Words With Friends 2 Word Game Game Reviews

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Love to Play WWF. I have been playing this game for many years and enjoy it immensely. I do have a bone to pick, however, with the latest change, which is why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars. The change that I am unhappy with concerns the Daily Word Play. It used to be very easy to access Daily Word Play as it was displayed in more than one area of the game board. The previous Points Goal for Daily Word Play was 167, and you had 4 tries to get to that score and when you did not reach it in 4 tries you could watch a video for 4 additional tries. Once you reached 167 points you received a Mystery Box. I was fine with watching a short ad for the 4 additional tries, and I always did so to complete the 167 point goal. Now the goal is 930 for a Mystery Box with unlimited tries and no ads, and the only way to access it is through the Goals box. The issue is if you want to stop before 930 points (because that score takes a bit of time to achieve) and go back to Daily Word Play later, there is no longer a way to access it again. Please fix this issue, as I am sure that other players like to put down the game and go back to Daily Word Play later when they are not playing other opponents.

Scammers. I love the App but I found there are men trying to pick up women and more likely scam them for money. But last week I had a new type of scammer. It was a lady who said she just moved and wanted to make new friends. I decided to chat with her and she asked if we could chat on Google Hangouts. I am not connected to that form of social media so I told her I was on Instagram. It just got weirder and weirder. She said she knew Ellen and if I would like to appear on her show. I asked a few more questions to see where she was going with this and she actually had pictures of her with Ellen. She said she could raise 5000 for my transportation. I said I wasn’t traveling now because of the virus. The next day she asked for my SS number, Address, Email, and phone number. She was persistent and her flow of conversation would change calling me Miss and friend etc. I told her I don’t give out my SS number and blocked her on Instagram and WWF. I would have never thought this type of scam would happen on WWF so just a word of warning. I told her and the men who have appeared that I am 75 years old so that would turn some of them off! I now hope that my age would give me some wisdom.

A bit annoyed. I’ve been playing this game since 2014 and I loved it .. however when I watch ads to get tokens, I am rarely getting the full 30 coins allocated per day. I never had issues before but everyday now for the last 4 months I received 18 out of 30 each day because of 2 ads ( Fishdom and Gardenscapes) which btw take more than 3 minutes just trying to exit . It’s completely frustrating and time consuming and shouldn’t take longer than the average 5 minutes it takes to watch all 10 ads. It’s even more frustrating especially since I’ve contacted zynga numerous times begging them to fix it or contact the 3rd parties explaining that their ads are not giving any rewards for watching. Sometimes zynga support will give me a credit back but I shouldn’t have to write them daily and I find this completely unnecessary and annoying. This is time away from playing the game and my precious time watching the same ads over and over for nothing . I’m at the point of not wanting to play anymore. If you are new I suggest don’t even bother playing this game if you don’t have money to spend to get tokens like I don’t being on disability, then you’re going to go insane trying to get support from their automated computer response before you possibly reach a real person. Who may or may not give you the coins you earned. I’m finally fed up and giving this complete thumbs down . 👎 Fix this WORDS WITH FRIENDS 👎👎👎👎

UPDATED Latest Update the Worst. The latest update is the worst. The playing screen is now smaller and the dictionary isn’t synched to the game you’re playing, or any game you’ve recently played. It runs much slower and update doesn’t seem to have added much of anything to the game but some sounds and screen motions that aren’t necessary for the true Words player. Please put the screen size back to what it was instead of splitting it in half for a dictionary that is now distracting, especially for people that may be visually challenged. Another thing the game notifications of waiting games is way off. Today it indicated I had 28 games waiting to play, and there were none. Sometimes I have 56 games waiting but don’t know that because no games are indicated. Does anyone do quality checks or testing before these updates are sent out? Adding to this earlier review. Recent update has not corrrected any of the earlier gaming issues reported by many. Still stalls and requires restarting game. Also the new $9.99 Fall Reward (right, what was I thinking buying it) is missing the portion to use the tokens you win so what’s the point of offering them if the only final reward is the one from previous contest that’s already concluded. They also put an unlock icon for coin cost right under the area to claim rewards making it confusing if you need to click both so they can get more coins from you. This used to be a fun game, but no more.

WORDS REJECTED. UPDATE 3/22: This issue is getting worse, especially in solo challenge. Just rejected PIEHOLE and AZON. Rejected AMIGO yesterday. Every day there are common words being rejected. What’s up with that? Solo can play obscure words but I can’t? Please fix. Another issue others have mentioned. The game seems rigged toward having to buy coins after swapping. I get all vowels or no vowels or letters that don’t make a word. Thereby forcing me to spend more money on coins. Please fix this. Update 2/21 Getting ridiculous. Everyday now in both Classic and Solo words entered are not accepted. I check every single word that’s rejected to see if I’m not spelling correctly (not a chance) and every single word is in the dictionary. Please fix. This started about a week or 2 ago. Super frustrating playing Solo Challenge lately. Nearly everyday I have an issue with SC not accepting valid words accepted in Classic. Please do something to update dictionary. Doesn’t seem to be the same in Solo as Classic. Just rejected 2 words in a row. Half of my opponents’ faces are missing. Also, Bonus games for Word Wheel keep disappearing and end of games for that cycle. Please fix. I enjoy word wheel. FREEZES Answer if you can’t get Zynga to fix. Double-click home button and wipe it off your screen. Starts back not frozen.

Scammers Abound. I started playing this game in 2011 and play daily now. I play the Lightning Round on a regular basis, which seems to bring the scammers out in full force. These are the ones who immediately chat and call me “dear friend” at once. Then they start asking personal questions about my marital status, how old I am, what do I do for a living, where I live, etc. It’s apparent from the grammar and spelling they are not in the US (we don’t spell “colour” with a “u” and asking me how the weather is “over there” are dead giveaways. They’re either on an oil rig somewhere or in the military overseas and involved in world peace. Most immediately volunteer where they were born and where they now live, like I give a flying flip about that. All are widowers with one child. They almost immediately ask me to chat on Hangouts to get to know me better (I flat out refuse), and if I state that I don’t chat or I change my profile picture or name to NO CHAT, they resign immediately. I’ve tested that theory repeatedly and it always happens, although they do their best to convince me they’re not like the rest and how could I not want to be friends. The internet is full of stories about these morons but I see no effort by WWF admin to kick them out. It’s freaking annoying, even women do it, and I’m disappointed you don’t protect your players better from these idiots.

“Oops something went wrong”. I’ve had this message a couple of times, usually when trying to start a practice game. There is no way get rid of this open game, that you cannot play, that counts as one of your open practice games AND there is no way to contact the developer, outside of writing a review for the game itself, to help get rid of it. The last time this happened, they were responsive and got rid of the game for me. This time, however, not so much. I have had a practice game open, that I cannot play, for 189 days. I play the game every day. And other reviewers are indeed correct - the number of trollers has increased 10 fold over the past year or so. Now before I ever accept a game, I look up their profile to see when they became a member. If they’re new, I decline the game. I got tired of them holding up games for 10 days because I chose not to chat with them. A few are decent and will resign the game right away, but most are not. They will wait until the game resigns itself. I have put my settings so as NOT to be the daily match person, but they still find me. I sure with the developers could do something about this! And, I wish they’d close this practice game that’s been open for 189 days for me!

Overwhelming. There is waaaaaay too much going on in this app. When you open it up, you are bombarded with messages about treasure hunts and mini games and contests, ads, and then when you finally get to the main menu there are always like 3 games that you didn’t agree to play with random strangers that you have to actively go into to tell it to decline in order to remove it. Underneath that there are suggestions for random strangers for you to play. There have been times where I missed that it was my turn in the one game I’m playing for over a day because there’s so much going on that I just couldn’t see our game in the menu and see that it was my turn. Then there are “tips” where the app wants you to know about a feature. Sometimes it’s hints, or a new thing that you can earn points for for whatever, but they are impossible to exit out of without agreeing to do the thing, which is really obnoxious. There have also been times where I’ve been forced to go into some new section of the app that I’m not interested and couldn’t figure out how to get back to the main screen, and has to just close the app and reopen it. This has got to be one of the most overwhelming, obnoxious apps I’ve ever used. The only reason I didn’t delete it immediately is because my friend who I never get to see really wanted to play scrabble, and we used to play in this app when it was new and less insane. I may delete it after this game though.

Quick play games steal your tickets. I recently started to play the quick play games, there are many issues with them. Sometimes they just freeze up and other times there are glitches. For example, you play the quick game to 150 points, then you start to play a second game and the results from the first game pop up and take your ticket for the second game. The only way to play again is to buy tickets so this lines the pockets of the game owners. You only get one ticket every two hours so if the game doesn’t work right you lose your ticket. I have complained multiple times about this and sometimes they give me some coins or something but I would prefer that the game would just work right. I just waited two hours for my free ticket and the game froze up, lost my ticket AGAIN. This happens to me like once a day and I have great internet speed. Post script, subsequent to my initial review, the app allowed for up to five tickets presumably because the game performance was so terrible. I am talking about the Quickplay to 150 points. Just this week, they scaled back and now they only give you ONLY TWO tickets every two hours that is the max, so ridiculously cheap it’s not even funny. I guess this is all about money. I lost two tickets today and when I wrote to customer service they refunded those tickets however since it only allows two tickets maximum and I was about to get a ticket I really lost that ticket so I got screwed again.

It’s all about the money. As this wonderful game continues to evolve, the creators want only one thing. To get you to a monthly subscription that is WAY too expensive. To get good players to sign on, they make it harder with every update to collect coins. They now won’t let you cash out your coins at their store until you are completely out. They raise the price of premiums. It was once a simple game. Now it’s all about getting you frustrated enough to pay that first 13 dollars to get you to the next step. The creators would do well to have you pay for the app, then discard the unbelievable number of ads you have to endure. The updates, over the years, have not been generous enough to demand a monthly stipend. Yet that is where Words has landed. I’m a great believer in capitalism, but this group of techies is playing Mickey Mouse. Resist the urge to upgrade. They continue to play games with powerups. The most recent update goes back to forcing you to use them before you can buy more. They started this several months ago, but then pulled it when the reaction was so negative. But it seems they just can’t resist the urge to force you to buy their upgrade packages (which only allow a 30 day ad free window, so basically they are looking for you to pay the 13 bucks a month to play). It’s all so obvious. Given that they already manipulate how letters are meted out, I’d say it’s about time for hard core fans to boycott this app for a while.

Words 2 Is A Disaster. I’ve deleted the Words With Friends 2 app after sending the review shown below. I waited until I received a response which was of no help. The app is a disaster and I read reviews and saw that many players feel the same way. It doesn’t deserve even a one star rating. Nothing but ads that freeze requiring me to power off to get back to the game, lightning round games that disappear during the game, all the additional games, having to purchase coins, etc. It’s ridiculous and I’m glad I deleted it. I wish I never downloaded Words 2 but was forced into it because chat was disabled on Words With Friends and the only way to enable it was by downloading Words 2 which I think is a ridiculous way to deal with people. Since downloading Words 2 the game constantly freezes up. I cannot click on games to get to the games I’m playing. I have to click on Events first. When I play a word and ads appear, more times than not the ad does not allow me to exit or delete it. I have to power off in order to return to the game. This is a disaster and disabling chat then telling me that a solution is to download Words 2 is a ridiculous way of forcing people into downloading a different version of the game which I had no desire to do. Not a fair way to deal with people. I deleted the Words 2 app. Games were always dropping or freezing. Too many annoyances with all the other things going on. It was impossible to just enjoy playing the game.

Frustrating. Used to encourage all my friends to sign up & play this fun and challenging word game. What happed? Why would you take away all the fun challenges that made this game such a success? If you know anything about gaming, you should know, iits no fun if you force someone to watch ads right in the middle of a game, and the games that you’re advertising aren’t even in the same league. They are goofy games that don’t require a brain or strategy. Then you must assume we’re all idiots, by never stop pushing that upgrade for $9.99. I finally gave into it, and paid the upgrade price, thinking you would finally quit hounding me. But oh no, the so called upgrade lasted one week, and started hounding me once again, like I had never paid. All a scam. Do you really want to be thought as a scam game? I don’t get it??? Another thing, players compete to win, and expect to be fairly rewarded. Now, you are so stingy with rewards, and inconsistent, so player gets excited about the win, and you only give a couple points. That is the worst feeling not to receive a decent and fair return for a win. Thought you must have sold the game to another company who didn’t have a clue how to grow the business. You are running this game into the ground…it’s no fun anymore, and makes me sad. I guarantee if you don’t make some changes, and bring back the real Words with Friends challenge, you will lose. Al’s

Not a 5 star on an iPad. Folks, fix your iPad app. The rewards pass goals are no longer available on the iPad. I see them on the iPhone but that’s not where I play on a daily basis. Also, the display can get wonky when in landscape mode on the iPad. It seems like you only test everything on the phone and then cross your fingers and hope it all works on the iPad, too. I’ve played for years on an iPad with no issues but in the last year it’s been consistently annoying. Always something not functioning quite right. Fix it. Edit: Forgot to mention the algorithm that consistently and constantly gives hands that are all vowels with maybe one consonant or all consonants with maybe one vowel. That’s been going on for a while. Obviously a ploy to get you to spend money on swaps. And now there’s a hint that appears blatantly suggesting you buy a swap if “too many vowels” or “two many consonants”. Sheesh! You really think we’re not smart enough to understand that 5 or 6 hands of all vowels in a row happening all the time is clearly an algorithmic manipulation. Down to one star — I would delete the app except I've been playing with my sister for years and would hate to lose that. Otherwise too many things keep going wrong and there’s no way to report legitimate bugs with the app, deliberately so I think. I’ll play some classic games with people I know but I’m done with the rest of it.

Really irritated with WWF. I’ve been playing this game with family members for years, but it’s getting so bad! 1. Tells me it’s opponents’ turn when it’s really my turn 2. In spite of making settings as private as possible, regular game invitations by men being inappropriate. I changed my profile photo to my (male!) dog, that seems to help. 3. Slower and slower response times. VERY irritating 4. Increasing complication in use, for example how to get rewards. I just want to play scrabble (let’s face it) with ZERO bells and whistles. I refuse to play the real Scrabble because of all the childish Interference in the game, will I soon have to give up WWF? 5. I just spent some time reading developer responses to user complaints. Eeeeeeooooo! Get a more intelligent, mature, articulate person to respond, if that’s a person writing “have a nice day”... I’m repelled. 6. I don’t really like the Word Police. Bad words are words too, and having WWF police what words are unacceptable for use in a “private” game makes me feel Big Brother is firmly in control. Please WWF, just stop it. Simple is good. Update: game keeps getting slower as more rubbish is added, I have to close it if I want it to realize days pass, occasionally it has a funny glitch with an enlarged tile freezing…… but I still play it, every day.

Good game but bugs are costly and weird strangers. The game in itself is good. I’ve been playing it for almost 10 years in and off. However, I recommend you don’t spend money on it. I recently bought the rewards pass and have missed out on getting a lot of the rewards because the app keeps bugging out and removing the pass altogether. I tried to contact support, did what they told me, and still got no fix or refund. There are a lot of glitches that cause you to have to spend coins twice. Through several updates, the issue has not been resolved. I spent money on the game because I love it but it’s just not worth the bugs. On top of that, there’s a scam issue when you play with male strangers. There are hundreds of fake profiles run by a bot. They try to talk to you excessively, hit on you, etc. They draw you in and later on ask for money. I only know all of that because I’ve read about it, but at first I had no idea why I was being hit on by creepy strange men. I don’t mind playing games with random users but there has to be some way WWF can weed out the bots.... the bots immediately resign games if you don’t continue chatting with them because they know they won’t get any scam money. Zynga pleeeeaaaassssseeeee fix these issues. They’re killing an otherwise great game.

Get rid of the stickers. I still love this game but am writing again to complain. Do not play the Daily Word Play as it always causes me to shut down my IPad and restart it. Today is different. I had to shut down and restart but I have watched six videos to complete the game, and each time it tells me I need to watch another video. I will continue to play but not the Daily Word Play. I’m hooked on the game. My suggestion is don’t get hooked! I’ve always loved this game until they put these stupid stickers on the screen. I cannot get rid of it and there doesn’t appear to be a way to get rid of it. When I take a screenshot it is no longer recognized as a true screenshot of words with friends. Get rid of it and I will be back to being a happy camper giving a 5 star rating. Not sure what their work around was, but it’s all good once again. Happy once again. I’m back because I have a question. Why have you discontinued the word choices like ESQ, DI and JE to name a few. These have been acceptable words until just recently. I even have a few games I’m playing now with those words in them and I cannot use within the same game. Once again, I’m not happy with this game. Again there seems to be a problem with this app. I love playing and play every day but every day the game locks up and I either have to shut down my IPad completely or delete the app and then reinstall it to be able to continue! Otherwise I would give it 5 stars

Less than perfect. I love this game, but it’s incredibly annoying that you keep taking away turns in Daily Word Play. When I first downloaded the game, we had five chances to get to the 192 points score. At some point, that dropped four chances which did make it more challenging, but I could still on occasion succeed in getting that score without having to watch an ad. now in this latest version, you were giving us only three choices. That pretty much guarantees, I will be forced to watch an ad, since I would need to average more than 60 points in each word to hit that goal in three moves. I am still playing it, but only long enough to get my 45 points for my daily goal. I have given up on playing the entire game because I’m sick of being forced to watch the ads. In addition, this latest version seems to have a number of bugs. If I’m playing music on my Bluetooth speaker, when I open this game, the music turns off. When I am playing solo challenge games, it is not uncommon for the game to get stuck and just show a spinning circle on the challenger’s move. I have to exit the game and go back into it to get it “unstuck”. Fix these bugs and give me back a fourth attempt in Daily Wordplay, and I’ll go back to rating this game five stars!

