Words With Friends Classic Game Reviews

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I’ll no longer be playing this game.. When I got my new iPad I down loaded the new version because I couldn’t transfer the older one. It gave me no access to my old games and after multiple attempts get help to figure out how to do so without any response, I gave up and went back to my old iPad. Today an alert popped up stating that I can no longer continue playing without upgrading to a new edition. I’ve been playing this game for several years and I’m frustrated that I have no opportunity to contact people with whom our games have been abandoned. Furthermore, as others have noted, the newer versions have constant interruptions with meaningless bonus, awards etc. I love the game and the vehicle it’s been for staying connected with older family and friends....those most socially isolated. It’s time to look for other, more reliable options. Another example of the issues with the software: It asks for a nickname, I’ve been trying to give mine which I’ve had for years. It won’t accept it because it’s “already Taken”. Of course it is, it’s mine. Now I need to come up with a new one to post this😬

All the enhancements stink!. I have played words with friends for years. They have added a bunch of stuff that I don’t care a toot about. I can’t tell you the number of times I’ve accidentally hit “play word” when I didn’t want to play the word. They used to have a failsafe “do you want to play that word”? They don’t have that anymore. They keep pushing me into other games. It used to be that when you saw “next game” and tapped it, you’d go to another game you were playing. Now it doesn’t mean you have another game to play, it can mean that they’ve paired you up with a stranger or a computer and it starts a game that you have to resign to get it off your screen. They have added badges or some sort of perk that you have to watch for no reason because you played some specific letters—like you play letters for them? I play letters for points and to win the game. Not because they want me to play all the letters in “tulip” or some other word they choose. I have been thinking about quitting altogether because of gobs of stuff I don’t want.

“Ad Free Bundle” my foot. tl;dr — Aesthetically pleasing gameplay, and the app performs smoothly. Minus 3 stars for shoddy ad removal via a half-baked “subscription” & no other options. — The game is fine — I appreciate that this version of WWF (why, WHY are there 3 nearly identical versions on offer?) sports, to my eyes, the most streamlined UI of all the popular social crossword games (Scopely’s new take on Scrabble should take copious notes). The app behaves as expected, which is a good baseline for any mobile game/application in 2020. BUT: who do you think you’re kidding offering a $9.99 USD “ad free bundle” which only removes the ads for 30 days? Just offer a subscription model like literally EVERY other app has shifted towards in the past year. Call it what it is. Because I’m old enough to remember when customers could choose to endure the ads for a free mobile game (and that’s still a fair trade-off), or we could pay a few dollars *once* simply to remove the ads from our experience. Why has that option fallen out of favor? You want players to throw you $10 a month? Fine, offer a subscription & bundle up the ad removal & a replenishing stock of boosters/power-ups/in-game currency. The players who want that will pay for it. For the rest of us who just want to get the ads out of the way, give us the option to throw you $5-7 USD & be done with it.

Timed out when I should have still had time to make a move. If the game is going to send a notification saying you have one day to make a move... you should have a full day from the time of the notification to make a move. Apparently less than 22 hours is a day according to this app. I was in the middle of spelling a word with at least two hours left before forfeit according to the time I had received the notification at. In the middle of moving tiles around, my game suddenly ended, saying timed out. Maybe they should tell you how many hours you have left before forfeiting instead of saying you have one day, when you really don’t... this game was getting pretty lame anyways when people can swap letters without losing a turn, and you end up with like 4 “i’s”, 2”u’s” and one consonant on almost ever turn it was starting seem.

Never have problems. For the most part I never have any technical issues with this game! I enjoy it and play everyday. I do wish there was a way to get a full premium version with no ads. I generally would never pay for something to get rid of ads but I would for this game because I play it so much and get annoyed that a ad or video ad takes over entire screen after EVERY move! I think it is too much! Also include some of the word meters and other game helpers and I would pay. One thing that will forever bother me is scoring less for long words than many two letter words on a TW DW TL etc. it is not easy to create long words that fit somewhere in this game but to only get 8 or 9 points is so stupid IMO. Overall love the game! Updated Sunday November 5th. Got a new iPhone 8+ upgrade went to re-download I see a words with friends classic and words with friends I download them both looking for the hindsight and the swap and I don’t see them on either game I’m wondering where everything went and what’s going on don’t ruin this game for us!!!!!

Love the game, filled with spam players. I have had this app on and off since 2012 and never when I played in previous years did I experience what I have since I downloaded it a few days ago. Many players start a game and typically are not high scorers, they begin to chat innocently enough such as thanking me for playing. I am okay with this or a great word or great game. These profiles have been men and want to know if I have children, where I am located, and if I have a significant other. When I state I am not interested in discussing my personal life and am only here to play the game two have them asked for my Gmail account as if I didn’t say I wasn’t interested in any discussion. These are huge red flags to me for hacking or possible information for something dangerous. I would feel more secure and better if the chat option was more used with pre-populated phrases for encouragement. This is not a dating site and I am uncomfortable being quizzed regarding me, my children, and my location. Be safe on here for sure!

Daily word game a joke. Used to be you could play the daily word and try and score 201 points in 4 words or watch a video and get 4 more tries. Now, the daily word game is 1120 points. For 2 days you had as many tries as it took. Now, they changed something again and you only get 4 tries to make 1120 points. How jacked is that? You can watch a video (when they are working and not just spinning and spinning waiting for something to pop up and get another 4 tries. I didn’t bother after I saw how many dam videos I’d have to watch to get to 1120 points. There is always something messed up on this app. I’ve been playing this game since 2011. I love this game except for the trolls thinking it’s a match site. Seems like every time they add some new game or prize, something else gets jacked. It has NEVER worked right on any one day. Please fix ur issues. It’s a fun game which I enjoy playing everyday. And, when you add or change something, test it out before it goes on line. 🙄🙄🙄🙄. Twice now my reward for level 6 and 8 showed 400 coins. I got zero. NOTHING FOR A REWARD.

They still refuse to fix it. In addition to the increasingly time-consuming pointless “challenges” that I never accepted, I don’t care about, and that don’t seem to mean anything, the developers still haven’t fixed some things that they broke a over a year ago in one of their stupid updates when they added more clutter and junk. One of the more annoying ones is that the red indicator on the app icon of how many games are awaiting your move no longer updates in a timely manner. So maybe there are games waiting for you but you don’t know because there’s no indicator. Or maybe it says there’ s 10 games waiting, but when you open the game there aren’t any, and only then the indicator updates. Real useful. Another thing they broke at the same time is the Next Game arrow. For any given game you have going, it randomly might be available, or you might have to go back to the list of I played games to choose the next one. When they broke these features that used to work properly, I thought, “oh well, they’ll get around to fixing them eventually.” But, apparently it’s more important to use developer resources to add to the never ending senseless peripheral challenge stuff that only gets in the way, slows the game down, and annoys us. Much more important for some reason. Oh, and this stuff goes for all versions, “Classic,” WWF 2” etc., which all basically seem to be the same. I don’t know why they insist on multiple versions when there’s really only one game.

Annoying things about WWF. UPDATE: deleted. An ad after every play now. I mostly play practice games against the computer. Suddenly, since the last bug fix, my practice games keep freezing with the message "oops, something went wrong" and i am unable to release that game by quitting it. After three such "stuck" games it says i have hit my limit of practice games. Please fix this. Also, i agree with the other player who said they hate all this extra junk of achieving levels and accomplishments and not being able to opt out. Please go back to the way it used to be when we could just play a game unmolested by all that unnecessary nonsense. Please get your rules for valid words in order. For example, sometimes abbreviations are valid, sometimes they are not. This is probably why "real" scrabble doesn't allow any, because they are too numerous. And it’s not just abbreviations that are problematic. You need a better dictionary. And finally, get your search functionality aligned with your valid word list. I've had two frustrating experiences. First, i put a word in search and it came back with a definition yet when i tried to play it the games told me it was invalid. Second, when "practice" played a word i didn't recognize (and no definition was displayed) i put it into the search only to be told the word was invalid. Cheat much?

Cluttered with junk. I was forced into words with friends 2 several years ago by the apps constant hounding, and it gradually became overloaded with junk games within games And it slowed to a crawl as they take a minute to congratulate you for each spurious word completed, or other task completed that has nothing to do with the game. So when it was accidentally deleted, and I found I could revert to classic words with friends, I was somewhat hopeful. However I now find the classic words with friends is only marginally less cluttered with junk, and almost equally slow. Not only that. it now has a new feature. Every now and then they force you to start a game with a cartoon character. Apparently they’ve forgotten that the name of the game is words with friends and not words with artificial intelligence. I’ve managed to keep going despite all the handicaps because I do value my few long term series with some of my friends, but I honestly believe that the management of the app is now in the hands of people who don’t understand it. I gave it a one only because apparently you can’t give it a minus 1.

