Just two days after Hasbro’s law suit and DMCA take down notice forced the super-popular Scrabble clone application Scrabulous off Facebook, the game’s creators Jayant and Rajat Agarwalla are back with a new application called Wordscraper. With the absence of Scrabulous, the official Scrabble application from Hasbro has enjoyed a surge in users — up from 10,000 or so a couple of days ago (daily active) to 62,000 today. Wordscraper, meanwhile, has about 3,500 users as I write this.

The Agarwallas are clearly hoping that Wordscraper will become the preferred home of Scrabulous refugees. If Scrabulous hadn’t been such a high profile application on Facebook — in many circles it was really treated as the flagship app for the site’s platform — this wouldn’t be such a big story.