The following month, EA launched a version of Scrabble for mobile phones.

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In a vote for Scrabble, you don't get points for doubles.

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The Kolkata, India-based brothers first created a Web site for playing an online version of the word game Scrabble several years ago, "just for the love of the game, " says Jayant, 21, who also runs an offshore Web development firm with his brother.

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Seeing entries for Monopoly, Scrabble and Trivial Pursuit (three Parker Brothers' board games), I was immediately struck by the absence of chess and backgammon.

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But is there a market for a revised version of Scrabble?

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These are more about interaction than action: players either join their friends for an online game of poker or Scrabble, or to create and show off virtual pets, farms and mob families.

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Scrabulous makes it possible, for example, to recreate a big family game of Scrabble, even when family members are scattered around the world (assuming, of course, that all family members are tech-savvy enough to maintain a Facebook account).

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Bill Gates can beat most of us at poker, software, Scrabble and deploying capital into any business, and a Silicon Graphics supercomputer easily outcalculates a Dell laptop for most functions.

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As well, the company has launched some board game titles like Scrabble and Boggle through Pogo Games on Facebook, and soon plans to launch a new version of Monopoly for Facebook.

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