Switcheroo. Years ago I paid for the ad free/contest free version of wwf because all I want to do is play the game. You added these so called ‘enhancements’ without asking for my permission. I am so sick of playing a word and then having to wait for all the stupid ‘congratulations, you’ve made the word of the day’ or ‘your new word of the day is...’, which actually turns out to be the word of the hour when I play multiple games a day. I want you to remove all the extraneous junk from my games please. What I paid for is the game, not all the dumb congrats boxes and awards. From reading other reviews, I am one of probably thousands of others who are not happy with your so-called improvements. It seems to me that either you remove the ads and silly boxes of awards, congrats, and other things we didn’t pay for or we are all owed our money back. Of the 2 choices, I prefer you remove the junk so that I can play wwf without interruption. I’m giving the game itself 4 stars because by itself, it’s almost a perfect game. Thank you.

Waste of $ & time. Im not sure what the algorithm is supposed to be, but on a consistent regular basis I get the same sets of letters, and Ive tried the “swap” out feature which ironically, most of the time gives me the exact same letters back again, or repeats the trended problem of giving me 3 or 4 copies of one letter. Now Im having more issues with glitches where I will try to swap but instead get an error, I get charged nontheless, plus I wont get any of my letters swapped even after “refreshing” the game like it suggests, I went from having a substantial amount of in game currency (which I paid for with real $) only to then find out there is literally no support or contact page for this sick twisted money scheme of a game. I will try to at least get what I paid for back and maybe finish using it but from the awful algorithm to even just terrible matches with “similar skilled” opponents who either are way below me in skill level or way over the top better, there is just a dozen too many things I find frustrating & infuriating the more I played.

Disappointed. I was loving this game WwF Classic until a week ago. For some reason my “Mini Games Leader Board” was removed. It will let me play the games; however, my scores never get recorded. It’s not fair! They were being recorded up until a week ago, but not anymore! I sent a HELP request to the company. They told me to force close the game; check to see if there are any new updates, and if that doesn’t work to unload and download the game; but they didn't really recommend it because there is a possibility I could lose my data, my scores, etc… so now what? I’ve done all of their suggestions, EXCEPT, unloading and downloading the game because I don’t want to lose my data! I am so Disappointed because I don’t get to have my scores recorded for winning my mini games! Why can’t they just put it back, and open it back up in my game??

Keeping the mind sharp. This is such a great competitive way to interact with friends and family, and at the same time keep your mind sharp. Words is educational and also a great distraction from the stress of the day. It is user friendly and so much fun. What is nice is that the game is not a cheat or a computer setup unless you use the extraneous tools available and your opponent does not know that are doing that which I think is a very very unsportsmanlike maneuver and you a cheating because it is not a win using your own skills. There should be no pass and getting new tiles without the loss of your turn. I also don’t like all the interruptions inserting the awards constantly. I just want a straight play without all the whistles and bells. Otherwise I love the site.

Added ‘play features’ ruining game. I have really enjoyed playing the (paid version) classic words with friends for years. However, you have added a bunch of extraneous junk to it, slowing the games down with pop up garbage, magic boxes or what ever all those treasure chest things are....it’s all very annoying! It all slows the play of the game. If those added ‘play’ features were on the game previously, I would not have bought it. I have written to you via email asking how i can remove them. I never received a response. Please get rid of all that extra stuff...it’s ruining your otherwise great game, at the very least, allow users to opt out of them! UPDATE: nothing has changed. Developers don’t care about the feedback. They even added more junk to it. I have been playing this game since 2011. I am no longer going to play. It’s still slow & jammed with play features I can’t get rid of. Not what I purchased. Junk game. If you are looking for a good word game, similar to scrabble...keep looking.

Played since 2011. Sadly the developers have ruined this game. Every time you take a turn now you have to watch some bull crap ads and some of those will not clear until they open a web page or the App Store. When I first started playing I bought the ad free version. That apparently is no longer a thing. I like playing on my skill and do not use the “advantages” because what’s the point if your not being honest? I’ve been playing without any of that and the main thing I cannot take is the adds that constantly after every turn make you wait to play and sometimes won’t clear till you close the app and reopen it. If that’s not enough the header at the top of the game constantly pelts you with adds as well. I hate that I cannot play this game honestly and know that others are as well. I expect my opponents are using the advantages but I mostly win unless they are using one of the cheats other than the ones tied into the game. Obviously the developers are money hungry and seems that’s all they care about cause you can spend money to get the advantages and all that. It would be great if they got rid of all that crap and made a straight up game no strings attached, play by your skill not your cheats. Sorry for the rant but there are plenty others like me I know that just enjoy playing without being bombarded with ads and opponents that may or may not be cheating. Guess I go back to my wordjong and scrabble, too many frustrations with what this game has become.

Ads, scammers, and so much going on!. Why is it that the developers have only addressed bug fixes and technical issues that other reviews have mentioned... but have not addressed the issue with the creepy men/scammers that start a game with you, and a few turns in start messaging you asking personal questions and to chat in another messaging app!? This is incredibly frustrating! The moment I tell them “No, and that I’m simply just trying to play a game,” they stop playing and I’m stuck waiting 10+ days for the game to resign itself. This takes up a valuable spot where I could be playing someone that actually wants to play. I recently muted one guy and was still able to see his messages anyways! THIS NEEDS TO BE FIXED! And by fixed, I mean GET RID OF THESE PEOPLE! Not only are the scammers and creepy men an issue, but the amount of ads and pop ups are ridiculous! Honestly there’s so much going on within the app, so much clutter, and has all these dumb daily goals and mini challenges that it’s hard to navigate the app. I can care less for any of that stuff, I just want to play the game against friends or others. Get rid of this junk! I’m going to need to find another app to play on if this doesn’t change soon!

Discrepancies...... There are two things that I find truly frustrating. The first is that there are special “Words with Friends Words” that offer absolutely no definition, and don’t exist if you look them up anywhere else. Often times these words consist of obscure letters that people are desperately trying to put together and somehow it makes a “word” that’s acceptable to the game and often gives great points, because the letters are automatically worth more, being more difficult to use. How is this considered fair and not cheating? The second is that I may have a few letters left that I can use to score more points, but all of a sudden the game ends and somehow I lose, regardless of being ahead literally the entire game? If I have tiles to play that can make words and score more points, how does the game just end? If allowed to play the remaining tiles I would easily win. Again, how is this considered fair and not cheating? This is extremely frustrating and doesn’t motivate me to play.

Ruined with Ads. This “was” a simple and engaging game to play with friends. However, the developers decided to force players to watch ads (and right now, FarmVille is the only ad they have) after EVERY move🤯. It is a case study in greed and desperation. They offer a $10/month way out of ads, but at a cost of $120/year, which is what that equates to, it is obscene. I would have been happy to spend a flat $10 to remove ads forever, or even for a year, but never $10/month. I wonder if FarmVille knows that their ad is being used so voluminously, that instead of gaining new players, people are moreover completely turned off by it. Perhaps, Words with Friends doesn’t understand economics. Perhaps, they just want people to stop playing their games entirely. Perhaps, they loathe FarmVille. At any rate, a work around for the ads is to simply swipe up and close the game, then restart. 3-5 second inconvenience as opposed to 15-30 seconds of watching little cartoon farm animals annoy real people to fiddle with them.

Very annoying extra garbage. Oh Words With Friends, what happened?? Used to be a classic Scrabble game, fun to play with friends and now we are all so sick of the badges, pop-ups, congrats, daily goals and other super annoying so called extras that just slow the game down and make it awful to play. None of these things can be turned off in settings, and I have used the paid version of this game for years so I should be able to. I know I am not alone. With every update something worse is added. Today’s new annoyance is the game doesn’t allow you to just go to the next game like before, now it suggests other people to play with, can’t turn it off. Zynga needs to read these reviews. Also, what’s up with the words that aren’t real words (according to the game), but can be played anyway?? And some of the definitions of words are downright BIZARRE. So disappointed in the direction this game has gone. On the hunt for another word game for grown-ups.

Gone down the tube. I have been playing this game for about 10 years now and have seen it get crappier and crappier over the years. Everything is about the company trying to get you to spend money. And they are annoyingly persistent. I used to win many more games when the playing board was more equal. But I now know that one’s chances of winning decline significantly if one does not take advantage of the many options available for purchase. Dislikes: -Unlimited opportunities to place a word on the board. Why is there not a reasonable limit? Where is the challenge in spending time for endless possibilities and then coming up with crazy words that most players have never heard of before? -The ridiculous “Do you want to send a sticker?” with your move? What are we? Two year olds? I have only seen one sticker sent to me since this popup started. -The value of one’s earned points has declined to about half since I began playing. -The points earned has also significantly decreased. I am guessing that there is some sort of company algorithm that shows the players that aren’t spending more money and are thus being penalized with lower rewards in hopes of getting them to do so. -And talk about Rewards! Since when is an opportunity to buy the Premium version a “reward”? I play the game anyway just to challenge my mind, but I do so knowing that my chances of winning decline as the game gets older and the company gets more greedy.

