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Words with Friends is an application that basically functions as an online version of Scrabble. If you know how to play the classic word search game, you will probably pick up Words with Friends very quickly. However, whether you’re a Scrabble veteran or completely new to this type of game, there are a variety of tips and strategies you can use to maximize the number of points you score each game.

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    Download the smartphone app if you want to play on your phone. Go to the App Store if your phone uses iOS or to the Google Play store if it’s an Android phone. Then, search “Words with Friends” and click the “Get” button to download the app to your phone.[1]

    • Once you’ve downloaded the app to your phone, simply click on the Words with Friends icon to open the app and play it.
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    Use Facebook if you want to play Words with Friends on the computer. Log into your Facebook account and go to the App Center, which you can find in the menu to the left of your feed. On the left sidebar, search for “Words with Friends” and install the app.[2]

    • Click “Play Game” to start a new game once you’ve downloaded the app.

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    Tap the “+” icon in the top right corner to start a new game. Once you’ve started a new game, you can choose to play either with a Facebook friend, a random user, or the person sitting next to you. To go with this last option, you’ll have to physically pass your smartphone to the other player after each turn, so the game is only accessible from your phone.[3]

    • If you download Words with Friends 2, you will also have the option of playing against a computer opponent.
    • Words with Friends will suggest friends for you to play with, but you can start a game with anyone if you’d rather play a random opponent.
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    Click and drag letter tiles to the board to play them and make words. You can create a word by placing your letters either vertically or horizontally on the board. However, you are not allowed to play the following types of words: proper nouns, abbreviations, prefixes and suffixes standing alone, or words that require a hyphen or an apostrophe.[4]

    • With the exception of the first word, every word that you play must be placed so that at least 1 letter tile is shared with a word that has already been placed on the board.
    • Note that you can’t play a word if it will create an illegal word using neighboring letters. For instance, you can’t play the word “CAT” if the “T” tile is placed next to another “T” tile, since “TT” is not a legal word.
    • When you play a letter, you earn a number of points equal to the number in the top right corner of the letter tile. Thus, when you play a word, you earn the sum total of all the letters you played to make that word.
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    Play a word with at least 1 letter on the middle tile to start the game. Whoever plays the first word in a round of Words with Friends has to place at least 1 of the letters in that word on the star tile in the middle of the board. Note that it can be any letter in the word; in other words, your word doesn’t necessarily have to begin from the star tile.[5]

    • For example, if your first word is “CAT,” you can place either the “C,” “A,” or “T” tile on the star.
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    Build new words off of the letters on the board when it’s your turn. If you played the first word, then your opponent will place a word on the board that connects to your word. When it’s your turn, place a word down that connects to either the first word you played or to the new word that your opponent played.[6]

    • Note that before you begin your turn, you will be given new letter tiles so that you have 7 on your rack.
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    Go back and forth between the 2 of you until the game is over. A game of Words with Friends ends when 1 player has played all of their letter tiles and there are no more new letter tiles to be given. At that point, each player’s score is tallied and the player with the highest score wins.[7]

    • Note that if either player has leftover tiles at the end of the game, that player will lose points equal to the sum of the value of those leftover tiles.
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    Place your letters in ways that limit your opponent’s ability to score. Winning at Words with Friends is not only about scoring points for yourself, but also playing defense and preventing your opponent from scoring. When you play your letters, try to position the tiles so that your opponent doesn’t have access to the lucrative colored tiles on the board.

    • To do this, avoid playing words next to double- or triple-word tiles. Although this may mean you have to play a word for a lower score somewhere else, it also keeps your opponent from being able to play these high-value tiles.
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    Memorize different 2-letter words you can play across other words. Playing 2-letter words, especially with valuable letters, enables you to essentially rack up points by only playing in 2- or 4-tile squares. This is not only more efficient for you, but also makes it harder for your opponent to play off of your words.[8]

    • Some examples of 2-letter words you might be able to play include “XI,” “EX,” and “PI.”
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    Look for opportunities to play your letters on the colored squares. You earn extra points by placing your letters strategically on the colored tiles of the board. These tiles will earn you double or triple points, either for the letter that is played on that tile, or for the entire word that you played.[9]

    • Double- and triple-word squares are usually the most valuable colored tiles on the board.
    • If you have a high-value letter tile, like “X” or “Z,” playing this tile on a double- or triple-letter tile is also a good way to rack up extra points.
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    Try to play all 7 of your letters at once whenever possible. This is called a “Bingo” and it allows you get all the points in your 7 letters, plus a 35-point bonus. Memorize some common 7-letter words or simply play a lot of Words with Friends until you get better at spotting Bingo opportunities.

