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WTF Words with Friends? Really?

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I have a buddy that cheats like crazy, so now we both cheat just to see what kind of crazy words/scores we can get. The best Ive had was 108 points for Zeds. Z on TL and d on TW.
 
Born2bwire said:
How are you guys cheating? You talking about using dictionaries and stuff?
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There's apps on the iPhone that take a screen shot of the board and tiles you have and list out every possible combination and it's score.

There's sadly a very large amount of those kind of apps available in the app store.
 
Sixguns said:
I have a buddy that cheats like crazy, so now we both cheat just to see what kind of crazy words/scores we can get. The best Ive had was 108 points for Zeds. Z on TL and d on TW.
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Meh, I've learned a lot of Z, J, X, and Q words just by playing other people. Za, Zed, Adz, Jo, Jow, Haj, Xi, Xu, Qi, Qat, all fan favorites.

Interesting thing, there are no 2-letter V words. For this reason, V seems to be harder to use than those 8- and 10-point letters. I just get rid of mine as quickly as possible.

I find that even on the few occasions when I have used an online Scrabble dictionary, it hasn't helped much. It's much more about finding a place to use your letters and after that it's just trial and error (because unlike real life Scrabble, with WWF you can just keep trying until it works).

EDIT: Never heard of the cheats where it'll actually find out where to put your letters though. That seems like the harder component anyway.
 
AstroManLuca said:
Meh, I've learned a lot of Z, J, X, and Q words just by playing other people. Za, Zed, Adz, Jo, Jow, Haj, Xi, Xu, Qi, Qat, all fan favorites.

Interesting thing, there are no 2-letter V words. For this reason, V seems to be harder to use than those 8- and 10-point letters. I just get rid of mine as quickly as possible.

I find that even on the few occasions when I have used an online Scrabble dictionary, it hasn't helped much. It's much more about finding a place to use your letters and after that it's just trial and error (because unlike real life Scrabble, with WWF you can just keep trying until it works).

EDIT: Never heard of the cheats where it'll actually find out where to put your letters though. That seems like the harder component anyway.
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C as well.
 
I have a friend who I know cheats; I mean, really, does anyone know the word mehari? The funny thing is, though, I have been playing Scrabble my whole life and have beat him every time. Take that, asshat!
 
Everyone played this my senior year of high school. I would have several games going at once, even with teachers and people that I didn't actually know.

Too bad the android version sucked balls back then.
 
lokiju said:
There's apps on the iPhone that take a screen shot of the board and tiles you have and list out every possible combination and it's score.

There's sadly a very large amount of those kind of apps available in the app store.
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....

That's just sad...
 
I don't see the point of playing a game if you are going to blatently cheat.

Maybe I'm just weird, but if I win because a) I cheated b) the other person got injured/had to leave/other unforeseen circumstances or c) pure dumb luck, it takes 100% of the fun out of winning.

I play WWF with my brother in law (English grad) and mother in law (English teacher) who both like to read a lot and used to play Scrabble a lot. Unfortunately for them, I have very good recollection of words (and had to study vocab for grad school entry exams) and a Tetris mindset to where I can see how things fit together really well.
 
Don't play words with friends, but do play Word Feud quite a bit and am pretty good at it. Once you learn a lot of the cheap short words (qi, qat, za, jo, ki, ka, etc) you can do pretty well. I play kind of defensively too, like I try my best to never make it easy to use a TW, and definitely never make it so both the TW and DW can be played at the same time (as there are a couple spots on the board where that's possible). Other players seem to never think about it. They'll leave all those things wide open, so I'm getting big scores all the time.

The random boards are fun too, though they are kinda cheap - like the board might have 3 TWs right around the start, so whoever goes first can build an insurmountable lead.
 
Jeraden said:
Don't play words with friends, but do play Word Feud quite a bit and am pretty good at it. Once you learn a lot of the cheap short words (qi, qat, za, jo, ki, ka, etc) you can do pretty well. I play kind of defensively too, like I try my best to never make it easy to use a TW, and definitely never make it so both the TW and DW can be played at the same time (as there are a couple spots on the board where that's possible). Other players seem to never think about it. They'll leave all those things wide open, so I'm getting big scores all the time.

The random boards are fun too, though they are kinda cheap - like the board might have 3 TWs right around the start, so whoever goes first can build an insurmountable lead.
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Those cheap words need to be banned imo they ruin the game. Also they need to decided on a dictionary before the game. American English/British English/Aussie English
someone played "trou" thats a word in the scottish dictionary. Gay.
 
DAPUNISHER said:
It is just 1 on 1 scrabble, but you can string the game out for days or more. And there is no arguing, challenging, or people trying to peek at your tiles.
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The most important part is that it's played anywhere on everything. It's not "smart phone Scrabble," is Facebook, iPod, Android, website, Twitter, whatever, Scrabble. Traditionally games can't get that kind of penetration. Because it's not always real time it allows you to play as many people as you want and you can focus on the active players after sending a move to the inactive ones. Remember Scrabble vs. Scrabulous? This is why that was such a big deal and the makers of Scrabble really missed the boat.
 
My girlfriend's cousin (who is the only person I play against) probably thinks I cheat because I stick the high value letters on the TW/TL and then try different combinations with my other letters till I find something that works... I've had some weird ones that I never knew were words, but I didn't look them up or anything.
 
CZroe said:
The most important part is that it's played anywhere on everything. It's not "smart phone Scrabble," is Facebook, iPod, Android, website, Twitter, whatever, Scrabble. Traditionally games can't get that kind of penetration. Because it's not always real time it allows you to play as many people as you want and you can focus on the active players after sending a move to the inactive ones. Remember Scrabble vs. Scrabulous? This is why that was such a big deal and the makers of Scrabble really missed the boat.
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Good point about playing anywhere, on just about anything. And I missed the vs thing, I will google that.
 
Swap is your friend.

The best I've had so far is juts for 102 points. The largest score I've seen is lozenges for 157 or so points.

I usually lose a lot because I refuse to play those 2-letter words that really don't mean anything, and I don't use cheat programs or dictionaries.
 
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