Get rid of all the junk. I agree whole heartedly with Yellowbugnana. However I am not rating the ap anything more than a one star because I don’t think choosing no stars is an option. All I want to do is play scrabble with my friends. I can’t stand all the junk running in the background and the waste of time it creates in between moves. I don’t want treasure boxes. I don’t want to play with random virtual opponents. I don’t want congratulations. I don’t want to have Zynga-imposed goals. Yuck. I don’t want to buy the option to swap without passing or any other cheats. I wrote to Zynga, without any response, obv, suggesting offering players the choice to play with or without all the sparkles, treasure boxes and other mindless clutter, the option, as it were, to just play the straight game of scrabble. I too, paid for the ad free version, which I agree, with another reviewer, because the ads were so, so, aggressive. I’m not judging those who like treasure boxes and mindless clutter and sparkles. I just want the option to play just plain scrabble with my friends who want the same. There I’ve said it.

The lame just kept getting lamer. This app used to be lean — simple presentation, zero fluff, no upselling of dumb add-ons or alternate modes of play — but now it’s just plain gross. Ridiculous numbers of pop-up offers, suggestions to join tournaments, hypey colors and screen layouts, even myriad ways to personalize your game board (plaid tiles, anyone?). Then there are the cheats. You know an app is playing to its lowest tier end-users when it permits third-party “cheat apps” to suggest better words, substitute letters that weren’t even in your tray to begin with, or evaluate the game board for more lucrative tile placements. Where’s the fun (or honor) in that? I’ve played WWF for years, and just looked the other way as the game gradually devolved into what it’s now become. I enjoyed a game or two with friends or family I didn’t have much contact with otherwise, and we always played in the spirit of the game as it was designed. WWF was a fun little time-passer on daily train commutes, or on breaks at work. Now it’s little more than a dismal ocular assault that panders to its user base, monetizes dishonor and laziness, and really, isn’t even fun to play anymore. I’m in the midst of a game with my cousin at the moment, and regrettably it will be my last. I’m sure we can find another, less slimy, game to be our new go-to, and I really hope others show Zynga and the abomination that is WWF the door. Even U2 is less of a sell-out than Zynga! Give Words With Friends a hard pass.

Game is great until they decide to upgrade and not tell you!. I’ve been playing word with friends for several years now and have never had a complaint. In fact I enjoy the game very much. My complaint comes when recently I’ve been trying to get into my word with friends app and everything appears to be opening as usual until I get nothing but a blue screen and nothing will happen. I finally give up and try again later. Except later I get the exact same thing. This has gone on for a couple weeks now. I’ve lost all my stats and power ups, everything I’ve worked to gain. I have 40 games that people probably think I’ve just abandoned. I’ve tried to go back to App Store and get words with friends 2 ....... different game and all my information from the the version didn’t transfer. I’m unbelievably upset and therefore wouldn’t recommend this to anyone who wants to play long term. There is no number to contact anyone. There is no email to contact anyone. Because I cannot get into the app there is no support to chat with. Everything just lost. If I could give lower than 1 Star right now I would do so!

OMG ...the Ads!. Update Dec 2021: No change. Kroger, you are killing me. You were my childhood grocery store and I loved you. I hate your recipe ads and will never watch that or any others. Ridiculous. And now WWF, you have put a banner at the top and I can’t see the score. Knock it off please. The game itself, I’d give a 5. It’s fun, good to have a touchstone for friends far away, and unknown friends. But OMG, the ads are ridiculous. There are now TWO-MINUTE ads in the game, over and over and over again. Playing the solo 12 level “find a word” games, it takes 25 minutes to play. 1 minute for the game itself and 24 minutes of ads. Really WWF? Really? I won’t speak for anyone else, but these days I have the attention span of a gnat. The 30 second gross and repetitious Gardenscapes ads now seem like a nanosecond. Who does this? And advertisers, if you can’t say it in 15 or 20 seconds, then get a better marketing firm. You are being played. Maybe I watched 40 seconds the first time, but after 6 times in a row, it’s mind numbing insanity. I now play WWF and read a book at the same time. So thanks for that. Advertisers please reconsider...a solid 20 second ad will grab my attention, 2 minutes in a game ruins all credibility or desire to purchase your products. I wrote this over a year ago and now it’s happening again. Knock it off advertisers!

Unwelcome “improvements”. I have played & enjoyed WWF for years. Along the way, I have had to lose playing time to wait out or work around many irritating “improvements”, & fend off many ways to cheat. You frequently interrupt the game to say I’ve accidentally “accomplished” some pointless side goal not my own, & then make it impossible to get back to the game without tapping “great” for something I despise. I feel especially jerked around by that last thing. “Great,” It is not. Just now, I got put through a new diversion involving leveling and pages. It took so long to find a way out that I began to think I had been expelled from WWF. As a final insult, to get out of its teeth, I had to tap “Great!” I value the player contacts I’ve made, and I enjoy coming up with words, so I keep playing; but is it really not possible to opt out of the irrelevant time-wasting crap? I know I am not the only adult playing this game. There are many who would welcome a clean version like you once had. Please consider it.

WWF is all about cheating. This game has always allowed cheating. You can try using words you don’t know without penalty. You can see the tiles your challenger has at the end of the game. Etc. But now you play against people who can swap letters without losing a turn, and you’ll never know it. We all have played games where we end up getting crappy letters the entire time. It’s frustrating, but it’s the luck of the draw. I don’t think it’s too much to ask of the developers to have matches where you agree to not use swap + and other cheats that you can purchase. Everyone who plays a game should have the same rules. (I realize they want to make money from these cheats, but the relentless ads should be making them money too.) The game has speed games and solo games with separate boards already. Just add a true WWF classic mode that doesn’t allow paid cheats. It’s not that much to ask, if you want to keep all your customers happy. At this point, I’m going to stop playing with real people and just play the solo mode. Or maybe just stop playing altogether. That means much less ad revenue for them, when they could just allow another format instead.

Words with friends. The game is fun. BUT the upgrade wrecked it!!! Couldn’t play on my I5S anymore. Started playing on Kindle but games disappear... they go to the versions that can only be played in newer versions of IPhone which means to keep playing the game I have to play on the IPhone which version is now full of a bunch of time wasting junk!!!!!! As if the advertisements aren’t bad enough no there is a load of extra unwanted time wasting junk you can’t op out of!!!!! So friends I’ve been playing for many years I can only play on IPhone version. other friends I can start and back and forth on Kindle maybe a dozen turns and then the game disappears!!!! So trying to play only on Kindle only works for some friends and not others. You’d think there would be a higher level of sophistication and security to prevent cross contamination between Kindle and the phone versions.. unless they planned it? I really just want to play on Kindle the classic game... I hope they resolve this problem ASAP or I might have to see if regular scrabble is as good or better than words with friends.😥

Beware! These guys allow scam offers!. Can’t leave less than one star More bad news. Not only are these guys shoving so many ads down our throats that we can barely play the game, but they aren’t even interested in making the game work properly. The Word of the Day solo play feature never allows me to complete the day’s challenge. I get 4-5 words into it and it suddenly tells me that it can’t do something and then disappears. The challenge is gone and cannot be completed or restarted. More sloppy programming from people whose only real focus is shoving advertisement down your throat. Run screaming the other way! I expect the ads shoved down my throat constantly trying to get me to download other games they offer which do the same thing… basically it’s 30% playing and 70% dodging ads. What I did not expect was to be presented ads which advertise claiming to be someone else (scam), offer products for a charge of $1-5 to cover shipping, and then instantly be charged several high dollar amounts forcing me to close the credit card! If you WWF does business with scammers on its site, then they are the same sort of bottom feeding scum as the scammers! Run the other way!!

A dying game app. Words with Friends used to be a lot of fun to play. Not anymore. Clearly the game architecture is aging and breaking down. The mandatory adverts after almost every single turn make it neither fast nor fun. I can play a turn in a few seconds but then have to wait a half minute before the next one. Additionally, the X button to depart from the advert page seems to have been made deliberately tiny and insensitive, especially for the never-ending badgering for Candy Crush, the kind of mindless pastime that I have NEVER been intrigued by over the six or so years that I played Words. And now the game is freezing,or locking up, requiring that I reboot my whole system in order to get past the stagnation. There are other signs that the game platform is decaying - solo challenges freeze up, play stops in mid-round, the computer opponent in the weekly challenges fails to play at all after the first turn, and so forth. I have reluctantly given up on the game entirely, and tossed those six years of game progress in the hopper. Pity. It didn’t have to be this way. The fact that there is no way to complain about game failures to the designers is the last nail in the coffin. I can only register my dissatisfaction with the state of affairs by writing this review.

