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Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)

https://isc.ro/
39•indigodaddy•3d ago

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aw1621107•5h ago
"isc" -> Internet Scrabble Club, for those of us who didn't know
maest•5h ago
.ro is the Romanian TLD, which explains why "Romana" is one of the language options (Although it's not using the correct diacritics)
przemub•2h ago
In 2002 diacritics were such a pain, or impossibility even :)
Aeroi•5h ago
kind of dope, whats your stack/how'd you build it?
porphyra•5h ago
isc.ro is one of the most old school, classic, and beloved Scrabble servers, but its implementation is really outdated and has some notable vulnerabilities/bugs. For example, the rack tiles seem to be randomly generated on the clientside, and passwords are plaintext. For a modern alternative, woogles.io is much nicer.
mdaniel•4h ago
Submitted quite a while ago, if you wanted to resubmit it for its own discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24789018

Also, for convenience: https://woogles.io

rahimnathwani•4h ago
Woogles is nice.

The board looks like a regular scrabble board, but the special squares are indicated only with colours, and don't say 'Triple Word Score' etc. like on the real Scrabble board. When you hover over a square, you see the bonus as '2x letter' etc.

This behaviour is fine for experienced players, but not for children or beginners, especially those playing on iPads, which don't have 'hover'.

I made a userscript to fix this:

https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/508773-woogles-bonus-label...

thomasfromcdnjs•4h ago
I love scrabble, it may be going through a growth spurt at the moment, kind of like chess after all the netflix movies.

Everyone should follow Will Anderson, he runs an extremely high quality Youtube channel -> https://www.youtube.com/@wanderer15

Even if you don't play often, his scrabble videos are fantastic to watch on a lunch break.

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My friends and I are playing around with vibe coding a 4+ multi player scrabble, surprisingly it doesn't really exist. (hasbro is extremely tight on their copyright)

CamperBob2•2h ago
Don't do what I just did, and waste several minutes on a puzzle. As soon as you hit "Give up," or presumably submit the valid answer, all it does is say "auth-methods-failed."
chrisweekly•3h ago
I lost too much time having fun playing Wordfeud on iOS, had to go cold turkey and uninstall it. (No idea how they dodged the copyright issues, it seems like straight-up scrabble to me...)
macqm•1h ago
Poland has kurnik.pl (meaning “chicken coop”) with a version of scrabble called “Literaki”. It’s been around for years.
oliwary•15m ago
Cool!

For anyone looking to practic, I've made two daily games featuring similar concepts:

https://clickword.org - placed words disappear, get as many points as possible.

https://spaceword.org - build a valid word grid using as little space as possible

Human

https://quarter--mile.com/Human
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Internet Scrabble Club (2002-)

https://isc.ro/
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