Alec Baldwin was thrown off a plane yesterday for playing WWF after the flight attendants asked everyone to put away their electronic devices.

http://travel.usatoday.com/flights/p...lines/580029/1

Curious as to what everyone's highest-scoring games are. Here's a couple I played recently:



890 combined, against offTopic. RESISTOR, SUBITEM, QUARRELS, and FOOLING were all on consecutive turns (first and third one were mine, as well as LIGHTED earlier in the game).



969 combined, against a chick who's halfway decent but leaves the board way too open. INTERIM and TORRENTS were both mine, as well as the non-bingo double-doubles PLOTZED and BURDENS. She picked up most of the high-scoring triples, including the 96-point JEON.

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Bingos are a lot easier to see when you have common suffixes in your rack and you lock those up and only look at your other letters. like -ED, -ER(S), -ING(S)

Having -INGS and a blank is basically a guaranteed bingo

I can't take screenshots on my old droid, but just went back and looked at some of my scores and I lost one game against OffTopic 503 to 476, 979 points combined. I think there was one bingo and two TW/TL with Q and J.

BTW, I'm up for a couple of more games, TimonX is my username.

I am not talking about super-high level games where people basically know every playable word and the fear of triple triples is a legitimate one - my friend and I are pretty good Scrabble players (I probably average around 1.2-1.5 bingoes per game, I know most of the threes and a good bit of fours), and the idea of not playing a bingo simply wouldn't happen in one of our Scrabble games.

Don't forget the bingo bonus is 35 points compared to 50 in Scrabble, which also makes it much less of a no-brainer to play one.

The bonus squares on the WWF board are laid out to create action, just like the way they rig the flops on Stars and FT.

Just spent the last 30 min or so reading through this and now I feel like starting 10 or so games. Sn is SirRawrsALot. I probably win 80%+ of my games with randoms, but judging by some of the people in this thread, I think I'll get rocked. No cheaters, obv.

rawr

how often are you guys taking advantage of swapping letters? there never seems a useful time to do it; early in matches there are usually a ton of ways to play bad letters unless the board is really defensive, and later on when there are less letters remaining you're likely to receive the same letters back when you swap. also there seem to be enough multipliers on the board compared to scrabble that it's not too hard to capitalise on crappy letters.

If I have a bunch of U's and I's and only have shots at words worth less than 20 points that have no purpose of blocking TWs or anything, I definitely swap letters. Also if I'm close to a bingo.

my username is deucedeuces. add me if you wanna play a game. i'm not that good. probably average like 350.

in scrabble your exchanged tiles don't go into the bag until your exchange is completed. i don't know how WWF works in that regard.

i tend to exchange when i see that i will almost certainly not have any decent scoring plays for 2 turns - if i have 6 vowels, or 5 vowels and a crap letter like V or W, something like that, and nowhere to burn off 3 or 4 vowels, in they go.

I'd like to know about the exchange rules too. I know WWF lets you exchange when there are fewer than 7 tiles "in the bag" unlike Scrabble, and in that case, you definitely risk getting some back. Not sure how it handles it when there's more than 7.

As for exchanging, vowels are definitely AIDS and unless you have a good opportunity to make a word like AIOLI or LOUIE on a DW and score halfway decently, just give up the turn.

It's a little trickier if you have all consonants, since you'll often have a few decent 3- or 4-pointers that you want to keep, but if you exchange too few, you run a higher risk of still not pulling any vowels and getting screwed.

lol this new update, christ

What has changed? I have no games where it's my turn right now

if you've updated you'll see a store and all will be revealed

Oh ****, I just noticed that. So basically now cheating is super easy, that really sucks.

I have 190 after 3 moves, and if he doesn't block me I'll have Quiz over TW the next play. Sustainable? This guy is super competitive too.

Ooh, I want to play suzzer

Trounced need to be placed one space to the right.

It's 8 letters, meaning that 'cawed' must have been there first and he couldn't put it anywhere else. I get the point (I think, don't want the vowel next to any bonus space, right)

Very late to the party, just started playing yesterday and I'm hooked.

Wondering if this is a common problem: I have a bingo in my rack with an "s" in it, in this case NATIONS, in the early middle of the game and can't place it on my current turn.

So, I pass rather than break my awesome bingo in the hopes that I'll be able to drop it soon. The problem is this goes on for like 3 or 4 turns in a row with my opponent sniping short words with a big scoring letter on a DL/TL or something and before I know it I'm like 90 points down and still have nowhere to put my damn bingo.

Now I'm in a position where breaking the bingo is pretty much conceding the game since it represents my only legitimate chance of getting back in the game, but there is no sign of my being able to drop it anytime soon and the board is getting progressively tighter.

Should this situation just be avoided altogether?

definitely never pass when you have a bingo, because your opponent is going to know what's up. you just have to break it and hope that you can set yourself up with a different word on a future turn. me, i'm not that good, but i would probably try to play off NA somewhere and keep TIONS

fwiw i have a droid and am now playing wordfeud instead of words with friends, i think wordfeud's board is superior (although still inferior to scrabble)

Yes, IMO. This has been discussed upthread - the bingo bonus isn't as great as Scrabble, either, so curse your bad luck and move on.