Free Online Scrabble: Scrabulous Trumps Atari Play

I previously had written an article entitled Playing Scrabble Online at Atari Play.   I had called Atari Play, or games.atari.com, one of the best online Scrabble sites for having fun and improving your game.  However, since that time, I have found a new site called Scrabulous that I believe to be the best site for free online Scrabble.  After my first experience at Scrabulous, I understood the meaning of “You don’t know what you’ve been missing. ”  This online site for Scrabble is what its name implies.  It is simply fabulous.  Scrabulous has taken the two major problems of quitting and sitting at games.atari.com and has effectively addressed them.  Not only has it addressed the problems encountered at games.atari.com, Scrabulous has added features that make it the most excellent free site to play Scrabble online.

While I have had four or five people in a row quit on me in a typical day at games.atari.com, I have had only two people quit on me since playing online Scrabble at Scrabulous.  Why is this?  I believe that it is the options of surrender, features and the site’s hard nose policy against quitters that discourage the act of quitting on this online Scrabble site. 

Within each Scrabble game is the option to abort, adjourn or draw.  However, in order to enact these actions, you must receive permission from your opponent.  If your opponent does not grant you permission to draw, abort or adjourn, the game continues until all of the tiles have been played or time runs out.  With an option to resign, a person can immediately end a game without permission from the other player.  However, the one who resigns decreases in rank while his or her opponent increases in rank as if he or she won the game.