Words with Friends

5/27/11

Generally, I am a hater when it comes to electronic games. Recently I have had to make an exception. The new favorite pastime in our house is the iphone app Words With Friends (WWF). I started out playing a game with my friend Karli who is hooked on playing WWF with her husband. My husband became interested. Today we played several games sitting in the dark in the living room with only our iphones lighting up the intense word finding race. Earlier in the day, Katinka and I played a couple of times. The fun part is that you can have ongoing games with several people for days on end. You just pick up and play wherever you left off the last time. Karli and I are moving along at snail's pace with about one move daily per person, but it is still entertaining. Electronic scrabble like WWF is better than real scrabble because when you are down to just a few tiles, you can test out all the combinations you can possibly think of. The app will accept real words and reject others without penalty, which comes in handy. I guess electronic games do not all signal the complete freefall of modern civilization after all…