today (well it really happened yesterday morning)

is a sad sad sad day indeed. especially for cv rick

i did play once or twice (solitary). it's far too hard for me. the computer kicked my ass all over the board (so to speak)

well rick, you still have scrabble

Game Over: Suit Spells the End For Facebook's Scrabulous App

By Mike Musgrove

Washington Post Staff Writer
It came as an unwelcome surprise to many Facebook friends and bored cubicle dwellers yesterday: Scrabulous was gone. The popular Scrabble knockoff was no longer available to U.S. users of the social networking site.

The free game had been one of the most popular applications on the social networking site, but a lawsuit filed last week accused Scrabulous of copyright infringement.

Hasbro and Mattel, the board game companies that share global ownership of the Scrabble trademark, had first asked Facebook to remove the application in January. Hasbro, which owns the rights in the United States and Canada, partnered with the game publisher Electronic Arts and recently introduced an authorized version of Scrabble for Facebook.......