WHAT HAPPENED⁉️. I have played this for years and love it, but a few weeks ago, I have no idea what happened, but all of my friends that I play with disappeared, my profile name and picture changed, (and I did not change it) and I could get nothing back!! I even tried to look up my friends and get them back, I even tried through Facebook, they even tried sending me a new friend request to no avail, and it’s a total mystery what happened! I tried to contact Words with no response! I left an email address, but no response. I tried deleting the app and starting fresh and nothing worked. I did get invites from “people” that I didn’t know, but I think they were fakes or robots or something since every time I played, even at 3AM, “everyone” immediately played a word back and I just don’t believe that if they were real people, every single one of them would be immediately responding with their word at 3AM (most people aren’t up at 3AM). Even when it’s not 3AM, every single time I played a word, there was an immediate response, which just does not happen. So how could this have happened and how can it be resolved? Is there really any customer service out there to help with this? This is not the first time I’ve tried to get an answer about something on this app with absolutely no response.

Needs work. This particular Words with Friends app needs to repair some software issues. Let me point out the obvious first. There is always an ad that pops up after every word submission, but no payment option to remove ads. As for the software side, the ads appear to be rushed when it was installed to the program. It never streams well, and half the time the ad does not auto adjust to your screen size. So when the short ad is complete, you can’t close it out. My app has crashed multiple times during an ad, and during gameplay. If it doesn’t crash, my screen will freeze. On average, I play around 1-2 hours per day. During those times, I would have to shut the app down to reset it. And this happens averagely 3 times within 2 hours. Just for the record, my iPhone has a 128gb memory, and nearly half of that is available. And all updates are current. So if you’re reading this, there are plenty of other apps to choose from.

Words With Friends 2. After the last iOS update two weeks ago, the app will not work on my iPad or iPhone. My games will not refresh at all on any platform. The daily challenge is the only one that works. There is no phone tech support. The in app tech support is terrible. They give me the same options that are already posted everywhere, as though I would need to contact them if my issues were that simple. Once I’m contacting you, my issues are beyond those solutions. By then almost a week in including a game refresh which still doesn’t work. Love playing the game, although hands down all of the new stuff should be a totally separate application that you choose to use, not shoved down your throat. It’s a turn off, the changes that have been made. The classic original is still the preferred game and should be an uninterrupted option. I love the game. More games should be offered than the 56 cutoff. Customer support/technical support is lacking and terrible. 2.5 weeks now, and I’m still unable to play my games, with no idea of when this issue will be resolved. Obviously an upgrade is due for compatibility with the new iOS update, but no one seems to be listening. Therefore one star from me.

The Ultimate Demise of Words with Friends. Words with friends used to be fun. The online game was similar to the Scrabble game played on a board. Over the past few years it’s gone on a downhill slide. Paying players seem to be forced to a child’s version of the game (WWF 2) that dumbs down the game and causes adults to give it up. When you opt to receive the classic WWF, as I did, elements of new, dumbed down version creep into the classic version. Now because I have a new phone, the classic version seems to be unavailable to me and I must subscribe to WWF 2. I won’t do it. I will discontinue any and all WWF applications until WWF Classic is restored for those of us older than age 12. Am I alone on this? We must all tell the company that we need to be able to opt for the Classic version. If WWF continues to make it difficult to receive the unadulterated classic version, I, for one, will opt out, just as many of folks I’ve played over the years have already done.

Cheating. I enjoyed this game for many years. One thing you have to be wary of, though, are the players who cheat. I enjoy pitting my knowledge of legit words with someone who does the same. I recently accepted a challenge from an unknown player with an average word score of 30 plus. She was obviously using a cheat sheet. No honest player uses four strange non-words ( with no definition) in one game. She was simply better at cheating. After a couple of games with her I understood why she has played so few games in the several years she has played. Iwould like to see the rules changed to exclude words with no definition, impose time limits on players and loss of turn if a player tries an unacceptable word. I don’t know how to prevent cheating but this would help.

Great Game…Horrible company. Non-Stop ads and popups. Love this version of scrabble-like games. Thats the ONLY good thing I can say. If it was just the game with banner ads…i would give it five stars but NO… they ruin it with non stop full screen full SOUND ads…oh yes…dont think you can sneak and play a word at work and expect that just because you have turned off sound in the game that this applies to ads..oh no no…FULL SOUND blasts over your device!! Notifications…there is a setting in the game to only have notifications about your game…this is a straight up lie. I get pop up notifications about “word of the day” and others that I have ZERO interest in….and its every day multiple times a day. Ad tracking…most apps ask, the first time you open them, if you want the app to track you for targeted ads…..however if you opt out with THIS app…WWF asks you over and over and over again. Truly is a horrible experience. I wish there was a suitable alternative. And when there is…outta here!!

Give us back the original!. I agree with these other reviews, I HATE all the gimmicks! Just give us back the original. I want to win, or lose, fair and square. I will not watch ads the whole time I am trying to play-it’s not worth it. I paid for the ad-less version and that is what I want. You keep putting something up in front of my screen preventing me from playing unless I click on “continue “. I believe if I do, ads will begin to appear again and you will be tracking my every move and invading my privacy. This has been going on for months and I will not click to approve that. I paid and shouldn’t have to go through all of this again but I would rather you charge me another small amount and leave me alone if that is what you have to do. Get rid of all of the superfluous garbage and just let us play with NO cheating! I would love to hear from a developer!

Used to be fun but now it’s cluttered. WWF used to be really fun because of the simplicity of playing with friends with nothing to pop up except for 5 to 10 second ads. Ever since an update a couple months ago now there are more ads that are usually 30 seconds. Not only that but they added these “improvements” and challenges that interrupt matches. I like the idea of challenges but I don’t like the fact that they are forced to be reviewed and waste a good 10 to 15 seconds of your time just so you can see you completed them. And the last thing I have to complain about is that the game has been freezing my entire phone almost every other match. This is the only app that I have that does that and I have an iPhone 8 Plus. I don’t know what you did to your game in the last update but fix it because I am tired of my phone freezing for minutes. The only reason I haven’t deleted your game is because I still want to play with friends but your latest updates are really wanting me to delete your game and never touch it again because you guys have screwed it up really badly. The fact that you’re getting two stars is just out of pity Due to the fact that the game is still fun to an extent...

PayPal Ad doesn’t give rewards. I used to play this game years ago, and recently got back into playing. So much has changed since then, some good changes and some bad. I enjoy some of the new features like “word strength,” but lately when I try to activate it the PayPal ad plays, but then doesn’t activate the word strength. This also happens when I try to watch an ad to get coins in the store. It’s very frustrating. I like the solo plays, but recently actually paid $9.99 to go ad free for 30 days because the ads that popped up between turns were so obnoxious! I don’t like that there isn’t an option to go ad free indefinitely. I understand that Zynga needs ads to keep the game free, but with so many people saying that they hate them, and saying that they are not playing anymore because of them, why aren’t they listening?

Words With Friends is no Scrabble. Where to begin? I guess it’s my fault for expecting that this game was Scrabble or a reasonable facsimile. I am an avid Scrabble player and take pride in my vocabulary. Imagine my shock when all of a sudden words that ARE NOT WORDS began to show up as accepted by this game. And imagine my even BIGGER shock when I looked up these so called words in the game’s definition section and find that AT THIS TIME WE HAVE NO DEFINITION FOR THIS WORD BUT WE ARE WORKING ON IT.....huh? And the skip your turn option with no penalty? And the option to see where you can make the best play? Why bother playing at all? I have told my friends who play with me that if they are using those options, cross me off their list. I do not use them ever. And as for some doozy “words” my friends come up with....they tell me they throw everything at the wall to see what sticks. Oh, fun. So why do I play? Oh I don’t know.....bored I guess. If anyone else feels like I do, there’s real Scrabble at a site called Word Biz that is an Internet Scrabble Club and is true Scrabble. I play it on my computer and it’s awesome. One more thing....I find all the non-game interruptions annoying. I know I can delete the app anytime I want but I do enjoy the actual strategy of playing a straight-forward game with no “help” options. One more observation.....how can a word be a word if it has no definition?

Complaint. Warning. There is a picture of a nice looking man on words with friend nan vicent pagilinan. He is a scam. He stalks women he is using this name and pix and it’s not him. The phone number he is using is from Texas I used a anywho and paid for a search. Nothing came up then I used another site to find people I am a paralegal and know where to look. Words needs to block him from this game. There is a guy on Facebook with the name Vincent pangilinan by did not want to send him message. But women watch out this is happening on a lot of games you play with real people. He deleted me and resigned games with me lol he knew with questions I ask he ha been found out. He had at least 5 flags beside his name now he has none. So he changed some things he is axed out on playing so know he is at it again

Words with friends. The ads in this game kick me off the game at least 30 or more times a day, at least till I get sick of having to shutdown my iPad after every move and switch to a different game. Also you now have to get tickets to play the solo challenge and you are allowed to get 5gem free 4 times a day except that it is always “still connecting” so you can’t watch the ad to get them. Also can’t get the fee coins for watching an ad it’s always still loading! However after every play in the game the ads load just fine, the problem is you just can’t close a lot of them and some of them take you off the game completely. You do sometimes off me a “deal “ to watch ad free for 30 or 40 days for ten to fifteen dollars, how can you possibly consider that a good deal? I’m on a fixed income and it difficult to find money to but groceries let alone pay a ridiculous price to play a game that doesn’t respect it’s players .

