How to Play Words with Friends

Flag Post a comment Words With Friends is a fun and addictive game. It's a variation of Scrabble and can really help you hone your vocabulary skills! It's board is slightly different from a Scrabble which allows for high scoring words. Words With Friends is great to get your children involved in, especially as they are learning more advanced reading skills! Words With Friends: How to Play Here are a few step-by-step basics to get you playing the game. Initially you'll have to find a friend to play with. When you choose to start a game with a friend, begin by playing any word horizontally or vertically across the star in the middle of the playing board. You'll notice two-letter abbreviations throughout the board. They appear as DW,DL, TW, and TL. These are important for getting big scores. DW is double word, TW is triple word, DL is double letter, and TL is triple letter. Every letter is worth a certain amount of points. You can see a small number in the corner of each tile denoting it's point value. Letters that are more difficult to play are usually worth more points as well. Playing tiles that are of higher point value across the special squares noted above is a great way to get huge scoring words! Words With Friends: Scoring Scoring in Words With Friends can be kind of tricky sometimes. Pay close attention to the point value of the word. A z for instance is worth 10 points. Playing a word with z in it across a DW or TW square will really boost your score. It is difficult to do, but if you can play a long word with z, and start z off on a triple letter or double letter square and it's long enough to extend to a TW or DW square as well, you are looking at a huge scoring word! You get points for every word you make. For instance, if you were to play a word alongside of another word, you could end up making three or four words in one turn. This is a good strategy to scoring big as well. It takes a little practice to really understand the scoring, but once you're playing you'll pick it up in no time. Using all of your letter tiles for one word gives you an additional 35 points. It isn't easy to do, but be sure and examine your tiles closely and get the best word you can. If you use Facebook then you are used to seeing game boxes pop up on your page a lot. Well Words With Friends allows you to post or "brag" about words you play on occasion. This is nice when you get a particularly high scoring word, especially if the friend you're playing is bragging about their moves! When you do play a word, a small box will appear asking you if that's the word you really want to send. Now if you've played something illegal, like a proper noun, it will also tell you the move is unacceptable. When this box appears, if you are happy with you move then send it to your friend. If you think you can score higher, then cancel the move and try again. Words With Friends: Advertising (Ugh..) Well no game is complete without advertising right?? Words With Friends works their advertising in as well. Whenever you've completed your turn in a match and advertising box appears. When this ad box pops up, you can't see the board or play in that particular match until it's finished. The ad will last maybe or 5 or 10 seconds generally and I usually just wait it out. There are some ways to get the ad free version. You can invite friends or pay to get it. There are many people that do buy the ad free version and it may be worth the money if you play a lot. Playing the ad free version of Words With Friends can save a lot of time if you have many games going at once. Words With Friends: Buttons There are buttons at the bottom of the board you'll need to know for game play. One button that says "more" with an up arrow. This will bring up a box that gives you the option to resign the game if you wish. The game tracks your wins and losses, so don't resign too many, it will be a loss for you. The next button is the "swap" button. This allows you to swap some of your tiles for different ones. The game randomly gives you tiles and on occasion you may get a really bad set of letters, like all vowels or no vowels. That would be a good time to swap some tiles. This counts as your turn, it will swap the tiles and then be your friends turn. Next is the "pass" button, you can use this to pass your turn to your friend. This is used most frequently at the end of the game when playing is sometimes difficult or not possible, then you can pass. The last button is the "shuffle" button and this mixes your letter tiles up. This helps in creating new words by giving you a new view of your letter tiles. Try it a time or two when you're having trouble coming up with a word, it does help! Words With Friends: Chatting You can chat in Words With Friends. There is a chat button located at the top of the board by the scoring area. If your friend is playing at the same time as you, this makes it very easy to communicate. You will know if someone sends you a message by the green bubble that will appear by their name on the left hand side of the screen. You can also just click that area and go to the chat box. Words With Friends: Winning You will continue playing until all the tiles are gone, in which case the highest score wins! Also, you can pass your turn if you are unable to play. There is a button located at the bottom of the board allowing you to pass. Remember though, passing three times in a row causes you to lose! You may also resign the game. Keeping an idea of how many letter tiles are left is a good idea. You can see how many remain in the scoring area. Beside the scores it tells you how many tiles remain. Keeping track of that number will help you strategize your game play. You may need to play offensively to score big and catch your friend's score. You may need to play defensively to keep your friend from scoring. That's the basics of Words With Friends. As you play, you'll learn when to play offensively and when to play defensively. Be sure an experiment a little with words, it's a great way to come up with new great scoring words! So, get your children involved and have fun!! How to Block Facebook Game Requests Make Money Fast on Hay Day