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Wordscraper vs Scrabble: who will take the Facebook market share by September 1?
Current forecast: Scrabble by 100,000 to 199,999 users (61% chance
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Combining all predictions, the current most likely outcome is Scrabble by 100,000 to 199,999 users with a probability of 61% (unchanged in last 1 day)
Yesterday, one day after taking down Scrabuluos in the U.S. and Canada in response to a lawsuit from Hasbro, the Indian brothers behind Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, released a brand new crossword-like game on Facebook called Wordscraper. The brothers have obviously been preparing this countermove for a long time. Wordscraper is designed to get around any of the intellectual property claims Hasbro has made against Scrabulous, especially the trademark infringement claims. The name is not a rip-off of Scrabble, the board looks very different, and there are even some new twists to the rules.
When Scrabulous was taken down, it had half a million daily active users and Hasbro’s/Electronic Arts’ official Facebook Scrabble game had only about 15,000. Two days later, the official Scrabble beta is up to 63,000 daily active users. Wordscraper has 3,600 daily active users. Now the race is on. Where will the bulk of Scrabulous fans go?
Wordscraper has a good chance of unseating the official Scrabble. (In a TechCrunch poll with 2878 respondents, 66 percent think that Hasbro went too far with its lawsuit and will suffer a resulting consumer backlash).
Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/31/wordscraper-hurts-my-eyes/
This is between Hasbro's Scrabble game and the new Wordscraper. If Wordscraper is also shut down before settlement, will settle as "other". Scrabble will likely be coming out of beta during the month of August. That should have no effect on settlement.
When Scrabulous was taken down, it had half a million daily active users and Hasbro’s/Electronic Arts’ official Facebook Scrabble game had only about 15,000. Two days later, the official Scrabble beta is up to 63,000 daily active users. Wordscraper has 3,600 daily active users. Now the race is on. Where will the bulk of Scrabulous fans go?
Wordscraper has a good chance of unseating the official Scrabble. (In a TechCrunch poll with 2878 respondents, 66 percent think that Hasbro went too far with its lawsuit and will suffer a resulting consumer backlash).
Source: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/07/31/wordscraper-hurts-my-eyes/
This is between Hasbro's Scrabble game and the new Wordscraper. If Wordscraper is also shut down before settlement, will settle as "other". Scrabble will likely be coming out of beta during the month of August. That should have no effect on settlement.
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Initial likelihoods:
Wordscraper by over 200,000 users: 2%, Wordscraper by 100,000 to 199,999 users: 13%, Wordscraper by 50,000 to 99,999 users: 20%, Wordscraper by less than 50,000 users: 30%, Exact tie or other outcome: 10%, Scrabble by less than 50,000 users: 15%, Scrabble by 50,000 to 99,999 users: 5%, Scrabble by 100,000 to 199,999 users: 4%, Scrabble by over 200,000 users: 1%
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score: 10
Macleans Online 3 weeks ago
Scrabulous is gone from Facebook and many addicted fans are wondering, 'Is life over?' Last week, the creators of the hugely popular game had Scrabulous removed for U.S. and Canadian users
score: 10
Canadian Business Magazine 3 weeks ago
- 5:56 p.m. (AP) - Scrabulous is gone from Facebook and many addicted fans are wondering, 'Is life over?' Last week, the creators of the hugely popular game had Scrabulous removed for U.S. and Canadian users
score: 10
International Herald Tribune 3 weeks ago
Anyone up for a game of ... Wordscraper? People who were addicted to playing Scrabulous on Facebook have migrated by the thousands to Wordscraper, a Scrabble-like game created by the two brothers who built Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla. Last
score: 10
International Herald Tribune 3 weeks ago
Anyone up for a game of ... Wordscraper? People who were addicted to playing Scrabulous on Facebook have migrated by the thousands to Wordscraper, a Scrabble-like game created by the two brothers who built Scrabulous, Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla. Last
score: 10
Yahoo! India 3 weeks ago
New York, Aug 1 (IANS) Kolkata-based Agarwalla brothers have returned on Facebook with Wordscraper after Scrabulous, the popular online word game created by them, was taken off by the social networking site early this week in reaction to a lawsuit filed
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I accept the noble challenge and will live up to both halves of my username in a valiant attempt to best Jenni, she who holds both an "A" and "S" in her credentials!
@dd - the nice thing about the wordscraper/scrabulous games is that you can play them at your leisure.. both parties don't have to be online at the same time. You just play whenever its convenient. I've got one game going with a friend thats taken about a month so far.
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V&H 97
(Although to be fair, this is a very strange board and completely possible to get a game changing play in.. there are a lot of tiles left!)
Scrabble: 85k
Wordscraper: 67k
although I've been fortunate to score well on a few Wordscrape games, my propensity for using a loquacious lexicon is not serving me well in this lofty matchup with the clever and wise Jenni, with only a pittance of tiles remaining she is mopping up the floor with me to the tune of 419 to 205, then again this may turn around if I can salvage some obscure English word with about six letter including a Q and no U... yeah right.
Thats not fair, leave it to the boys to cheat.....
:)
Scrabble: 191k
Wordscraper: 133k
G'head and ask Jenni if she thinks I've played honorably.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_H4MwNvBV9U
@jenni..congrads..i guess :)
I know you played honorably it's in your name. I was just joking around
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