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# is there any prospect of getting one of the games back on *cough*
There is already a usable scrabble game site at www.thepixiepit.co.uk/scrabble.htm so if it's a push maybe just have the scrabble for now.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:02, archived)
# That looks like it could take weeks
Is it not real time?
(I helped save b3ta! Bud Muhnquai Update your profile or fuck off, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:04, archived)
# you get an e-mail each time it's your turn
but if you are online together on a messanging service you can just take your go and tell the other person/people it's their go.
It can be as fast as a normal game.
It has submit boxes to online dictionaries on the board page to act as a guide for acceptable words too.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:12, archived)
# You know
some people used to play chess by post - one move took days.
(I helped save b3ta! Batsgirl, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:15, archived)
# I think they even played it before post.
Bloke on a horse/Wild blue yonder etc...
Weeks.
(I helped save b3ta! Bud Muhnquai Update your profile or fuck off, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:16, archived)
# those people are probably still playing then
;)
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:16, archived)
# They still do
What I just can't imagine, is playing an RPG by post, but that happens too :0)
(I helped save b3ta! Radio Controlled Nun Hasn't posted for 6 years, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:24, archived)
# How about playing Snap by post?
you deal out your card, mail it off... if the card they deal out matches, they win the hand, otherwise they mail it back.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:27, archived)
# Errrrrr
Dice Rolls?
(I helped save b3ta! Bud Muhnquai Update your profile or fuck off, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:35, archived)
# It wasn't *that* bad...

Well, ok, maybe it was....
(I helped save b3ta! Boot I want to know what you meant, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:37, archived)
# Not currently
I would need to raise over 100 quid every month for the amount of bandwidth used by one of them games....

I'm trying to come up with a way, but currently it's looking like games may not be back...
(I helped save b3ta! flibz, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:09, archived)
# conference videophoning
is out too then?
Oh well ;) If the games had stayed everyone would have gotten fired by March.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:19, archived)
# you can play scrabble on yahoo
except they call it literati
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:22, archived)
# can you play chess
do they call it 'intelligensia'?
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:31, archived)
# it's actually called chess
the literati game is same-but-different though... basic rules are scrabblish but the board layout and tile scores make it much stranger
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:34, archived)
# oh
i didn't notice the difference really. I was quite addicted to it.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:38, archived)
# It's not a bad kinda different
in fact it's nice to see a different take on the game... I just wish their dictionary was consistent, and included more non-american-only words.
(I helped save b3ta! JustHere4Coffee remembers when all o' this were car parks, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:40, archived)
# and some of the people on it
struggle with anything over 4 letters
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:56, archived)
# i just went to yahoo
(bu going to google and typing yahoo into the search and clicking the result) and got there loaded a game (spades - which is like whist i believe) but then got scared and ran away. Loading google again in that window and pretending it never happened.
(I helped save b3ta! Professor Fnord Regius Professor of B3ta Chronology, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:40, archived)
# i used to play hearts
lots more complicated unwritten rules than even on b3ta for which you can be told off - so you should be afraid.
(I helped save b3ta! 100% kitten better than ever, Thu 2 Jan 2003, 21:54, archived)