'Words With Friends' – Asynchronous Online Scrabble
posted July 21st, 2009 5:27 PM EDT by Eli Hodapp in $0.99, Board, Free, Games, Wi-Fi Multiplayer, iPhone games, iPod touch games
Newtoy, developers of Chess With Friends [App Store] recently released Words With Friends App Store] bringing the same asynchronous multiplayer to the game of Scrabble (basically).
Chess With Friends has become remarkably popular among Chess players, since it's both free and offers a modern spin on correspondence chess. Words With Friends takes this same formula and offers four different multiplayer game modes.
You can either search for users to play with using your contact list, or search by user name. If you don't know anyone with the game yet, you can play a random opponent. Finally, Words With Friends also has a mode for local play if you want to play against a friend using a single device.
Like Chess With Friends you can have multiple games going at once with both friends and random internet players. While push notifications aren't supported yet, you can either just launch the app to see if it's your turn yet, or enable email/SMS notifications. A recent tweet by Newtoy mentions push notifications coming soon for Chess With Friends, so I'd assume the same treatment will be coming soon for Words With Friends.
Either way, both games are free and supported via in-game advertising and Words With Friends has a premium version for 99¢ that you can buy if you want to support the developer and/or don't like looking at ads. If you like Chess or Scrabble, both games are a ton of fun.
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Someone already brought asynchronous multiplayer to the game of Scrabble: Scrabble. How does Newtoy plan on getting away with such a blatant ripoff?
Indeed Sprung Monkey
someone needs to get Tim Langdell on the case
Unless they own the rights to Scrabble, then I doubt its a legal thing.
Also there's Lexulous which enables you to play with friends on Facebook either on the desktop or on the phone.
Words With Friends let's you play for free though! And it's prettier
Port your apps to Android.
And a helluva lot smoother. I love the stuff these guys come up with. Their chess app rocks too, but this one seems a lot more polished.
Great game but I can't connect to my friends for the life of me. Keeps telling me there isn't a player with their name
Same here, and the website is not reachable!
Looks like someone rushed a release.
it's free, so I can't complain. the sound effects are oddly addictive themselves.
push push push!!!!!
I can't use the app, can't login. Support doesn't answer… (sigh)
Did you shut your phone off, turn it back on and try it? you are supposed to do that after installing an app. At least on the iphone.
I haven't had time to PLAY yet, but creating a username and logging in worked fine.
Play is fine
Push would be a great addition.
Push is on the way according to the developer. Great game. Bought the pro version to get rid of those annoying ads. Can't figure out how to end a game though. How does one win??
The person wins who gets down to the last letters and each person spells until both players start passing. I have noticed you can pass twice and it will send with a winner. These games arent timed so I've had games I been playing since Friday, we each make a word when we have time. I dont mind it it works, other way to end game is to resign. Love this game, one of the best free apps on the iphone.
My free app has been working just fine
But all of a sudden it had a bug I guess and won't load up now:(
Does anyone know how to force the end of a game? I'm playing with someone who got to the very last letter and won't respond or pass. Is there a time limit?
their is a time limit if someone doesnt respond after a certain amount of time it will automatically end game. but dont forget you can always start another game, you dont have to wait to finish that game…. multiple games can be ran at the same time.
This words with friends app is sweet!!!
Is it available to be played online via PC?
It's really cool when you use word scrabble too.
I'll deny ever saying that.
This message will self destruct in 5..4..3..2..
Words free works great! The text alerts are a little slow. I would love to play on my laptop to save my eyes a bit of strain
it doesen't know words like acia berry or bioagents. what gives?
My first game was against myself – playing as Player 2
My main character scored 322
My "Player 2" scored 282
I was informed that Player 2 beat me!
More bad news.
No matter who ends up with the higher score, the 'winner' seems to be the player who plays the last tile.
This has happened in five different games.
As an app, this needs more – or rather, some – beta testing.
I love this app, have had no problems! But I would like to delete the games that i've finished.
I refuse to resign to get rid of games I've won! What is the cut off time for not making a play? How do I add a cute little pic to my name on the iPhone? Thanks!
Great app! Love playing this and I've never had any problems. The games you have finished clear after a while. It would be good if it showed you how many games you had won / lost online. Also to be able to play against the phone. I have no idea how you get the little pics but have seen a pair of lips and a heart on some usernames!
PS Has anyone managed to get get higher than 90 points with one word?!
A friend scored 105 on me with DIAZO. I was so mad! LoL
142 on jive
The board is actually based on Literati, not scrabble. Similar game to scrabble, but the scoring/points per letter/number of letters per set and stuff like that is a bit different.
I installed ver 3.04 which had an option to have game send a text message informing me that it was my turn. I keep getting texts even though the game is over. The app has updated to ver 3.05 which does not have an option for text messaging. This means that I can't turn the messaging off and keep getting text which I have to pay for!
LOve 'Words with Friends' but I think there's a few bugs to be ironed out….
Why oh why would the game not accept the words 'GOT' and 'DO' .. I've thought I've always spelt them the correct whey!!!!!!!!
my username is lt2maarte
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