Delays and catfish. I play this game often and I enjoy it, but I have been noticing that when I play the lightning rounds with groups, I get an overwhelming amount of men sending me 1:1 games. I know for certain that some of them are Nigerian catfish masquerading as U.S. servicemen and surgeons who are working for the UN and on assignment overseas. I am extremely resourceful when it comes to investigating and can say without any uncertainty that the men are catfish. If anyone from WWF ops wants to discuss, I would be happy to reveal my sources. Also, when I play QuickPlay, my game lags - majorly. My board will still be loading and the opponent has 50 points before I can even look at my letters. Then, in between words, the board will load and load and by the time it finally does, the game is over and I have lost. Other times, it will say it’s searching for an opponent and I will close out of the game to restart and try again and a game is in progress and I’m about to lose, which wastes a turn. There are a lot of glitches and the catfishing needs to be addressed. For the time being, I have changed my photo to one of my dog to deter weirdos from sending me games. I have still received quite a few and I’m thinking I may need to be a bit of a catfish myself and change my photo to a sumo wrestler and my name to “Butch” or something of the like to play unscathed.

You are punished for buying Coins. Not sure what the developers are thinking when they make a poor move like this......As you all know, everyday you earn free coins throughout the game which allows you to ‘buy’ certain playing tools for a more strategic game. You can either collect a daily allotment or watch an advertisement for which you receive 3 coins. You can also buy coins since it can take awhile to earn coins. For awhile I played the games with the earned coins cause I didn’t want to spend money on coins. I got addicted to having coins and when I ran out I spent $20 to buy a bunch of them. I have done this multiple times. I’ve never spent money inside any other app. And what did Words developers decide was a smart idea? When you now buy coins they eliminate your ability to earn coins by watching an advertisement! The chance to earn was what got me to finally buy coins in the first place!! My sister refuses to buy anything from the app in response to this ridiculous move. I just joined her, since my recent purchase earned me the inability to earn coins by watching advertisements. I feel like they slapped my hand for giving them my money. Well guess what....? The game itself is great but the 3 stars is for that ridiculous move.

This is a great game but..... So I only gave this 3 stars because the app has a few problems. Otherwise it’s a pretty good game! I love that you can play games with tons of different people and that there are the solo challenges! But there are a few problems that get in the way. 1) There are ads after EVERY SINGLE TURN YOU TAKE. There is only one exception of this: the solo challenges. 2) sometimes I don’t even get my games when it’s my turn! I’ve had to lose countless games because it never came up that it was my turn! That i found was very annoying, and the only way that I’ve figured out how to find those games is if you log out and then log back in again. And every time you log out, even if it’s just for a second, you get all of these new player notifications, like it didn’t even realize you had been gone for a second. 3) sometimes, it says it’s my turn and then I can’t even play. It won’t let me click on games sometimes, I’ve tried reloading my app several times, and it never worked! And finally 4) the time limit on games. I think personally this is pretty annoying, you have like 10-12 days or something to play your turn, or you lose! I’m not trying to spend every day on this app! I’ve got other things to do, and sometimes I won’t come on the app for a week or more! But overall I do like the concept, but if those few things could get fixed, then I definitely would highly recommend this game. Thanks for taking the time to read this!

The game has become too annoying to play anymore. When words with friends started it was fun to play and a nice way to interact with family that are scattered around the world. But that’s no longer the case. Zynga kept adding more and more annoying crap to the point where I’ve had enough. I’ve logged out and will never play another zynga game. Update: zynga sends the same form reply they always send. Empty promises yet again. 🤦🏻‍♂️ Update 2: zynga sends reworded b.s. sorry zynga but your track record shows that you have no intention of making the game more fun. For years you have been making the game more and more annoying and less enjoyable. Look at recent reviews. Do the 1 and 2 star reviews give you a clue? Probably not since you have years of experience ignoring your customer base. Zynga thinks adding more and more to the game makes it more enjoyable. Wrong. It’s gotten to where you get some kind of award for almost everything you do. Open the game get an award. Play 5 letters get an award. Get out of bed get an award. Get annoyed with the game get an award. 🤦🏻‍♂️ hey zynga, sometimes people just want a nice easy game without all the b.s. get a clue. Update 3: zynga sends another reply saying to contact support if I have any game related issues. Guess what zynga?! I have. Time and time again for a very long time. And guess what I received each and every time? The same canned response and no action on your part.

Over-Engineered. **Downgraded to 2 stars** The annoying in-your-face attention-seeking animations and notifications are just too much. I’m ready to leave the app altogether. Please listen to your users!! Edited review; same issues: FIX THE NOTIFICATIONS THAT WON’T GO AWAY!!!! I’ve used this app daily for nearly a decade. I love playing games with my friends and I periodically enjoy the solo challenges and other games. But you HAVE to stop over-engineering things. I don’t need a 3-second animation for every action. It’s like your design team is addicted to “bling” - and this is not a thing to aspire to. Go back to the basics. People want to play words games. That’s it. And you HAVE TO FIX the issue with notifications. I currently show 8 badge notifications, with no way to clear them. OH, and I have all notifications turned off except for moves from my friends. This is an ongoing issue with with this app - notifications that don’t actually notify me of anything useful. I’ve seen several other reviews that mention this and I’ve submitted a ticket to your support team (which was way more difficult than it should have been, by the way). Finally, my settings ask for NOT allowing solo challengers to start games with me; and yet without exception… games are started with me. Why do you have settings options if you’re just going to ignore them?

Aggravated!!. I’ve been playing this game for over 12 years now. It was so much fun for many years, however as they continue to update every time you turn around it’s become a headache to play. They first took away the fast play games, then they made it where you can only purchase power ups with the coins you’ve earned after you have completely run out. You can only earn up to 1500 coins after that any you should earn you don’t receive because of the 1500 limit. When I contacted zynga support I received a rude response saying they have responded in as much detail as they could and will no longer respond to any more messages concerning the issue. They claim they are trying to update and make the game a more enjoyable experience but they aren’t. Seems all they want is for you to keep paying $9.99 to upgrade, I bought this game in the very beginning to avoid ads and will never spend another dime on this game. Now they have taken the lightening games away, everything I enjoyed playing is gone. If it weren’t for the few same players I’ve played with since the beginning I would go ahead and delete this game, which just may be sooner than later. It’s no longer enjoyable when every time you turn around they’ve changed something and not for the better! If I could give 0 stars I would!!

Unresponsive Customer Service. In response to a one-star rating I gave them over a technical issue which caused me not to advance up the ladder in a game which was a month of playing and spending money on diamonds to play the game, their response was, “I hate to say this but further responses regarding this concern may be treated as spam and may get deleted by the system. “. This is their response to a VIP player, their term not mine, after closing out a customer service question and then immediately sending me a “how we doing” text and asking me to rate them one to five stars with a space for comments. I rated them one star and gave comments. I never asked them to send me the rating text and then they have the temerity to say in response that I’m spamming them is outrageous. FYI: most of my 200 friends around the world are removing this game from their devices based on your user-unfriendly customer service who view customers as a source of spam for making inquiries. I encourage others to follow suit as, I feel, this company has a habit of ignoring even the most loyal customer and then insulting them when they have a technical issue that Scopely claims they can’t change the outcome even though their glitch was the source of loss of advancing in a game which equals time and money spent by same customer. My experience, make your own choices.

Really Good, but Needs More Customer Consideration to be Great!. I adore playing this game. It’s so much fun and enables me to enjoy leisurely entertainment. Unfortunately, I have some concerns. The first issue is that some of the ads lock up the game and I have to restart my I-phone just to get out of an ad. For example, the new Range Rover ad’s exit button is so far to the left lower part of the screen that you cannot even tap it to exit. Another issue is that the ads often don’t close when you hit the close button. Sometimes you have to hit the close button multiple times only for it to take you to the ad for the app being sold or the button is non-responsive. I don’t mind having ads. My concern is that I’m they are not responsive to being closed and they lock up my phone. The second (lesser) issue is that the game provides less and less rewards as you increase the amount of games you play. It makes it less fun. Keep the fun going….. Lastly, and of great concern, is that some of the ads are for companies that are scams. I’ve received quite a bit of ads for products, but when I’ve checked BBB, they were scams. WWF2 should vet some of these companies before providing them access to its customer database. Yes, I’m advocating for customer consideration and responsibility. I’m hopeful that the owners of WWF2 will consider these concerns.

Don’t waste money on coins.. I’ve been playing since 2011 and noticed some things along the way. I’m finally irked enough to write a review. First off, most apps on here have a sole purpose and that is to make money for the developer and it seems to me like they use clever algorithms in order to achieve this with WWF. I always end up with all consonants or all vowels and then use a free swap that I’ve earned (you can purchase them as well) and then get more of the same essentially wasting your free swap. You might say that can happen in real life, but if you’ve played long enough you can almost predict it. I also know there are some games that I will statistically have no chance to win when all of the high value tiles go to your opponent. Again, just a pattern I’ve notice. I’ve also noticed that in the tile bag they always try to keep the consonants and vowels fairly even so I know it’s not random. Then in Quick Play where you need to have a ticket to play I would get glitches that to me seem like they are on purpose. For instance I started a game and could see my opponent already racking up points before the screen finished loading my screen to play. Sometimes I would use a ticket and it would take me back to the beginning screen and I would lose my ticket. I refuse to spend money on this app because I know it’s like playing Vegas. The odds are never in your favor. I still play it, but just know you won’t have a chance it certain games.

Fun game but a couple of requests. I wrote the review below but did not post. I’m updating it now and you lost another star. I’ve played this game for many years. Love/hate the game. Originally I was going to say thank you for restoring the ability for us to use our coins any way we wish, whenever we wish. Unfortunately, you apparently snatched that option away again. We play to earn the coins and you regulate our maximum earnings to 1500 and now you want to regulate how and when we spend the coins. So once we reach 1500 and we aren’t allowed to spend them on multiple Power Ups, we are basically losing coins. This feels like WWF is practicing government overreach. There’s too much of that in real life for us to also have to suffer from it in what should be a fun game. This is ridiculous. Please fix it. Set your people free. Also, requests —Request 1: please give the option to hide the Wordmasters, Quick Play, and Word Play from our main page. I don’t play those and they clog up my page and occasionally I accidentally hit one and then get stuck in a game I don’t want to be in. Request 2: In Word Wheel, the easy puzzles are so ridiculously simple and it seems to be the same puzzles over and over. I just want to get through them so I can get to one that is actually a challenge. I would think that a majority of players are past the three- and four-letter word stage and would enjoy more challenging puzzles from the start. There you go

Apple Pencil with iOS14 Update. I always play Words with Friends 2 with my Apple Pencil on my iPad. I use it to scroll through the game and move tiles. However, With the new update to iOS 14, the app will not allow me to use the pencil to grab tiles once I open a game. Instead, now the pencil just scribbles all over the game board and there is no option to turn this off. I don’t need to scribble on a scrabble game board, it’s not a coloring page. It is pointless. So far, all other apps I’ve opened work fine with the pencil. Please fix to still allow the pencil to also be used to play the game by scrolling and grabbing tiles, not just as a drawing tool. Other issues I have is if you use a Word Radar and then leave that board, when you return the game closes the “radar” and then makes you “buy” another radar. They didn’t use to do this and it seems petty. Also, I like that that they allow you to change the game tile within each individual game. However, in one of my games it keeps reverting to this one game tile that I hate. Even though I have changed both my universal default tile and the individual game tile, every time I open the individual game it reverts back to this other tile that I can’t stand. It is annoying. I love WWF but constant little glitches happen enough to where I felt I needed to say something here.

Progressively worse. This game used to be fun. Scrabble is fun. Just by itself. But apparently the geniuses behind WWF2 thought they could make it even better. So they destroyed it. The game is now so crowded with awards and levels and challenges and a ton of crap that it makes playing the game a tedious disaster. There is so much extraneous garbage that it takes 10-20 seconds to load the board every time I switch to the game. I’m not talking about opening it from closed. I’m talking about switching from my email or messaging to the game that is already in progress. Now it even bogs down when I play a word. The whole screen will freeze up for 10-15 seconds before eventually moving on. The game locks up for 15 seconds if my opponent sends me a chat message while I’m playing! And when the game is over and you try to start a new game, you can’t tell if it’s working because there is no response to touching the new game button. So you hit it a couple times and the stupid thing eventually opens four or five new games. It’s frustrating and ridiculous. There should be a way to opt out of all those absurd “gaming” levels and challenges and crap. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. It wasn’t and now you’ve broken it. So this time it’s up to you to go make it right. Oh and there should be some way to provide feedback to the developer beyond writing a review.

Good App, But Uneven Support Outside of English. This is my favorite Scrabble-type mobile game and is popular with everyone I know for providing a quality experience. One feature I particularly liked was the ability to see the definition and a link to a dictionary entry for most words played when the game is set to English. This feature is something that sets the app apart from playing the traditional board game, and when combined with other gameplay improvements, it definitely makes the app better than the tediousness that sometimes is experienced when playing Scrabble by hand. What keeps this from being 5 stars for me is that not all words when the game is set to English have an associated definition or dictionary entry (will say something like “definition unavailable”), which makes it confusing how the developers chose what words make the cut for being playable. It also takes away from the learning aspect the app provides in being able to expand your vocabulary when an unusual word with no definition is played (e.g. Qi). I play equally in two languages, and the dictionary feature is absent altogether in the second language I play in (Portuguese). I would imagine it probably is only present in English, and would be glad to see it improved and expanded to other languages in the future.

New version blocks you from playing. Both my friend and I updated to the newest version and now our games with one another refuse to connect. I had multiple open games with her, but they have disappeared from her games list. (Or they say it’s my turn - I’m not 100% sure… in the screenshot she sent me of her games, my name isn’t on her list, but it’s possible the games show up at the bottom if she scrolls, but in the waiting for the other player to move section…) The games ARE still in my list, waiting for her to play. I “ nudged” her in every game with no result. Fine - so I started a new game with her instead. She never received the game invite. She tried to start a game with me - same thing. Neither of us can interact with the other. I use this app to connect with her in particular since she’s out of state and it’s something we can do together and still chat casually… oh! I tried to send her a chat to ask why she hadn’t played for over a week, too. She never got the chat. I was so concerned by her lack of play/reply that I called her after a week for a well-being check! I looked it up, and it seems that you “sunsetted” the previous version on March 14th, which is the last time we were able to connect. She says she was required to update at that time. I updated a week later after she told me she had, and it hasn’t fixed the disconnect. What am I missing?

I LOVE & HATE WWF2. Great game improvement over regular WWF ,more fun, interesting and challenging. Buggy! Buggy! Buggy! Buggy‼️ I play daily both on my iPhone and iPad. When I started playing WWF2, there were a few incidents per month, where I had to re-boot my iPhone10. Whenever they come out with a new update, the game will crash consistently 2-4 x’s per week prior; progressively worsening to daily until you update. Then crashing is less, but still somewhat buggy after. I updated to the Winter Wonderland last week on my iPad. The first day it crashed completely and would not clear with re-booting,(times 6). I had to completely re-install the game and lost all my stored credits, history and advancements. Understandably, I have been dragging my feet about updating my iphone10 to this Winter Wonderland version, yet the game crashes several times daily and yesterday I was cheated out of 18 coins from the watch the ads binge they offer you when you claim the daily bonus! There is no avenue to contact them to report problems. Most of the problems occur when the ads play, the screen can freeze, turn dark, or the logo just spins. Hint, hint, ever pushing for you to pay for the no-ad upgrade which is expensive.

Videos are consistently NOT working. Look, I have played this game since it was released. I continually play at max number of games. When I try to watch videos for trophies or for daily word play I am unable to watch videos. It says they are unavailable or something went wrong. I understand there will be times that everything doesn’t work as you plan for it to, however, I’m not sure how many people are reporting this, but this happens way too much. I paid for the game however many years ago then, I get the rewards pass every month or so whenever that happens, I just don’t think I should continue to spend my money on things that don’t function properly. Also, while I have your attention, I’ve worked in the medical field all my life. Why are medical words not options to play a word? I feel limited on what I can use. This is the only game that I have played for this amount of time. Everything else I get bored with, and push it off to another page, or just delete it. Along with the fact that I do pay for the rewards pass, I do really enjoy this game and I don’t want to stop playing it but I want it to work. Please fix the video problem and ask your people what needs to be done to add some medical words. Also, could you please tell me what the secret is to guessing the word for the daily club puzzle? Thank you for your time and please get back with me. That would be great. Blessings, Stacey 💕🐾

Greedy. Now, they’re censoring private conversations!. I’ve been playing this game with ONE friend for the last 11 years. It started out great and was a ton of fun until the last year. They’ve initiated lots of not very user friendly changes, reduced the amount of coins etc one can win, raised weekly goals to such high levels it becomes work to achieve them. Haven’t fixed an issue that lets you delete old Practice games for over 6 months. Raised the “price” to purchase PowerUps. Raised the “price” to play Solo Challenge if you don’t want to wait hours for the next game. And, the kicker, they are monitoring/censoring PRIVATE conversations! I’m not talking about censoring swear words - although that’s bad enough, but as an example, today they censored the word concerning!! Seriously! It showed up as c*ncerning in the convo box! First, they absolutely should NOT be monitoring private conversations that nobody else can see (or shouldn’t see), but censoring words like “concerning”? There Big Brother tactics aren’t just too creepy! I’m waiting for a response to my complaints - it will be generic and sent from a bot - before cancelling. But, if this doesn’t change, or there response is less than satisfactory, I have zero issue canceling.

