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You're in luck! Scrabble is available to play via the Web, but first, a little background¿ Gameplay over the Net is one of the more exciting developments in recent years. While text-based role-playing games and Star Trek simulations have been part of the Internet landscape for well over a decade, only recently have real-time parlor and action games reached "critical mass." As a result, many sites new offer free classic games for users to enjoy as part of their overall community-building efforts. Yahoo!, Excite, and Lycos are just a few of the large Net hubs that offer Blackjack, Hearts, Chess, Backgammon, Bridge, and other games free-of-charge to anyone who has a Java-enabled browser. Fortunately, the popular word-game Scrabble is available for free at sites like Playsite and Games.com. You can also buy the CD-ROM version of Scrabble and play the official version with other owners of the CD at Microsoft's Internet Gaming Zone. Once you've bought the game, the matchmaking service of Internet Gaming Zone is free, just go to the Games on the Zone page and click the link for your version of Scrabble. Or you can look for similar games under a different name, such as Literati
in Yahoo! Games. And finally, you can look to sites like Helga's Scrabble Rogues Gallery for links to telnet and IRC gathering places for wordgame enthusiasts.
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