A lawsuit filed against two Indian brothers, who’s RJ Software had created the word game `Scrabulous' on the Facebook has been settled by Hasbro. Apparently, the game is very similar to Hasbro's own Scrabble. The game was created by Kolkata-based Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla since they were unable to find an online version of `Scrabble' that they liked.

Following when Hasbro filed the lawsuit this summer, Scrabulous was removed from Facebook and replaced with a Hasbro-sanctioned version of online Scrabble.

Quite opposite to what had been reported, Scrabulous was not as popular as thought and there were too many bugs in its new version `Wordscrapper'. In fact many people had eventually stopped playing `Scrabulous' or 'Wordscrapper.'

It was further pointed out by the critics that 'Scrabulous' was too small a challenge for Hasbro, which owns the North-American rights to the popular word-choice game 'Scrabble'. After the law suit was filed, the Agarwallas agreed not to use the term `Scrabulous' and replaced it with 'Wordscraper,' which never gained popularity. It has been learnt that Scrabulous had around 48,000 members hooked to the game on Facebook.

“The company had agreed not to use the term Scrabulous and to make changes to the Lexulous and Wordscraper games (also designed by the Agarwalla brothers) in the US and Canada to distinguish them from the Scrabble,” said a press release from RJ software.