If you copy "Scrabble" exactly, then you may be in tradmark trouble - but it's so simple to change it just a little and make it your own "game" to get around the trouble, and that is what you see on many other sites - while a few do try to copy scrabble but fly under the radar.

I'm not sure if Fencer's ideas have changed, but if I remember when the idea was brought up before (years ago), Fencer did not like the idea of a word game on this site..... Again, maybe I have a bad memory but I think I remember him giving that opinion.