The AH Words with Friends Challenge.

lovecraft68

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Well I never thought I would see the day that I would get hung up on an online game, but it has happened. "Words with friends" is basically online scrabble and is free(there is a pay version as well, but I deal with the pop ups) You can play friends or random people.

Here is a link

https://company.zynga.com/games/words-friends

It occurred to me that as authors this can be a fun exercise as well as a game because we're always using words and looking for new ones.

Then I thought about....A competition. A just for fun tournament amongst the authors here.

How will it work? Sign up for the game however you want to play it, phone, PC, tablet facebook whatever. Sign up using your lit username so we can find each other. Then....

We wait a few days and get a list of people who want in. When we have our list I will draw names out of a hat and pair people up to play each other. In the event of a odd number, the last name drawn gets a bye that round.

I will post who is playing who and the person drawn first starts the game.

All you do for that is click start a game and search by username then you start. This plays just like scrabble including being able to swap tiles or skip a turn. The game handles the scoring and will tell you if it is a valid word.

Once the game is over you come back to the thread and post the final score and who won. Score is important because if there is an odd number of winners (14 people= 7 pairings+= 7 winners) then highest score gets a bye.

Now we can say once you have lost you are out or we can go with the (say) 6 winners play each other and six losers play each other so a double elimination.

We go until we have one ultimate winner. Who wins.....bragging rights until the next time.

I figure what is cool about this is that it is not a story challenge and takes very little time and effort. This way if people want to do the next fawc, or need time for Nude day or are writing for survivor this does not interfere.

Also even if you're crushed at work or like myself at the moment have some r/l crap going on you can still play. It is also a good exercise(I've seen a lot of words I have been "oh, come on" then I look them up so it helps with vocabulary. It's a good distraction and most of all its fun and we can all have a good time busting each others balls-in a friendly manner.

The games are allowed to last for days(not sure how long) so time limit is something we would impose, but honestly a game can usually be played over the course of a day unless you have no internet access for some reason.

One thing I will add. Like everything else on the net there is a words with friends "cheat" app. We are all on the honor system here and I would hope no one would do that.

So anyone interested?
 
I'm interested! :)

The only caveat at this point is me finding a way to register and play with my Lit name as both the tablet and Facebook are in my real life name.
 
I'm interested! :)

The only caveat at this point is me finding a way to register and play with my Lit name as both the tablet and Facebook are in my real life name.

I think that when you sign up for it you pick your "nickname" and that is all the other person sees.
 
So far we have

lovecraft68(My username on words as well)
Aynmair
Saxon hart
XelliebabeX
Patientlee(it seems she will spell every s word "sh" as she slurs her words)
Dianthus
 
so swilly makes 7 giving this a bump to see if we can find one more to have an even 8.
 
So far we have

lovecraft68(My username on words as well)
Aynmair
Saxon hart
XelliebabeX
Patientlee(it seems she will spell every s word "sh" as she slurs her words)
Dianthus

Slurring my words? Do not let my enunciation from this weekend fool you. I'm a good pronunciator.

Username is patientleewriting. All the good ones were taken.
 
I found Di and Ellie on FB...no luck with anyone else. :cool:

I'm not on FB(nor will I or even a pen name ever be) you have to find me and maybe others through the game itself.

I have no idea how to do it through facebook but the regular game you pick start a game and then search by username.

also still holding out for an 8th person
 
We do have 8 now. Donna Beck is going to join us. I'll ask her to pop up on the thread here today.
 
Bump. Here's our list again. Shall we just pair off starting from the top with the person below, or do we need an 8-sided die? Did RL intervene or did the interest die? ;)

DonnaBeck2
swillywriter
lovecraft68
Aynmair
Saxon hart
XelliebabeX
Patientleewriting
Dianthus
 
Bump. Here's our list again. Shall we just pair off starting from the top with the person below, or do we need an 8-sided die? Did RL intervene or did the interest die? ;)

DonnaBeck2
swillywriter
lovecraft68
Aynmair
Saxon hart
XelliebabeX
Patientleewriting
Dianthus

I don't know what the plan was. Good question.
 
I know, I'm sorry I fell off on this. Life has been a little.....full lately

I am going to pull the names tonight and the way it will work is the first person listed in the pairing is the one who has to find their opponent and start the game.

so example if its

Lovecraft68
SWilly

I have to start the game with something clever like NY sucks.
 
Okay here are the match ups

Dianthus Vs Patientlee

Aynmair Vs Saxon Hart

Donna Beck Vs Lovecraft68

SWilly vs XElliebabex

So first name initiates the challenge.

Have at it.
 
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