Performance lately has been woeful, with it taking a couple of minutes or so to send turns. It hasn’t stopped me playing, but it’s been very annoying – and given the lack of turns coming in, I’m guessing other people are having problems, too.
Hail the power of the sea cow!
That and the “Performance improvements coming soon” message at the bottom of the screen. That also gave me a clue. I’m up there with Batman as the world’s greatest detective, me.
about 1 week ago - No comments
A break from the usual list of the ten iPhone games I judge to be the best, here’s a list of ten games to play during this month. All will be great games, but they’ll be selected based on a mix of quality, novelty and relevance to the month’s events.
Angry Birds
Angry Birds is one of More >
about 1 week ago - No comments
Sorry, sorry, sorry. I couldn’t think of a decent caption. Still playing Words With Friends several times a day, still got loads of games on the go. Still going for Triple Word spaces whenever I can, as a spoiler tactic as much as anything.
I’m not doing so badly, either. I thought I was going through More >
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
Oh, come on! BROMANCE is a word! Okay, maybe it’s not in your fancy, la-di-da leather-bound “dictionaries“, but it most certainly is a word!
Talking of which, they should add LOLcat speech to the game, too. HAZ would be a very useful word sometimes.
Also, how about just allowing combinations of letters that look like they should More >
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
Yesterday I was saying that gambles are never worth the risk – and last night I had a classic example of that, shown above. I knew that it was dangerous to make the word HIP up there, but took a chance anyway – and it backfired in spectacular fashion. Will I ever learn my own More >
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
My tactics are very simple. Try to score as many points as possible without opening up any of Triple Word squares unless I absolutely have to. Seems very simple and obvious, you’d think, but I’m playing a couple of people at the moment who actually seem to be trying to open up Triple Words for More >
about 2 weeks ago - No comments
Thought it was about time I blogged about this again, just to say that I’m still playing it every day, even if I don’t actually mention it very often. Very little of note to report, though I’m having far too many games where I’m not getting any vowels. I’m sure it’s just a result of More >
about 3 weeks ago - No comments
I hate having a rack full of useless letters worth lots of points. I feel unable to swap them, because, after all, they’re worth lots of points, but I can’t use them, either. So I end up scraping words worth tiny amounts of points as I wait for a decent opportunity to use my big More >
about 3 weeks ago - No comments
This seems to be working better now. I don’t remember it taking ages to send any turns over the weekend, anyway.
It may be worth nothing that this is another game that uses the ringer volume instead of the game volume for its sounds. I let it get away with it because the effects are fairly More >
about 4 weeks ago - No comments
Didn’t play anything last night because I was up in London celebrating my Dad’s sixtieth birthday with soft drinks and tapas. (I’m on antibiotics. Terrible timing.) A very good time was had by all, even though my train home was cancelled and I had to get on a different one and change at Tonbridge. More >
about 1 month ago - No comments
Woke up to an update for Words With Friends this morning. Apparently it’s got some bug fixes and a “new, improved” dictionary. Whether it’s actually been improved, or whether they’ve just, for example, taken out the rude words remains to be seen.
I have a feeling that you can play with people who haven’t updated, so More >