I was searching for more tablet programs, just to see what else I could find, and I found this: inKrabble! inKrabble is a terrible name, and there area few key features missing that I may email the developer about, but finding a free, functional version of Scrabble for the tablet means only one thing: addiction. As for what’s missing, my mayor complaints are that 1) you can’t rearrange your letters in the “rack”, 2) you can only play alone against the computer, 3) there is no pause for the timer, and 4) you can’t see any details about your score. 3&4 are minor, but not being able to rearrange your letters is a big annoyance, and it’d be nice to have a multi-player component, especially something using the internets. But it’s free!
For what it’s worth, I’ve been a pretty big scrabble geek lately. As always, it started with Chet insisting we do something that didn’t involve staring at a screen. We had a few of the rules wrong, though. We thought that words had to always be at right angles… but you can use parallel words as long as they connect to one or more pre-existing letters on the board, like”whit” and “icy” or “bane” and “ire” on the board above. Another thing we thought you couldn’t do was add a letter at the end of a word and play off of it, like having “adoption” on the board, and adding “novas” putting the “s” on to end of “adoption.” It makes a huge difference. It also makes it pretty much necessary to learn a whole list of 2-letter words.
Speaking of 2-letter words, that’s one more short-coming of “inKrabble” … the dictionary is only so-so. But, it’s just a text file with a list of words, so you can add to it pretty easily… but it’d be nice not to have to.
One thing I’ve figured out is that you can often find combinations like ire/bane by looking for words that end in vowel-consonant or consonant-vowel, rather than 2 or more consonants. Little tip for ya…