Words with friends
OK I have a huge complaint!
I love playing Scrabble. It is my
all time favorite game. I don’t always
win, but I love words! Hearing words,
learning new words and reading words! As
Hamlet said…”words, words, words…” (a2s2).
So when I got a Kindle, I was thrilled to find a Scrabble game on it
that I could play with the computer. I
hate to brag but my winning percentage is 90% against the computer. But what I want to talk about is an app I
have on my phone called “words with friends”.
“Words with Friends” is much like Scrabble. The board is configured differently, and some
of the acceptable words are different from Scrabble but that is about the only
2 differences. Right now I have 6 games
with different friends and family going on.
I love it!!! However…
I recently found out that a certain person I was playing
with was using a dictionary! How unfair
is that???? He…I mean “they” didn’t feel this was
cheating! How I caught h…them was, the words that h…they were playing were words I had never
seen or heard of! Words like: gooral (can’t even find this one on
dictionary.com, but it means the same as goral: which is a type of goat
antelope in the Himalayas), and yclept (verb, a past participle of
clepe). 
When that second word came up I asked h…them what it meant and he said he didn’t know that he had just
found it in the dictionary! I was
shocked! This is a highly educated
person who has played Scrabble with me many times and h…they insisted it wasn’t against the “words with friends”
rules. He even found their rules on line
and emailed the link to me to prove it.
Well he was right, it wasn’t in the rules BUT, anyone would know that if
you are using a dictionary, it is unfair…right?
I refused to finish the game until they
promised to stop. Otherwise, I would
just go back to playing with the computer on my Kindle!
2 comments:
I agree whole heartedly with you, Leslie. It is absolutely no fun to play that game when your opponent plays with a dictionary. That's my two cents worth!
Kathy Lumpkin
Oh yes, this is cheating. The downside to this game is that they have not only dictionaries, but full online help pages where you can type in your board and get the best possible word with your letters. What's the point? I'll play you! I uninstalled the game because it stopped being fun but will reinstall it.
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