Love this game - butttt. I do love this game. However, changed to 3 starts because there are so many issues now that it’s frustrating playing the game. If things are being offered then they should be working. Let’s start with the achievements, I’m stuck on level 27 because it no longer tally’s my achievements. I was like halfway done but It just says 0/0. And will not change. Then the store the little red bubble just always says 6. Don’t know why because nothing is needing my attention. Then the collections…. all my collections groups have disappeared except for two of them. Which the last one, Spring collection, says complete because yes it ended. And now it’s supposed to be the “renaissance fair” but it’s not even showing that one in my collections area. It does show it however on the screen where it shows all the games. But when I earn the tokens they aren’t being added because it’s like that part isn’t really there. It’s like it never fully downloaded. Yes, I’ve forced closed. Yes, I’ve uninstalled the app and reinstalled it. Yes, I’ve shut my phone off. I’ve done everything and still nothing. Please fix so I can continue to play and be happy. My other players are passing me up in all the levels and I don’t like that. Hopefully this will get resolved!! Thank you… from a loyal player

Step in the WRONG direction. This new version is so ugly. With the previous version I started getting dropped games even after I would make my move. Then read online that the fix was to delete and reinstall the app. Upon looking at for it in the App Store, now it's called Words With Friends 2? First of all, what a stupid name to change it to. But I reinstalled it and now I see my dropped games, but the look, colors, the size of everything is so obnoxious. Whoever redesigned the UI needs to go back to middle school. Actually, that's what it looks like; it looks like an obnoxious elementary crappy textbook with stuff all bright and obnoxiously big. Anyway, wish the developers gave an option to view stuff zoomed out or in a classic mode; where I used to be able to see like 7 games on the screen, now I see like two or maybe three and then have to scroll. Unnecessary. And totally ugly UI. And also, stuff like giving me a super light blue (almost white) background and then putting white text on top of that??? Who thought that would be a good design choice idea, that's terrible layout and design; I could barely read it. But finally when I did read it, it was to say that my app is ad-free. Ad-free or not it looks like crap and it's a step in the WRONG direction. Make things simple-looking and easy to read, not obnoxious and bloated. This update offers ZERO improvement to the enjoyment of the game.

Ads. Look, I know you all want us to purchase the ad free version. Sorry, but I don’t play enough to make that happen. So I use the ad version and there is a big problem with this. I often play while waiting in a waiting room or while watching TV with other people. I have my phone on silent. But , some of your ad refuse to be silent! All of a sudden there is a blast of noise from an ad that refuses to shut up! I go into a high anxiety panic trying to silence this ad that I didn’t even want to see! Also, suddenly all the ads are 30 seconds long and you can’t get past them. It gets where we see the same ad over and over and it is frustrating. There are a couple of games that I have seen the ads for about 1,000,000,000 times. I have begun to absolutely hate them. I will never download those games just because I have seen the ads far too much. Okay, done with the rant about the ads. The game itself is good. The badges are a nice touch and they make you want to get more points. The other little games in the game such as collecting things to get a new box is also fun. The dictionary is good and helpful. But, the dictionary often has words that it says it cannot define. Also, some foreign words are accepted but some aren’t. The game itself has done well with no glitches. I have enjoyed it a lot.

Great game improvement suggestion. I’ve played reg WWF til it disappeared but glad to have this back. I am bombarded with scammers every single day though band messages flashing are so annoying. I don’t mind having little chats with people but I run their pics on google and it’s crazy how many scammer/ impersonators of innocent people there are playing. I’m avoiding nice people as well now. When I see a message I can’t read it unless I let them in. Then they persist. How to weed them out I’m not sure but I hate seeing platforms for these people to take advantage of others. Can we separate new players from contacting people for a time period where they might give up using this platform they aren't here to play they only use three or four letter words then hound people. After one turn. What if you block new players from chat saying “chat isn’t available able at this time” snd keep them off chatting until they have stuck it out . If they are average people they won’t quit the game if scammers they will quit immediately when there’s no contact with others . They won’t take time to play because playing isn’t their goal.

Words with Friends. I love to play this game to relax; however, this game frustrate me instead. The achievement system is not reliable. I finished level 20 and should have to 21. In my profile still shows me as level 20. I am now working to earn level 22. It’s very frustrating when one works hard to achieve a level and your system takes away. In different device it’s shows correct level 21, but in this device I am using it shows level 20. I delete the app and reloaded the app and is still showing my image with a 20. Also, there are too many words that are allowed which aren’t really words. When I look for definition there is none. This game allows foreign language words when I am playing in English. I understand that there are some foreign words that have been adopted and integrated into English language and are acceptable to use, but the words I see are definable not in common use. I wish the developers would take the time to read the reviews. I read a few and they all have the same issues in common. Please read the reviews! You ask for a rating, but you don’t read the reviews. This a great game to play, but you need to fix all the glitches. We are all telling you the problems. Listen to us .

Honestly not the best. It has a lot of problems. There are weird challenges that you HAVE to participate in no matter what. Once, I decided to start a practice game and it glitched out so now I have no way of accessing it which means I can’t resign to fix the problem and I can’t make a new practice game either. Another time, I decided to play a game with a random person and for some reason, they added them to my friends list. But I didn’t search for their user name. I used the create game and pressed smart match. This would theoretically be in my game list, and I would have one match with them, and never see them again. There is no way to fix this that I know of. That’s another thing. It is very difficult to navigate the app, and you often can’t remember how to get to a certain place. Things can be glitchy at times, and in general, the app is missing a lot of thing that should be accessible through settings in the app. I’m sorry if this review was hard to read, I wrote it in five minutes and there is probably tons of mistakes. tl;dr Don’t get the app unless you really really need too. It really needs to be worked on. I don’t use the app any more, and don’t want to any time soon. Save your self time, confusion, and possibly anger, by not downloading it.

Long time player. I have played this game for at least 12 years, since before I even had a smartphone and played on an iPod touch (remember those?). The concept is wonderful and the actual game is fun. HOWEVER- two main things: 1)All the new things going on are so distracting and annoying to have to click through just to be able to play. For example, the daily play streak, goals, the different challenges, the solo (bot) players…etc. There should be an option to turn toggle those things off, one by one. I love the tile styles and being able to earn those but almost everything else is pointless and irritating. 2) The random people/scammers who start games and then quit when you won’t chat with them or move to Hangouts. I can’t tell you how much of a relief it was to read the reviews and see that I’m not the only one (by far!!) who deals with this. They’re right- always some middle-aged-looking white dude in the photo, who says he’s a widower with one child, and gets offended if you won’t chat with them and share personal info. Such a distraction. It’s annoying and gross. Isn’t there some way to start disabling logins for players who constantly begin games and then quit after a few moves? It seems like they do this all the time and it shouldn’t be too hard to find them.

Spammy nonsense. Recently forced to switch from WWF and the game experience has become miserable due to the amount of spam packed in. Loading the app (if it doesn’t crash first) takes longer than any other on my phone due to bloat of banners and promotions included. Simply navigating to my 8-year standing game with my friend is a challenge with the page constantly shifting as the promotional games load. Misclicks are common because of the above causing lag. The word strength feature is neat but it is essentially cheating. If I want to play a competitive game, I must remember to manually turn word strength off every time I open the game. Not having a lasting toggle for this is poor design. There is a banner that appears after each move in a game. After playing a move, I would tap above this banner to clear it, then exit the app by pushing my iPhone’s home button. WWF reconfigured the banner to include an in-app purchase option of “coins” just above the old banner’s height. So after playing a move, I accidentally tapped on the coin purchase, then hit my phone’s home button which confirmed my $10 purchase. I had to dispute this charge through Apple lol. I must admit I was impressed by this scam but feel I should warn other users that WWF is shameless about trying to extract your money. I turned off in-app purchases to prevent that happening again

I love this game but.... I have been playing this game for a few years now but I did take a break because of the overwhelming amount of men trying to pick you up. I play Everyday and sometimes for a couple of hours at a time. I enjoy most of the features and hope it just keeps getting better. I really wanted to give it four stars some things are nerve wracking with this game. The first is that when I go to watch a 30 second video to accumulate coins half the time it doesn’t work and keeps saying that it’s loading for a whole day. Please fix that. I also wish these videos gave at least 5 coins at a time but that’s not a big deal and is just my opinion. The other thing is that I continue to get game requests from men with a fake profiles. As stated in so many other reviews if you don’t chat and go to hangouts or other dating like websites they stop playing. Then that game will take up a game spot for 10+ days unless I resign which then messes up my stats. There has to be a way to work around this. Overall I love this game it’s my favorite of all time. I hope that it keeps improving and look forward to any new features. P.S I played a player a few days ago that had rainbow tiles. I asked her several times how she had the option for that style but she completely ignored me. I’m wondering is that something you would have to buy cause I would LOVE that.

✨WASSUP PPL OF THIS REVEIW SECTION!✨. I’m bored so ima review this. Honestly how the heck is this app 4+, no four year old is playing this. The only ppl playing this is gen X and early boomers. This is a game I only had cuz my parents played it. Also If there was a four year old playing this, than that four year old is pretentious with a capital P. Another thing is when I did have this game I would get SOOOOOOO many emails. So what did I do? Block the email address? Nope. I deleted the app! If your wondering I still. Get. The. Dumb. Emails. Like broskis STOP EMAILING ME!!!!! I guess I should block it. When my mom goes anywhere and sees a person she kinda knows, she and the other person talk abt words with friends. For example my mom will be like “your move on words with friends game” and the other mom will be like “oh I don’t even want to look at the score of that game” dude, you say I have trouble communicating with people my age. Ha, look in the mirror mom. My dad on the other hand is a absolute no cap BEAST at it. He can wipe out any person he challenges. Lol I’m making it sounds like wrestling. But my point is this game is for parents. No one in my age group is like “OOO whO WanTs To PlaY woRdS WitH FrieNds WiTh Me” and I mean no one. (Edited 5 minutes later): ALSO WHY DOES THIS APP HAVE TO TRACK YOU?!?! Like it’s a word app… oR iS iT? Anyways I just think that’s slightly creepy…ok a lot creepy. This is the end of my review. Byeeeeeee L 🐋💨

Dream a little to enter the dance !. You can actually meet the people that you play against in this friendly world of words , that are all the way across the world. I will be doing that soon and making a life with her … I live in the USA and she lives in Australia at this moment , but our worlds are soon to come together. We have so many things in common , not just the words … The words are turning into a song that are turning into the dance that we shall share as a couple. Thank you WWF for hooking us up !… What more can I say ? Life is really going into a direction of the unlikely but when things click you shouldn’t ignore where your spirit is taking you. We both will be proving our families wrong and putting many many pieces of a dream puzzle together so that the reality of a romance can thrive. When I see relationships around me play out that are so substandard and see what is coming my way , I feel like I have been blessed beyond measure and I need to set an example of how a commitment is suppose to play out. Treat each other the way you want to be treated. Love, respect, and intimacy should never take a back seat. It all takes root in kindness and a full understanding of the words that one speaks ! So learn your dictionary and your vocabulary in keeping your misunderstandings to a minimal. Play fair , and play on all you wordsie people and make ALL of your relationships count ! Amen !

HOPE TO GET BACK TO 5 STARS. I have played Words With Friends for 10 years as of this month. It is a game I have spent thousands of hours playing and enjoyed very much. During the past several months, however, for me at least, the game has become very glitchy. While I like most of the new features, I am becoming increasingly frustrated with the game freezing up, and often not navigating from one page to another. When this happens, the screen either goes entirely black, or black with a perpetually spinning yellow W tile. After waiting for some time, I get tired and exit the game. If I try to return in 5 to 10 minutes, it still has not fixed itself. Occasionally, if I am impatient to return to the game, I shut my phone off for a couple of minutes, then turn it back on to resume play. I keep my phone updated with Apple software updates and Words With Friends updates; however, these problems do not resolve. I encounter these problems every single time I play this app, and consequently am playing it less often than previously, although usually at least one time every day. Before the glitches became so persistent, I used to return to the game multiple times in one day. I would love for the game to function as smoothly as it once did. If that happens, I will bump my rating back up to 5 stars as it is a game I love to play.

Ads With Friends 2 Many!. Nov 2021: even a few moves without no ads, they will make you wait even longer than ads with their own stuffs; Oct 2021: a wonderful ads downloader! And , My iPhone 7 can last long hours until I play this game. Sep 2021: make my iPhone 7 really slow, and my phone is so hot every time I run this game. How come this game rated so high points? I doubt, please anybody look into the reviews. This game has been renamed: Ads With Friends 2: Many! It’s absolutely a Ads app where you can play a bit game. Add more comments: Meanwhile you can play another game: Spot how many ads you can find, FOR EVERY MOVE. Below wrote years ago: Recently I see lot of ads many last 15 secs even without even a mute button and certainly cannot stop before time running out. You already have user to watch (actually download) a video FOR EVERY MOVE, and now you even put some 15 secs ads which is like an humiliation to free user while I think free users is a very important base from that you can have paid users and the paid user can find more users easily. I put a pic on my icon saying 'newer a version, longer the ads'. I love this game while I do agree ads is reasonable thing, I just cannot accept that much, sorry I'm quiting. Next time if you have a reasonable ads version, put it on the 1st line of 'what's new' column so that I can see as I won't try them any more and test if ads are little bit less (after all sessions completed from now). The game itself is great indeed.

Don’t play the solo challenges. The solo challenges are a waste of time. The emails are annoying too. It’s also the same game every time. Too many E’s and I’s. How about a version with wait for it less vowels and oh my goodness 2 J’s and 2 Z’s. I just love when my letters are O-O-I-I-I-U-K. Back to the solo challenges whoever is playing for Zynga is really good. I mean if they need an S an X or a Q they always have it they never have to swap their letters. I mean I always have multiple Es Rs and Is and have to swap. So I had over 20 swaps and all of a sudden if you can believe it my letters actually got worse. Do yourself a favor don’t ever have more than 10 swaps. I have never had more moves where all I have is vowels. New update new problems. Games disappear and comeback then disappear then comeback. So after the last Update the games won’t load. So years ago I paid a couple of dollars to go ad free but I keep getting these pop ups to upgrade for $9.99 and I get all this stuff. Isn’t that an add? I paid money not to get ads but I get ads to upgrade all the time. I would love it if there was a way I could opt out of seeing your ads as I have paid for the ad free version. It’s extremely annoying and I am not going to link to my Facebook account and I am not buying what you are selling. I am just not sure why I am still seeing adds. I paid to not see adds but I am still getting adds.

So Frustrating. I've been a player for probably 8-10 years. This has gone from a 5 star game for me, to a one star...I'm just hanging on deciding if I want to try to wait for things to get better. I no longer earn power-ups in the game, even though I play daily, and most of the time, multiple times a day. I can play all of the mini-games and weekly challenges and still, it's extremely hard to make progress. The newer word flip mini games... again...playing all day (I usually have at least 20-25 games going) I can't finish all of them because I can't earn enough tokens for them. Everyhing seems so out of reach now. The weekly solo challenges - I used to be able to work hard and eventually beat them. Not anymore. Please hear me developers...it has to be at least somewhat satisfying to play...a player likes to feel like they are getting ahead at least sometimes...or where's the fun? Also, I frequently have game after game where even though I'm playing the highest possible scoring words...I can't win the game. All kind of discouraging. Real life can be frustrating...I play games to take a break from that. The way everything in this game is set up currently...it's a lesson in futility. Hope you hear the pleas through these reviews and make it better again. (Thanks for reading.) (p.s. People will still purchase power-ups if you make them easier to attain...I used to. But I don't have the desire to anymore since it's impossible to earn them as well.)

Fun game, but full of scammers. There has to be some way to vet out these scammers who begin unsolicited conversations with women. They are relentless and annoying, and they have the same script. I don’t believe most of them are native English speakers based on their canned conversations and poor game-playing. After I accepted several challenges (I hoped they were due to being ‘smart matched’ with someone), 3 different men all started similar conversations with me ‘hello dear’ or using my name in another one. Then in 2 of them it led almost immediately to ‘where are you from’ and in one straight to ‘so, are you married?’ In one where I didn’t answer his repeated ‘hellos’, he finally said ‘so you don’t chat?’ I answered that and told him hello, but I was leery of chatting due to being asked those questions. He said he understood. Then next question was ‘so, where are you from?’ That’s when I looked up words with friends trolls, and found that this is a thing where ppl have actually been scammed. I don’t know what the answer is except to never say yes to a game or maybe just never open conversations with people I don’t know, but in the past I was able to say ‘good game’ or ‘nice word’ without worrying someone was going to try to solicit money from me. I love the game itself, so this stinks.

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Awful. I got a new phone recently and have discovered I can no longer download WWF, which I had paid a premium for to have no ads. I have been forced to download WWF2, which is essentially unplayable due to the constant ads which take up the whole screen with a tiny little cross that is almost impossible to hit without opening a web page about the product being advertised. I have been unable to login and get my old details back such as my stats, which I am not too bothered about but some people might be. Such a shame, I absolutely loved playing WWF and it has been ruined for me now. I’ll have to see if my friends will move to the Scrabble app with me!

Bring back truly random matches. Since WWF2 changed how you find random opponents, it has turned into an effort to avoid awkward exchanges with people who ultimately want your phone number. Women I know find this format particularly limiting as you can’t ask for a random opponent without that person thinking you “chose” them and therefore are attracted to them or something (there’s no way to know if the person asked for a random match or whether they picked you on purpose based on your photo). I just don’t use that feature anymore, and only play with people I know. It’s a shame because I used to love the lucky dip of finding someone new to play without them thinking they can hit on you. It’s made the app sleazier, I’m afraid.

