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Scrabble II | 
 enlarge | From: Hasbro Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $29.95
Buy New: $5.00
You Save: $24.95 (83%)
Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 13605
Genre: Board Games
ESRB: Early Childhood
Media: Video Game
MPN: 99182
UPC: 825247011905
EAN: 0825247011905
ASIN: B0002BQRFY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
America's favorite word game goes digital! Put your tiles to the test against Maven, the games challenging artificial intelligence, or play friends directly over the Internet with complete dictionaries and full challenge capability.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 1 more reviews...
 Does *not* work for XP. I tried ... May 4, 2007
JB (Eastern USA)
I downloaded the patch from the Atari site. I disabled ZoneAlarm firewall. I turned on ZoneAlarm and allowed total access for the Scrabble executable. I tried several different options for Compatability Mode. I turned off internet access altogether. I tried to do ALT-ESC and ALT-TAB to get out of the program and figure out what was going on.
None of these made any difference. Each and every time I tried to start this on Windows XP SP2 the program give the Black Screen, requiring a reboot to recover.
Playing a game should not be this much work. Highly *not* recommended.
Black Screen January 4, 2007
W. Harris (milw,wi)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I read about the problem of the black screen and also read there was an easy work-around. By the time I got the disc, the work-around was no longer among the reviews. Never could use the product. Guess I was forwarned, but for Amazon to remove the work-around from the comments is just plain mean.
 Getting rid of the black screen August 5, 2006
Karl Asha
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I've noticed mention of running this game under windows XP and coming up with nothing but a black screen. The same thing happened to my mum and until I had a chance to look at the computer, I discovered it was macafee personal firewall blocking requests to the internet from two applications (scrabble and another I can't remember off the top of my head). The problem is, the way the game interacted with the screen and the personal firewall popups caused the game to reach a state where you couldn't exit or return to windows. In the case of her laptop, I hibernated it with the hot keys, and when it came back up, I could see the two popups from the personal firewall. Once I accepted those the game worked great. This may or may not solve other reported problems, but it solved the problem on two dell laptops my parents have.
Works fine on XP February 7, 2006
R. Moreland (Raleigh, NC United States)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
At first, I experienced the same problem with WinXP that ms1234 mentioned. All I got was a blank screen with my Windows arrow cursor. I figured out that Scrabble 2 was trying to get online and that my computer was waiting for me to allow it to get online.
If you have this problem, just Alt+Tab out of the game and allow Scrabble 2 to always get online. Then you can Alt+Tab back into the game and play. You'll probably need to reset your screen resolution when you're done with the game. You'll only need to follow these steps the first time you play.
 great as a dictionary September 12, 2005
Kristen
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Scrabble enthusiast, this device is great to use as a dictionary while playing the board game. It's fast and convenient. The "games" are not too engaging so the primary use has been as a dictionary. So, for the price (approx $50) it's a bit pricey.
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