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From: disd@hubcap.clemson.edu (BJ Backitis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: EA "Scrabble" bugs?
Message-ID: <5182@hubcap.clemson.edu>
Date: 20 Apr 89 15:41:49 GMT
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From article <761@cord.UUCP>, by nsw@cord.UUCP (Neil Weinstock):
> In article <7883@killer.Dallas.TX.US> ltf@killer.Dallas.TX.US (Lance Franklin) writes:
>>In article <38731@bbn.COM> denbeste@BBN.COM (Steven Den Beste) writes:
>>an abbreviation for Wisconsin.  Sounds like they borrowed a spelling dictionary
>>from some text editor (or perhaps the one I've seen advertised by the Austin
>>Code Works ($60 for 234,932 words, from Webster's second dictionary).
> 
> If that's true, then it's really pathetic.  I mean, what's the point of a
> Scrabble game with an improper dictionary?  Ideally, the full Scrabble
> dictionary should be included, but at the very *least* the dictionary should
> be a proper subset of the official Scrabble dictionary.  Geez.  That's what's
> kept me from buying the program.  Have people complained to the company about
> the dictionary?  If enough people bitch, maybe they'll fix it???

Yeah, but it's just not that bad.  I've played dozens of games against
it and I've seen few words that could not be found our dictionary.  The
thing that pisses me off is that the dictionary is so small.  And that
it doesn't "learn" words from its opponents.  

If you want a really good reason not to buy it, try the copy protection.
Nasty nasty.  But the game, and the dictionary by themselves are not
enough to condemn the package.  Throw in the CP, though, and you've got
a bad deal.


> 
> Looks like I'll have to find (gack!) human beings to play against.

Finding an opponent is problem enough, but when your spouse is a 
Scrabble (tm) hater, it gets even tougher. :-) 


Gary






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