Fun with Scrabble DS

[TacoTaru]

Did a quick search and didn't see this so I thought I'd add this funny bit about Scrabble:

Mother's fury over Nintendo Scrabble game that taught her son a string of vile swear words

A mother who bought a Scrabble game for her eight-year-old son's computer console to improve his vocabulary has told of her disgust after it produced a string of swearwords.

Mrs Carrington tried out the program for herself on Ethan's hand-held DS console and was taken aback when her 'opponent' laid down the word 't*ts'.

The game also gives a definition of words it uses, on this occasion giving the meaning 'a garden bird' but also 'an informal word for female breasts'.

Any doubt was removed when the next word the computer offered was 'f*ckers', which it defined as 'a slang word for chavs'.

As if that wasn't bad enough, it received a triple score and won the game for the character, whose name was Camilla.

[Furtwangler]

I'd be willing to bet the number of people they lost is just negated by the people like me who would actually play it now.

[TheShadyMan]

That definition is mega win.

[Khamsin]

Good luck finding it, Scrabble for the DS isn't offered on any of your usual online stores (Amazon, Walmart, etc.)

But I did google it and discovered:
Ubisoft apologizes for 'lesbo' use in Scrabble DS - Joystiq

In the game there is a "junior" version that omits offensive words, but lesbo is not considered an offensive word in the Scrabble dictionary.

[Stiker]

Getting owned by a triple word score for "fuckers" is rather epic.

[TacoTaru]

Getting owned by a triple word score for "fuckers" is rather epic.

I couldn't stop laughing when I read that. At first I thought it was by another player online; once I realized it was by the computer it made it that much better.