Agarwalla Brothers Relaunch Scrabulous as Wordscraper, Official Scrabble Growth Skyrockets

July 31st, 2008

By - Justin Smith -

A day after Scrabulous developers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla took the game offline in the US and Canada, the team of Indian brothers has relaunched the game with a new name and board design: Wordscraper. Wordscraper uses the same UI as the old Scrabulous and is played essentially the same way Scrabble is played, but with different “bonus tiles” and board dimensions.

Meanwhile, the official version of Facebook Scrabble, developed by EA under license from Hasbro, has experienced continued growth in the first day since Scrabble’s disappearance: usage has grown to nearly 60,000 daily active users. At its peak, Scrabulous drew over 700,000 daily active users.

We’ll track the growth of both games to see whether users will migrate to Wordscraper or the official version of Scrabble.

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One Response to “Agarwalla Brothers Relaunch Scrabulous as Wordscraper, Official Scrabble Growth Skyrockets”

Relax With a Game of Chess Pro with Friends on Facebook Says:
December 19th, 2008 at 9:33 am
[...] Argawalla brothers may be best known for Scrabulous and their follow-up game Wordscraper, but they do have other titles on offer. One of those is Chess Pro, the classic game available for [...]