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    Play your letters along words that are on the board to get more points. For example, if you have the letters to spell “POWER” and the word “AROSE” is already on the board, don’t play your letters vertically to use the “R” in “AROSE.” Instead, play your letters along the top of “AROSE,” so that you also spell “PA,” “OR,” “WO,” “ES,” and “RE.”

    • When you play words along other words, you tend to get a lot more points. Note, however, that this only works if you’re able to spell legal 2-letter words with the letters that you play.
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    Who plays first when a game has finished?

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    You have the option to re-challenge the person that you are playing against after a game has finished. Whichever one of you decides to click on «rematch» first will be the one to play first in the new game.

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    What are the stars that fly from the board to your name when you complete a word?

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    Those are called points. Each letter has a certain amount of points, so when you complete a word, all those points become yours.

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    Can I play it internationally?

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    Yes, you can play against anybody in the world. The time differences may frustrate you, though!

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1. Create a Game!

Create a Game

Search for a random opponent, connect to Facebook, or ask a friend for their username!

2. Take Your Turn

Start

Create a word on the board by placing tiles vertically or horizontally. First word in the game goes on the plus tile.

Additional words must connect to previously played words.

Connect Words

Shuffle the tiles in your rack by shaking your device.

Swap Letter Tiles

If you don’t like your tiles, you can use a turn to exchange them.

Play

When you’ve got a word ready, tap play and we’ll send it to your friend.

Chat

While you’re waiting for your friend to play, you can send them a message.

Create a Game

Or start a game with another friend.

Your Move

We’ll tell you when it’s your turn by moving the game to the «Your Move» tab.

We’ll also send you a Push notification.

3. Scoring Points & Winning

You win the game by scoring more points than your friend!

You get points for each word you create based on the value of the tiles used in the word.

Points

You get 35 extra points if you play all 7 tiles in one move!

Play words on the colored squares on the board to get bonus points.

Double Letter

Doubles the value of the tile

Triple Letter

Triples the value of the tile

Double Word

Doubles the value of the word

Triple Word

Triples the value of the word

Try combining more than one bonus to get a lot of points.

Triple Letter

 + 

Triple Word

 = 

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Pass

The game ends when you play all your tiles or when you or your friend use «pass» 3 times in a row.

If you use your tiles first, you get the points from the tiles in your friend’s rack added to your final score.

4. Final Tips

Tiles can be placed so that multiple new words are formed simultaneously using neighboring letters. You’ll score points for each new word created during a turn!

Stack Words

These words aren’t accepted in the game:

  1. Proper nouns (words always capitalized)

  2. Abbreviations

  3. Prefixes and suffixes standing alone

  4. Words requiring a hyphen or an apostrophe

  5. Derogatory words and racial slurs

Help

To delete a finished game from the menu, (iPhone / iPad) swipe across it or (Android) press and hold it and tap «Delete.»

Resign

You can end a game early if it’s your turn. Tap «Resign»

If it’s not your turn and your friend stops playing the game will be resigned automatically after a reasonable amount of time.

Account Settings

Use Settings to change your Games With Friends username, log in with Facebook, set a password (required if you log in on a new device) or add a phone number (required creating for Contact List games).

Word with Friends is a game that has been renewed for its massive popularity as a word game. Rather than playing some games with usual themes like fighting, actions and battling, this holds a unique theme, and it is about words. So today, let’s see how we can play Words with Friends on the computer along with its beginner tips.

