Although a great deal of research has been carried out in the field of distributed computing, a relatively small fraction of the work has concentrated on the area of distributed applicaitons. This paper is an account of one attempt to explore some of the problems which arise in actually implementing a substantial distributed application; in this case the board game Scrabble. Particular emphasis is placed on continunity, i.e. the ability of the applicaion to continue executing despite partial failure. Our main conclusion from this experience is that much better support should be provided at both the operating system and programming environment level to handle the development and debugging of reliable distributed applications. A number of suggestions are made as to how this can be achieved.