open source scrabble

Instructions for compiling your own version of open source Scrabble:

1. Locate and study a public domain photo of a Scrabble board. Here is one from Wikimedia Commons:

Scrabble Board

2. Also examine a public domain photo of a full set of Scrabble tiles for your preferred language. This English set is from the Commons:

Full set of English Scrabble tiles

3. Create a board by marking a 15 by 15 grid of boxes on a flat surface. Denote the boxes that correspond to special bonuses.

Low angle shot of a Scrabble game

4. Create the tiles (100 for the English set).

Overhead perspective on a Scrabble game

5. Enjoy a job well done, and play!

 

01.27.09 | by joe |
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Comments

scrabble

looks great!  does the empty scrabble board, with all of its special bonuses, remind anyone else of a cellular automata of some sort?

or, perhaps i've thought over the subject too much.

01.27.09 / BY tom /