Posts tagged words with friends

I’m part of the rllmuk ladder for this game and I’m doing quite well, despite not deliberately playing other people on the ladder.

I won’t be starting many new games right now, though. I’ve got a lot on the go. Five are awaiting my next move as I type, so I better get on with it, really.

Played a lot last night. Won some games, some lost games, many are still ongoing.

Sometimes the board gets silly.

It’s a great game, this, it really is. It would be nice if it wasn’t so buggy, though. I’ve had tiles stuck in their “move across board” animation and they’ve then appeared on every game board until I’ve restated the game. I once had tiles in my rack appear on top of each other and be unplayable – I could drag some of the tiles to empty spots on my rack, but not play them. That bug lasted through restarts and I eventually had to pass my turn to get past it. There’s also a very common bug where it often won’t apply a double word score to your move on the first turn if you place your word on a DW space. (Unlike Scrabble, the first word isn’t automatically doubled.) Also, sometimes you get a 35-point bonus for using all your tiles and sometimes you don’t.

The bugs can make a difference to the outcome of the game, so they really need to be fixed as soon as possible. It’s a testament to the overall quality of the game that the rampant buginess hasn’t put people off playing.

Sometimes, you don’t get much luck with your letters.

Ouch. Anyway, I’ve got about fifteen hundred games on the go at the moment and I’m having a wonderful time, even though I’ve just lost a game after winning my first six.

By the way, I will play some games that aren’t on the iPhone again sometime, I promise. I might even turn my 360 on sometime in the next few days. This site hasn’t turned into an iPhone-only blog. It’s just that at the moment I’m doing my daily Animal Crossing and then just enjoying my iPhone games. It’s partly because it’s new and exciting, partly because I’m catching up on a year’s worth of games, partly because it’s a lot easier to play games on a device I always have with me, partly because I can play while the TV’s on and, well, partly because the iPhone is home to some cracking games – that are either very cheap or free.

But it’s also because Words With Friends is as addictive as chocolate-coated crack that comes with a free Batman action figure.

I’ve been playing an awful lot of this. I’ve got several games on the go. It’s really fantastic, but it’s hard to know which words the dictionary will let me use.

At least you’re not penalised for trying to play a word it doesn’t like.

I’ve finished a couple of games now, too, both wins.

That win there was very lucky. I was trailing the whole game, but near the end I managed to get 105 points for the word ZAPS. (The Z was on a triple letter square, the whole thing was on a triple word.)