Franklin SCR-226 The Official Scrabble Players Dictionary
by Franklin Electronics
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Customer Review: Franklin Scrabble Companion
Summary: 4 Stars
The Franklin Scrabble Companion (FSC) was priced fairly, and delivered promptly. A nice touch was the cloth bag with draw-string into which the FSC is stored when not in use. This product has a tendency to go into failure modes - this is the second one I've purchased and both products have this same tendency. However, there is a simple fix when this happens - depressing with a narrow point a button on the back always seems to work. In our Scrabble Club, the allowable words are changing; unfortunately, the FSC does not include these new words (eg., QI, FE, KI, ZA, ...). Not sure what Franklin's plans are to update the current model....Customer Review: Sent it back
Summary: 1 Stars
Purchased for my daughter, an English teacher, Scrabble lover. She said she'd rather have a book to look up words and most of the features on the Franklin she'd never use and thought they took away from the mental challenge of the game. She said it would end up on a shelf in her house. She'd rather have a paperback Scrabble Dictionary. I returned the Franklin. She didn't even like the idea of taking it to school for her kids to use when she lets them play Scrabble in class! I've since discovered that the entire Scrabble Dictionary is available on their website for online checking of words.Customer Review: Love / Hate relationship
Summary: 5 Stars
We absolutely love our Scrabble "cheating machine." We play with our 13 year old son, and the "cheating machine" has taught him a lot of new words. When friends play with us, they often start out scorning our machine and us for having it (hence the source of its name). But by the time the game's half over, they're grabbing it, too, to confirm unusual two-letter words and for challenges. We occassionaly play the games which has improved my own Scrabble game. We've had to reset it a couple times (easily done) but have had no other problems in the past 18 months we've owned it.Customer Review: Great product, but an old edition.
Summary: 4 Stars
I love my Scrabble dictionary. It is very compact and a lot easier to bring along on vacation than the paperback dictionary. It has some skill-building games on it and can even be used to find words for the letters you have--a feature I use when playing against the computer in order to increase my skill. The drawback of this dictionary, however, is that it only contains the words from the 3rd edition of the official dictionary. The fourth edition has been out for some time now, but this product has not been updated. Otherwise, I would give it five stars.Customer Review: puzzle pleasure and vocabulary builder!
Summary: 5 Stars
My children and I have been using this to play scrabble and it really 'levels the playing field' for us. You can enter the tiles you have in your hand and it will make suggestions, you can check spellings, help find places to put your words, and more.
I have noticed that in playing this and really thinking about the words their spelling is improving and their vocabulary is imporving. Before their game consisted of words they already knew and ones I suggested -- a much more enjoyable game for everyone involved!!