S Viemeister wrote:
>
> On 12/1/2012 12:11 PM, z z wrote:
> > Steal away :-) Here are some more fun ones.
> >
> > Scrabble board cookie with piped letters weaving together holiday words.
> > Or make all the little scrabble tiles also with the letters piped on.
> > Play scrabble. :-)
> >
> I know a few Scrabble fanatics...

Way back in the early 80's, my first computer was the Commodore Vic20. I
learned programming with that one. One weekend, I decided to see if I could
make a computer version of Scrabble, just for the fun of it. I started on
Friday evening and I finished it about 4am the next morning. It was a good
version, graphics and all. There was no computer game of that at the time.

Well, I wrote to the company that held the copyright to Scrabble....Selchow
and Righter (that spelling is wrong, I'm sure). They wrote me back with,
"Thanks but we already sold the rights to a computer version to (some
software company)." They gave me their address.

So I wrote to the software company to see if they were interested in seeing
what I did. They responded, "Thank you but we already have a team of
programmers working on this game."

A team of programmers working on it? I did this in one long night. WTH?

So anyway, I just accepted defeat but I watched for their game to come out
on the market. About 6 months later, it arrived in the computer stores. I
bought it, tried it, and it wasn't near as good as the version I programmed
in one night. damn!

To this day, I think I should have contacted a copyright lawyer and found a
way around the copyright. Maybe I could have called it "Scramble" instead
of "Scrabble."

Gary