The makers of Scrabble have released a game that is packaged as a bunch of tiles in a fabric piece of fruit: Scrabble Apple. (I like to call it "Scrapple" for short.) It came out in January of 2009, so it is clearly a response to Bananagrams. Some of the 100 tiles are red, indicating that they are "double word score" tiles. The rules make it sound something like "Snatch", a game I am interested in trying.
[UPDATE: I have played Snatch with Bananagrams tiles, and it is awesome! See this post.]
Also there is now a Spanish version of Bananagrams. It has special tiles for "rr", "ll", "ch", and the n with the tilde over it (a.k.a., the /en yay/).
![If I stay there can be no party. I must be out there in the night, staying vigilant. Wherever a party needs to be saved, I'm there. Wherever there are words that need anagramming, I'm there. But sometimes I'm not because I'm out there in the night staying vigilant, watching, lurking, running, jumping, hurdling, sleeping. No, I can't sleep. You sleep. I'm awake. I don't sleep. I don't blink. Am I a bird? No. I'm a banana. I am Bananagrammer. Or am I? Yes, I am Bananagrammer. [applies chapstick]](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI5Yf53B1clpF3cLb11zYrIhaMn1Grv8uDvAhy_9vwjTU-CZCcX5MYmPwX-TnSagBaWwvJpIWeVsOP3q4r6k_HYnuRcVAOou4fwCkkVU7Or2NXmaWfZS6CjtkPnaeIdq3-wvdOC2DJb-Ra/s400/BGR-plot-medium.png)
