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Majesco’s first Facebook game has been revealed - it will be working with Large Animal Games to bring Bananagrams to users of the social networking site. The game will be a free Facebook application on August 18, 2008, with additional features and upgrades added later. The official Bananagrams press release does not state if the game will only be open to US and Canadian users, like EA’s Scrabble.

Bananagrams, like EA’s Scrabble, is based on a previously existing board game and also involves using tiles to create words. However, Bananagrams is more of a free-for-all. A pile of tiles is created and each person is given tiles, and immediately every player goes to work creating words at the same time. The person who uses all of his tiles after the pile of tiles is gone is the winner.

Bananagrams is going to be quite a large app, with four different play modes, online player chat and a leaderboard. There will be two single player modes, Banana Solitaire and Single Player Banana Café, which you can use to practice or play in if no one else is online. There will also be Classic Multiplayer, where two to four players can compete at once, and Banana Café, where two to eight players can compete.

I only have the Scrabble application added at the moment, but I think I’ll remove it once Bananagrams comes out. Scrabble is fun and all, but there aren’t enough people playing and it gets tedious waiting weeks to finish a single game. A speedy game like Bananagrams is more my style.

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