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Five traditional games and pastimes, Linux style

Hi folks!
I'm answering here an email I got from Martin, a TechRepublic reader, because the answer is of general interest. Martin tells me that he did a search on scrabble and found:

> http://scrabble.game-server.cc
> http://www.quackle.org/
> http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/scribble (text based)
> lastly there is pyscrabble but that requires internet...

I knew about the last three programs, but they were and remain not suitable for my own needs and scenario, that's why I didn't mention them. As Martin says, Pyscrabble, which is great, requires connectivity. Text based software isn't interesting or usable by my "users", so this excluded scribble. I excluded Quackle because on non-Debian systems it must be compiled, while for several reasons I don't always use such systems. I confess, instead, that so far I had missed the first program, Scrabble 3D, for reasons I can't honestly explain. Thanks Martin for pointing me to it!

PCLinuxOS has XScrabble in its repositories. I would go to the PCLinuxOS forum and ask where the source code obtained. I'm sure one of the packagers will tell you.

From Flowix games - i think many distros have it in their repos now, or simple install. Super addicting to the right kind of person.

This is a great candidate for a computer-assisted game. Having the computer flip the tokens not only speeds up the game but ensures against human errors. This works for person vs. computer or person vs. person.
Where can I find this game?