Crosswords – Scrabble game (Palm)

It is a bit of a squeeze trying to get a decent display of a Scrabble board onto a tiny PDA device, but Crosswords by Eric House does so quite well. On the cheapest Palm devices (eg Palm Zire Z22) it is a bit cramped (hint: use preferences, and untick “Larger board” on these smaller devices). On better models eg TX, the display is beautiful.

The most usual setup will be one human player versus the computer, and the computer usually beats me because of its perfect vocabulary and finding highest scoring plays. It plays with no strategic viewpoint as far as I can see. You can also click on the light bulb icon to see high scoring possibilities for your own rack. (Hint: if you want to confine suggestions to ones that, say, don’t use your blank, move the blank to the left edge of your rack and move the divider to isolate th blank to the left of the divider).

Crosswords is postcardware released under the GNU Public Licence. If you use it and like it, you should send a postcard to the author, Eric House. He certainly deserves that at least.

Crosswords http://xwords.sourceforge.net