Hate The Ads. Love Words With Friends and have played through many updates. Bringing in ads has definitely been a backward step for me. Cheeky strategies such as changing location of the close x each ad is just awful and frankly rude. Most ads have a poker machine feel that makes me cringe. The videos are hideous and repetitive and I shut the app between every go to turn them off. That is a LOT of closing and re-opening in every session of play. Just delays play and annoys me. All recent changes have been Downgrades to my mind. If the developers need to court advertising to make dollars, where is the option to buy an ad free app? Is the plan to make us hate it so much that an ad free version will be snapped up?? Yes, I still play. Essential product is too good not to. But first developer to give an ad free version and I will be convincing my Friends to swap with me!!

Good morning team.. I love and have played your game for a long time! It helps me keep in touch with long distance loved ones. Of late the game seems to be getting more and more complicated with add ons. I have never used a sticker since it’s been brought out. Do many people use them? I like that there are other mini games. But I don’t like being bullied into having to look at them. When the app decides it needs to update you have to update or stop playing entirely because you can’t close the little window telling you to do so. Thankyou for your time and keeping a great game in the world.

ADS. I have also been playing this game for years and love it and would normally rate it 5 stars. I can handle the ads although irritating after each turn but often can’t get back to the game as the ad has led me somewhere else so I need to close the game and restart. In the past week the ad at the top of the screen is dropping down while I m trying to have my turn and not just once but multiple times, I have to close it with 2 moves to get rid of it to have it drop back down 30 seconds later . I have had this happen in some newly downloaded games and have promptly uninstalled the app because of it. Please fix this , the ads after my move is complete I can understand but ads during me trying to play a word several times is just not on. It’s because I love this game and reached the level I have over the years that I m asking to please rectify this issue.

Used to be OK. I’ve been playing this for a while now, it used to be OK, but now it’s terrible. Not as smart as scrabble. I play AU /US English, I don’t want to, I was playing the AU English version, but They changed it, well that’s stupid, US English is a completely different animal, and I am not interested in using their words, Za, short for pizza! The rules are all over the place, you can use dui ( driving under the influence ) but not uti, (urinary tract infection ) or iud ( inter uterine device ), supposedly can’t use shortened words!!! My friend just played tute, it’s not a valid words word, but it was accepted🤦🏼‍♀️. Recently some idiot tech person decided to ‘fix’ something in the game, and now it’s a mess. The page doesn’t fit, can’t see your friends list, can’t see the definition of words played, can’t get rid of the notification bubbles, can’t stop other people asking for games, can’t stop ‘their’ challenges. I was quite happy, playing My friends, I do not want to play theirs or join their groups. Game is still broken, days later, even though they say they know about the issues! Don’t bother.

What has gone wrong??. I've been playing WWF for 7 years - love it, but recently words are being accepted that are not valid words, and the description of the accepted word is 'not a valid WWF word' or something to that effect. One example is JE in the USA version. I try to use it and can't but many of my opponents are using it and getting away with it. There are many other words that are not accepted but some players can still use them - what is going on? Hard enough to play against opponents who use seriously obscure words and are probably using a cheat app, without also having to deal with this issue. Can it be fixed?

Unfair start to challenges.. I’ve noticed lately that you have been late starting challenges, & not adding points accrued from when a new challenge starts, up until you come in late with new challenge. So unfair! In addition, I have complained about a few things that needed your attention, including questions about changing over to Words2, but even though I received an entirety number, you never got back to me. So, even though I have given you 5 stars, it is my hope that you will improve things in the near future! I’m not a fan of those coins etc, either. I don’t use them & they’re so annoying!

Recent update - why ditch weekly challenge?. Have played since 2011 so have seen a lot of updates. I always hold off as long as possible, but alas eventually it forces me to update. So the latest update once again makes changes that I can’t fathom why?! I play daily to attempt to collect the weekly challenge badge and always track my progress on the progress bar, but they seem to have taken this challenge/event away completely? PLEASE bring back the weekly challenge! It is a great and difficult challenge to reach the points goal per week! The other terrible change, the previous version allowed you to collect the reward boxes and click on them all at once whenever you pleased to collect coins etc. PLEASE bring this back! It is an annoyance to have each and every box open automatically mid play! One last suggestion, it would be great to be able to block a player without having to accept the game, clicking on them, and then finding block user function.

still problematic. I’ve been playing WWF for years, and the app still has problems it’s always had. If I play all the games (keep hitting Next Game til there is no more Next Game) then minimise the app, only to find a number on the app icon indicating there’s a game or two to play. Surely this bug can be fixed? Other problems aren’t so much bugs as obvious options WWF could include. Why can’t I play a game using one of the various dictionaries one can download to an iPhone? I can play using some bogus US ‘games dictionary’ that has plenty of non-words, and plenty of words that are valid (to use in the game) but have no listed meaning. I can choose British English - which is a different set of valid words, but has no listed meanings. But I can’t choose from various dictionaries that a freely available to other iphone apps. Why are the various awards and badges not something I can opt not to see. I do not take part in any way, I don’t take any notice, yet increasingly, with each iteration of the app, I have to click on the occasional screen to accept some badge and choose “great” or “thanks” or whatever, just to make the next move. One last suggestion, for now: a choice of skins would be great. The colour scheme this game has is as garish (though not as unreadable) as the official Scrabble™ app - could we please have some choice around the colours of tiles etc? thanks

Great game but recently. I’ve been playing this game for a long time as well as buying the full version for no ads between games, but recently I’ve noticed that the ads for coins option in the shop has been playing ads that don’t register for coins, but register as played so you get to the ad limit without receiving any coins at all. I have contacted Zynga several times regarding this all with the same response: give me extra coins for inconvenience, tell me to check the app is updated (most people on Apple have automatic updates) and to also restart the app. These do not work. While I understand that you can’t control the ads that appear you can control the format of the ads so that they all perform in the same way. It would be great to have this resolved. Edit: This aspect has become even worse recently to the point where I receive barely any coin reward even though I watch the ad or don’t have any ad options in store. Often I will watch ads for rewards in the Solo game and then the game will stall and take those coins. I restart the app several times a day and it’s becoming increasingly frustrating with little to no support. I’ve been playing this game for well over a decade and it’s becoming increasingly “clunky” with useless rewards like badges and tokens. Stop “improving” the game and concentrate on writing a better program for seamless experience.

Great game once you learn a bit. I now play this regularly. Found it hard to understand early on, and there’s no simple guide to how to make it work... it would have been much easier if there had been. A friend finally clued me in, which was helpful. Worst things are the ads, and the developer wants quite outrageous $$ to turn them off... and then only for a very limited time period! Presumably they earn more from running ads than by players paying... It also freezes quite often on my iPad, but I’ve figured out a way to get over that without having to restart my device.

Great game .... ... but a feature I’d really be keen on is the ability to limit the time to think about words to play that players get, and if they fail to play a word within the alotted time they forfeit their move. Players should be able to agree before the game on the time that their allowed to think, e.g. 5 minutes after seeing what the other player has played. This feature would really give an advantage to players with large vocabularies over those who simply have lots of time to try words. Another feature worth introducing is a limit on the number of words you’re allowed to submit, e.g. on any given move you can try to submit only three words and after the third unsuccessful submission you also forfeit your move. This, of course, would require switching off any support that tells you whether a wordis playable or not. And again, this would have to be agreed upon by both players before starting a game.

Poor update and failure to provide customer support. It's difficult to believe that I've been playing this game for two years, yet with the latest updates, my friends can't see my games, and I appear invisible to them. Oddly, all their games are listed on my profile, which I've played multiple times, but they can't see me. This issue first occurred two years ago when your support team was still actively fixing things. Now, it has been a week, and my messages have gone unanswered. There are no available phone numbers, and your support team seems disinterested in resolving these issues. I can't even see my friends online, use the discovery tab, or receive notifications from friends in my second account, which I had to create due to this problem. Their moves would cold across with mismatched profile pics and names. Please address this issue, as it seems to be affecting some users, but not all. It's okay to take my money but the service is not there.

Can’t access goals. Been playing the game since 2010 and it’s great to stay connected with friends around the world. However the more complicated it becomes with mindless offerings, the less functional it is. Can no longer access Goals and Rewards options as it just keeps spinning. Also when going to the next game the screen splits vertically one third white, two thirds the game graphics. Then in goes all white and I just have to wait, wait, wait for the full screen when I can finally continue playing. Works on my phone perfectly but not on our iPads. The apps are up to date. The other problem is how slow the letters are to place in position. You place them where you want to make the word and eventually they slip in where they should go but again you have to wait! Please fix these annoying problems. They are such a waste of time.

Frustrating.. Just how much time do you spend claiming rewards, claiming goals, unlocking tiles, opening chests, saying “GREAT” because the game rewards you with a measly three gold coins, and all that? I’ve had sessions where it’s taken me five seconds to have my shots, but only after spending thirty seconds claiming things. And the way it’s structured — talk about redundant. My home screen tells me there’s a reward to claim. Okay. I go do it. I go back to the home screen . Oh wait. There’s something else. And so on. And so on. The letter algorithm is appalling. How many times do you dispatch one or two letters and get the exact the same ones back? With odds like this, I’d win big in Vegas. But what peeves me most is how it makes levels more difficult in Solo Challenge. As you go up the levels, your opponent will always have the exact letters they need. If a word has stopped just short of a DW or TW, don’t worry, they’ll have an S (or whatever they need) to capitalise 90% of the time. Meanwhile, for four of your shots it’ll do something like give you six vowels — letter combinations that NOBODY can make words from. That’s how you increase difficulty, is it? Just make an uneven playing field where it’s impossible to put anything substantial down? It rigs the playing field, which is a terrible way to increase difficulty.

NOT HAPPY AT ALL. I have tried to contact SUPPORT twice now, but they have not got back to me. Since I HAD to upgrade to WWF2, as I have lost EVERYTHING in my old account. My Game Name is gone, WWF2 has given me a new one, and now my friends can't find me. I purchased the ADs FREE APP years ago, NOW I have ADs again. I have lost ALL my stats, Achievements, over 4,000 Coins, Progress, Stickers earnt, etc etc. I am back to 'square one', as if I was a brand new player. I find WWF2 SLOW to react, full of ADs, it is such a frustrating game to play now, that I am not enjoying it at all. Things I use all the time, like the CHAT and Dictionary are hard to find and have many steps to use them. This morning I pressed the back arrow on the Dictionary and it disappeared and I could NOT find how to bring it back. After 30minutes of frustration, I happened to find it again. I used to have permanent access to Word Strength WITHOUT having to watch videos all the time to get just 2 hours use of it, now that's GONE too. I am finding WWF2 hard to navigate and get used to all the changes and places you hide things, with tiny little symbols (like the CHAT Speech Bubble!!!) I can't find any instructions to tell me what these things are, or where to find something I used to have, but now can't find it on WWF2. WWF2 SUPPORT PLEASE contact me to restore my original account!!

‘Banned’ in error, no avenue for appeal or area of ‘breach of TOS’ provided.. After playing WWF for 12 years with no issues, I began experiencing an issue around 2 months ago where I was ‘banned’ after every app update. Zynga reinstated my account every time this occurred, saying it was a ‘technical issue’ that they were aware of and were investigating to find a permanent solution. After having this issue occur a number of times in the past week again after a period of time with no issues (again following an app update), Zynga now say my account has been reviewed and I have been permanently suspended due to a ‘breach of terms of service’. This decision is apparently final and I have no avenue for review, despite being told approximately 15 times previously that this was occurring due to a known technical issue. I have not been told which area of the TOS I have allegedly breached and could find no areas of concern when reviewing TOS in detail today. I have found a number of people online who have experienced a similar situation, and Apple appear unable or unwilling to act. I have previously also paid to remove ads, but no refund will be given, again due to TOS. I want this to be a warning to any WWF players. Zynga is not a transparent or reasonable organisation, and should be treated with extreme caution.

Words With Friends 2. Over the years the actual quality of the app has dropped off. It has become more laborious to just play a game. After certain ads display the game sound stops so I have to close down the app then reopen it to get the sound back. Recently, when I’m playing a game with a friend, and while I’m waiting for them to have their turn, I play a solo game but I am no longer notified that it is my turn with the friend. To find out if they have had their turn I have to close the solo game then close the list so I can see if it is my turn. All this mucking around takes the spontaneity and ease of playing away from what used to be a quick fun game.

Good game ruined by misguided theories of engagement. Dear Zynga, a word game is not Candy Crush. Intentionally cluttered busy screens & schizophrenic rewards & challenges pitching themselves into your face run contrary to your (impersonal) cut and paste responses below stating your primary interest as "streamlining" the players experience. Users (including myself) supporting you by paying for ad-free service only to have that disappear in the update is just cold. Read your audience, stop trying to do everything at once in one app, remember why users got behind WWF in the first place (the clue is in the title), put down the generic strategy book on user engagement, gamifying every aspect of the experience and making it as noisy as possible, stop responding to complaints with insincere cookie cutter responses or wait for a smarter developer to respect and steal your audience. Or you know, keep your slot machine spinning, pull in that ad revenue and make all the money in the meantime. Do not recommend this game. Cue generic response in 3, 2, 1...

Excellent game... 1 issue though. Everything about this game is great! Except the ads. I’ve seen complaints about them in the reviews many times, there are plenty of us happy to pay a once off fee to get rid of the ads. I have also seen the response from the developers to this as wanting to keep the game free for everyone. Very charitable... Obviously you would make more money regularly from ongoing ad revenue than people paying a couple of bucks as a once off fee, and I can understand that is good business, even if I don't like it as a user. What I have a big problem with is that there appears to be some ad in your line up that is nothing but a black screen. And it doesn’t go away! It doesn’t time out and take me back to the game, I’ve let it sit there for several minutes several times and ultimately I have to switch my entire phone off and back on again to get back into the game. It drives me crazy and is a negative user experience. I’ve run the update this week and sadly it didn’t fix it at all. If you insist on keeping the ads in place despite repeated requests a from long time users let us pay to remove them can you at least make sure they don’t bring the game to a screaming halt. Thanks

New App is horrible and too noisy. I have been a wwf player for a long time, bought the ad free version, bought the data packs etc...i.e. Your target customer....and your new WWF2 stinks. It's too noisy, too many pop ups, too many prizes in the way of the game, it's hard to want to play and too easy now with all the cheats. Way to go to ruin the game. I played the old version as long as I could but have been force to upgrade, and playing the new one for a few months to give it a chance....but it is just a far inferior version to the original. I am not alone either....all my regular opponents hate it too. In fact there is now less chance of me wanting to spend more on the app as I am barely on it. Make the noise optional in settings, I simply don't care about coins or buying cheats and don't want to see these and they are turning me away from the game and from spending real cash on better game play, not cheats. Nor do I want to play against BOT's....they aren't the same as a real player who challenges you.

Ads... bet you haven’t heard this before. I would happily pay $15 once and have ads removed permanently. I also feel most people would agree to this considering the current system. There are way too many ads shoved into this game and expecting people to pay $15 A MONTH is mental. I really do enjoy your game and I’m fine supporting it just like make it reasonable no monthly payments just a one time thing. If nothing happens about this people are gonna start realising they can play other games like scrabble or word chums and get rid of ads right away with one payment. Take this into consideration. If your worried about your money I doubt it would go down it would either stay even or you may even earn more because $15 ONCE is actually affordable.

Great game, terrible dictionary, bad version.. Words with Friends is a great game. I cannot imagine who is employed to write the dictionary. The writers know nothing about parts of speech, can’t tell a proper noun from a common noun, have no understanding of verb forms and cannot write appropriate example sentences. They have created a joke of a dictionary. Some proper nouns are accepted (which they shouldn’t be) others not. Plurals ending in ‘i’ are allowed to be pluralised a second time. E.g. yetis. And so on. If you’re going to run a word-based app try not to insult the intelligence of your subscribers. As if this weren’t enough, the latest version keeps freezing. Not occasionally, but often. WWF is still the best word game available, as far as I know, but it is far from perfect.

Unfortunately Getting Worse. For a game that was already somewhat annoying to use from a UX perspective, it’s progressively getting worse. Having to scroll past ads for other games to actually play the game is kind of admitting that you’ve given up trying to make it better in favour of your newer titles. The latest changes only add to the confusion of what was once a great game that, after losing some popularity, didn’t pay homage to the players who just wanted to play “words with friends”, and instead tried to lead them down the path of a game that seemingly has no idea where it’s going or the ability to convey this to the end user. As an app developer myself I know the feeling of receiving a bad review, so I hope this is received in the way it was intended, as honest feedback from a real user hoping to stem the flow of questionable decision making from a roadmap perspective.

WWF. I have been playing with the same people for 12 years and a few others for varying amounts of time. I paid for the app from the beginning so that I wouldn’t have to put up with advertisements. Now what is happening is as bad as if not worse than advertising. Constant exhortation to ‘upgrade’ by making a payment that will give me ‘better’ rewards. I don’t want rewards, I don’t want stickers or patterned tiles I just want to play the game against people I have got to know over the years. and the daily barrage of ’challenges’ from your computer driven opponents is beyond irritating. I am not interested in playing against your computer and I wish you would STOP cluttering my screen with pseudo opponents. Frequent requests asking me to agree to accepting advertising is offensive. I have always given WWF a five star rating but not this time.

Not happy!. I have been playing this game for several years and had made some good friends with whom I would message to via the ’chat’ option. For reasons unknown to me the app decided to perform an automatic ‘refresh ‘, the end result of which has left me right back at the very beginning of the game. I have not only lost my profile but I have also lost the ability to keep in touch with my friends! Why would you do this? I have searched through trying to reconnect with them on the app but can no longer find them. We live in different parts of the world and have kept in touch regularly. Thank you Words with Friends 2 - thanks for nothing. I now await your useless generic message of gratitude for assisting you in improving the game. Not happy!

