So. Words With Friends. Basically, it's Scrabble on the iPhone (except that Scrabble now has an official app). I love it. I currently have five active games, and am losing all but one of them.
Still, I play on.
Words With Friends, like many table/board/card games is as much about luck as it is about strategy. It's all well and good if you have a decent vocabulary and know a thing or two about letter placement, but if you have a rack full of vowels, there ain't nothin' you can do except swap them (and lose a turn) or play them wherever you can.
Whenever I have a rack that includes an inordinate number of a particular letter, say O, and I wish I could pawn them off to my opponent, I feel like a back-alley trenchcoat wearing salesman.
"Hey. You. Wanna buy a O? I got lotsa good Os. Good prices."
Of course, as Cabeza pointed out, they're probably just cheap, knock-off Os made in China. So, today, when he offered to his sell his vowels, I laughed and turned him down, since I had just played "lobo" to get rid of two of my three Os.
Then this happened:
And it kept happening:
And now I'm losing and still have 5 vowels.
Of course, by the time I get some consonants, we'll have tiled ourselves into a corner or something. I do win my fair share of games, but sometimes the fates are against me.
In the meantime, "Psst! You lookin' for some vowels? Got lots of good vowels here."
Still, I play on.
Words With Friends, like many table/board/card games is as much about luck as it is about strategy. It's all well and good if you have a decent vocabulary and know a thing or two about letter placement, but if you have a rack full of vowels, there ain't nothin' you can do except swap them (and lose a turn) or play them wherever you can.
Whenever I have a rack that includes an inordinate number of a particular letter, say O, and I wish I could pawn them off to my opponent, I feel like a back-alley trenchcoat wearing salesman.
"Hey. You. Wanna buy a O? I got lotsa good Os. Good prices."
Of course, as Cabeza pointed out, they're probably just cheap, knock-off Os made in China. So, today, when he offered to his sell his vowels, I laughed and turned him down, since I had just played "lobo" to get rid of two of my three Os.
Then this happened:
And it kept happening:
And now I'm losing and still have 5 vowels.
Of course, by the time I get some consonants, we'll have tiled ourselves into a corner or something. I do win my fair share of games, but sometimes the fates are against me.
In the meantime, "Psst! You lookin' for some vowels? Got lots of good vowels here."
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In a Scrabble game I'm playing with an old friend, I recently had to trade in, having been dealt the following letters:
OOOIIIU
Yeesh. At least I'm winning ONE game right now...
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