iPhone Scrabble: Review 9/10
Posted by Chris
I got the iPhone Scrabble game a few months ago and at the time it was going for $10. Since then there have been a few changes. Including Facebook integration, a few price drops, and stability improvements. Luckily none have changed the original game play which works great.
Single player is a fun time killer and I often play it while on the train or while running scans at work. It has a few cheater functions like the "best word" button which will scan the board and give you the most points for your tiles. Also it won't let you put down a word if its not in the dictionary. Which is fun because you can keep trying combination of letters till it accepts it as some form of a word.
Multiplayer is much more interesting. They have integrated the iPhone app with the Scrabble Facebook application. This lets you play with anyone who has a Facebook account. Adding in the social aspect of scrabble has made it much more fun. Even though games can sometimes take days or weeks to complete.
Multiplayer also has some cheater functions. Just like single player it won't let you put down words which aren't in the dictionary. However it does have a dictionary built in so you can check words before you put them down. It also has a "Scrabble Teacher" button which tells you where you could have got the most points but only after you already put down you letters.
The only complaints I have is that It sometimes crashes. Not very often for me but I have heard on some iPhones it crashes a lot. I've fixed crashing with other apps by reinstalling them so it may not be Scrabble's fault.
Also there is a really annoying animation at the start up of the game which plays sound even when your phone is on vibrate. You can turn this off by turning down the volume while the animation is playing.
9/10
itunes $5