SusanneT. I have played this game for years and basically enjoyed it, but recently in the last week or so it has become an annoying game. Twice now I have been invited to play and had to make sure I wasn't sitting on a bar stool. They strike up a conversation with come-on lines and flattery. They ask how I'm doing, then comes all the personal questions. This morning was the last straw, the so-called player completely disappeared from the game after I bombarded them with a whole list of personal questions that I feel are nothing but bs. I even asked them if they were a Russian troll. I checked all the active games and completed games I've played and the player who said he was Charles Bernard was nowhere to be found. I think you need to find out what is going on. I'm beginning to think the game is now a vehicle for hackers. I may not be coming back to it once my active games are completed. I don't need this grief.

Please get Facebook out of this game!. I don’t do Facebook. I don’t want to do Facebook. Please give me the option in Settings that will allow me to stop the pop-up message asking me if I would like to contact my opponent through Facebook after EVERY MOVE!!! The other issue that the recent updates have given is the “ oops, something went wrong” in practice games that makes them unplayable and undelete-able unless I uninstall and reinstall the game from the App Store. Then I gotta go to settings and shut off all the other stuff that interrupts games....except Facebook, which seems to lord over this thing at will. I paid for it, so allegedly I don’t get any ads, but this Facebook thing is nothing but an ad. And please buy a newer dictionary. Please fix this stuff. Okay, it’s only fair to acknowledge it when the developers address your technical complaints.....so I’m upgrading my scathing “3-star” review to “4-stars” because they took my Facebook pop-up complaints to heart and eliminated the pop-ups after every turn. Thank you. To all of you who still have unresolved complaints, I highly recommend that you go into game settings (in the app) and use the technical support “help” option. They are very responsive and usually get back within two days. But I still wish they’d buy a current dictionary....!

D@#n Your so-called 'dictionary & ads!. If I could, I'd give ya'll "0" stars...I'm sick & tired of checking a word in your "dictionary" to see the comment that you accept the word, however ya'll say no definition is to be found. I also HATE your acceptance of archaic words (usually Scottish), foreign words or slang but not always proper English...& when I "introduce" you to definitions from the Oxford or Webster's dictionary, you'll "consider" that word & never allow me, or anyone else for that matter, to see your inclusion or continued exclusion of the word. Also, your acceptance of slang, abbreviations, & nonsense words just angers me no end. Also hate the way you've allowed vendors to hide &/or put the "skip/x" symbol in places that are difficult to see or hit. I would pay to play Scrabble but my family, the only persons I play with, unfortunately Scrabble is no more..so I'm stuck with you, you miserable cretins! I’d update this…but it’s pretty well put above. The ONLY reason I continue with this crappy version of the Scrabble board game, is I play with my Nephew…the ONLY reason!!!

Not about Words anymore. Like many games these days, words with friends has become all about advertising and in app purchases. It also has no customer support, not even a way to access one. So if you win a game against the app itself, and the app freezes and refuses to give you credit, there is no one to contact and no way to claim your win. That has happened to me at least once a week for the past several weeks. Another annoyance are the many words that the app claims are legitimate just because they show up in a dictionary, but are in fact clearly defined as abbreviations or proper names or other terms not acceptable in Scrabble. Recently the game has forced players to watch ads just to access ‘free’ games, without notifying you that was about to happen. I am hoping for an alternative to this game to show up in the App Store soon.

Too bogged down in garbage to work. My god, what has his app become? It’s insanity, the obsession with piling in more junk, rewards, coins, stickers, “claim” all your rewards, ugh! I just want to play the word game, I don’t want to spend 20 minutes every time I open the game “claiming my rewards”. The past couple of versions have been so bad, so SLOW. You have to individually “claim” like 20 “rewards” for every 10 minutes you spend playing the game. And each “reward” comes with about a 10 second lag before you can “claim” the next one, and in between them all you have to watch more never-ending animation while your idiotic presents jump around the screen. I don’t care about this stuff, it’s annoying, and it’s absolutely taken over the game. This app has become a nightmare for anyone over the age of 5 or with an IQ over 50. If you’re going to make all this deranged reward stuff mandatory to play the game, and make us spend half our time in the app clicking on unnecessary annoyances, at least fix the lag so it doesn’t freeze up the screen every time.

Money hungry app. I’ve really enjoyed this app until recently. I prefer to play solo because I notice how some people you play use the cheats and it doesn’t seem fair. I prefer not to and that’s my choice just like they have their choice. So I usually play solo games. In the last month the solo challenges have changed. It used to give me at least one free replay a day because it was a free game every six hours. That was their goodwill allowing it. Not anymore. I can watch a video for 15 tokens when it takes 30 to play a game and it’s only 4 per day. So I can play two games a day now. It’s really unfair and I’m not willing to pay for more tokens. It’s clear why they did this. People don’t mind waiting and they said no way. Plus to win the challenge they added about 5 more rounds of six games each so I have to beat 32 rounds. 32 rounds plus 30 tokens each I’m sorry no way am I playing. Really unfortunate when they change things so drastically. It was fun but I’ll find another game I suppose.

Great game but OMG the free version is TORTURE. The free version of this game doesn’t just have ads. Ads I could deal with. The free version of this has horrible, mind-numbingly idiotic 30 second animations designed by psychologists to cause MAXIMUM anger and frustration on the part of the user. Every time you play a word you are BOMBARDED WITH THESE INANE cartoons that have a 30 second countdown and no way to avoid them. It is SO OBVIOUS that these were designed to torture the user into opening their wallet. Games like this should come with a warning: “the free version of this game is not actually a game. It is an instrument of TORTURE designed to either 1) drive you insane, 2) cause levels of blind rage sufficient to cause you to throw yourself under a bus, or 3) get out your credit card and give them anything they want to make the torture stop. The sad thing is, once you turn off all the ridiculous settings that make the game behave like a Vegas slot machine, and if you take enough sedatives to get you past the barrage of garbage in between plays, the game itself is actually extremely good.

Problems with your dictionary. The WWF dictionary makes it very clear that these words are never allowed: 1. Proper Nouns 2. Hyphenated Words 3. Words that use an apostrophe 4. Prefixes or Suffixes 5. Derogatory Words or Slurs Over the years, Zynga has grown very lax on these very simple rules, even letting players use words that no definition exists for, but states you are working on one. That’s not how any dictionary works. Archaic words, nonsense words, and words not sourced elsewhere, but in reality are invalid. The use of derogatory words and slurs has increased phenomenally over the last five years. Any search engine will tell you the words Zynga allows are derogatory. I can tell you from experience, the boards are set up that up way. If I don’t want to use words I know to be offensive, I have to play a lower scoring word. Somehow, there is no way to report this infraction of the rules through gameplay to Zynga support at all. The feature has been removed. I noticed the Zynga Developers have not responded to anyone’s problems’, complaints’, and concerns’ on here, which is very disappointing. One person gave a five star review, but went into litany of detail of trouble she had been having with the app. Zynga developers thanked her for the great review and ignored everything she wrote.

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Annoyed. Have played this game for years and am thoroughly fed up with the changes that keep coming through. Latest frustration is moving the play and next game button from where it’s always been to the middle. I am sick of clearing my words by mistake. I tried staying with the classic app but it is really not the classic game I love as it is a complete clone of the new apps. I’m fast getting to the point of stopping playing this game.

Words with friends classic game. It is with complete disdain that I continue to play this utterly contrived result game, in favour of the house. It is impossible for “the house” to be able to play the obscure and almost unheard of words (miraculously 7 letter words indecently consistently) from the choice of limited letters that is available to the home player. I have kept a list of words played and the majority would not be known by relatively intelligent people working from their personal knowledge without a “universal” word base. It does get to me a bit but I seldom if ever buy letters in order to win. I just resign, shake my head and WAIT for the next available opportunity. I know you can continue against all odds occasionally and win especially if you eat to BUY.

My thoughts of Word. I thoroughly enjoy playing Words With Friends but it annoys the daylight out of me that I can’t skip many of the video ads: I just don’t have the data in my phone plan to be watching adds which are of NO INTEREST TO ME. So, I have to close the app and re-open it! Further, the number of legit words which are not permitted is an irritant but the number of “acceptable word(s) with NO DEFINITION is ridiculous! Either a word has a meaning, or, it is not a word!!!!! Thank you for deleting all you non words, IMMEDIATELY!

