As you know, I love Words with Friends and Hanging with Friends.
Recently I received a request to play HWF from someone I don't know in real life ... she may be a blog reader, since I put out the call for players in a recent post. (And I obscured her screen name, because the point of this isn't to embarrass anyone or make a mean accusation.)
The first several games I played with her, I lost. Because JUST LOOK at the words she came up with for me to solve!
Holy crap! I didn't even know what most of them meant. (Still don't. Too lazy to look them up.)
What was interesting to me after I FINALLY won a game was that she came up with totally amazing words for me to solve, and yet when she was guessing words I came up with for her, she missed a lot of (comparatively) simple ones.
Just made me wonder if she might be cheating somehow. However, I've been known to miss lots of simple words, because even if you start off with letters showing like __ OO__, you can waste a lot of guesses on words like WOOD, LOOK, NOOK, TOOL, FOOD ... and then it's actually BOOB, and you missed it because you never got around to guessing B.
It's not a huge deal, and I didn't say anything about it in Chat, but I do think it was odd. If it was "for real" wins all those times, I'm super-duper impressed!
5 comments:
I would pass on playing with someone who doesn't know someone that you recognize. (friend of a friend).
I try to screen any FB requests, etc.
I'm new to your blog (love your sense of humor btw!), but i am convinced that there are people that cheat on wwf (-i don't play hwf anymore...it takes too much time.) Anyway-there's an app you can download to cheat on wwf, I'm sure theres one for hwf. That irritates me... Why bother if you are going to cheat?! (moral of the story-strange hwf person cheated & that's the only way he {or she} beat you!). :)
Just google "hangman solver" and there you go, easy way to cheat at HWF. I liked the game when it first came out but now that more people are playing with it I'm running into that all the time.. so I stopped playing it. I was tempted to start a game with you after you mentioned it on your blog but decided against it simply because it's not as fun and has lost the appeal of the paper and pen game for me. Btw hi, I've been reading for months and this is my first comment. I'm a slacker, sorry! I love your blog!
I have a friend that I play on WWF and I am CONVINCED that he uses scrabblewordfinder.com...it exists!!! My boyfriend works with him and one day saw that he WAS in FACT cheating. GRRRRR
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