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The site's huge selection of games—Word Mojo, Diner Dash, Spades/Hearts, and Scrabble Cubes, for example—isn't updated or altered as often as that of their competition, and the game play can prove murky since you need to reload the game you play every time you restart. One reason for this slow down is the dynamic tracking of scores available at WorldWinner – you can constantly compare your scores to others and amp up your strategy if need be.

If you join and pay the site's $10 deposit, you can enter a range of tournaments with entry fees as low as a buck and compete for cash prizes in games like chess. But the big fun for Scrabble players here is Scrabble Cubes.

WorldWinner Scrabble Cubes

This Scrabble clone, fully supported by Scrabble's parent company Hasbro, promises "A new three-dimensional take on everybody's favorite word game", and in many ways this game delivers.

The gameplay itself will be easy for Scrabble players to learn – this is basically 3-d Scrabble, as players try to form words of between 2 and 7 letters long across the face of an ever-changing cube. Some elements of the game are familiar – bonus cubes represent scoring opportunities just as in the flat version – while others, like the Boggle-style interface and scoring regulations, will take longer to get used to.

Scrabble Cubes presents the classic board game in 3D form. Instead of playing on a flat board, you play scrabble as piles of cubes, each cube with one letter each side, connecting the letters across the surface.

How To Play Scrabble Cubes - Rules

In order to create words, each letter must touch the face of the previous letter at either an edge or a corner. The words you form can wrap around to an adjacent side of the cube.

The game starts with 27 cubes, 9 each on the left, right and top sides, forming what looks like the corner view of a Rubik's cube. Click on the first letter of the word you want to form and it will then be outlined in white and appears in your word tray at the bottom of the screen. Click on the rest of the letters of the word to complete your turn and learn your score.

Each cube may only be used up to three times during the game. A cube is considered "used" once when any of its letters are used to make a word. After the third use, the cube will have turned red to alert players and is then promptly removed from the board. Any cubes directly above a removed one will fall downward to fill in the board, further complicating the game for players, and adding a familiar computer skill-game element.

Points are given for each legal word formed. Only words in the official Scrabble Tournament Word List are permitted for play.

As mentioned, this game has as much to do with Boggle as it does with Scrabble – instead of placing letters to form words yourself, your job is to pick words off of the faces of a cube – adjacent letters forming words of various lengths. Think Boggle at hyper-speed, and more word-oriented.

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From the time of its launch in 2006, Scrabble Cubes has been one of the most popular games at WorldWinners – meaning millions of players every month. One of the reasons for its popularity is the game's unique aspects. This is not just Scrabble programmed onto your desktop, this is a new version of the game. Yes, the game uses Scrabble tiles and their corresponding point values, and yes players will be pleased with the familiar bonus cubes but this is the game of Scrabble as it could never exist outside of the computer. The Boggle-style gaming is a perfect fit for online play.

You can play for free in practice mode as long as you want, or you can play in one of World Winner's live competitions against people from all over the world.

The National Scrabble Association (NSA) had this to say about Scrabble Cubes, through its then Executive Director John Williams: " . . . we're excited to introduce our members to World Winner's Scrabble Cubes game, which allows them to compete online for cash prizes," which is basically an endorsement of the game. With so much support and participation, Scrabble Cubes promises to be around for a long time.

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