co founder jayant agarwalla co founder services online word game employees 2 january 2008 website wordscraper on facebook type of site casual game registration required available in english launched 2008 current status active wordscraper is a scrabble style word game available as a facebook application . it was created by the agarwalla brothers rajat and jayant creators of scrabulous and differs from scrabble by having no fixed board design or tile distribution instead prompting the user to choose their own . wordscraper was reportedly released in response to a dmca action against scrabulous by hasbro . 1 it has been online since january 2008 . 2 contents 1 game customisation 2 differences from scrabulous 3 user base 4 references 5 external links game customisation edit wordscraper allows users to create a customised board and tile set of their choice . users choose where premium squares are placed on the board . premium squares range from 2x to 5x letter score and 2x to 5x word score . users can also choose the tile distribution including quantity of each letter and score for each letter . users are free to share the rules they have created with other players . it is not possible to recreate the copyrighted scrabble board layout using this process or any rough approximation of the board attempting to do so or to use a saved scrabble type layout results in a sorry this board is not allowed message or in the game being automatically changed to wordscraper standard . citation needed these restrictions were imposed as part of a legal settlement of a case brought by hasbro concerning copyright of the scrabble game . 3 differences from scrabulous edit in addition to the ability to create customised games wordscraper differs from scrabulous in a number of ways including circular tiles and squares are available as an option until december 2008 the square version was not available premium squares have been recoloured . the distribution of tiles can be modified . tiles have no scores marked on them . the tile distribution can be viewed within the game . default tile distribution and scores are different though some values are the same wordscraper as of december 2008 now has 8 tiles instead of the previous 7 as of 11 12 december 2008 boards even approximately resembling scrabble are disallowed . user base edit as of 17 may 2010 update wordscraper has over 116 000 monthly active users . citation needed references edit scrabulous reborn as wordscraper sort of . sitepoint . 2007 08 01 . retrieved 2007 08 03 . on facebook an 11 letter synonym for scrabulous turns out to be wordscraper . new york times . 2008 04 04 . retrieved 2008 04 05 . http www.lexulous.com press.php external links edit wordscraper application on facebook retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title wordscraper & oldid 686930493 categories scrabblemultiplayer online gameshidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from november 2008articles containing potentially dated statements from may 2010all articles containing potentially dated statementsarticles with unsourced statements from october 2015 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 22 october 2015 at 07 11 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view