WORD PLAY Some Spectrum owners and not a few Commodore fans would vote, finally, for Scrabble as their favourite game on their computer. It's something to do with the seeming artificial intelligence involved, with the sense that you are challenging the machine with what humans are supposed to be best at, ie, word skills. It helps, of course, that even as a board game it's superbly addictive. Good news for Amstrad owners then that Scrabble is at last available on the machines. It's a fine implementation and, because of the Amstrad monitor, it's the clearest of all the versions. The vocabulary of 11,000 words gives you a difficult game at the harder levels. I think a reasonably committed Scrabble player should win more often than not, but never easily. Computer Scrabble has one major additional virtue for kids - if anything is going to persuade your parents to buy a computer this game is it - drag them into a shop and make them play it. Popular Computing Weekly | 