Content

  • Words with Friends on Computer
  • Words with Friends on Computer – Beginner Tips
  • Conclusion

Before playing the game, it is a must to know that Words with Friends is not just about handling words, it is strategy fame, and for winning, it has to maximize the bonus multipliers which a player holds. And they have to plan carefully for keeping their tiles, and those allow them to score continuously throughout the game.

So how do this Words with Friends on Computer gameplay come about?

Words with Friends on Computer

You can just use LDPlayer to play this amazing strategy game on a computer. It only requires an installation on your computer, and then you can go to the LD Store. You can download the game there.

What makes you more pushed towards playing this unique Words with Friends on the computer is that it gives you a more advanced gaming experience rather than playing on a mobile. It is not just only about having a keyboard or a mouse. The gaming will be more advanced with many added features than usual game-playing.

As an example, we can take the Keyboard Mapping feature. It will create its own keyboard for the players with their personal preference controls, and it does not require to depend on the default key settings. Instead, you can create your own.

Words with Friends on Computer – Beginner Tips

Playing Words with Friends on the computer using LDPlayer is not the only answer for a victory. You need to be aware of what to perform and what time it asks you to do it. 

So it is a must to know some tips, and here are some of the strategy tips to follow. These will help you to improve your entire gameplay with Words with Friends.

Learn Your Functional Words

It is a must to learn some word amounts like 2 and 3 letter words as a player. Those are helping players pass a long way towards improving their scores from the game, 3 and 3 letter words are not only the ones that give this feature as short vowel heavy words, and the JQXZ words are also helping them improve their scores more.

Use Some Bonus Multipliers

Bonus multipliers can be identified as the best ways of increasing scores, and those are capable of improving players’ scores most speedily. Players need to make sure that they take the maximum benefits from multi-coloured multiplier squares whenever they can.

Using More of Bonus Multipliers

You need to use bonus multipliers more than once. It makes the situation better whenever you use several bonus multipliers within a tandem. When a player combines their word multiplier with a letter multiplier, they will be able to score more points with only a few tiles.

Parallel Plays

Note that it becomes favourable for you if there is a parallel play. If a player plays words parallel to the existing plays and forms multiple letter words by two or three amounts, it becomes a great strategy. 

Those are really helpful for a player to rack up their points speedily, and it will be a great way to use many words you have already learned on step one.

Hooks with Massive Dividends

Sometimes, hooks are paying so many dividends on the game. If you hook to an existing word, it will be the most effective scoring method. Players can hook by adding one tile to the start or for the end of a word, and then they can try to create the newest word. 

And also, they can do it by creating a perpendicular play. Players can use this new technique to access the highest score bonus multipliers to earn big scores from the game.

Focus on your Rack Balance

When there is a chance, you need to try to have a good balance between consonants and vowels. And then you need to try to not keep duplicate files with you. It is OK to have a few from the high point files, but it is not identified as a great tactic if you decide to have more than two high point tiles.

Swap

As a player, you should never be afraid of swapping. There are some terrible tiles, and they can limit your scores within one turn, and they can affect multiple turns. 

So you need to swap. But when you are swapping, just make sure to keep some strongest tiles like X, Z and S with the blank tiles. And also have to keep the tiles that fit great with the board when swapping, as they are helpful for parallel plays and hooks.

Bingos

Look at your game board for bingos. Bingos are the greatest way to score with blanks and lower consonants’ scoring. These tiles are somewhat challenging to achieve, but they help make a bingo. And it can be done by using all the tiles and claiming 35 point bonuses.

Don’t Give Big Scores for your Opponents with Bonus Square.

You should never give a chance for your opponents to use some bonus multipliers to earn big points. The same type of bonus multiplier combinations with parallel plays that you have to use on scoring should never give away the opponents. You need to avoid it unless you hold an excellent option for huge scoring.

Hunt for your Words

Most of the players are looking for the words in this game way too fast. But you need to try for words that are unsure of you. If a player wants to know if a short word or hook is valid in the game, they have to type that hook in and create a gibberish play. The word checker will tell them whether the play is valid or not.

If you can see an immediate game, it may mean that there are multiple good plays for you to enjoy. And there will often be some good plays which are better than any other thing. Those will be single-handedly swinging games.