Love to play but.... The ads are ridiculous. Targeted to morons. Scammers who have fake profiles. I’ve been playing 9 years or more so it’s easy to spot them but feel sorry for vulnerable players who get taken in by the “...but you’re SO beautiful...” lines. The goals & rewards disappeared this week. “Just tweaking” your goals, it’s said for days...shows me anywhere between 2-22 hours, and they’ll be ready. Regardless of when I check back it’s still 2-22 hours. The game itself is great, when you get to play with someone who’s into playing a good game. But if those blokes start talking about their heartache and your marital status - ditch ‘Em quick. Fix the “goals” bug and you’ll get four stars from me. Fix the super-long, super-lame & super frequent ads and you’d get five.

Good app generally but..... Like other reviewers have been playing for years (since 2011 and my first iPhone). Don’t like the badges and wish I could switch off that function and just “play the game”. Used to it happening across the board but seasonal signals (like snow flakes) just remind me that people in the northern hemisphere never think that those in the souther hemisphere are experiencing high summer....and generally rarely encounter snow even in our winter. Last point: while US colloquialisms are accepted those from other English speaking countries generally aren’t. Understandable given where App was developed, but still irritating when your high scoring word is not recognised and rejected. But I’m still playing the game!

Beware of scammers. My only issue with this app is the vast amount of individuals that think it’s okay to use this platform to attempt to scam you. On average of twice every night I will be contacted by people who try to gain a foothold into my personal life by asking stupid questions in the message inbox. In good faith I will always respond if someone writes a message, just tonight when an individual asked me what I did for a living, I responded ‘law enforcement’ lol they quickly blocked me. There should be an easier way to report them. My advice to these scammers is ‘get a real job’ and my advice to other players is ..... they can’t actually spell and you can read their accents in the way they write.

Song2. I really like playing the game with friends. It keeps us in touch with the option to send a message or contact with strangers without pressure. Also like that I have time to get back to the game when there are busy periods when I’m not able to play. And even then I can be prompted or prompt them as the case may be or check previous games & start again as many games with whom I please. Maybe one of the best things is knowing whether a word is possible with the green or red highlight. A long review but was easy to write. My thanks. I actually wrote this review some time ago. And it was all good. Now I have just read another review with which concur on every level. Basically the ads drive me crazy as there’s no quick x to exit it & it uses up precious battery & my time. It is spoiling my experience & I may opt out if this continues. I too wouldn’t mind purchasing the option to be ad-free depending on cost. And there’s no way I will support the ad presented after such an annoyance. I hope I get a reply to my review that gives me hope for this to change. Thx

Cheats. Computers opponents are able to literally make up words that Do NOT exist, if you try and use the same words it says Unacceptable Word, so it is only good to play against another Human. However you need to play the challenges to gain coins and badges etc. Power Ups are very expensive and not worth the price. Too many adds and the asking price is utterly ridiculous and should jot cost $14/month to play when the game allows cheating which encourages you to spend money. If the computer opponents were actually using real words it would be a much better game. Also words that do exist both in English UK and English US are not always allowed to be played so there is far too many discrepancies to put any money towards this app, the makers have certainly found a way to make alot of money while ripping their consumers out of hard earned money and time.

Fix the dictionary. Words allowed and not allowed are a joke. If the developers spent more time on fixing the dictionary and less on frippery like the idiotic stickers, frames & tile styles, it would be a much better game. Support is staffed by a group of peanuts who can only return canned responses. No attempts to understand or get to the bottom of a problem - just token phrases and an assumption that the end user is an idiot. 3 stars is generous..... And let me guess…. You “value my opinion and are always working to make it better” No, you don’t, and no, you’re not. You add more and more useless rubbish that you don’t allow people to opt out of, and you don’t fix issues with the dictionary, which should be the focus of a word-based game! The latest update is the worst yet. Childish and garish.

Great Game for kids over the age of 8!. This game is really good, the only thing I’m having trouble with the moment, is practice mode. It keeps on saying you’ve reached the maximum number of games, finish to play more. I press on my game but it keeps saying “Oops, something went wrong!” I am a 9 year old and I think this game is good for the brain because it helps with your reading and knowledge. I also don’t like the fact the anonymous people are wondering if you want to play with them (STRANGER DANGER alert!) So why can’t Zynga make an update that only with people that are your friends you can only play with. When I was about 5, I downloaded the first Words with Friends and I played with people I didn’t know. They were sending me weird messages that gave me a suspicious feeling. Also, is there ever gonna be a Words With Friends 3?

I love playing but cannot report abuse. I absolutely love the game great for your mind. Meet new friends around the world. I have been playing for about 4 to 6 years. BUT BE AWARE they allow scammers that try to scam women. Just one scammer alone uses number of different identities. Always these guys are new to word and widow with at least one child, works away from home They ask for itune card, money or for u to accept a parcel. They ask to talk on hangout or Whatsapp. I have tried to report to Word these guys so they could block them. I have led them on to see if they r scammers. I have been unable to report to Word, so they could monitor new people. The only line to do so is abuse p. That I found is deleted. So womem be careful. Don't fall for these guys charms. One told me yesterday on hangout so many of u do and u give so much money. WORD FOR FRIENDS turn on your abuse line and block when u r informed

Going backwards here!. I have played wwf for years, and have loved it. I dislike the new version. It is the slowest app on my ipad to load, keeps changing goals, targets, rewards. Hello ! I want to play words with friends! I am not a team player, competitive , or need to have my back slapped every time I play a word. I just want a reasonably responsive app to allow me to enjoy a good words game. I have tolerated all these annoyances because I have a few regular good friends whom I met on this app. But, I now am being hit with huge annoying ads that take forever to disappear. I am almost over it, and hope to take my friends with me! I paid for an ad free version years ago, only to have them reappear now. I would pay again, but how? Sad to go, but going nonetheless.

Words with Friends. I am a 64 y/o retired Air Force Officer who has a bit of time to spare. Some dear friends suggested this game to me a few months ago and I have playing it nearly everyday since. When you are stuck just try any mixture of letters as there are so many words that we have never heard of, then often you are able to at least get a word even if low scoring. It is very entertaining and a lot of fun as well as demanding a lot of brain power at times. Which is good for our brain surely. At least try it and I'm sure, like me, you will soon enjoy the giving of your time and skills it requires. You get to meet many people if you like to do that, as you can have as many games open at the same time as you like. You can also send messages to your opponents through the app. You can play with your current friends/contacts or the app will find new players for you and with similar skill levels if you wish. Good luck and happy Word Hunting. Enjo 😉👍🏻

Great? If You Say So.... I’ve been playing WWF for at least a decade, and written several favourable reviews. However, the longer I play it, the more unwanted “bells and whistles” are added, which totally spoil the game for me. After all, it’s basically Scrabble, and that’s all I wish to play. What’s finally driven me to write yet another review is the prize tier. I don’t use the Coins and as far as I know I can’t swap them or give them away, and one can only have a maximum of 1500 Coins amassed. Well, I’ve had 1500 of those pests for... years. Yet, every day, at least once a day, I’m forced to tap “Great!” when I go up another tier, and “collect” another 6 or 8 coins which I don’t get even if I wanted them; if it were allowed I’d have at least 5000 of them. It’s bad enough that I’m accepting a “prize” I don’t want and can’t have, but the straw that’s broken this camel’s back is actually having to tap “GREAT!!” to exit the screen. It’s NOT great, it’s not even ok. It’s annoying, and has reduced my enjoyment of WWF so much that I’m beginning to understand why so many of my friends no longer play it. PS: As I said, I don’t care for the idiot “prizes;” I just want to play. However I claim the goals EVERY day to get rid of the prompts, and I play EVERY day - so why do I only ever get a “One Day Streak?” PLEASE, get rid of the bells and whistles, Zynga!

My experience of words with friends. I think this game is absolutely terrific, it has an enabled me to make many new friends, and it has helped get me through, and a tough period in my life, the only negative, that you must be careful Who you interact with, as unfortunately there are some unscrupulous people Who also access this game, and they can make their experience unpleasant at times, and if you do run a foul of these people, I recommend that you report them straight away, and let the people from zynga security handle the matter, I had a problem in this area, and once I reported it, it was dealt with rapidly, and expertly, once again I can only say I highly recommend this game, even though I did have one bad experience, the way it was dealt with, and that the way that it was dealt with was highly professional, and has only reinforced my experience, I highly recommend that everybody should play this game, but if you have evil intentions do not bother as you will be caught out and you will be dealt with!!!👍

Monitising gone nuts and now with sounds. I have liked this game for some time having reached level 15 and watched the free game slowly get more annoying with ads but we may have reached my cutoff. Of course app developers need to be able to make a buck and even the ridiculously long ads between games were tolerable but now we have moved to casino game ads that have slot machine sounds even when the iphone is switched to silent. The game is silent and not anti social as I play. Well I am on a screen ignoring others in the room, so still anti social. But now in an element of wisdom ads can bypass sound settings that I have selected for the environment that I am in to create slot machine sounds right there in front of the people in the meeting, the cinema or at the dinner table. Who eats at the dinner table any more but you get my point.

Great game ruined by garishly offensive ads. The brain-exercise and social aspects of this game border on inestimable! Congratulations! HOWEVER, sadly, whilst people who play WWF obviously have a common interest in words, it is evident that they have a level of intelligence that deserves better than any of the full-screen ads or, in fact, any ads at all. There are few advertised products that would interest your clientele (who just want to play the game!), all of whom do not want to spend their time and that of the battery of their devices waiting until they can click it off. To add recent insult to injury, after playing a move, I regularly experience a black screen with no ad, just a centre timer icon that uses up more than 20 seconds before my irritated tapping on the screen brings it all back to game life. Several attempts at deleting and re-downloading the app have not eradicated the problem. I am unsure of the revenue that these god-awful ads raise, but I am sure that every one of your clientele would prefer to pay initially for the app, even with perhaps an annual feeI for continuing “club membership”. I, for one, am looking at changing to another Scrabble app with no ads, for which I am happy to pay. Please note that the rating is for the app only.

It's pretty good but.... I prefer the layout of the old version but the new version is also very good...I also like the additional challenges included in the game (lightning round and snowman challenge) but one change you could add to the new version is: - I accidentally pressed 'rematch' twice after a game had ended and two games popped up.. I didn't really want the two games.. 😓 so changing that would be nice.. I don't know whether or not it was an error that occurred and it's not something that happens all the time...but I don't want to try it again with someone else.. 😅 But overall, the new version is pretty good 😄👍

Frustrating. This game is getting too overboard with ‘things’. Everyday messages… putting in people to play whether yours or someone else. I only want to play MY FRIENDS. I don’t want these new features coming up on my people I play list. Also on play 45 words play as a challenge the video you have to watch after 4 moves never loads properly. You get the error box video unable to load msg. EVERYTIME. Instead of constantly bombarding with new people to play please address the glitches constantly happening. It’s driving me crazy to the point I’m asking myself why am I playing. Used to be simple and smooth. Now it’s complicated and glitchy

Too many extras. I have played this game for several years now but I am now on the verge of deleting it. It has become so overloaded with so many extras, that it’s annoying to play. I love playing WWF with my friends, not with the system or total strangers. I am not a child and I am not interested in badges, goals, rewards, stickers or achievements or winning coins for “cheats”. I’m sure there are some folk out there that love these extras, but I’m not one of them. If the reviews are anything to go by, I’m not alone in my opinion. I would request that the developers please include the option in settings, that would allow one to disable any or all the extras and just leave us with the bare bones version that allows one to play without all the embellishments. Thank you.

Now just a very bad joke. I’ve been happily playing WWF for over 10 years, but WWF2 is basically unusable. I prefer to play on iPad in landscape mode, but half the time it won’t even load like this. When it does load, the screen is mostly a mix of blank space and buttons trying to entice me to play anything *but* Words with my friends. My actual games are shifted half off the screen to the left so I can’t even see which one is which. And it stays this way even if I switch to portrait mode. It is so frustrating and dysfunctional to use that it is anything but fun to play these days. Each update to fix bugs with this new version just seems to make things worse, and I’m about to tell my friends that I’m sorry but I just can’t play it any more. So disappointing when the original game was functional and great fun. WWF2 is so bad that I think they need to backtrack on sunsetting the original until they can produce a replacement that works.

Where is the love?!. Let’s take a step back and look at this so called rewards system Zynga have implemented. First they decimated the daily reward and now give us two coins a day. They removed the coins for winning a match. Then they increased the price of the power ups by nearly 1000%. On top of that they continue to increase the weekly challenge to impossible levels for the average player. They originally gave us a decent reward system and then took it away under the guise of a fancy new Words 2, to which we basically cajoled into shifting to. The reward system from the previous iteration vanished without any warning. I suggest you ease up the cost of the power ups. Similar to what they used to be. Increase the daily rewards: having to press ‘Great’ to accept 2 coins is quite simply demeaning. And bring back a decent reward for winning a game, perhaps even implement a streak system. Oh, and one last thing. Would somebody in charge of the dictionaries please google ‘DAN definition’. It’s acceptable as UK English and US English. I have literally been trying for years to have this word allowed. There seems to be no clear support for additional real actual words anywhere. You let TURNT and QUO et al. through. Neither of which should be allowed. Seriously though. Please make DAN an acceptable word.

Crashes constantly and too many ads. This app has always had crashing issues which never get resolved in any of the updates. The videos load inconsistently, and when they do not load it takes away one of the allowed views therefore taking away a chance to earn tickets to play word masters or earn trophy points in the teams and you have the wait for another day for the opportunity to watch videos to earn these again. When playing lightning rounds the game can just suddenly drop out and sometimes you might be able to go back to rejoin your team but not always. Also slow loading issues between boards in lightning round at times. There are far too many ads in the free version, so overkill.

THEY DON’T CARE. Having played and enjoyed this game for years it has now become a battle of trying to get any kind of realistic response from developers after the last few updates that has caused so many issues for players. I was locked out, had to supply email address, names of 3 opponents etc. Am now back in and can’t see any of my opponents nor start a game, plus games in progress are disappearing. There is no search area even to try and locate friends…..oh and let’s not forget about all the sleaze bag guys telling me ‘I’m the one for them’. Sick to death of it all. It’s a common thread here, loyal players who all say the same thing…..stop with all the inappropriate adverts, animations, celebrities shoving Royal Match down our throats. Just fix the continuing basic issues that seem to go unaddressed.

Zynga, STOP!. Please just stop. Every iteration of this game makes it worse. Read the recent reviews. I’ve been playing for more than 10 years and have watched this game slowly deteriorate. I am not bombarded with ads as I paid a few dollars at the start to remove them and they never came back. But the game is bogged down by so many trivialities such as stickers and keys and constant requests for ad tracking, or to login with Facebook or turn on notifications etc. I understand that as a business, making money is your priority but alienating your customers is bad business. This game is so bloated with childish nonsense that it is now lagging constantly (maybe give children their own safe version). And now the game takes control of the screen to take you somewhere within the app that you don’t want to go. Give us the option to turn childish settings off. Give us a “don’t ask me again” option. I could go on and on but the developers already know that they are alienating their customers but are so concerned with money that they don’t care. Imagine how much money you could save by laying off some of your staff whose only job is to further destroy what was once a terrific game. Will you even bother to give me one of your generic responses?

No no no. There are several things I don’t like. - you need to be precise where you tap to open the store otherwise you open your own profile. The two are not clearly defined separate but are located in the top bar. - the big blue plus sign to add a game is too big and gets in the way when scrolling - the new sounds are annoying random notes. I didn’t mind the droplet sounds in previous version but omg the new sounds are horrible. I turned off sounds immediately but feel denied that satisfying sound (which hasn’t changed) when the word strength is high. - the old board had shadow contrast that created 3D depth to the board. It is pale now and lacks that depth. I don’t like it. It looks dull and kind of cheap. And while I’m here, a comment in WWF challenges. The weekly challenge is unfair. If you play all the time it becomes unattainable. Other players earn the same badge but are required to earn a whole lot less points to get it. The only way to reduce your own requirements is to park your game for weeks until the requirement drops to a reasonable level again. That is defeating. Why can’t you vary it? Make some badges hard and some easy but the same for everyone. That way there are bragging rights for those who achieve by working hard for the hard badges.

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Too many ads. Way too many ads to enjoy.

Not properly de-bugged for use on iPad Pro. Ads keep glitching and crashing the app. Multiple re-starts and downloads of the app. Ads tend to ‘get stuck’ exactly where the ‘play word’ button is. Garbage.

Hate it!. Please give me back original Words with Friends! Been playing for about 20 years. Wish you would get rid of Claim Goals, Claim Prize Boxes….a lot of nonsense. What’s with the opening page of bunnies & squirrels??! I think I will move over to Word Feud…straightforward…no gimmicks. Super disappointed!

Missing elements. Where are radar, hindsight...?

Know your audience!. Gah, so many badges and challenges. I just want to play with my friends! It was bad enough on Words. Words2 is just too much. I’ll still play but the screen is just too overwhelming. I get in and out as fast as I can. Too bad.

Ads and glitches every time. Be prepared to exit and enter over and over and that’s after being forced into watching an ad after each turn unless you pay the ransom fee oops I mean premium fee.

SUPER ANNOYING ADS LATELY!. The kind that pop up and won’t disappear. You can’t even play! Fun is gone😭

Starting to hate it. I used to love this game even with the 10 second ads being in between every move. But now the ads have become 30 seconds between every move...that sucks and is about to make me find a different game to kill time. 30 seconds doesn’t make me more interested in the product in the ad...it makes me annoyed and less likely to buy or download it.

Word find. This is terrible the new version it blacks out,freeze screen and to find cheat master has changed as well. I love this game but your new version stinks why do you have to keep changing everything all the time ??

Good, but annoying!. Love the game, but getting pretty annoyed with constant prompts to sign in with Facebook. If it doesn’t get fixed, I will be deleting it!

