Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)
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·May 11, 2025macqm
Poland has kurnik.pl (meaning “chicken coop”) with a version of scrabble called “Literaki”. It’s been around for years.
chrisweekly
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...)
porphyra
isc.ro is one of the most old school, classic, and beloved Scrabble servers, but its implementation is really outdated and has some notable vulnerabilities/bugs.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.
mdaniel
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
rahimnathwani
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...
thomasfromcdnjs
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)
CamperBob2
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."
maest
.ro is the Romanian TLD, which explains why "Romana" is one of the language options (Although it's not using the correct diacritics)
przemub
In 2002 diacritics were such a pain, or impossibility even :)
Aeroi
kind of dope, whats your stack/how'd you build it?
aw1621107
"isc" -> Internet Scrabble Club, for those of us who didn't know
Cool!
For anyone looking to practic, 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