The cool thing about playing

this on your PPC is that you can play against the

computer, against another person using your own PPC,

or via the infrared link against someone sitting across

from you. This is kind of buried in the interface.

I wish the makers of the program had told me that

I could have done this, I would have tried it a lot

sooner. OK, for someone who writes documentation for

a living, I’m really bad about reading it, so, no,

if I had read the documentation before starting

the game, I would have known I could have played it

   Setup is a breeze. It’s a matter

of downloading the file from wherever you purchase

it. I happened to get a review copy from pocketnow

and ran through the pretty easy setup routine. The

download file is almost 4MB and beyond clicking the

self-installing .exe file, I didn’t do anything else

but click "OK" a few times. Once the program

was set up on my Pocket PC, it installed itself (default)

into my Programs > Games folder. Tapping the Scrabble

    The program is very straightforward.

If you’ve ever played the board game before, you’ll

be pretty used to the interface. When you opt to start

a new game, by clicking the "Game" menu

item at the bottom of the screen, you are presented

– Starts a new game (I’ll discuss more about that

Summary – While you’re playing a game, you can see

what you and your opponents’ score was at every

turn. Kind of a neat option if you want to see how

badly you’re kicking some PPC a** or just want to

see how you’re faring against the machine or another

– Lets you save the game at its current state if

– Lets you reload the game you had saved (or any

of the games that you’ve saved) using the previous

– (Now this wasn’t explained in the help and I’m

guessing here), I think that you can share a game

with a fellow player. Conversely, I was also able

to use it while playing against someone else using

IR. However, I think that entering a word each time

and clicking "Send" or "Receive"

each time they enter a word becomes really annoying

    Help is easy to access

and it’s fairly self-explanatory. I wish they would

have made it a little clearer whether the "Send"

and "Receive" options under "Game"

are for sending and receiving an entire game or whether,

if you’re playing against a human opponent, you have

to choose this every time you or they place a word

on the board. I’m a big stickler for explaining options.

If the game gives me the option to "Send"

and "Receive" then I want to know what the

game is telling me I can send and receive. Beyond

this, I can’t see anything major missing from the

All Pocket PC 2002 and Pocket PC devices using Windows

being confused as to how to use the Send and Receive

options, and making it easier to send and receive

your word choices when playing against another player,

I’d say this game was great. Unless you want every

single word checked every time you place your tiles,

you can uncheck this box, but by default it’s checked.

Personally, if I’m playing an easy game, I unchecked

can get this game directly from Handmark here.

You can also buy it from any of the popular software

sites. The price from Handmark is $29.99 (USD), I

think that’s a bit high, but some people out there

are willing to pay that kind of a price for a single

game. Me, I’d have preferred if the company had a

    The game took me back

to college. Whenever we played, the game usually devolved

into someone challenging the word that someone else

came up with. Using the built-in dictionary, you never

have to have that argument again. Overall, this was

a fun game to play. It’s amazing to see how hard the

Medium and how absolutely difficult the Hard is. If

you have some time to kill, and want a really challenging

game, and don’t have someone to play against, playing

Handmark’s Scrabble will while away more than a few