Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #704 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Focus Multimedia Ltd
• Released on: 2008-09-26
• Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows XP
• Format: Closed-captioned

Manufacturer's Description

Every word counts!

Beginner or expert - sharpen your Scrabble skills and become the best!

The Scrabble 2007 Edition uses the Collins Official Scrabble Dictionary, so you can easily check your words and play just like the original Scrabble!

Magazine Reviews:

"A faithful and comprehensive electronic re-creation of the popular word game." (Total PC Gaming)

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Customer Reviews

Improvements over 2005 version
This 2007 version has two improvements over the 2005 version. Firstly, you can now shuffle the tiles on the rack manually as well as the random shuffle. Secondly, the dictionary includes definitions. When your electronic opponent puts down a crazy word, at least you can easily look up what it means! There are probably many other improvements but,for me, those two alone made the upgrade worthwhile.

Scrabble Interactive - No thanks!
I always enjoyed playing Scrabble 2005, but then I get a new computer with Windows Vista and all of a sudden that game was not compatible. I spent a lot of money on Scrabble Interactive (2007) and it's really not enjoyable for me at all. I'm up against these faceless beings who come up with the most obscure and bizarre words imagineable. We're told that the dictionary recognised is Collins - so why had I gone and previously bought an expensive Chambers version? There seems to be no way of challenging these faceless beings and they ALWAYS win! What sort of motivation does that send out to ordinary people like me, who have always loved playing word games but who now don't seem to have a cat in hell's chance of equalling, let alone beating, these robots?

Unless Ubisoft and/or Windows can come up with an acceptable version of Scrabble, my expensive CD Rom will hit the bin with a resounding crash.

Sue Galise (it would be really nice if someone acknowledged this message!)

Scrabble's Collins Dictionary Grossly Incomplete
I am very disappointed with two aspects of this Scrabble game:
1. Each time you play you have to choose your opponent, time, everything; previous PC Scrabbles have allowed you to set up profiles such that a particular profile could have a "preferred opponent" when playing against the computer. This version of Scrabble does not allow that. You have to choose each time you start the program.
2. The program uses Collins dictionary, but apparently that dictionary is grossly incomplete, excluding all too many ordinary English words but including how ever many "rare" words from "dead" languages and alphabets.

I like the feature of being able to limit your game to the amount of time you want to spend at the computer. I don't like the cluttering of the screen when the dictionary is viewable. I also do not like the fact that the meaning of some words played by the computer and considered valid in the game can NOT be found in the dictionary! -- Is the computer cheating???

I actually like the Scrabble 2005 more than the Scrabble 2007; the only real disadvantage is that for the 2005 Scrabble I have to actually put the CD in the PC inorder to access the game, where as I have been able to load Scrabble 2007 onto my PC and simply have to click the icon to play!--This makes a speedy game possible when time is short...