AN AD AFTER EVERY MOVE???. I used to love this game but now it has become so annoying I’ve stopped playing. Every single move there’s an advertisement that you can’t even skip until the timer for the ex to escape comes on. The greed has ruin the game

Endless ads, pop-ups, and interruptions. This game is the worse. Which is a shame because the gameplay itself is great, but not only after every move is there a 30 second mandatory ad, but while you’re playing and trying to navigate the app there are constant pop ups for challenges and other games within the app. So you’re trying to play your word and there is a slow moving pop up that takes several seconds to show fully on the screen do to intentional slow graphics, and then some of them you can’t exit out of; they make you actually go to the rewards screen or mini game. It is SO annoying. Also their premium membership cost is extremely high per month and just not realistic. Recently they updated and they have less valuable rewards for free players and more rewards for premium members. I keep the game only because my Mum and I can play remote, but it is almost not worth it for us at this point because the app is so frustrating for us both. This is really sad and a shameless money grab on their part to try to annoy you into buying a premium membership. Their tactic is so shady that I will never ever buy a premium membership to support this company.

Ads. The ads are the most annoying ads on any platform ever

I used to love this game. Except now after EVERY move you have to watch a 10-15 second commercial. No thanks.

Sad. It should be called Ads as that is all there is!

Not liking this game. Sucks that there are so many ads and pop ups. I just want to play a few games with my friends. Thinking about giving this game up. I had played Words with Friends for years. This seems juvenile and junky.

Stop. Stop putting your adds on the letters when I’m playing the game ,this is new and I’m gonna dump this game if it keeps up

Unhelpful. Recently I informed them that on one day after watching all the videos to earn coins I did not get the coins - just a pop up saying there was a problem. They ignored my request to check my activity on the day involved an terminated the conversation.

bro what. every time a reward, minigame, contest or event notification pops up i am so close to losing my mind. i can’t even click on an active game without 4 pop ups opening, how do you even justify how bad this game is

Solo challenge disappeared. Solo challenge has disappeared about a month ago (in French). It’s just not there anymore. Got in touch with tech support, but nothing has changed. Very annoying.

SO many pop ups, ads, and in-game promos. I really don’t care about all these “you got points!!” “Wow you completed a challenge!!!”, all of the mini games, the absolutely DISGUSTING amount of ads that you have to watch/click through in succession. I just want to play some simple scrabble and this is NOT it.

MissMTO. I love this game and play every day but the new feature of choosing different colors for your tiles is annoying. My partner has chosen a color that really is contrast to the regular colors and I have a hard time looking at the board now. I seriously might have to stop playing.

Terrible user experience. Getting notifications when they’re turned off. Don’t get them when they’re turned on. Ads in the messages and unwanted messages about other games. You’re making it so messy and unenjoyable to play when we’re barraged with ads and random games with bots and strangers. No thanks.

Don't bother to spend money on this. Dont pay money for this game. Zynga is not listening to the multitude of complaints about the stupid REWARDS that keep popping up. We just want to play the game without the constant annoying interruptions. Now, months later, Zynga still forces annoying notices and rewards down our throats. Don't they have the common sense to produce a version without any rewards? I AM WINDING MY GAMES DOWN AND DELETING THIS RIDICULOUS APP.

Not a five!. Love the game hate the ads!

Messy, busy game. I was just forced to “upgrade” to Word with Friends 2” or lose my account of 13 years and I am not impressed. Too many graphics, too busy, too many special offers. It’s cluttered and full of things I am not interested in. I just want to play this game with my friends but there is no way to turn off or opt out of this other ridiculous stuff.

Deleting. Deleting the app after playing with my adult daughter since 2012. Annoying pointless “rewards”, too many ads, and now it wants me to upgrade. No, thanks. Bye!

Frustrating mess. The free version is now ridiculous. Used to play it frequently but now you’re completely bombarded with garbage that they’re trying to sell you to the point where it’s unplayable for 2 people. Deleted.

Expand your world. I have to say That i really do love this. Besides being mind tingling, it forces you to use your brain to create words and expand your thinking. It also introduces you to new people and expands your group of connections around the world. I made a new acquaintance!😀

Horrible Upgrade. Zynga you have ruined a great game!!! Far too busy! Causes motion sickness!!!

Extremely Over-gamified. I spend way more time trying to plow through the constant junk than I do actually playing and enjoying the game. If it’s not external ads it’s internal ads relentlessly badgering me. I don’t need 100 features at 100 mph to enjoy this game. Remember, this game was made iconic by a board game. A BOARD GAME. You are holding lovers of the original game hostage with how you’ve butchered this game. This game should NOT feel like a Casino. And what you charge for removing ads is insane! I was going to pay it if it were a couple bucks, but there’s no way I’m going to pay it now. You make me dread going in this app.

Needs a fix. Quick play always gets stuck!!! Then you end up losing the game. Needs a fix??

Great game. Might want to fix the way you get extra points for watching a video. Very cumbersome.. Sometimes games come out that shouldn’t be tampered with. When this came out it was great, it’s gone down in my opinion.

Biggest Issue. My biggest issue with Words With Friends is its inability to retain or remember how I sort my letters. When I recall letters, I want them to return to the order in which I organized them. But no! My other beef is with people using cheats but I realize that can’t be prevented. As a follow up I see app’s authors are more interested in adding a confusing array of add on ‘bells and whistles’ rather than actually improving the game.

Ads after every turn.. I used to LOVE this game but this is a joke. An ad after every move is a literal joke. You waste more time waiting for the ad to leave than you do playing. Deleted and won’t get again.

Garbage ads. Ads are tolerable. But what is not tolerable are the stupid ads/surveys that you can’t close and need to force close app to get back to the game. Garbage

Awful!!!. Awful after recent update, duals kick you out while you’re in a match. App freezes after every single game. FIX IT!

Too many scammers. I get prompted to play a new game with a new person about 3 times a day and 2/3rds of them are people pretending to be girls who are trying to scam me or get me to send them money. It’s getting really annoying, this game is saturated with people who are trying to scam you these days

Sooooo many ads. You get 3-5 ads after every move you make

Functions stop working and are never fixed.. something went wrong but, never fixed

Review. I really like this game but will not be playing any of the side challenges anymore … too glitchy, not accurate credits given when task is completed, game freezing / reading errors … just too frustrating to keep going with the side challenges!

Used to be good. I used to enjoy playing, but now the game is really annoying unless you pay (and not once, but monthly). Pop ups, long ads, and manipulatively linking “prizes” to those who pay the $13 a month are all super annoying.

Words with Friends 2. This used to be my favourite game but the continuous interruptions with pop ups about game stats, rewards, and challenges has become very annoying. I would like to be able to turn this off or tap when I want to see it. Currently I have no choice.

Words with friends 2. Constantly freezing up. Too many adds in-between games. No fun anymore.

Not liking this version. I wish there was a way to bypass all the extra crap that is forced on us. I just want to take my turn with my friends and move on. It’s a waste of time to sit and wait for all the start up palaver at the start of the day, and to be getting notifications to play all the robot challenges... can never win the advanced bots anyways because that’s the way the game is designed.

Zynga is using extortion. I paid to use this app. Now Zynga is denying the right for any user to play unless they update to Zynga's latest childish inventions which have nothing to do with the heart of the game. This is extortion. Apple, if you monitor these posts, you should hold so makers accountable for actions that Beach three rights of users.

Entertaining. Good word challenge with with friends and new opponents. Allows some words that are not dictionary recognized, is the only issue I have.

Great game!. Challenging. Fun. Skills improve as you play. Low cost.

TOO. MANY. ADS. So many ads and pop-ups.

Changes not so great. This was my favourite game now lots of pop up ads and lost all my data. Word game of the day now goes to 245 and way too many changes when in fact it was a perfect game as it was . Why do you need power ups and all the bells and whistles . Don't upgrade if you can help it .

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Needs a LOT of change. Honestly I love the idea behind this app, but it has been over developed. There are entirely too many things going on and all of the different menus are a complete DISASTER, even for someone who has been playing a good while. This game neede to be completely torn down to the bare minimum and reconstructed much simpler and without the ridiculous amount of extra stuff. The second problem, and honestly the most important problem is the ads. To be perfectly honest they make the game unplayable. No one wants to sit through 30 second ads after every turn. This game was supposed to make playing online scrabble much more fun, and easier, but the ads make me want to delete it and never play again. While I do understand that it is a free game and it needs to have ads, the ads after every turn need to go away. The developers truly need to get back on track with the idea of it being fun and simple. To be honest I would pay for a version that was only the minimum, playing with friends. I think so many things about the app just make it such a nuisance to play and no fun at all. I am so sick of the general layout of the app and I know a lot of other people are frustrated too. I also know that those ads after every turn need to stop.

Annoying. The ads are super annoying. I get having to watch ads for a free game, but half the time you have to watch a full ad after every single word played, despite the option the skip the ad after a few seconds — it just doesn’t actually skip, so it’s much faster to quit the app and restart it. Also, it doesn’t make any sense to require one to wait to accumulate “tickets” to play against the computer. Why not just allow unlimited tries to play with an ad in between? And the amount of tickets gets higher as the opponent gets more difficult, so essentially you can play once or twice per day. Seems that it would be more profitable to allow unlimited plays with an ad in between because people would play until they win, resulting in more ad revenue. Additionally, lightning round frequently crashes and kicks you out of the game. Also, the X on the ads should be in a consistent spot on all the ads because it’s really frustrating to guess where the close button is going to display and sometimes it’s so small that it’s hard to press without accidentally clicking on the ad (which is, of course, designed to result in more click revenue, but very frustrating nonetheless).

Players & ADs. I’ve only been playing about a month. Approx 80% of the men almost immediately ask to chat “elsewhere” & worse. Wish they’d leave & go to Tinder! When I refuse they often stop playing & ruin the match. I’m Already to the point where I sigh & think “here we go AGAIN, another one!”. Oh but watch out ladies for the women too. Have had to end games & block a couple of them too because after a few plays they start soliciting something like a bitcoin business. I swear I spend more time typing back to these people setting them straight than playing the game! But it doesn’t end there... after EVERY single play I make I’m sent to an AD that I’m stuck in for up to 30+ seconds.. spoils the flow of the game. But hey, for a price $$$ you can get rid of the ADs for 30days. Ugh. Finally, if playing & want to break away, would be nice if people had a bit of consideration & wrote “heya, hopping off now, back later “ or SOMEthing, instead of leaving me sitting there waiting for them to make a play! Good grief. Only sticking around for the rare times I get a good game going. For now. Until something changes they won’t be getting an in-APP purchase from me.

Update is messed up. I’ve been playing this game for many years. The newest version is Ok, but has tons of issues. The solo challenges are mostly a waste. I get it thru want you to purchase boosts to win, but it’s becoming more and more frequent where boosts are needed. The stickers are dumb and they slow the game down. The game now is super choppy. It is constantly freezing, especially when you hit a new challenge or try to access your challenge rewards. Daily word play gives you a chance to watch a video for three extra moves. That is, when this video works. It constantly freezes and the app needs to be force closed. Sometimes multiple times. Take today for instance. I’ve tried three times to watch the video and all it does is freeze. Update: Typical response. Instead of acknowledging and fixing the problem, they blame me. I didn’t have these issues until the game change update. And, they’re response was for the wrong operating system as well. So now they lose a star. The problems still persist in the game. Several, several Muslim words allowed, but not from other languages. Going the woke political route now too with the names and designs on their weekly challenge characters. Disgusting...I deleted the game

LONELY HEARTS CLUB WWF?. This game used to be fun. This game used to be just about playing with friends, and maybe I’d get the occasional request from a stranger, and that would be okay also. The ads and game rewards have always been annoying and that hasn’t gotten any better, but that has taken a back seat to the dating site that this game has seemed to become overnight. It’s seriously ruining the whole experience for me. At first I would accept the chat only to be grilled about everything from my marital status to my religion. I appreciate the mute button but it’s not enough. There has to be some way to set some sort of privacy settings so these men can’t bother women who don’t want to be bothered to begin with. It’s become really creepy. Can we maybe accept them as friends first before ruining our stats and innundating our games with lonely men looking to hook up, who then abandon the game when you ignore them? If it weren’t for the real friends I play with and the good games I have with other women, I frankly would ditch this all together. This game gives me the creeps every time I sign in. These pathetic men have sucked the fun right out of the game, and so have you, for allowing this to continue, despite all the complaints. Shame on WFF for ruining a perfectly good game.

Latest updates. I am definitely not a fan of the latest updates to Words2 on the iPad. It has changed to be about the same screen format as the iPhone version which I avoided due to the awkwardness of using it. Not sure if I’m going to continue using this app as is. I will give it a little time before making a final decision. I don’t really understand the change direction especially since you decided to consolidate to the poorer version. I find it amazing that as you add features and options within the upgrades that the game has become riddled with software bugs. I’m sure you have test engineers before release but either they are not given enough information or are not very good at their jobs. It has begun to be very frustrating reaching goals and not getting credit for them, selecting to watch video to complete a game and the video never loads, making plays and get the message “Something went wrong” and it doesn’t count and changes pages so you can’t even replay it. This is just a small sample of the issues I’m seeing. As a former product test engineer I’d be embarrassed if our customers had to put up with things like this and would have probably lost my job.

A good game gone bad. Words with Friends is a fun game. I’ve had various versions of it since it first came out. It has a fun easy interface to use and is very intuitive. I have a lot of friends that I play with and often have at least half a dozen games going at once. The stats and rankings and records of games is cool too. My biggest complaint and the reason I rate it low is all the gewgaws, side games and challenges. I find them very annoying and distracting. They pop up after every move, telling you you’ve earned coins and challenges and seeds. It’s a pain to even open the app sometimes because you’re hit with them right away. Plus, I can’t prove it but it seems like, if you’re on a streak you start getting really bad letters. I’ve taken multiple screenshots where I’ve had nothing but sets of 2 or 3 vowels. It feels like the are pushing you to use one of the various power ups because that only started happening to me when I got the latest version of the game. Like I said I’ve been playing this game since 2010. If there were a way to turn off all the challenges and events and mystery box crap this app would get a much higher rating from me. As it is now, I only remain because I like to play and its very popular with my friends. It’s like facebook that way.

Love the game but. The update that was a couple of weeks ago changed allowed words to longer allowed. How and why does this happen? I’ve been playing for years, yet a simple word like Di, which was always allowed, is no longer. But words that have no meaning, are allowed. I just don’t get it. Frustrating. I just wish there was a more uniform way of deciding what’s good and not good. Throwing out words that have always been allowed, is just weird. 11/15 update. Have to open app twice to show my games. App will show a number. Open it, only one or two games. Close app, reopen. Same way then after a small delay, it shows my games. Weird update. Stop with the updates without testing properly. 3/6/23. Still a good game. Not getting coins or trophies since the last outage when u watch videos. There’s lots of issues with the app for my teammates. I was banned 3x in 6 wks for no reason. Thankfully been over 3 months and it hasn’t happened again. My teammate has been banned 14x. 3x last week in 4 days. It’s exhausting for her and her teammates. None of my apps have these kinds issues. Seems never like ending. I know you guys are trying but people are ready to walk away. I don’t blame them.

WhaWhaaat?!!. WWF has been a staple game app for me, I’m talkin’ years here. You know, you go through games, download ‘em, play ‘em for a bit, get tired of ‘em then delete it…not WWF; it’s always there for you. Soooo, I finally decided to purchase the Premium Rewards Pass for $9.99. I don’t usually spend money on games (ok, maybe .99 cents here and there, but not $10 bucks), but I thought with as long as I’ve had this game and the great updates they’ve done for me, I could at least upgrade to Premium Rewards Pass….I mean it’s all over the app…”Premium Rewards, Premium Rewards, Activate, Activate, Activate to Premium Rewards”! So I did…..Well…..guess who that joke’s on?! YUP! ME!…. That ‘ol dang Premium Pass of theirs ain’t a one time price…..it’s a “seasonal price”. You gotta by it more than once!! Shame on me for not readin’ into that and thinkin’ it was just a one time upgrade, but shame on WWF for charging that $10 bucks every season or however often y’all do it. $10?! Really?! Are you sure?! Do you know how long it took me to justify in my head spendin’ that $10?! Oh man, I was crushed to the core when I found out that season was over and a new one had started and my $10 meant nothin’ anymore! Just crushed.

Bring Back Simplicity. I have been playing this game for well over 10 years now, and over the past year or so it’s just become increasingly cluttered with “nudges” to play other aspects of the game rather than just simple games with my friends. I understand the need for the company to make money, and the only way to do that is to keep people on the game longer, but the game has so many features now that it severely diminishes load time. I spend more time each day waiting for things to load than I do actually playing the game. If I didn’t have a 12-year streak going with this one person I’d have stopped playing a long time ago when it clearly started to become all about the money. I just don’t see how all of those extras really bring in that much more ad revenue, unless loading time counts as usage time for your stats. If that’s the case, please find a different path to your bottom line that doesn’t compromise user experience. Years ago I would have given 5+ stars for entertainment value and user experience. I’m leaving 3 because of the long-standing history. Please streamline it again soon.

Do NOT DOWNLOAD - Potential Fraud. Many have mentioned the obtrusive ads that break the game. It’s not just tedious, it’s borderline unplayable. But worse than that, when you’re tired of it.. they make it very difficult to delete your account. First, the Delete request opens an email chain of communication with their parent company’s Support team (RED FLAG). Then they make you wait up to 6 days to get a response back, likely from a bot. Then they continue to re-send you the same message to “verify” your request, asking for proof of purchases (I had none) and/or your IP address (another RED FLAG). They’re clearly hoping that you’re either too annoyed to keep playing their back and forth, or overly helpful in giving them more information than they need to simply close the account. For icing on the cake, they repeatedly use verbiage like “Your progress will be permanently removed” to scare you into not proceeding with the account deletion. I’ve been trying to get my account deleted for two weeks - is this honest customer service? The parent company, Ludia, is not mentioned anywhere on the download page. This game is not listed under their profile as a developer, either. Are they trying to hide their management of this game? Just shady, VERY shady behavior.

