Wesley Fenlon | Not with a bang but a whimper.

Growing up equal parts voracious reader and student of capitalism and imperialism (Monopoly and Risk, respectively), you’d think a game like Scrabble, combining the fun times of a competitive board game with the trapping of lit’rature would be, well, up my alley.

It wasn’t.

As a kid, and well on up into my teen years, I loathed Scrabble. The mere mention of it as a contender for family game night rendered me vehemently opposed, eyes ablaze and jaw firmly set in an unequivocal veto. Well, mostly I just whined. But you get the point: the two of us didn’t mix, jive, or coagulate whatsoever.

I always assumed it was the game itself — which is a little odd, considering my aforementioned appetite for all things fiction. Turns out, that wasn’t it at all. Because, you see, I hate Scrabble, but I love Lexulous. If you’re unfamiliar, despair not — I was among your sorry ranks but a few weeks ago. Lexulous is, basically, free Scrabble for the Internets, written in Java and as competent as any of the simplistic gaming services offered by Yahoo! and, well, whoever else offers free Java games.

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