Wednesday, October 03, 2007

Scarbulous

Scrabulous.com... Started in July of 2006, its already the 14th most popular website on the net. Founded by Rajat & Jayant, 2 young minds from India, loved the game of Scrabble so much that they decided they will have their own place for it on the World Wide Web. The name Scrabble is a trademark of Hasbro, Inc. in the US and Canada and of J. W. Spear & Sons PLC elsewhere. Scrabble was a trademark of Murfett Regency in Australia (you will hear more of australia from me soon :)), until 1993 when it was acquired by Spear. The game is also known as Alfapet, Funworder, Skip-A-Cross, Spelofun and Palabras Cruzadas. Even I used to play a lot of Scrabble with my brother and sister, we still have the old board and letters.

"We've always been crazy about Scrabble. We used to play Scrabble online for almost three hours everyday. But when the site we used to play on became a pay site, we decided to start our own version — www.Scrabulous.com," says Jayant, co-founder Scarbulous.com.

Scrabulous.com now has 37 million visitors per day with 8 lakh registered users and 5 million page hits everyday. It has found a place in my list of "Play On" (see right pane) along with Sudoku and other online games. About Scrabulous.

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