Frustrated with changes. I’ve been playing this game for many years and have enjoyed doing so. However, changes in the last year or two have made it less fun. The game takes longer to load all the time, and I can’t get into a rhythm because it freezes on me. When I play Rivals, sometimes the other player drops the game, but it says that I lost because there’s no way to escape the game after they ditch me without forfeiting, which amounts to wasted time. The games are taking longer and longer to finish, but that’s not what I need from a game I play in the mornings before work. Now the newest version of Game Night is so difficult, it’s not as fun because the game just keeps giving me all the terrible tiles and the opponents the good ones for multiple rounds, which feels like I’m playing a rigged game. (We all know that we’re playing against AI that’s calling all the shots, but why make it so obvious?) I understand you’re trying to improve the app, but it seems like you’re fixing things that aren’t broken, and it’s making the game into a bummer. I don’t want to delete the app, but I will if this pattern continues. I’ll also give an updated rating later if these wrinkles get ironed out.

The programmers don’t know the English language. It is frustrating enough playing this game because of the way they force their little rewards on you and you have to wait for those to process before you can continue playing. But worse than ever, is that I don’t think that these people are using any valid English dictionary to determine what is a word and what is not. I have an English writing degree and I can tell you that there of been multiple times when a word should have been acceptable and was not. These are words that were acceptable in the game of Scrabble, and I suggest the programmers start using Scrabble’s Dictionary or some other valid dictionary I have a feeling this is the result of programmers who have English as a second language. Very frustrating and I am considering quitting for this reason. Since I wrote the preceding words, the developer contacted me and told me that they use the Oxford English Dictionary and that they except 160,000 words. If they indeed used the Oxford English Dictionary, they would know that it has over 600,000 words in it. And they should also know that people who play word games are generally people who have a larger vocabulary than people who think there are only 160,000 words. Their response proved my point.

Like the game, hate all the other stuff. I like playing this game but so many issues: 1) when getting my daily coins and having to watch the commercials it’ll constantly say “can’t load video” or “can’t give you your coins” something to that effect 2) please just take out the chat feature, all the stupid guys trying to chat with you even when I specifically put “no chat” in my handle or allow a feature where we can mute all chats instead of just certain ones 3) when playing for goals such as “use 12 vowels or consonants” or use the letters in this word “wonderful” or whatever, why doesn’t it show when I do this? I did what I was supposed to and it’ll still show I didn’t use any of the letters in the word or didn’t use any vowels or consonants. 4) there’s way more ads than there used to be and the format of it is annoying, you play the ad and then when it’s done another short 5 second video pops up before you can fully close it, WHYYYY?!?!? I feel like you are doing this crap on purpose. I’ve stopped playing for a while and I can do that again so if you want to lose a player you’re headed in the right direction.

So many bugs. There are so many bugs, so many errors. Constantly stealing tickets from me in quick play events. Kicks me out of almost every quick play game when I’m winning and doesn’t give me my 3 stars, but still takes my tickets. This happens daily. In 2011 I purchased the premium version of the app (ad free etc) and over the past few years or so I guess I was downgraded from premium because my game board doesn’t take up the whole screen; I have to pay for premium rewards passes, I have to watch ads if I want to use the thing that shows how many points you’re going to get for a word (says watch an ad to activate for 2 hours) - also it’s bad enough that we had the 5 tickets for 20 coins change for a couple weeks that was AWESOME, but then they downgraded it back to two tickets for 20 coins and then the store only gives you 1-2 coins a day. Plus keeps kicking me out of the games after I bought the tickets, will go right from 2-0 tickets without even starting the game, yet my Coins don’t get returned. Please give us more of an incentive for the quick play games if we’re going to use 20 coins and please fix all of the errors. I’ve lost a lot of money with this game due to errors not making it worth it.

All-around poorly developed app. 1. These pop ups asking me to “start a game” with some random friend I never talk to seem designed specifically to get me to accidentally start a game with them. There’s this small delay between when the app opens and when the pop up appears that seems timed perfectly to get you to accidentally start a game with someone you don’t want a game with. It’s messed up and leads to awkward games with people that are just facebook friends from back in high school. Attention devs: if I want to start a game with someone I don’t need a pop up to ask me about it. 2. The statistics are clearly messed up. My career average word score bounces around between 32 and 35 with no correlation to how I’m playing. Also many of the head-to-head stats are messed up. The lack of effort here is astounding. 3. Simply no reason to play this game without the average word score leaderboard. It’s the only interesting competitive measure. 4. The pay-to-play advantages are deeply disappointing in a game that already has ads every 10 seconds. 5. The game seems to attempt to protect identities by only including the last initial of players. However, if you get an in-app notification that’s it’s your turn against a player, the notification at the top of the screen shows that player’s full name. This is absurdly poor development.

I Like It For The Most Part.... I’ve been playing this for several years now, though I have removed this app at times because I get a little obsessed (lol). It’s a classic game to have and worth playing, but does not quite feel the same as playing with the board game. I hate when the game is rigged and it’s obvious that I can’t play strong words (like when I keep getting all vowels even with trading in). What’s up with all the “new” words that are now acceptable? I think too many people play with cheat websites and it’s not as fun anymore because every word they play is probably a word they can’t even pronounce. I’m sick of all the ads you have to watch to earn coins (but I refuse to purchase them, so I guess I’m stuck). And finally, I am a married female and it seems like almost every (older) male playing just does so to find someone to flirt with. Come on guys, you can be friendly and not creepy. Just play the game, and play it well. I’m so sick of guys messaging me, trying to make conversation and playing terribly!! I teach my kids not to talk to strangers and not be too open with others players in online gaming. Sheesh.

WWF suggestions. The stickers are for children. I love the game but I get so sick of the juvenile rewards. I couldn’t believe it when I realized that you expected us to use stickers right on the game board as some kind of mark of pride??? Good grief, I’m 64 years old! I will never be coerced into paying even though it puts us who play for free at a disadvantage. We should be able to earn more coins and have more options. Giving a “hindsight” as a reward is also a joke! I just got a new Apple phone and I have been absolutely inundated with ads. It’s been so frustrating that I have literally shut the game down and gone elsewhere at times.I don’t mind looking at ads in order to apply for free but seriously?! Some ads won’t even let you exit out of them! I have to hit the exit a dozen times before I can get out. Also, I hate getting game invites from bots. I want to play against real players. And can you do something about these weird guys who invite you to play and only want to chat… we’re not idiots and we know what these guys are up to. There should be a way we can back out of a game without being the loser.

The game is okay but.... The game is fun to play and keeps me busy but a few things need to be changed. I think that you should give people two minutes to play back in a game. Some people take longer that 2 days to play back and it gets aggravating because if you are playing a game like Scrabble which is similar to Words With Friends you should play as if you are playing it with an actual board right next to you. So if you were playing the game in real life you wouldn’t take longer than 2 days to play. Another thing that needs to change about the game is the fact that you can’t unfriend somebody because sometimes i start games with people i don’t know and think that i’m about to play a good game but if i play with someone i expect them to play back and forth with me, not come back five days later with a 55 point word and also some people always stay number one in the standings without giving anyone else a chance to be #1, not even for a day. By the way, i am specifically talking about: Owensbigrob44 and Annie🎶 Overall, the game is fun and keeps be busy and also teaches me some new words. Great game, but some things need to change.

Beware the Scammers in Chat. Like another reviewer stated, the chat feature is annoying with random people wanting to engage in chat. They ask lots of personal questions. My experiences have revealed that most of the men who initiate chat are scammers. One in particular uses multiple profile names, but the same profile picture. Another one I had the misfortune of trusting, became very hostile and agitated when I finally figured out he was a scammer. He actually said he loved me and wanted me to be the mother of his son. And yet another one wanted me to travel to the UK to meet him. Some red flags to look for is, they have a new account, have only been playing WWF for a short period. They create new aliases and new accounts. They always want to know what you do for a living and they almost always claim to be a widower. Often times too, they have very high scores/standings because they cheat. (There are apps people use to cheat). So I no longer chat with these guys whose profiles seem suspicious to me. But as for the game .... I love playing Words and I have discovered new friends and reconnected with old friends playing Words.

I love this game, but....... Great game, honestly, it's a great game. I love it and definitely think it was worth the upgraded ad free version. However, I have to caution people against ANY of the in-game purchases. My husband and I both have it. Guess what. He can buy power-ups for SUBSTANTIALLY fewer coins than I can buy them for. He can play the Solo games early for SUBSTANTIALLY fewer coins than I can. And when I ask support WHY? All they can say is that they occasionally try to see what works best. Well, there's no "occasionally" about it. His coins have ALWAYS bought more than my coins will buy. So...though this is a terrific game, be aware that they pick and choose which players get more "bang for their buck" as far as coins are concerned. I feel somewhat manipulated, and will NEVER actually purchase any coins. I will slowly accumulate them in the game, and purchase power-ups slower than my husband because the folks who run the games can pick and choose those who have more "buying" power. Though it's a great game, the inequality they manufacture is kinda frustrating. I do need to add, their tech support has always been helpful. That's an important part of these online games, and they do well with that.

Great Game with Cool Things!. This game is so fun because you can play a Scrabble-like game with friends and family. You can friend people, and when you start a game, you don’t like, have to stay on it forever. What I mean is, the other person might be taking a while and you get bored of just sitting and waiting. So, you can go out of the game and do something else while you are waiting. You can even start a different game with another person! So you can be playing TWO or more games at once! Also, while you are in a game, you can chat with your opponent. That can be helpful sometimes. You can also block, mute, or report someone while in chat. Another thing that you can do in a game is search up words in the dictionary that they have. This game also has many fun challenges and other extra things. You’ll figure it out if you get this fun game!So far I have even learned two new words: fete and hoons. This game really can teach you new words and things. I really encourage people to get this fun and awesome Scrabble-like game, and now you can play Scrabble virtually with faraway friends and family!

Uninstalling.... The amount of notifications this app produces is maddening. I don’t need 3-4 notifications a day about some in-game event. I’ve turned off all the notification settings in the game and it’s still happening. I’ve had to go into the global settings/notifications and only left ‘badge app icon’ turned on. This app would turn the screen on for my phone multiple times a day to show me a useless banner notification. I don’t care about your Eggstravaganza event and wouldn’t play it out of spite alone at this point. Not to mention the infuriatingly long tutorial based ad for final fantasy that happens EVERY time you complete a move. This is the only ad I’ve ever gotten. It’s faster to force quite the app and relaunch than work your way through the ad. The notifications even after all of my efforts to restrict them to something manageable are just too much. I’m finishing my current games and uninstalling. Edit: I received a developer response. Pity they couldn’t be bothered to read the third sentence of my review where I already went and turned off all the in game notifications. The problem is those settings didn’t stop the notifications I wanted to have stopped. Sending me a link to an FAQ to do something I already did isn’t helpful.

Sad. I have to login and logout all the time in order to get messages between people that I play with on the game. It tends to freeze a lot. It’s not a very smooth game or well-developed app. It’s getting really annoying to have to login logout login just to get messages because someone is playing on a different device a kindle to be exact. Stop with the fancy upgrades and make it more simple basic I love playing this game and keeping in contact with friends but you can’t message them if they’re on a different device it’s really annoying and I do agree that they won’t respond of this. Come on developers you’re smart people right figure this out dumb down the game make it simple get your graphics better get the color of the game better so you can actually see what you’re doing. How come every time I have to login I have to go through and delete the games I’ve already deleted that’s annoying once I deleted them they should stay off the game it’s annoying fix it I know you told me in the past it’s all on your servers will get it figured out so I don’t have to keep going through a whole process just to play one game. Now I can’t login it won’t connect to the server one thing after the other this for real I just want to play words with friends with my friends

New version limits extras. While there are some good things about the new version of the game, I’ve noticed after a couple weeks of using it that it’s much harder to get coins, which can then be used to use additional features like hindsight, etc. In the old version of the game the daily bonus was 15 coins, which allowed for at least one “extra” feature to be purchased. The new daily gift is usually only 2 coins—not even enough to buy one hindsight. So since this new version has been released I’ve noticed I have way fewer opportunities to use the extra features like hindsight, which I miss. While I do play this game pretty much daily, I often don’t play enough in a week to complete the challenge, which provides 100 coin bonus. Also, the new solo challenge is fun, but once you complete the challenge you can no longer play until the next solo challenge is released, which I hope is changed. Why not let the player rematch with the computer challengers even after they’ve beaten them once? But in general the game is really fun and I’m glad the developers are working to improve it all the time.

Game stops. In the middle of critical TIMED games my game stops! Duels and the other one. I quit the old team game because it happened there and also this ridiculous, stupid dating game started every time I tried to play that “team wins at 750 points”. Makes me very sad that people use this game to find a way to chat behind their significant other’s back. In most cases that is what I believe it to be. Happily married people do not like this constant interference. Get off and go to a dating site or something but leave that harassment out of the games. In a NO CHAT club but shouldn’t be forced to start a CLUB to stop the nonsense. I will not reply to a chat unless I personally know someone. So many games dropped on me when I wouldn’t return a chat. Annoying as all get out. Wasting my game time. Also… the game sometimes has a big blank space above it and stops working because it hides the rest of the board and the keyboard won’t come up! It freezes sometimes and MAKES me resign, thus losing the game for me! A lot of quirks but somehow I still love the game.

Great game! Horrible ads!!!!!!!. The game is great. But there should be an option to pay for ad free. The old version had this. We loved that version and resisted moving to the new game for that very reason. Had I not been forced to upgrade to a newer phone that will not run the old version, I would still be very happy with that one. However, since being forced to use the newer version, I have found it to be an enjoyable improvement. I love the sounds and some of the options like hindsight, but they are not worth the insufferable, loud apps that auto play after the game sometimes. I don’t even mind the ads that promote other possible games I might like. But the video ads are the worst thing. I can’t mute my phone quickly enough, and the is no mute option. It is annoying enough that I will just quit playing at all during the hours that those ads show up. Plus, some of them have a “skip” option that just doesn’t work. I guess if you make the skip button small enough it gets folks to accidentally click through to whatever that is it keeps taking me to and they somehow profit from errant clicks even though I immediately dismiss that other page and go right back to the game. A good move would be to offer the “pay to play ad free” option, or at the very least eliminate the video ads.

So many ads!. I’ve been playing for over a decade—wow. I actually took a break for a year but my aunt said she missed me so I just came back. I think the game is just fine but the ads are a bit ridiculous for the amount you play. I mean do I really need an ad for every move and are the ads even looked at before posting because some are just dumb? Some ads don’t even match the game, some don’t work and you can’t find to “x” it out and some you have to wait 15-20 seconds to just play a move. It just makes you not want to play another game. There are other apps that have figured it out, even if you aren’t paying for the ad-free perk. I also agree with another person regarding single men and the chat feature. This is a game, not a dating app. Literally one calling me rude for not talking to him. Also, maybe it’s because I was around for the original but I think the game has become a bit too “busy”. I don’t need stickers to send when I send a move, we don’t need all the different tiles and all these extra games. Just keep it simple!

Lucky me. I enjoy playing the game. My friend drop me because ,I wanted to use the new features. She wanted to play the original way. She felt the new features were cheating. I learn a lot since I started. I like the new features. I love word strength. It make me look hard for a better word. I feel a lot of people I play with do not use it. Then there are people who do use the free swap. I like the free swap with points. It blows my mind that they do not use it. To each their own to play the way that makes them happy. Yes, I do not like to play with men. They like to chat with u and get to know ur life story. One guy , I was play game just drop out on me because , I would not chat with him. Too bad for him. There has to be away that these guys understand not to hit on us girls. I hate be hit on. I know all men not like that but, these guys make bad for other men who just want to play with some one. I play the game to keep my mind working and remembering. It teacher me to spell better. I learn to now look to place my word on the color space that triples or doubles my letter or words.

Words with Ads 2. The only thing in this game more obnoxious than the ads is the obscene cost to remove them. I’m not above throwing a little money at an app to get rid of ads but a $10 MONTHLY charge to play a game without constant (and I do mean CONSTANT) interruption? Absolutely pass. You won’t see any money from me on principle. The game itself is quite fun but the frequency (after ever turn played.. so approx. every MINUTE) and duration (frequently skippable after 5-10 seconds but occasionally leaving you locked in for anywhere from 30 seconds to a minute) of the ads is honestly ridiculous. On top of the pop up, un-ignorable ads there are constant ads running above and below your gameboard. These, again, are relatively easy to ignore but they can be distracting and otherwise are just visually obnoxious. If I’m already going to be bombarded with ads why must there also be nonsense constantly onscreen? Is there no end to my suffering? I’ll probably play this game for another week or so before I delete it out of sheer frustration. Just give me a single, reasonable charge to remove ads like all of the other mobile games I’ve actually spent on and continued to play. This is silly. You look silly. Peace and love <3

Women Beware!!. Love this game been playing 9 years. In the past year there have been a buttload of foreign men starting games with me then ask to know me “more better” how’s my husband & kids? Where am I playing from? What do I do for a living? How old am I? Etc. I accept game & will answer not trying to be rude to anyone but answer in short half truths hoping they get the hint I don’t want to talk to them & I’m a single lesbian not looking for a man. Obvious by the way they talk they are not from USA but say they are or if called out they say born not in USA but currently live in USA but are working overseas and their wife usually died in car accident or cancer or they are divorced and always have at least 1 kid. I am honest with them I’m lesbian & not looking for a relationship of any kind but then they ask if I have hangouts so I made up an account with email just for that app. Once on hangouts some have said how much they love me & looking for a mom for their kid or ask for money, iTunes or google play cards or ask for my phone provider account so they can “pay with their own money” to get a phone. All I can say is WOW this is ridiculous! I report them on WWF as soon as they ask if I have hangouts.

