My new addictions: Lexulous and SimCity

Source: richmintz.com --- Monday, August 30, 2010
My video game of choice for the summer, as you know, has been Civilization IV . But with Civilization V due in less than a month, I'm giving it a rest, and resurrecting two other favorite diversions for the waning days of summer: Scrabble, and Sim City 4. First, Scrabble. I have to blame the Boon Companion for this; he got me addicted to iPad Scrabble , which we're still playing at home. But most of my playing is via Lexulous , which is the Facebook game once known as Scrabulous, given a new name and a slightly different board configuration after an encounter with Hasbro's lawyers. It's still on Facebook, where you can play both in real time and via the correspondence method ("You have a move to make on Lexulous, Rich"); but I prefer to play on Lexulous.com , where there are literally hundreds of Scrabble fanatics sitting in chat rooms 24 hours a day waiting to play with you immediately. It turns out I'm a moderately good Scrabble player -- but I'm an even better timed Lexulous player, and most of the fanatics on the site want to play timed. Timed games fit well with my satisficer personality, which races to find the best move available that can be thought up in the first 30 seconds, i.e., roughly the 85% move on average, and then gets bored and anxious trying to come up with something that's 5 points better. Typically I play 8 minute games with a 10-second Fischer delay , but as I get better I'm going to inch the time limit down little b ...

mondosalvo: So @oh_word just played "penis" in lexulous, so I had to come right back with "vagina." BEST. GAME. EVER.

Source: twitter.com --- Thursday, August 12, 2010
mondosalvo: So @oh_word just played "penis" in Lexulous, so I had to come right back with "vagina." BEST. GAME. EVER. ...

NancyRomm: Lexulous upgraded and now I can no longer play against a robot, only humans. I don't want humans. Any good free Scrabble for solitaire?

Source: twitter.com --- Wednesday, August 11, 2010
NancyRomm: Lexulous upgraded and now I can no longer play against a robot, only humans. I don't want humans. Any good free Scrabble for solitaire? ...

Lexulous Helper

Source: www.apple.com --- Friday, August 06, 2010
About Lexulous Helper A tool for Lexulous game players. Enter your tiles to find playable words. Getting help with Lexulous has never been easier. Lexulous Helper features include: - Searches with blank letters - Search for words that begin with specific letters - Search for words that end with specific letters - Search for words that contain with specific letters - Do a combination search - TWL and SOWPODS dictionary searches - Ajaxified application - Clean design ...