Word with Friends tips

If you have a smartphone or iPod touch, odds are good that you know what Words with Friends is. If you don’t know what it is—it’s basically a game of Scrabble, where friends who have the game on their respective devices can play. Now that the game is explained, how do you think you’d stack up? Play the best word you have? That’s a good strategy, but not the best to win. The problem with that strategy is the element of luck to the game. When receiving random letters, it is difficult to make really “cool” words. More often than not, I find that I only make one or two “cool,” complex words in a game. I’m here to give you my winning strategy.

First, play the highest-scoring word, not the coolest. Find the double or triple letter and word multipliers on the board that are playable. Don’t be afraid to make nonsense words in order to reach word and letter multipliers to gain extra points. Many high scoring words, are not even considered words in the vernacular. Remember, just because it doesn’t look like a word does not mean it is not playable.

Second, if you cannot reach or make a word on a letter multiplier, do not make a word where your opponent could reach that multiplier or another multiplier. This kind of defensive play.  In Words with Friends, you’ll find that if this kind of defense in played, more often than not, the other player is forced to give you a good position to make a word on a word multiplier.

Third, use as many of the triple word scores as possible.

If there is room to make a word on the triple word score, do it. Doing this will prevent your opponent from making large amounts of points from one word.

This technique can also be done for the double word scores as well. However, it is not as crucial to winning.

Finally, if you get the “q” or “j,” use them as soon as possible. Those are letters that are difficult to use, especially the “q” since it almost always requires a “u” to go with it.

Remember, any letters you don’t use at the end of the game will cost you their amount in points.

Posted by Alex Smith on Apr 21 2011. Filed under Opinion. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.