Last time I checked though, scrabble was still being played. And nobody can kill a server to make us stop playing scrabble. 
Yeah. Then it'd be Words
Without Friends. And that game's just called "babbling". (See my earlier posts in this thread for examples
)
Come to think of it though, Words With Friends
is pretty much a spiritual successor to Scrabble. Albeit one with "The WiFi Generation" as its target market. You still form words on a grid to collect points, so the core gameplay is there. This version has just been updated in several key areas to make it more accessible to the current strain of video gamers and social network users. Namely:
1) The original game's strict rules on qualifying words have been relaxed significantly, and it added a spellcheck so you couldn't submit a misspelled word even if you wanted to. Heck, you can just try random letters until something works if you feel like it!
2) In an effort to make it feel more familiar to today's video game playerbase, when the game was first introduced it was full of bugs and the company offered little or no support. Obviously this was a wise tactic as the game became a massive success, soon branching off into an entire stable of "... With Friends" titles; not to mention the revolutionary idea of playing the game in an offline setting using a specialized nextgen console called a "board".
3) Finally, to draw in that fiercely loyal contingent of hardcore PvP gamers, they added an item store to the game where you could purchase addons that gave you an unfair advantage over those smelly free-to-play bums.
I can't imagine what they could do with a Checkers reboot!
