. It was based on Scrabulous, but with changes to avoid more legal problems. I only played a couple of games but didn't like it.

When Lexulous returned, it had a few changes to make it just different enough from Scrabble to keep the lawyers happy.

Lexulous gives you 8 tiles instead of the usual 7. I've found this increases the probability of making 7 & 8 (or more) letter words.

A 7 letter word gets a bonus of 40 points, and an 8 letter word gets a bonus of 50 points.

Letter distribution is slightly different - 8 I tiles, 3 S tiles, 3 U tiles

Points are different for some tiles - Z & Q are both worth 12 points, T is worth 2 points.

These are just the ones I noticed off the top of my head, I haven't done a proper comparission so there might be a few other differences with the distribution and scoring.

Only 8 I tiles? Yet I still manage to get FIVE of the damn things at once?
posted by goshling at 3:55 PM on February 24

Wordscraper was the replacement for Lexulous Scrabulous. Lexulous is the new name for the rejiggered Scrabulous.
posted by goshling at 4:01 PM on February 24

Wordscraper was actually around before Scrabulous was removed.
posted by lampoil at 6:02 PM on February 24