Most of my husband's family (and maybe much of the rest of the world) plays an iphone app called Words with Friends. Everyone kept telling me how fun it was and how much they thought I'd enjoy it. But I kept ignoring them because a) I have a slightly addictive personality when it comes to stuff like that, and b) I really, really like to win (and I don't like to lose).
Words with Friends is like Scrabble, only cooler—cause it makes cute little sounds when you put words together. Except the not-so-cute sound it makes when you pick a word that doesn't actually exist... like maybe duen or qay or onoy or something like that. Not that I've tried to play such words or anything. Not that I've tried about every letter combination that you can do with three o's, two i's, one u, and one t. (And for the record, not so many combinations work with those letters.)
Over the weekend, my husband added the app and got me to do it as well. And within like two minutes, I was completely hooked. As a lover of words in general, it's the perfect game for someone like me. And the worst game for someone like me. I keep having dreams of cool double and triple word scores I can do in games. I'm plagued by nightmares of x's and q's that I just can't get rid of.
I'm not great at it yet, as evidenced by the fact that out of three games completed, I've lost two. But even when you are a great player, the letters you get are the luck of the draw and could either be amazing or awful.
But I'm officially hooked. Completely and totally hooked.
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
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Megan let me try hers and I got obsessed very quickly. Probably not a good idea for a missionary. The thing I found addicting was trying combinations that I didn't think could possibly be legitimate words and finding out that they WERE! My problem is that one time I put in some letters that in order to work these three words had to actually pass and they did! And so after that I had to keep trying any combination to see if it passed. The words were "klaxon" "al" and "yok" Of course you probably already knew those were words. :)
Oh my goodness, it has taken over my life! I'm addicted... its so dang fun! hey, a pretty good work out for the brain ehh :) ha! Tennille, you better challenge me to a game!!!
that's too funny. My family is completely obsessed. My brother dreams about words, too. (literally)
He gave my mom a list of words you can use (that he's tried out and worked) like qi and quis, etc. He felt she needed a little advantage :)
My brother just did a word on my dad for 93 points the other day and it was the talk of the family! :) I'll have to get your username so we can start playing.
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