And there's no shame in it, at least not for the people I play against. After my friend Mary Beth played "koto" on a triple word score, putting yet another game irremediably out of reach, I demanded a definition. There's no rule that says you have to know what a word means.
I looked it up. Scrabble, to be sure, is not without this kind of thing. There are all the lists of words you more or less need to memorize if you want to compete seriously which I don't, by the way -- the two-letter words, the words that let you play a "q" without a "u," the words that consist entirely of vowels or consonants. But those, at least, are things you learn. Words With Friends doesn't require you to learn anything, just to be persistent in your ignorance. The proverbial million monkeys banging away at random on typewriters might never write "Hamlet," but they could definitely come up with "koto.
Not that I'm blaming Mary Beth, or Ben, or Dan, or any of my other "friends" who will eagerly forget their expensive liberal arts educations if it means a chance to play an "x" on a triple-letter-score space. Well, maybe a little. Nor do I blame myself even though none of this would bother me if I was less of a competitive jerk.
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I have screen shots of both games. Feel very cheated. Click on your opponent to see which language they play with to see which dictionary is being used for your game. I hope this helps. Anybody out there want to talk about how insane the allowed and disallowed words are in this game?
They defy their own rules with their dictionary, which I assume must be being written by a room full of monkeys. Why are misspellings of words allowed? This is infuriating as well as confusing. Why are words allowed that are not in any dictionary — and are admittedly undefined by WWF? I do not mind enlarging my vocabulary but I need a definition in order to do so. Then I played Waugh and their own definition is this: 1.
English novelist 2. English literary critic 3. English novelist son of Artuhur 4. US painter and illustrator. Am more put off by the ridiculous cheats that go on. The minute someone starts using their bizarre cheating words I just resign. No fun and no skill in that sort of behaviour. I have played a few people that I suspected of cheating because their word play got much better and they were playing a higher level of exotic words than before.
That being said, I cannot be sure; I might have just been jealous of their incredible word knowledge. It is impossible to know for sure if they are cheating. If you suspect a cheat stop playing them. I however believe the article is right, most complainants are just used to mediocrity. If an opponent is replying in less than 30 seconds with a bingo AND using letters I just played, I need no other evidence of cheating.
It is impossible for an opponent to reply that quickly using letters I just played for a 7 letter word. One opponent who did this said he was studying the board while it was my turn. No problem. But how did he know what word I was going to play or what letters I had? Actually very good players will know as soon as they get their tiles what words they can form. I am very good but my brother runs circles around me because he plays tournaments and knows every word.
I have been a lifetime Scrabble player and now a consistent WWF player and as soon as I have my tiles I start arranging my word possibilities. Not all instant bingos are cheats but I do believe there are some people out there cheating on the regular. Also, some people are actually great spellers, have a medical background or are avid readers. I have been accused of cheating when I first signed on, but I re-assured my players I was adamantly not doing so How can you do this anyway with a WFF app or not?..
Wrong Don. Watch a Scrabble tournament in action with timed play. I hate when pedestrian players accuse me of cheating! I am an avid Words With Friends player as well as being a Mensa-eligible former gifted child with a very, very large vocabulary.
I have never cheated in the way you describe, nor have I seen others doing so. Every time I question the legitimacy of a word, I look it up — and have never failed to find it. I have an above-average vocabulary and do not mind if someone uses a word that I do not know. I agree with Vee. In my opinion it depends on the expectations and morals of the player.
If both use help online or a dictionary , it is fine. It is cheating if one person violates the rules both parties agreed on. Games have rules. All games must have rules. The thing is, the rules need a ghost of a chance of being enforced.
Scrabble has been used as the exemplar here against the seemingly outlaw nature of WWF. WWF has no rules, per se. It was never meant to. It cannot and should not be done. Scrabble and Words With Friends, in my opinion are 2 totally different games that just happen to look and feel exactly like each other.
WWF is not the same game as scrabble. Makes it interesting. It still takes study and strategy to place tiles. I agree with that. I am pretty good at WWF my word average is over 27 and game average around In the absence of a dedicated tool for tracking high scores, we've had to rely on the sometimes questionable self-reporting of gamers online.
There are several claimants for highest score in Words With Friends, but the scores consistently fall between 4, and 5, points. Feeling disheartened? Those 4, to 5, point games have something in common that your weekly challenges don't: an opponent who isn't an opponent. Four-digit WWF scores are generally the result of both players working together to achieve maximum pointage. In effect, they're playing a different game than you are, a co-op challenge dedicated to producing the highest possible points for one player.
For example, the widely acknowledged best possible Scrabble word, oxyphenbutazone , is often the backbone of top-scoring Words With Friends games. The word has never been played in competitive Scrabble and, barring divine intervention, it never will be.
It's way too long to plausibly play, and for peak impact, it needs to be played across three, count 'em, three triple word scores. Unless your opponent has taken a sharp blow to the head recently, they're not going to let that happen. Also, it's not possible to span three triple word scores in Words With Friends, only in Scrabble, as the board layouts are slightly different.
To be clear, there's nothing wrong with collaborating in Words With Friends. It's your game; play however you want. But if you want to score high in actual, competitive Words With Friends, there are lessons to be learned from the collaborators. When seeking answers from the Words With Friends elders, many players begin with a perfectly reasonable question: "What's a good Words With Friends score?
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