I'm losing.

I won my first game, but I’m struggling in the second one. I’m not terribly behind yet, but my letters aren’t great and my opponent if fearsome, if a little slow in playing his moves.

I’ve also been playing lots of other random people who seem to have found my name via this blog. If things don’t slow down I’m going to have to start refusing games, which would be a shame.

Let’s start off then, with a game I think I’ve probably played every day for over a year now.

No wow moment, just solid word-based fun.

Yes, it’s the trusty old Words With Friends, which in terms of price-per-hour must rank as the best value game I’ve ever paid money for.

Nothing amazing to report – although a friend did beat me in stunning fashion by getting a seventy-two point word in the dying moments of one game – but I still keep on playing. I also played a few moves of Words With Pirates, too, but that joke’s wearing thin now.

It’s very, very silly.

A screenshot will explain all.

Yaarrrrrrgh!

Anyway, if you want to play, you better grab it now – apparently they’ll be turning off the servers before too long.

DYSWIDT? I am such a child.

Yes, I am still playing this every day without fail. It must have overtaken Animal Crossing for the “consecutive days played” record. Shame that I always stop blogging about daily games, so I can’t actually prove it.

I'm winner!

Really haven’t been gaming over the last few days. I’ve just not seemed to be in the mood for it. I’m sure I’ll get back into it before long. I have, however, been keeping up with multiplayer games, such as Words With Friends.

On my next turn I had four As.

Increasingly, this isn’t so much Words With Friends as Words With Strangers Who Appear To Be Cheating. I’ve even been asked if I’m a cheater after playing some good words. Well, I’m not. I don’t see the point of winning if you didn’t actually play the game yourself. Yes, I sometimes put something I’m not sure about to see if it works, but I don’t use anagram solvers or dictionaries or other apps to try and find big words.

Huh huh huh. Wiener.

Yes, it might have been better to do it on a day when I had fewer games to talk about, but never mind. Let’s face it, I may well still be blogging about the weekend’s games tomorrow.

Anyway, though, Words With Friends. It’s still on my iPhone, I still play it and it hasn’t changed in any major way, though every now and again the dictionary and interface get little tweaks.

I'm losing.

Out of my last ten completed games, I think I won two. For some reason I’m doing really, really badly lately. I don’t know if it’s because I’m tired, whether I’m having a run of bad luck or if everyone else has improved while I’ve stayed steady, but it’s really quite annoying.

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Had to delete Words With Friends and reinstall it at the weekend, because of one of my games went very wrong indeed. As you can see from the screenshot above.

It all works now, though. Not worth throwing a party for it, but it’s good that it’s not forever wrong.

Still, if I did throw a party I could have cake… Or I could just have cake, anyway. I’m an adult, I get to decide these things.

…Except, upon checking my wallet, it seems I don’t. Bah.

Always neutralise a Triple Word where possible.

Oh, yes, I still play this every day. It just doesn’t make for very interesting blog entries. And I always forget to take screen shots.