I think this version of the scrabble cd game is very good and I would buy it again. The two negatives: no ongoing tally of the player's rating which other versions have had, and, more seriously, I find for me at my level, that I have not been able to find a good playing level. That is, I have won two thirds of the games I have played at the 3rd from the highest level, which is not challenging enough for my temperament, but when I move up to the second highest level I get completely wiped out. I think the programming is not graduated enough. After 20 games I have yet to come within 150 points of the computer and I think I'm a better player than that....

I play Scrabble on my MacBook every evening while watching TV. It crashes at least once each evening, usually after a couple of hours of play and almost always toward the end of a game I am winning. The MacBook is running under OS X 10.5.6 and has 4 GB RAM and 100 GB free HD space so lack of resources is not the problem. I reported the problem to MacSoft by email mentioning that all that was running at the time of the crash just before sending the email was FireFox. They totally misunderstood and suggested that I had had a bad download using FireFox and should try a different browser. I had loaded from a purchased CD but they apparently assumed I had downloaded it. I responded to their email clarifying what I had said but have received no further response. I recommend the game but be prepared for crashes.