Can anybody please explain where I go from here?..............Downloaded e.g. scrabble and did a search:

scrabble: /usr/games/scrabble /usr/share/man/man6/scrabble.6.gz

I haven't a clue what to do next? I would be more than grateful for some simple instructions.

Thank you !

the command to run scrabble would just be scrabble

Cheers for the reply Mos - that was the first thing I tried to no avail. Nothing happened

open up a console and try running that command from there, tell me the exact output you get

I am a tad embarrassed with this but it will help me in the future I'm sure ! I was expecting it to open in the gui when I try to initiate it through K > run command. Also, not in the menu. Thank you once again for your help.


Use: /usr/games/scrabble <level> (where level is 1 to 9)
Level #1 (easiest) assumed...
Reading words... (168074 found, 2038 w/ definitions)

86 letters remain
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0| @ - @ - @ |0 My Words:
1| * + + * |1
2| * - - * |2
3| - * - * - |3
4| * * |4
5| + + + + |5
6| - - - - |6
7| @ - * - @ |7
8| - - - - |8 Your Words:
9| + + + + |9
A| * * |A
B| - * - * - |B
C| * - - * |C
D| * + + * |D
E| @ - @ - @ |E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E

me:0 R T A M I K R you:0

I go first...
Looking...............
Thinking.

I placed:
16 WIDE
for a total of 16 points.

82 letters remain
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0| @ - @ - @ |0 My Words:
1| * + + * |1 wide(16)
2| * - - * |2
3| - * - * - |3
4| * W * |4
5| + + I + + |5
6| - - D - - |6
7| @ - E - @ |7
8| - - - - |8 Your Words:
9| + + + + |9
A| * * |A
B| - * - * - |B
C| * - - * |C
D| * + + * |D
E| @ - @ - @ |E
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B C D E

me:16 R T A M I K R you:0

Enter word as "YXd <word>" (Y=row, X=col, D=a/d) or "help" for other commands.
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This may seem a bit simplistic, but did the website where you got the program from mention anything about a gui? This seems to be a ncurses (text-based) application.

Now I know I'm stupid ! Never thought of that. Got it from synaptic package manager and didn't give it a thought.......duh - you have saved me a lot of time..............Ta!

LOL Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

That's how we learn.

Thank you for that masonm......lol. Don't feel quite as stupid now.....Haaaaa