A new version of Scrabulous is back on Facebook and it is called Wordscraper. The old one was interrupted three days ago because of a lawsuit filed by the toy maker Hasbro.  The company sued brothers Rajat and Jayant Agarwalla, Scrabulous’ creators, in a federal court in New York.

The toy company Hasbro Inc., which owns the rights to Scrabble in North America, won the first round.

Scrabulous had half a million active players daily on Facebook. It was released in July 2006 and it had up to 5 million players a month. And it seems the game is up and about again although under a new identity.

Apparently the new word game has a different point system and a board that uses circles instead of squares. The big new feature in Wordscraper is the ability to completely customize your board.

You are free to make up your own rules and then feel free to change them according to your wishes. There are even new score tiles included by the addition of 4x and 5x word and letter score tiles, so that one can create some unusual high score board layouts. Thus every new game is like a brand new experience.

The game isn’t finished yet, so new features are to be added pretty soon.

For the moment is unclear if Wordscraper is infringing Hasbro’s copyright.

"Hasbro has an obligation to protect its intellectual property and will act appropriately when necessary," the Pawtucket, R.I., company said in a statement. "We evaluate every situation on a case-by-case basis and have no comment regarding the Scrabulous developers' new application at this time."