Conclusion

With those details, it ends our beginner tips with the guide for playing Words with Friends on the computer. Make sure to utilize these all tips in a maximum way to progress more on your game, and don’t forget to play Words with Friends on the computer to have a whole gaming experience from it.

Play Scrabble and Words With Friends Online

​The Spruce / Margot Cavin

There are several ways to play Scrabble and Words With Friends online, including some officially sanctioned sites and some unofficial sites where you can play Scrabble-like crossword games. There are fewer options than in the past since some options are no longer available. Scrabble play can be done instead on mobile apps, including SCRABBLE Free from EA and Words With Friends from Zynga.

The Spruce / Emily Mendoza

Facebook Scrabble

Two official versions of Scrabble are available on Facebook, one for residents of the U.S. and Canada and the other for residents of other countries. A third Scrabble-like game, Lexulous, is also available. (Lexulous was known as Scrabulous until lawsuits were filed against the creators by both Hasbro and Mattel.) Free registration is required to join Facebook. To play without ads, you must pay a fee. An ad loads after every turn if you don’t pay for the ad-free version. You are able to compete against your friends, track your Scrabble ELO rating, customize your board and tiles, and pick up gameplay where you left off on your smartphone or tablet. You can also play against a random opponent or turn on speed play.

Facebook Words with Friends

You can also play Words with Friends on Facebook, powered by Zynga. You can start a game and notify a Facebook friend, or let the game match you up with someone.

Lexulous.com

In addition to being available at Facebook, Lexulous can be played at Lexulous.com. You can join a room to play with other players or elect to play a robot. There is also an option where you can watch other players play and learn their strategies. Free registration is required to join Lexulous.com. You can join using your Facebook profile if you prefer.

Pogo.com

Pogo.com, run by Electronic Arts, is an official place to play Scrabble. Two versions are available: classic Scrabble (for two to four players) and Scrabble Blast (a solo game fairly described as Scrabble meets Boggle). Free registration is required to join Pogo.com. You can join using your Facebook profile if you prefer. You can play with friends online. To play ad-free, you must upgrade to Club Pogo.

You earn tokens from playing and have a chance to win prizes and drawings. Pogo has options for playing alone, challenging up to three opponents, choosing from five skill levels, opponent matching by skill level, and using traditional rules, house rules, or selecting rules a la carte.

Merriam-Webster Scrabble Sprint

Play the free Scrabble Sprint online game without registration on the Merriam-Webster site. You make words one at a time against the clock to fill up all of the spaces on the board. You click or type a word with two or more letters, with bonus points for more time left on the timer.

Scrabble Apps

Scrabble apps are available for your mobile device and allow you to play on the go:

  • SCRABBLE Free is available from Electronic Arts, both on iTunes and Google Play. It allows playing with friends, single player, random opponent, and speed play. Cross-platform play is also allowed.
  • Words with Friends: This Zynga app is available on iTunes, Google Play, and the Windows Store.

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How to Play Words With Friends


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Words With Friends is an exciting and competitive wordplay game. Follow the steps below to start playing Words With Friends.

Step 1:
Go to the Apple App Store, search for Words With Friends, and download the app.

Step 2:
Use the green plus sign icon to find an opponent. You can either be randomly matched with another player or play with someone you already know. You can connect by playing Words With Friends through Facebook or by typing in a friend’s username.

Step 3:
When it’s your turn, place letter tiles on the board horizontally or vertically to form words. Play your first letter on the purple plus sign tile when you start a game. Each letter is worth a particular amount of points, and you’ll earn an extra 35 points if you can play all of your tiles in one turn.

Step 4:
When you’re ready to end your turn, click on the Play button and your friend will get a chance to put down letter tiles. You can send your friend a message by selecting the blue Message button.

Step 5:
If you’re stuck, shake your phone to shuffle your letter tiles. You can exchange one letter tile for another using the Swap button, but you will have to use up one of your turns. Still stuck? Click on the Pass key to skip your turn.

Step 6:
Play a letter on a bonus tile (DL, TL, TW, or DW) to earn extra points.

Recap:
Follow the steps above to learn how to download and play Words With Friends.

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