Used To Be A Great Game. I have been playing WWF for almost 10 years. I purchased the “no ad” version almost immediately. I have really enjoyed playing the game and can spend hours at a time. There have been a few glitches and issues over the years. However, during the last year or so, the glitches have increased. As others have mentioned, it’s difficult to move from place to place within the game without things freezing up. My favorite game is the head to head fast play where each player gets 40 seconds. As noted by others, the game often freezes up and you can’t get out of it less you resign and lose your points. Another annoying thing is the constant pop up banners telling you to use your power play to find out where you can play words and wanting you to use stickers. This is very distracting and makes it hard to concentrate. And finally, the most annoying pop up which has just recently begun is a request for you to allow ads so that the game “can remain free for all”. Sorry folks, I PAID for the no ad version. Why would I willingly allow ads!? I can also see wokeness entering into this game. So, today I’ve had enough. I have deleted the app. It’s no longer worth the aggravation. You ruined a good thing.

Fun game but way too many technical glitches!. For the most part this is a fun game to play with your friends to pass he time, take a break, waiting at the doctors office but the adds are horrific; waiting 30-60 on between each move while playing an add is ridiculous; some just stop so you have to get out of the app and back in. If you did opt in the one ONLY time the no adds was offered with original app for 1.99 you are SOL. It should have offered with the real ease of WW2. WW2, although in Beta mode needs to stay there for a while as it still freezes when the host is talking (which by the way they do way toooooo much) and at times you have missed the question all together... so guess what? You’re done. I just do it for fun... not 2.20! People make comments on iG and FB all the time which go unanswered. Example.... 7 Feb 2019 “down for maintenance.” It has yet to be posted on IG but on FB ppl wanna an approximate time for the outage. Common courtesy you give your users an estimated time; even if you over estimate. I gave 3 stars because I don’t have a lot of problems other ppl have. And the weekly goals are INSANE. I just think you can do a better job communicating with your users. The only communication I’ve seen is for positive feedback. Thanks

Bloatware. I LOVED Words With Friends! I’ve been playing back-to-back games against the same friend on it since 2023. It’s Scrabble. It has never needed to be glammed up as something else. People of all ages continue to play and love the base game of Scrabble. Sure, having new AI opponents/challenges and various tile styles available add a nice little component to those who need a bit more excitement, but somewhere from 2013 to now this app has just become atrocious bloatware. It’s non-stop, full-screen ads and in-game purchase bait. The last couple years have had endless glitches with each new “update” and clearly the updates are focused on baiting more players to shovel over their money then fixing basic issues with the app. Sorry, “Wordsmith Wanda”. I’m not interested in playing some challenge against you even though you just sit there on my main page and send me endless notifications and badge app icons telling me you want to play and I just have to take it each time I open your app. Please rethink what you’re doing with this app and cut through a lot of this GARBAGE. All I see now are big, shiny graphics bouncing all over the screen to bait the younger kids to buy crap while they play this app as a distraction. This app is dead to me.

Even more annoying than ever. This game is so annoying. The only reason I keep playing is due to peer pressure from two long-time opponent/friends. As soon as they tire of the game, I’m deleting the app. The constant barrage of irritating ads, trying to entice me to pay money to cheat and buy ugly add-ones is almost unbearable. The app has other stupid annoyances, like notifications that don’t work properly on my Apple devices, and automatic games that I don’t want to play with bots but can’t get rid of (so I just ignore). Truly insulting experience for anyone with any sense of design and taste. Previously reviewed: This game is so visually unappealing and cluttered that I can’t stand it. They keep adding stupid bells and whistles to what should be a simple game. The list of active games includes automatic games that I don’t want to play, but each time I resign one, a new one starts. The various types of cheating (i.e. powerups) renders any skill almost useless. To top it off, the constant begging to allow them to track me is annoying. The only reason I continue to play is the banter that I’ve got going with a couple of friends. As soon as they get fed up and quit playing, I’ll delete the app.

Wordy review. I really like this game. 5+ stars for sure and more like 10 stars. The continual improvements are great and positive and have never have gone into the negative. The new game wwf's.2 has got a lot of visual improvements and I like the "new" sounds. Personally I don't like how the game repeats by showing me what the other games are or new things etc. My suggestion for that would be to put all that on the settings page. Then a person can go there to discover what's new or how many badges they have etc. rather than all that interfacing when one first starts the app. but that's just a suggestion coming from me. Other players may be totally fine with the way it is which is still pretty awesome. I couldn't at this point ever give this app/game a negative review. It's just too well designed and plays well. Thank you for the many hours of pleasure and like another reviewer said, this game really helps to learn words. I have sent in a few word suggestions that didn't get added. Not sure why but I thought I'd bring that to the developers attention. Once again, thank you very much for an outstanding app.

About to quit after years. Been playing for years but I’m just about to quit altogether. I understand the need for ads - I don’t expect free entertainment - but when they’re that long, frequent, and glitchy the time investment is too costly for the amount of actual fun. The most recent changes to Solo Challenge (previously my favorite feature) are the last straw for me. Now I can’t just watch one ad to proceed on most of them but TWO? Come on. I used to enjoy seeing if I could get all the stars and badges but the number of long ads I’d have to sit through now is overwhelming so I’m not even trying anymore. Genuinely tempted to delete the app. Developers, if you want to talk about “improving” the game, go back to a more reasonable, less complicated Solo Challenge. I have yet to see anyone online who prefers it this way, just people complaining. There is such a thing as being too greedy - you’re already getting less ad revenue from me by trying to squeeze even more out, and it’s about to go to zero. I guess I’ll keep the app installed for a little longer but I’m not going to play anymore until it’s genuinely improved by doing something about this complicated mess.

Only fix what is broken. Likes: I really enjoy the game and concept. I like that there are more rewards earned, but find them to be traded at a premium - I realize you want to make a profit, but you could definitely humor frequent players with a better value. Issues: My issues are with the screen design; namely the letter tray at the base of the screen often causes the screen of my iPad to go up with the swiping motion made from moving tiles to the board from the base of the screen. Despite trying not to, it happens repeatedly. The tray is nice at the bottom, but doesn’t work well with Apple’s swiping feature. Secondly, depending on whether you press on the face of the friend or on the line where the game information is recorded, determines whether you start a new game or continue play in the current game. This game option/feature is not ideally executed. I am indifferent to the visual effects of the new game design. Most people aren’t fired up about change, so gamers are skeptical when developers attempt to fix and improve on something not broken. It is generally considered a fail if after adjusting to the updated game or new version, players prefer the prior one. Moral of the story: only fix what is broken. 😊

Love playing it, but not looking at it. I do very much enjoy the game. Not only is it a fun way to learn, keep your mind active and challenge yourself, it also helps you stay in touch with friends and family. I may go a week or two not communicating with others if left to initiate conversations on my own. But, I definitely don’t skip taking my turn every day and sending off a quick message using the in game chat feature. Thank you for providing that option. Personal preference, but I do not like the new version, WWF2. The colors, graphics, etc., feel more like a kids game than a game for intelligent adults. I don’t give a rip about some strangers high score or what the popular words are. Put these somewhere else if you must have them. I prefer that space to be used for in game stats like words played and definitions. These two areas should take up the entire column. If you feel you must keep other stats then make them relevant to me. Show high scores for my friends so I can congratulate them, or track the highest scoring word for the current game rather than saving it until the end.

I have a suggestion!🌟🌟💫. If this suggestion is bad, please don’t give me hate. Anyway, I had a dream a few nights ago, where on Words With Friends, you could create a game, and there would be a chance of you getting a board with a special spot on the board to put a letter on. On that spot you can only put an N. Now, you can put other letters on it, but it wouldn’t count for the bonus. Right under that special N spot is a regular spot, and then under that spot is another spacial N spot. To get the full bonus, you put another N on the second N spot. Now, this seems hard. What would the special bonus be? Is it worth it? The special bonus is: each N spot counts for 1 quadruple word score. You only get the score if there is an N in that spot. If an N is on both spots, your word is x8. And that’s not all, once you play the word you will get free 5 Swap+’s. I will let Words With Friends choose where they want to put these spots, if this is a good idea. P.S. Sorry if my review name is 5 stars for Word Cookies, I used it for another review and it won’t let me change it.

New update is lame. I have been a WWF fanatic for several years. I loved the game. When the WWF2 app came out, I downloaded it and hated everything about it. The it looks like the Scrabble app (which I have never liked). The coins option is stupid, there is nothing worthwhile to purchase with them. I deleted it within a day or two, but the old app kept trying to force the new app on me! I opened my game this week only to find that it has been changed into WWF2. I hate it. It pushes playing one on one with the game, it’s play back is ridiculous, not even slightly a challenge. It forced the one on one on me so many times, I played it in the hopes that it will stop forcing it on me. The new graphics are confusing, too much garbage on the screen. I just want to play scrabble with my friends. I don’t need flashy garbage. I can’t find my games half the time. When I won a game, I chose the option to play them again at the end of the game. I started the new challenge, and it tried to force me to start another one again with the same person. Not sure how much longer I will be playing this app anymore. You’ve ruined it. No longer about challenging your mind and your friends and now is all about flashy graphics, stupid ads, and worthless coins that buy you nothing of value. Epic failure on Zynga. Give us back the OG WWF!!!!

Acceptable words. I have been playing this game for a few years. And I love it and spend hours per day playing. However, your rules are no proper pronouns, no abbreviations, no acronyms, but then you do accept all three. Plus you accept some abbreviations but not all - like the states of the Union. Also, you use a commonly used phrase, turn it into an acronym and accept these out of nowhere acceptable words. As for words of foreign origin, many times you use Far East words or Scottish words the way they are pronounced by the Scots but not how they are actually spelled in the dictionary. The one that really got me was you acceptable the first syllable of a commonly used word (not the full word). It really doesn’t seem fair that you make up possible options with absolute no consistency. I have considered not playing anymore but I love this game. It just seems like we are forced to play against the people who are your programmers. And with different rules. Now you won’t accept my nick name to submit the above comments.

Complaint/Review. I loved WWF2 prior to the most recent changes. It appears the personal part of it is being removed. I enjoyed competing against my friends I’ve been playing with and now the competition level isn’t there....what fun is it with numbers against people you don’t even know. The sport for me is gone. Also, I cannot find people I played with before without searching and searching. It is becoming as if, making it better is making it worse. Also, to play a game pretty much daily throughout the day/night and get a few tokens that don’t even allow you to have a free turn is ridiculously cheap to me and not worthy of the effort put forth. Make it worth while. I’ve been playing Scrabble for a short period of time and the rewards make it a lot of fun and makes you want to play more for those rewards. Also, for people to start a game with you just to “chat” and when you don’t or not the way they want you have to have them drag your numbers down and hold that game hostage until it expires almost two weeks later is a bit long and ahold be addressed to allow the person that declines not be punished by “losing” that game.

Requesting a Change. I sent this in before and an update ( not sure which one) ended up stopping the zoom feature. It’s been awhile now enjoying no auto “zoom in” feature but it is baaaaak! 😩. This time, however, it is when you are playing a normal game!!! Seems that a recent update activated it again and now every time you put a tile toward the edge of the board, it auto zooms in…..annoying, annoying, annoying!!!!! I have been playing since 2010…probably when this game first came out….love the game but can’t stand this feature. Please change it back to NO auto zoom. Let the player make the choice to zoom in!!!!! —————-below is my previous old post—————— Love the game and enjoy additional quick games that allow you to continue enjoying it while waiting for someone to play. That said, I really dislike how the quick lightening games zoom in, when you play tiles, making it difficult to see entire board. Please consider stopping that, as it is very annoying.

Game is screwed up on my ipad. Every time I go to play on my ipad, the game is not formatted correctly. I go to hit the drop down for rewards and it drops and goes right back up, so I can’t click anything in it. So I uninstall, then reinstall and it works. Next time I go to play, in the same day, it’s not formatted correctly again! I have to uninstall/reinstall like EVERY TIME I PLAY! My iPad is current and up to date. I am connected to wifi. I try to send them a note to explain, even have screen shots of the weirdness, but in the messaging part in the help section, it WONT LET ME ATTACH MY PICS! Then they make all these suggestions which I have done already, and ask me to send pics, and I literally just told them it won’t let me. I do, in fact, know how to attach pics, and when I say it won’t let me, it won’t let me! I’m not an idiot! (Well, maybe I am, because I keep playing and it’s so friggin frustrating!). Works fine on my iphone, but not iPad. ALSO, I never get the “pop-up” events on my iPad. They are only available on iphone. Same with the new purple coins where if you click it, it suggests where to play and highlights the letters to use to make the word. Those NEVER SHOW UP ON MY IPAD, but are there and available to use on my iphone. WHAT THE FRICK IS GOING ON? BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO TO WWF2

the ads kill all my joy. i LOVE this game ok? like i play this game more than anything else. i love word games and i love scrabble and i play this game with my entire family. my and boyfriend lay awake at night playing together or discussing words. its helped me and my dad reconnect more on the daily. i *love* this game. but the ads... every single game ends with an ad. i cant even keep up with the challenges anymore because the ads are every few minutes. every word i play gets an ad immediately after. i watch more ads than actual play time. i was so excited today to finally buy the ad free (which for $9.99 is insanely expensive to me) because i got paid... and then realized it only lasts 30 days.... it just, isnt worth it. i havent been so sad in so long. i finally found a game i love, that im good at, and that i can play with people i care about and its being ruined by the countless ads i have to watch every single time i just want to relax and play. oh and one more thing. i love the solo challenges but they use fake words a LOT. its also almost impossible to win past medium because its all based on getting lucky enough to get good letters while the bot will always have the best 30+ word. its really frustrating.

What happened to this app?. I’ve been playing this app for over 7 years. It was great till they added “goals” and “rewards”. That’s when the game started having problems. Freezing, unresponsive, won’t load, etc. If can get to play, it freezes after each different game. Just now, I played a word, hit “next” to go to the next game/friend, and the game froze. I tapped on the screen for a few seconds and then got annoyed & hit my home button to close it out. INSTEAD, I was charged for a premium pass ($9.99 plus tax). I guess the “purchase screen” was up and when I hit the home button it took my fingerprint as agreeing to the purchase. Now I’ll have to request a refund. Pain in the neck. I’ve tried to open the game 5-6 times since, every time I get either a frozen white screen or a frozen black screen with the WWF tile just spinning & spinning. At one point I was playing 40+ separate games at least twice a day; now I have about 15 games going but can’t play more than once a day and not all 15 games. I don’t have the patience to constantly restart the game over & over. What a shame.

Why so buggy???. This game used to be relaxing and fun to take my mind off things for awhile and then they kept tinkering and tinkering and tinkering with it - adding “levels” and “lightning play” all of which would be great if not so infuriatingly buggy. I would go on with the dozens of ways that bugs make it unplayable but these are already on dozens of forums and Facebook. As someone in IT who develops apps (yup it’s true) I can’t understand how these developers ignore the bugs. The one which finally prompted me to write this review instead of deleting the app for a week or so which is what I normally do is the levels bug that they claim is not a bug. This is one in which myself and some other very good players I know are stuck at lower levels than some very, frankly, stupid friends. You know the ones, the ones who always leave open triple word scores, never take advantage of high point letters to make high scores, whose idea of a good word is something like “broom”. How they suddenly woke up one day and got to level 20 and up while we who are killing it all the time are at levels 10-12 is mind numbing. My 75 year old grandma got to level 20 and said she has no idea what that means. Grrrrr. Anyway, done ranting. I’ll give two stars since i obviously still play for now.

Advertisement’s Galore!. I’m trying to figure out what ‘smoother gameplay’ is referring to ?¿ .. Because there’s absolutely nothing ‘smooth’ about having to watch yet another video play, and having to exit out of whatever form of advertisement that pops up after EVERY SINGLE WORD that I play. Nor is there anything ‘smooth’ about having certain ads that play with no way of getting out of them aside from quitting the app and restarting it. Truthfully, it takes so much away from what would be a great game. In that same regard, There should not be a single Ad that has the ability to link to, && open a completely different app on my device by itself, especially when I’ve not even clicked on the Ad in order for it to do so. Certainly, the “need” for advertising is understandable, to some extent. Albeit, this is and has been..unnecessarily excessive. (… and I seriously cannot emphasize the word excessive, enough). It’s really too bad; because, If it weren’t for the ads being so gosh-darned problematic (…by hindering what otherwise could potentially be what one might call- ‘smooth gameplay’ …) than this could easily be rated a five star game.

Fun game but.... Fun game but... improvements can be made. The game is engaging and does connect you with friends and family but there are things that bother me. Coins, etc awarded are lacking. If I spend my time on this game (on the daily word, for example, which takes a while), I should be given more than just a few meager coins. Even the word search puzzles reward you 10 coins for 12 games. Why not at least 12? Ads are constant and overwhelming. They interrupt the flow of games and waste time. There are way too many. Time is wasted in other ways. The wait in between forming words in Duals, for example, is tedious and at times costs me the game as my opponent wins while the game is stalled. Ridiculous! Time is also depleted when we are told every little coin we have won, whether it be one or two or 10. Less updates with more info would save time, battery power and interrupt us less often. Perhaps a reward section could be used so we could check. Battery power is drained too quickly when using the app and all the ads and slowdowns already mentioned contribute to that. I hope to keep playing but wish for improvements. I do enjoy the games here but the annoyances can greatly detract from them.