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BladeoftheImmortal

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So a friend got me to download this game, besides the fact i feel he's cheating, what bullshit is this Zynga?? 5 bucks to purchase a stats page? Please go fuck yourselves.
 
Did you just get a smartphone?
 
BladeoftheImmortal said:
So a friend got me to download this game, besides the fact i feel he's cheating, what bullshit is this Zynga?? 5 bucks to purchase a stats page? Please go fuck yourselves.
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can't play those games, everyone cheats. It is pointless. All word games on smartphones are killed for this reason.
 
welcome to scrabble. everyone suddenly thinks something is new when it comes to smart phones. see: candy crush

but yeah, paying for a stats page. lololol
 
People always thought I cheated. But all it takes is clever tile placement and a lot of making up words til something you put on actually makes sense. I didn't know half the words I was using, I always just tried until it worked.
 
sflufan said:
I remember when this used to be called "Scrabble."
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adamantypants said:
People always thought I cheated. But all it takes is clever tile placement and a lot of making up words til something you put on actually makes sense. I didn't know half the words I was using, I always just tried until it worked.
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I was under the impression that using the autocorrect (or whatever you want to call it) to find words is considered cheating in these games. Or is it just using a dictionary?

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lol, if people actually use programs to beat their friends at this, that is pathetic
 
This is why I only used my smartphone only as wifi router and messaging. Imagine how much time I would waste on that "games".
 
Isn't this that game that normal people play?
 
Ferrio said:
Programs. Put in what letters you have, gives you the best possible words etc. I'm almost certain most everyone cheats in the damn game.
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I don't cheat and I usually win (except against my Mom...50/50 there, and I guarantee she doesn't cheat), so I think this is false.

Well, unless sometimes guessing words is cheating, then I guess I cheat. I'd say that 90%+ of the time I would win a "dictionary challenge" though.
 
The kind of people who cheat at games like this are fascinating. It would be like saying you like sudoku puzzles but you juat copy the numbers in from an answer key.
 
SomeOneInaHat said:
Invite your friend over and have a classier match of Crossword debauchery.
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Why did you have to post that image? I was perfectly content not knowing that exists, but now I'm going to have to justify a $200 Scrabble board purchase to my wife. I didn't buy the typography edition from a year ago and regret it all the time. This one looks even nicer.
 
Scrabble is awesome, so by extension Words With Friends is also fun.

They should have created a Scrabble app, but these guys beat them to the punch and get to reap the rewards. So it goes.
 
Sobriquet said:
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Here's the thing about this version - See, Scrabble's got a weird history. In America Scrabble is Trademarked and owned by Hasbro, while elsewhere Mattell owns the license and makes their own version. This is why digital versions of Scrabble are usually limited to certain parts of the world.

But here's the clever thing! Hasbro also makes the Words WIth Friends board game alongside Scrabble, but they can also sell WWF internationally.

Genius.
 
adamantypants said:
People always thought I cheated. But all it takes is clever tile placement and a lot of making up words til something you put on actually makes sense. I didn't know half the words I was using, I always just tried until it worked.
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"Use it in a sentence!" No. The game where you have to know the definitions of words is called a crossword puzzle. I've played against people that might have been looking up words online, and I've had people rage quit against me because of words I've used, but all that Scrabble/WWF requires is that it's a real word. And the game confirms it's a word by accepting the play.

Scrabble is the one board game I will brag about being good at. I grew up with my mother, grandmother and two aunts kicking my ass in this game for years. They took no mercy on me, but I learned all the sneaky 2-letter words, and I became a very good bluffer (not a needed skill in WWF because the game won't let you play a false word). Tile placement is how you really win. I've stolen many a game from people who played good words, but kept leaving the TW tiles open.

If you want to beat someone, use Smart Match. I think you end up playing against Zynga employees who try to lose. I've seen some pretty questionable plays from them (rarely taking the high-scoring tiles, playing low-scoring words that open up TW, etc.). My leaderboards are dominated by these folks who must have a hundred games going at once. Then again, I don't know how anyone can have 200-point average word scores, so maybe there is cheating. I just play my Facebook friends, anyway.
 
It's pointless to play against anyone random. When people magically find places to slide words in that run parallel to 2 other words and combine to make a total of 9 words in 1 move... yeah. Something's fishy.

I only play this with my wife. Though she hasn't played her turn since I used "scurvier" for 110 points xD Yay for blank tiles allowing me to use all my letters on a TW.

But yeah. It's been 3 days. I think she's mad at me for that one...
 
This game is basically a test of how fast you can type a bunch of letters into the Internet Anagram Server.
 
Kerned said:
Why did you have to post that image? I was perfectly content not knowing that exists, but now I'm going to have to justify a $200 Scrabble board purchase to my wife. I didn't buy the typography edition from a year ago and regret it all the time. This one looks even nicer.
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Don't tell my SO, she'd buy it without even asking me.

But that got me thinking, if that Scrabble board is worth 200, how much is my Onyx edition worth?

*looks*

What the fuck? Why did I open this?

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adamantypants said:
People always thought I cheated. But all it takes is clever tile placement and a lot of making up words til something you put on actually makes sense. I didn't know half the words I was using, I always just tried until it worked.
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Which is fine for how the digital game works, but will come across as not in the spirit of the game to anyone who comes from a background of playing the actual tabletop game. In it, there's no requirement for a word to actually be a word. The way the requirement is enforced is through optional challenges. You place down letters and I think you've just made up a word. I can challenge, or I let it go. If I challenge, we reference a preapproved dictionary, and if the word exists, I lose my turn. If the word doesn't exist, you pull your tiles up and you lose your turn.
 
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