Beware of scammers. I’ve been playing since July this year. Suddenly starting to get men requesting to chat. I’m a friendly person and of an age where people used to have pen pals so thought it would be interesting to have chats with people from other countries. The language was unusual. One saying my name was magnificent, who says that. Very quickly escalating to requests to continue on hangouts a google platform favoured by scammers. WWF should have better filters in place.

Bonus Video... This has been an very frustrating issue..it keeps saying ..”Still Loading”. Please try again......this has been happening since 3pm today....how about fixing the problem..hmmm 😠 The bonus video started at 3pm and 3 opened..its now nearly 3hrs later and its jammed up again...last it took 12hrs to download..so for 12hrs it told us it was taking longer than normal to download to try again later...hmmm. 12hrs..what’s causing lengthy delays..surely you’ve got an answer..😟 Can’t open bonus videos.. it’s now 24hrs..what is the problem and why...you need to fix this, if this continues then take it off ..but.. don’t offer bonuses if you can’t fulfil it...not impressed 😠 The bonus videos are clogged up again,, constantly saying it’s still loading try again later...hmmmm..😟..annoying

Suspicious players. I love playing words with friends, but I have encountered a number of strange individuals when I accept challenges from people I don’t know. It’s the comments. First hi, then hello, then how are you etc. I end up blocking them because it seems like they are probably scammers. I saw another review from a woman who encountered either a scammer or a pervert. Just something for people to be wary of and it would be good if there was some way the app admin could identify and block these users.

Too many ads & inconsistencies. The number of ads takes away from the enjoyment of the game. When playing multiple games at once, an ad every move has you spending more time and data watching the same ads over and over than you do playing. $15 to remove ads for a short time is not affordable, especially now during COVID-19 when many have lost their jobs. Secondly, the game is inconsistent in the allocation of letters. All vowels, all constenants or all the most challenging z,x, q (no u) all at once. It’s ridiculous. You end up being beaten by hundreds of points which in turn makes it even worse for the next game. After 2-weeks of playing I’m almost ready to quit.

Ms. Wonderful game ! Retired now and can spend far too much time :) playing other retired friends. Keeping the old brain working hard! I feel as though I am playing with a friend! One friend and I have been playing for years now and we ‘chat’ quite often. She is in USA and it has been interesting finding out how Covid has affected their lives.

Great game, terrible notifications. Have been playing this game for years and love it but recently updated and now the app feels the need to use the notification system to tell me about things in the store to buy, thus not allowing me to clear the notifications by playing all my games. The little number remains and I cannot even find whatever stupid thing it is in the store to view it and clear the number. Please get rid of this!!!!!!

Hate the ads!. I love the game but sick of the ads, have tried to find how I can buy this game so it will be add free but no luck so far. It gets very annoying when you have to see the same ad 20 times at 15 seconds in length when it has no relevance to me! Give me an easy option to buy this game! Now with the update it is even worse, after the ad, iPad freezes and I have to restart the game, you just ruined a game that was going downhill with the ads now with bugs included, great job, no testing before upgrading?

“WORDS”. Good Game but annoying glitches ruin it. Friends who are listed as members of your list and Facebook list disappear suddenly and an erroneous message stating that they don’t exist is the best that Zynga can do. Mystery Boxes which are accrued by regular and frequent players suddenly are not claimable. Already about 5 players in my group have quit; another 7 are losing patience and will follow suit if a quick fix fails to materialise post haste. In defence of the game it is fair to say that it is an enjoyable, educational activity which I look forward to at the end of a long day at the coal face. However, I feel the boat rocking; maybe a sinking feeling.

WWF on messenger. I can’t seem to access the same players outside of messenger... which means I can’t actually talk to them, which is a shame as I can see how we are both improving and it would be good to congratulate an excellent move! Love the stimulation of this game though. Be awesome if it could teach me what a better move might have been after I had played my move... might help me improve my game. Still don’t agree with all words though ... I have tried words I know are real and been denied, and played words that make no sense.

Maybe it could be good again... The game itself is great. Inviting friends from your contacts list (rather than Facebook) is not easy and the ads are terrible. I don’t mind having to watch a short ad every now and then in order to play a free game but when the still adverts completely cover up your game score during the game, then that really detracts from the game itself. I remember this game being so much better in a past life.

Targeted only at certain time zones. How shortsighted must the people running this app be? There are people playing this game outside of your time zone. It’s not even 8am and I’m getting a notification saying “Play one more game of Words With Friends before calling it a day? 😴” Are those in other timelines and who are experiencing different seasons in their country not welcome to play? It’s an international app. Be more globally inclusive.

Love it, but.... I have had many men sending disgusting sexual messages. It seems like it’s a platform for these sleazy men. I also have a lot of issues with same advert after every game. I agree with the other comments on here. I have a new iPad so have to start over for the 3rd time so have lost all I done over the last couple of years. I have downloaded it but only part of it has downloaded. Back to the drawing board.

Still considering. I was forced into this program when my original program would no longer work for me. This has resulted in my being unable to use the chat function because my friends are still continuing the older version. They can write to me though but I can’t reply.I agree with another writer that your ads are invasive and annoying. What a pity you have chosen to treat players in this way. In addition why are there so E letters in a game? I have 4+E letters when the words played can add up to 8-15 of that letter.

Words with friends. I have been playing this game since 2011 and I cannot get my mystery boxes that I have worked so hard for.. 17 in total.. every time I try to collect them, nothing happens.. I have sent messages and to no avail.. not trying to blame or point a finger at anyone.. just love the game and would like fairness and support from the words team. Thank you

This app needs work. I’d enjoy playing the game more if you fixed the problems. Again today, I was playing the short form rivals game and had to resign simply because it was the rival’s turn and the game froze right there. This happens often enough to be frustrating. If I hadn’t purchased the app a few years ago, I’d delete it permanently. Also, it’s okay to recommend an opponent, but at least make it someone who’s still playing.

Repetive (Word Wheel). There's literally no thought is put into unique/new words in the mini-game word wheel. Its always the same same letters/words in like all the puzzles! There's no challenge whatsoever! Its always the same words: Are, Era, Eat, Ate, Rat, Act, Cat, Car, Art, Tea whenever letters A,E,R,T,C are involved. Same words: Now, Not, Nor, Nos, Own, Won whenever letters N,W,O,R are involved. Same same Ski, Ink, Kin etc words! Sometimes the same EXACT puzzle is repeated, say, in puzzle 2 and puzzle 8. I mean common!!! There are SO MANY LETTERS AND WORDS IN ENGLISH! Stop bringing down Word With Friends with boredom! The CREATORS need to actually be CREATIVE like the word suggests!. PLEASE! WWF is an Epic game!

Moves fail to register. I am frequently waiting for my partner to move on our 3 or 4 games for many hours. The last, and worst time delay, was 2 days, to eventually find they made their moves straight after I did, but the moves did not show up on either of my devices. Sometimes shutting the app down and reopening it will reveal their moves, but not always. This would seem to me to be a major bug that needs urgent attention, but update after update has not addressed this.

Difficulties. Since updating iPhone with Version 13.1.3, I have had constant problems using the messages. The message jumps about and cannot get the cursor to the correct spot. It usually returns to the start of a message, and almost impossible to get it to where it should be to continue writing a message.

Bad dictionary. Why is “linctus” not an acceptable word???? 😡 Zynga, your dictionary is the worst in the modern world. Lift your game! And now a word like “voetsak” beats me! This word is not in the English language. Yet “favourite” a common word in English is not acceptable. Who is in charge of your dictionary? Dec 2022 When will Words recognise that “vapes” and “vapers” and “vaped” are now all common words… not just “vape”. March 2023: why are there so many proper nouns permitted in this game? “Texas” is ok… really! So many inconsistencies and it would be so easy for you to make it a great game. Sept 2023: CAN WE PLEASE HAVE A GAME THAT USES AN *ENGLISH* DICTIONARY. “volk” is German, and “avast” is Dutch. My chosen dictionary is English. It’s getting worse! When I play Solo games, I can play a whole game against words I have never seen or heard and that’s unfair. Sep 2023 Why is “Jordan” acceptable in Words with Friends? It’s a proper noun (a river and a country). 😡

Ads. I love this game and play it every evening, but come on, give us a break, 30 second ads between EVERY game, I can just about handle 5 sec. adverts, so I now only play with one person, then double tap to delete game as quicker to do that and reset than watch an advert I’m not in the least interested in. Why can’t we pay for no adverts like we used to be able to? I might then play the game with others

Annoying. I have played WWF since 2011. I play everyday. I bought the app originally to get rid of the ads, but now it is full of other annoying Paraphernalia. All this other ‘junk’ has slowed the game to a crawl. It freezes in the middle of the game constantly and takes a lifetime to load. I used to be able to quickly log in and get started, now it just takes an eternity and all those boxes and daily words😱. Why??? For people who just want to play what was a great game, can’t you include a way to turn these off. I only play 3 people now, as that’s all I can manage with the time it takes.

