Hasbro forces Scrabulous to cut online Scrabble service

Game players who love to play scrabble online might not be able to soon, as Scrabble owners Hasbro have told Scrabulous that they have to cut their service. This follows the lawsuit by game maker Hasbro Inc.

Many Scrabulous players will know that it is the online version of the popular board game; it was created by two brothers in India. Hasbro had filed the lawsuit against the brothers last Thursday.

According to Reuters, Scrabulous has now been disabled for users in the U.S. and Canada until further notice. Scrabulous told their online users this on Facebook.

The online version of Scrabble was introduced on Facebook and has been a bit of a phenomenon. Scrabulous has become one of the most popular games on Facebook; it attracts more than 500,000 daily players.

It was great idea, pitting online users to the game of scrabble, looks like they should have gotten permission first from Hasbro.