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Facebook fanatics will now have another application to steal away precious moments of their lives - Bananagrams. The Scrabble-esque multiplayer, free-to-play, browser-based game from Majesco and Large Animal Games has officially launched and is now live on the social networking site and ready to be played and enjoyed. We first learned about Majesco’s Facebook game debut back at the end of July, 2008, so it nice to finally see a finished product.

The goal in Bananagrams is to make the most words on the field by continually taking tiles from the community tile pile. Once the tile pile is cleaned out, the person who uses all of their letter tiles first is the winner. It seems like the game could get a bit frantic, since 26 people can play at once in the multiplayer mode. There are also two single player modes, Banana Solitaire and Single Player Banana Café, so you can practice playing the game before you start challenging friends and strangers.

I have to say, I like the presentation and layout of the game. I only temporarily added it to my profile (I have Scrabble already and never play that as it is), but I sampled a few single player games and looked through the screenshots and videos on the official Bananagrams app page. Its unique, and kind of an interesting way to kill a few minutes.

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