Good way to pass time in quarantine.. As per the title Words with Friends is a good way to pass the time during lockdown/quarantine. Helps you feel “connected” to the outside world in some small fashion. The ads can be annoying but hey…it’s free to play so I guess it’s justified (even if the frequency of ads IS overkill). In addition it keeps the mind far more active than watching hours of garbage TV. Recommend 👍

Dictionary needs an overhaul. Yes, the ads are annoying, but the biggest problem with this game is inconsistency of the dictionary. Lots of obscure foreign words are allowed while standard English words that may have been used perjoratively by some people at some point in time are disallowed. Grammatically impossible suffixes are sometimes allowed. It’s frustrating.

Such intrusive advertisements. And a ridiculous price to pay to get rid of them. My mum bought the ad free version back in the day for a few dollars. Now they want $15 for 30 days. This just highlights the greed of CEO’s at public listed companies. You spend more time waiting for 30 second ads to disappear between each move than you do actually playing. My advice is scrap this absolute time waster and do a personal puzzle instead. It will also save you lots of phone battery power and data.

Ads and crashing. If you absolutely must show so many ads, please fix them so they actually play! It is tedious enough to have to sit through an ad, even for the minimum required time. It is quite intolerable to have to sit through a black screen, which is what happens to most of the ads that I have to endure. Then sometimes there is a black screen that does nothing forcing me to restart the game 😡🤬!! I very much enjoy the game itself, but all the other nonsense that goes with it is wearing my patience a bit thin!!!

Bugs. There are a number of bugs in the current format - the most obvious is the sudden freezing of the screen which necessitates the turning off and rebooting of the device being used - the other annoying thing is the game being automatically switched to the next game before the player can see what letters have been replaced - other than that it’s ok. Bill from Tumbarumba, Australia.

Reasonable Game but bugged ads. The game is reasonable, standard scrabble type of game. It allows slang words from certain countries but not others which is frustrating at times. If you want to use the word strength you’re required to watch advertising to unlock it and have found that many times it is bugged and you have to watch the “right” one before it unlocks. Sometimes this might take more than a dozen attempts and restarts of the app.

Glitch. Please correct the option of not rematching with a player. At the end of a completed game the x at the right top corner does not allow selection to op out of rematching. Also the ads that appear in the top banner prevent viewing scores. I know ads are necessary in the free games but place them elsewhere or remove them from the game screen. I have played this game for over 10 years and love it but these 2 things are annoying. Thanks in advance for correcting them.

Great game ruined by trash!. I love this game and enjoy playing it, but the experience has been ruined for me. SERIOUSLY, EVRY MOVE YOU MAKE will bring up yet another ad making the whole experience frustrating and a waste of time. The developers need to realise NO-ONE watches these ads anyway. While I get they are necessary to a degree, the frequency is ridiculous. The clincher for me was having to sit thru a minute of offensive language during an ad - NO-ONE NEEDS TO SEE OR HEAR THAT TRASH just to get a few coins! PARENTS BEWARE if you don’t want your kids to see this stuff. Disappointing!

Sick of the ads. Can’t get rid of the ads in this version and it’s nearly $50 in the other version.. it’s an ok game but not worth $50 to be ad free and having to constantly close this version cause the ads freeze means I don’t bother with it as much I would if I could go ad free. The badges are cute but unless you have zero life they’re out of reach after a certain point, this detracts from the game also. It’s not what it used to be 👎🏻

Big whoop!. So I’ve just been told by WWF developers that while there isn’t an emoji for cotton candy there IS a new COTTON CANDY TILE STYLE!!! Well whoopty dee!! - Who Cares!! I can’t even imagine what that is and who the hell cares anyway! The developers seem to be struggling and desperate to remain relevant to their fan base. If they really wanted to improve this app they could address many of the negative feedbacks contained in many various reviews and realise that they are marketing to a global market not just the USA

Great Game. Good to keep in contact with busy daughters, even using the message section to do our messages to each other. NEW REVIEW still playing this game and enjoying it, but accepted a game challenge from a person not known to me.....BIG MISTAKE!..I think it was a scam....he was saying weird things and wanted to go to a private chat room....it really creeped me out....have screen shots of comments if needed. I have tried to report this man within the game , but you will not let me sign in..... EVERYONE ......PLEASE BE CAREFUL.

Really ticked off. Have enjoyed the game having over 20 games going. But getting annoyed at inconsistencies - allowing some slang words n not others, misspelled words. But the biggest issue is if you lose a couple of games you then get lousy letters and that keeps continuing - that happens to my husband playing me. Proved my point by playing for him to win and guess what he starts getting decent letters. Then he lost a couple and back to lousy letters again - there is no challenge when you can make 30+ points easily every time and end up 200+ points in front. Now to make it even less fun to play - this latest update is so full of unnecessary bells n whistles you have to wait forever to play and again afterwards. How about an option to allow those who want the basic game back to be able to remove the bells n whistles they don't like? Am about to quit playing when I have finished the games I am playing

Why is nobody listening to us???. Don’t the developers realise that if someone bothers to post a review, they have something to say that is worth listening to? Almost all the most recent reviews are giving this app only one or two stars, and for much the same reasons - flaky app that crashes or deletes accounts, too many ads and no fair way to purchase, dodgy ‘words’ in the dictionary, pointless challenges, ‘prizes’ that encourage you to cheat on your opponent, no response EVER given to people’s concerns, no ability to get help when things go wrong. With this litany of issues this app is heading for oblivion, those of us who endure playing only do it to keep in contact with our actual friends, we have been playing for years, but have no loyalty to the app which treats us in such an off hand manner - if something fairer and more responsive comes along, we will dump this app in droves!!

British English. EDITED: PLEASE READ I preferred choosing British English where words were "real" and not made up by Zynga. By joining British & US English together as a language this game has allowed gone downhill IMO. Half the words have no definition and the pitiful excuse given is poor! Many of the British words are now deleted e.g. Oxo, could be played before but not now!! Many of the US words are incorrectly spelled or need apostrophes to be real words e.g. "who's" or slang words "obv" for obviously for example. Swear words "Jeez" (short for Jesus) and American slang should not be permitted.

Drains battery - poor power mgmt. Lacks good power mgmt app. A short play of an hour reduces my battery by 25%. To save my battery during the day, l’m not leaving the app on. Interface is too busy with activities that I’m not interested in. Finding controls to turn off features were difficult to find. And when I turned off features for my account it only applies to the device, so I had apply it to each of my devices. And the changes didn’t stick. I’d see the device revert to default settings. Not sure why but it was more work to manage. The advertising is annoying which is probably the intent of the developer to get some money. But I’m just annoyed so why would I pay the developer any money. Love the game but annoyed by everything else around it. But poor battery usage due to the lack of energy efficient app design and programming is unacceptable.

Words with friends classic.. I play this game constantly and at the moment I am unable to go to the store and get my daily bonus point. When I go to the store it immediately goes back to the game screen. Also I am not getting any of the new colour tiles. I would appreciate these problems being fixed as soon as possible. Thank you in anticipation.

Ads causing game to lockup. I understand ads are required to generate money but allowing ads that lock up the game and the only way to play is to force stop and load the game again. This is the ones that appear at the bottom of the screen. The X at the top of the screen does not work. Also ads used to return to the game after 30 seconds but now I have to close the ad otherwise the ad remains on the screen until I take action, which is often several key strokes.

Too many glitches.. The game is great in most respects, however, it repeatedly tells me certain words are not valid so that I can’t play them (squaw, esq, seq are some that won’t pass) yet then the hindsight features tells me I should have played the word that has not passed because it was not a valid word!! This can be the difference between winning or losing the game, and is really annoying. Also wont record my highest word score correctly. Gives me the highest word score with the opponent & for that game, but still doesn’t update it as my overall high word score. Fix up those glitches & I’ll be a happier user!

Used to be great. This used to be one of my favourite Apps. When you pay for a version without ads, yet it seems it doesn’t mean their own ads. After every move on every game there are a bunch of ads to buy these extras, play this person, cash in these rewards points, try this game etc. it’s completely ruined the experience for me of an otherwise fantastic app. Used to be 5-stars from me but nowhere near that now

Game SLOW to load, shuts down and freezes. Really getting sick of this. Games are supposed to get better, not worse. So slow and freezes mid play. Then will randomly shut down. I’m playing on an iPhone 11pro, so it’s not my phone and other games play just fine. All chat history gone pre a week ago too. Sometimes it is not relaxing to play as it is SO frustrating just waiting for it to OPEN Fix it please. It has been months like this.

