Words With Friends
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Description
Play the AD-FREE version of Words With Friends, the game more of your friends are playing than any other word game!
Experience for yourself why more than 20 million people are addicted to the word building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness of Words With Friends.
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Review
Newtoy has a pretty sweet thing going with its burgeoning and addictive “Games With Friends” platform for the iPhone and iPod touch. The Dallas-based developer released Chess With Friends last year to much critical acclaim, including from me. Chess has improved substantially in the intervening months, and NewToy has reaped the fruits of that progress in its latest offering, Words With Friends.
Words With Friends is a two-person crossword challenge. It absolutely, positively is not Scrabble, so Hasbro’s lawyers can serve their writs another day. Sure, there might be a few similarities. It doesn’t hurt to know the basic rules of that other game, such as the layout of the board, how to exploit double- and triple-letter scores, and what to do with a string of O’s, I’s and a solitary X. But I don’t ever recall Scrabble being quite so habit-forming.
That Old Familiar Interface: If you’re familiar with Scrabble or its many online variants, than the rules of Words With Friends shouldn’t be too hard to grasp.
That’s probably because it’s easier to start a game of Words With Friends. Like its chess-based predecessor, Words With Friends exploits the networking capabilities of the iPhone and iPod touch. The app’s interface incorporates all of the improvements that fans of Chess with Friends have come to enjoy. The sign-up process is much easier than it used to be. Simply enter a valid e-mail address and search for an opponent. Obviously, you need a Wi-Fi, 3G, or EDGE connection to play. As with Chess, you can challenge people in your handheld’s contact list or you can let the seek app out a random player. You can also invite friends to play through Twitter and Facebook.
Words With Friends lets you have words with friends. The addition of a live chat feature is one of the game’s great innovations. A pair of goofy animated googly eyes will show you when a friend/opponent is online and in the game. You simply tap the “chat” button in the upper corner of the screen and type as you would with any mobile AIM client.