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HASBRO | Home » » SCRABBLE FLASH CUBES GAME | | | | | | | Description: | | It's up to you to find words in a flash with this fun, electronic version of the classic SCRABBLE game! Use the interactive SmartLink tiles to build your words and they'll flash and beep with each word you make! They'll also automatically time your turns and display your score with the maximum possible score. Put your skills to the test with three different solo and competitive games and slide, swap and shuffle your way to a win. It's fast-paced, addictive, word-building fun!For 1 or more players, ages 8 and up.Contents Include: 5 SmartLink letter tiles, storage box and rules. Includes 5 button cell batteries. | | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 2.52 inches | | Product Width:
| 7.87 inches | | Product Height:
| 10.51 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.65 pounds | | Package Length:
| 10.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.9 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.1 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 229 reviews |
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232 of 233 found the following review helpful:
 Fun and Addictive!Sep 08, 2010
By April Blake
Scrabble Flash is a great way to get your Scrabble fix if you're short on time, have nobody to play Scrabble with, or if you're just looking for a different twist on the game. There are three different versions of Scrabble Flash that you can choose from. Game 1 is for playing solo, Game 2 is for playing with friends, and Game 3 is also for playing with friends, but adds elimination to the mix.
Scrabble Flash gets big points from me for using 2032 button batteries- these are readily available and don't require a trip to the obscure battery store. The game gets even bigger points from me for including the first set of batteries with the game. There's hardly any set-up. Just peel the films off the faces of the five game-pieces, push the power button on each piece, and go to it! The instructions and rules are super-straightforward- if you're playing by yourself, it's not even that necessary to read the instructions. Also included is a little slip of paper telling you what to do if your gamepieces experience technical difficulties- there's a reset button on the back of each.
I love that there's no time at all to belabor gameplay with strategy. You build 3-5-letter words as quickly as you can before your time runs out. I also love that once you get the game out of its package, it stores in a cute little portable box, and the instructions fit right inside.
The only thing that gives me pause with Scrabble Flash is that it counts words that I don't even know are words, and you move too fast to double-check. This isn't a huge deal, especially if you're playing this game with others, but when it really grinds my gears is when I'm playing by myself, and I get to the end of my round, and I find out that although I created 10 words, for instance, the game says there were 23 words maximum to be created with the letter combination I was given for that round. Not a big deal, but if you're a little obsessive-compulsive and also have a big vocabulary, this might get on your nerves, too. Just be warned.
Over all, though, Scrabble Flash is great!
67 of 68 found the following review helpful:
Educational fun for the whole familySep 24, 2010
By Melissa Niksic
Once I managed to get all five electronic Scrabble tiles out of the box (which, believe me, was a massive battle), I really enjoyed this game. The technology is innovative and quite impressive. The game is easy to figure out and fun to play. It's a game that I think will be especially good for families to play with younger children who are trying to improve their reading and writing skills. The only complaint I have regarding game play is that the tiles are kind of small, and the only person who has a good view of them is the person whose turn it is. So, if it's not your turn, it's kind of boring to just sit there because there's nothing much for you to watch. Similarly, a parent trying to assist a child with spelling would have to lean close over the kid's shoulder in order to help. Overall, though, this is a fun new approach to the classic game of Scrabble.
38 of 38 found the following review helpful:
Lots of fun; especially in one player modeOct 05, 2010
By Karissa Eckert
"Devourer of all books fantasy"
This scrabble game consists of a sleek little black box that you can slide the 5 scrabble "tiles" into for storage. The tiles are about an inch and a half square and maybe half an inch thick.
There are three different games you can play. The first is to see how many words you can make by lining up the letters that appear on the tiles in a set amount of time. I thought this game was the most fun. At the end it will give you your score and how many words could have been made.
The second game you play is one where you are given a set amount of time to form five letter words from the letters that appear, you see how many 5 letter words you can make before time runs out. Again a it gives you your score at the end.
The third game can be played with multiple people. Each person gets a finite amount of time to make a five letter word in the time given then the tiles are passes onto the next player and they are given five new letters. If you can't make a five letter word before time runs out then you are OUT. This was the least fun; although I only played with two people and it may have been more fun with more. We were having trouble making five letter words in the short amount of time given, so we were both out almost always on the first or second turn. Maybe we just have poor letter scrambling skills; but I thought the time given should have been a bit longer.
I never had any trouble with the tiles "talking" to each other. This could get a bit pricey when you have to replace all of the watch batteries that these things use. The little black box these tiles comes in is super nice and really makes the game a nice one to travel with.
Overall excellent and addictive one player games. We didn't like the multi-person game as much but it may have been fun with more than two people; we thought the time given for each person for the multi player game was too short. Great game for travel, very compact.
106 of 116 found the following review helpful:
 Major DisappointmentDec 03, 2010
By jennifer settle
I am amazed that Scrabble Flash gets such positive reviews. I think the concept and design is fantastic, but the its main purpose falls completely flat. The game simply uses too may fictitious words that don't even exist in Middle Earth. I have been a conventional Scrabble lover since I was a kid, but this just doesn't cut it. I played 10 solo games and wrote down all the questionable words that the game recognized as legit. I used an official Scrabble dictionary, regular dictionary and the internet. In 10 games, I came across 44 words that flat out don't exist. How can the game be anything but a complete flop with these kind of major flaws.
21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
Has some technical "bugs"Nov 23, 2010
By "Dory"
We were so excited to get our cubes today in time for a long holiday week. But one of my kids played them and said "they didn't work". So I (mom) played them and it mostly worked (1-2 words just wouldn't allow me to score). But then the game had more and more flaws the longer we kept playing....The next time it wouldn't show my score...Then the next time all the cubes wouldn't restart a new game at the end.
So we did a hard reboot (off and restart each cube) and we again noticed that there is a pattern of words that do not "count".
When that game was over, the cubes held a weird design and the on-off switch wouldn't even turn them on or off at this point.
So, I have to rate this game a 1 even though it could potentially be really fun if you have a set that works. I guess this is the trade-off for purchasing a game that relies on technology.
Just trying to save some heart-ache if you are buying for a christmas game. You might want to open the package and try them out before giving as a present!
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