Words With Friends

by Antonio Wells Mar 3, 2011 11:45 AM – 10 Comments

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Words With Friends. The #1 mobile word game Words With Friends Free is now available on Android. Play Words With Friends Free, the #1 mobile word game, with both your Android and iPhone/iPad-toting friends. Experience for yourself why millions of players are addicted to the word building, triple score seeking, chat bubble sending goodness of Words With Friends.

Price: Free

AndroidTapp.com Android Game Review:

Pros & Cons:

Pros

Highly anticipated and super fun Scrabble game
Play random boards or opponents or invite your friends
Features a Chat

Cons

Very glitchy, sometimes showing combined screens if playing more than one opponent
Notifications system needs work
Has very intrusive ad screen and offers no paid version (yet) to get rid of them

Features:

Words With Friends is Zynga, creators of uber popular Farmville and the likes on Facebook, brings much anticipated iOS crossover game initially demoed on Motorola XOOM tablet. Right off I must admit it disappoints expectations as it is very glitchy, meaning if you are playing more than one opponent words on the game board mixes totally throwing you off… here’s an example. Another popular game like this which does a much better job is Wordfeud. Unlike this game Words With Friends is missing handy feature to “Shuffle” the words which tend to jog recognition of possible word combinations (you have to shuffle yourself).

Fun Factor & Addictive:

Aside of the gripes, online multi-player Scrabble-like games like this are hugely successful and addictive. You can play at your own pace, even set notifications to alert you when it’s your turn (but the feature could use some work). You can play random boards even against random players, or invite your friends from your contacts list. Even play friends on iPhone and iPad!

How to Play Words With Friends:

Just like Scrabble you’re presented with letters to make words on the game board. The best strategy is to spell words that result in high scores taking advantage of Double Letter (DL), Double Word (DW), Triple Letter (TL), and Triple Word (TW) squares. The blank space is a bonus piece, when you lay it down you have the option to choose any letter. Tip: Double-tap the game board to zoom in and out.

Game Board Legend:

DL = Double Letter
DW = Double Word
TL = Triple Letter
TW = Triple Word
Blank Space Bonus = Free Letter Choice

: Words with Friends

: Words with Friends Full Game Board

: Words with Friends Create New Game

: Words with Friends List of Games

: Words with Friends Chat

: Words with Friends Settings Menu

: Words with Friends Invalid Words Accepted

: Words with Friends Error with Placement

AndroidTapp.com Rating

AndroidTapp.com Rating! (3.4 out of 5)

Should you Download Words With Friends? Yes! Overall the game could use some bug fixes still highly fun & addictive!

Developer: Zynga

Tags: Addictive Android Games, Android App, Android Apps, Android Game, Android Games, AndroidTapp.com App Review, Multi-Player Online Game, Scrabble, Word Games, Words With Friends, Zynga

Categorised in: Brain & Puzzle

10 Comments

By geeknik on March 4, 2011 at 2:02 pm:

Don’t you mean Words *ADVERTISEMENT* With *ADVERTISEMENT* Friends *ADVERTISEMENT. Wordfeud is MUCH better, plus, you’re not supporting Zynga when you buy Wordfeud. =)

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- By Antonio Wells on March 4, 2011 at 4:27 pm:
  
  LMAO! I agree, Wordfeud is a lot better.
  
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By David on March 17, 2011 at 6:13 am:

i couldnt find it on market with the barcode scanner

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By buttaalmondgal on March 26, 2011 at 3:02 pm:

It didn’t come up in the market. Is it compatible with every android phone. I have wordfeud so I guess I will be stuck with that.

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By Karl on March 28, 2011 at 11:20 am:

Any reason or word on a fix for the android app? Seems to be quite a battery hog on many android devices, mine particularly is the fascinate but also happening on Nexus1, DroidX and others.

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By Tamara on April 4, 2011 at 2:55 am:

Whenever it loads it pops up some stupid ad screen that you can’t close and pressing the back button then exits the games.

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By bryan on April 15, 2011 at 7:17 am:

For those with high battery drain, go to account settings in the app and change the update frequency. Default is set to every 5 minutes. I set mine to “never” since I check it myself when I’m ready to play.

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- By weeyin on April 21, 2011 at 4:43 am:
  
  how do you get into settings??
  
  I keep having problems games disappear and says searching for opponent when i have games already started.
  
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By navyservant on March 7, 2012 at 11:08 am:

actually the game is so full of flaws and one sided,a person cannot compete.many proper nouns are accepted and others aren’t. many common words are rejected and odd words are not.totally ridiculous

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By helene on June 22, 2012 at 8:17 pm:

everytime there is an update advertisments pop up that are more difficult to get rid of. I enjoy the game but updates are killing the game

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