Words With Friends: WWF is just Scrabble on your phone, iPad or other electronic device. And when I say "just Scrabble" what I mean is that it's all of the awesomeness of Scrabble but with the added bonus of being: portable; you can play multiple games at a time and you can play against people all over the world (or just against the same four people you see every day). It is slightly different from Scrabble in that the bonus squares are arranged differently and I assume (though I haven't checked) that the letter distribution is different as well. Also the list of two letter words is slightly expanded (or one might argue updated). The different arrangement of bonus squares seems to increase the amount of points you earn on average, but once you realize that the scores are just going to be higher in general, that's no issue. Perhaps the biggest issue I have with it is that there's nothing to stop you from trying out words until you hit on something good. If you put down a bad word the game says "Sorry _______ is not an acceptable word" and then you get to try again. No loss of turn. No loss of points. This means that you do tend to have games where you see pretty obscure words. Which means either the person you're playing against is a much better wordsmith that you gave them credit for or they were just putting down letters that seemed good until they struck gold.* Like most apps there's a free version with ads or a pay version without. I paid $1 for the download and it was money well spent.
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* - Technically I guess there are two other options. They could be flat out cheating. I mean the Internet is also available on the machine they are playing on. Or they could be really bad spellers and they got lucky. (Paw: Hey Maw, how you spell 'faker'? Maw: Wha's that? Paw: Yunno, Johnboy says he's too sick to do chores an' I says, quit bein' such a faker. Maw: It's spelt just like it sound, "F A K I R" Paw: Yep, that's it. I got 28 points fer that 'un".)
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