Hoo boy. Who didn’t see this coming? After deftly avoiding it for monthsandmonthsandmonths, I am obsessed with Words with Friends. OBSESSED. Not like, crazy obsessed where I’ll lose my job, my home and my family, my cat, but probably only because it doesn’t cost any money or fall explicitly under the list of unacceptable vices. My friend Katy’s husband is one of its creators, so I should have simply shown my support from the beginning, paid my dollar ninety-nine and just accepted the certain fate of sleeping with my iPhone on my pillow, lest someone get a double word score while I’m sleeping and catch me unawares. But I resisted. Because I knew it would come to this: creating games with total strangers because there’s not enough Scrabbling in the world to sate this appetite. I should never have gotten started. I am your brain on drugs, triple letter, double word.
My (user)name is ThisFish. And I’m addicted to letters.
Psst.. wanna play? All the cool kids are doing it.
UPDATE: Um, holy cow a lot of you play Words. I’m SLAMMED. But, you know, in a good way. Just be patient – I don’t know to play 35 games at once. Yet.
I play it too with several friends and family members, and mostly love it. BUT, my one complaint– some of the words that it allows are ludicrous! (Especially with some of the word-inventing-cheaters in my life…) Then there are the actual, legit words that produce that “Not an Acceptable Word” message. So frustrating! Real, live, in-person Scrabble at least provides the satisfaction of challenging those fake words. But all in all, I agree, it is lots of fun
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I too am addicted to words and triple letter, double word scores. I play WordScraper all day at work with my other two word-addicted friends. I can’t get enough.
By the way, a belated congrats on the engagement! And the ring is GORGEOUS!!!! I’m so happy for you
Totally going to start playing w/ you. I adore that game!
Like I need another obsession to keep me from doing silly things like … sleep, clean house, go to work, feed the dog….
Glad you have an obsession that isn’t illegal, immoral or fattening!
hello, my name is lindsay, and i’m also a words with friends addict. welcome
Think of it as putting food on my table heather. Eloise wants to see your ring. Baby Arthur comes in June. Miss you.
My husband found that game and we’ve been playing eachother all week. He has nine games going! I’m a little less fanatical. The funny thing is I can’t get him to play real Scrabble with me for anything– he hates the game. Maybe this will change his mind.
I’ll look you up!
So I play a 78 point word and you resign from our game? I’m hoping it was a mistake, but if it wasn’t, that’s kinda sore-losery. And you hadn’t even lost. There were still tons of tiles left.
Anyway, stinks how that worked out.
How quick to jump to conclusions!
I had thirty-something games going and I broke my app. I had to completely uninstall it. Ask around – I don’t have a SINGLE game anymore because I got an actual blue screen of death (only this one was light blue with clouds and it apologized for the issue, which was nice).
And it’s not inappropriate to resign a game anyway! I’ve had people resign games and never called anyone a sore loser.
Anyway, before anyone ELSE gets mad, that’s what happened. I broke it.