Update has created more problems. Fully paid for this originally and worked well. Latest update makes it almost unusable. Once a move is made in a game and I hit the 'next game' tab it will now not open the next game!! The only way I can open the next game is to get out of the app and get back in. I also don't want suggestions of people I can play. I don't play with randoms only two friends. I'm not on Facebook so why are random people popping up?? Who is the Assistant Earl and why the bleeding hell do I need him?. Looks like they just want me to spend $ and I won't! Been using this app for years and I'm extremely disappointed.

It’s too easy to accidentally press the “PLAY” button. This is a great game but there is no second chance if you accidentally press PLAY when you are testing words during play. This can result in a low score. There should be an option to have an “Are you sure?” question for those of us with fat fingers.

Frustrated. I’ve been playing words with friends for many years now. I’ve been slowly becoming more and more disappointed with the changes and now, I’m really frustrated by one change. After opening the box for the daily reward, apparently the only way to get past the “option” of ‘great’ or ‘watch video for 3 coins’ is to close the app entirely and reopen, as the ‘great’ option doesn’t work. I just want to play words with friends like I used to, I’m sick of all the changes. Can you just keep it simple, please?

Interesting statistic. I’ve been playing with a friend for over 8 years. We have played a total to date of 10,764 games and with an average of 31 turns per game that makes a grand total of 333,684 moves. And would you believe it our average move score is 25.2 and 25.2! I challenge anyone to beat those stats. By the way we love Words with friends. Thank you.

Ads designed with poor close buttons. Finding it increasingly frustrating to use this app. The game is enjoyable and ads are understandable. What’s infuriating is the purposeful design of the close button on ads - it moves after a few seconds increasing the chance that you click on the ad instead of the close function. It’s frustrating to wait the minimum time for an ad to play, then hit the close button, only to have it move and launch you into the App Store to purchase whatever is being advertised, then click back to the app and have the process repeated after every submitted move.

Lots of Errors. Although the game is good and fun when it works, it constantly errors. As in, you don’t always get your prizes when you win and in the challenges, especially the Rivals, it just freezes, forcing you to resign and get no reward for playing. Other times between games the screen will go black (where it usually plays an ad) and will just have a banner ad there, with no way to exit it. The only way to return to the Home Screen of the games is to reset your phone. It’s a lot of work and frustrating!!!

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Way too many adds. There are so many adds you can’t even play the game.

Cool game. It is more than a game

Stop False Ads!!. Fun game and … Seriously, you need to do something about the gummy ad. It is filled with lies, was never endorsed by the celebrities profiled, there’s no time magazine article. Please be more selective about the ads that you show! This one in particular is misleading and makes 100% false claims.

Words with Friends. The chat feature is not working…new format works 5% of the time…please please please fix

Ads!. Of course ADs are a necessary evil. However EVERY TIME YOU MAKE A MOVE there’s an ad? Often the same game THAT YOUVE ALREADY DOWNLOADED!!! Is excessive. Come on. An ad everytime?! Ridiculous. I remember paying to rid myself of these ads years ago. But here they are. With a vengeance. Same account too. Anyways. I’m out. If I ever do get a chance to play people that clearly have been waiting a while? I won’t wait for an ad to clear so I can play the next game. So sorry wwf lovers. I’m out!

This used to be a good game…. …but it has been ruined by becoming predominately an advertising site. I played the ads free version for years until they found a way to feature enough ads that drove me to ditch and reload the app so many times that I eventually found I was locked out and my only way to rejoin was to create a new sign in and be asked for huge monthly payments in order to be ad free. Bye bye WWF. I will miss the friends I made over the years.

Word. I still like it but it was better before.

So much ads…. Every time you did a move, you have an ad…. Still playing, but not as much…

Ads. Love the game but the same ad repeating between every move is making me crazy so will be staying away from thus game

Computer games use words not in any dictionary!!. I am competing against computer generated players to advance and win things. At the Easy level, They are using words like Qibla and smetana...qibla is not in dictionary. Ridiculous!!

Duches$. How about a no ad version. This is so annoying with long ads after each play…not fun. I used to love this game but now not

Word 2. Love the game but too many adds

Classic?!. I’m not sure how they can call this the “classic” version of the app, it is filled with garbage power ups, achievements, and useless notifications that I can’t get rid of. When I download a game called “words with friends,” I just want to play a game of words with my actual friends, I don’t want stupid challenges or bonuses or any of the complete trash that is all over this app.

Ads, Ads, & more Ads. I spend more time unsuccessfully trying to exit ads than playing the game. This one literally freezes me out from the game and I have to restart to play again - what’s up with that? PROUD TO BE CANADIAN $75 Tim Hortons. im forton) GET A $75 TIM HORTON'S GIFT CARD!

Too many advertisements.. The constant advertisements are SO ANNOYING. They pop up between each turn and it’s driving me crazy. I am seriously considering deleting this game and finding a new one. This game is NOT worth the hassle.

Advertisement Overdose to the Point if Nausea. This use to be great but the constant bombardment of obsessive ads has evolved to disrupting games. Either give a FAIR subscription option for ad free or play a moderate variety of ads intermittently. The ads are so frequent that I don’t even want to play words anymore

Sick of ads. Too many pop up ads that are up to 60 seconds long and need to be closed 3-4 times so it takes a minute and a half for each stupid ad. Beyond comprehension!!!! I don’t mind watching a 5-10 second ad but these are ridiculous and actually piss people off so they are angry with the advertisers. I would never buy or subscribe to any of these Some ads you cannot shut off volume so horrible if you want to play in a quite environment without turning volume off your phone Lots of glitches as well with getting bonus points

Words with Friends. Going to drop this game. Used to love it. Too many pop up ads that when you opt out take you to another screen….going to stop playing…..so frustrating!

Way too many ads can’t even play the game because the ads are so aggressive. Way too many ads for sure

Used to love this game. I Have 20 games going right now, but I have to wait thirty seconds per ad between games to play. It takes too long to play 20 games this way and the music for the ads sucks and interferes with the music I usually play on my device. Let me buy the app and I’ll keep playing. Force me to listen and watch the ads.. sorry team back to scrabble I go. Treat us your client with some respect. Of course you are a numbers game so I doubt I’m going to receive this respect from you. Do you read these comments? Let’s see...

Ads. Keeps freezing me out after a while if I don’t pay for no ads

Problem. Very frustrating when you cannot access your earned coins! Have deleted app and downloaded several time and it is still the same problem!

Going downhill. I love this game, and paid for the ad free version, but there are so many distractions on the sidebar, colored tiles, rewards etc. that i will be looking for a new game unless you give us a way to turn off all these extras

Present WWWF vs Past. Recently there has been an approach on WWF which I,and my oops find distasteful & spoils the game which we have enjoyed for many years. You have started to constantly try to “force” new opponents on us, by arbitrarily putting them in a players position, or in some other way, that we are supposed to make the “choice” of playing with them. PLEASE NOTE…..if I want a new opponent, I will invite them on myself. I do not need, or want you to stick one into my screen for god knows what reason you have. It takes time to get rid of them and start playing with my friends. Stop it!! Please!, Also, stop trying to sell me points or stickers or whatever. I am playing WWF, not shopping. Also, for some reason my profile picture is sideways in the frame. I would appreciate it if someone on your team could turn me right side up. I have written in about this before, but nothing happened. I don’t mind that much being stuck sideways, but it does seem rather useless to get those pretty frames under the circumstances. I am very old, probably play more WWF than I should…and thus get a bit fussed about small issues like these. But I might be less ‘fussed’ if I was right side up in the picture was right side up . Thank you for reading all of this, sincerely, Mrs.M

Mindful. Playing Words With Friends brings out the ability or decisively use some tiles strategically and place them on the board ot make maximum score with allowing your opponent to do the same. its a nice game plus you can chat with real people.

Good game. I’ve been playing this game and other versions for quite a few years now. I think it could be challenging at times which makes it fun and I like the classic version where you can be part of a team in the lightning round. This allows you to play a game in between instead of having to wait for others to be ready to play one on one. Cons: a lot of ads in between and what’s worse is that the same exact ad will play after every couple of moves for the whole day which is very annoying. I also find that the game freezes a lot which is annoying as I have to either delete the game and then download it again or turn off my phone and then turn it back on. I also don’t like the fact that the wordclue powerups only give you a word but not the top scoring word when your stuck and our words to come up with on your own. Overall, it’s a good game to play when you’re bored and trying to kill time.

Ridiculous amount of Ads. Simply impossible to enjoy due to ads.

Ads. I have been playing this game for many years but the ads that I have watch 2 or 3 times to complete word play are diving me mad. Also it says you get 4 more words but you only get 3. Another thing is the trophys that take forever to finish and I don’t know what to do with them.

TOO MANY ADS. Way too many ads and doesn’t give you an option to pay for them to go away permanently. You can only pay for them to go away for 30 days! Terrible

Hate the bells and whistles. I’m new to Words with Friends, and so far I’m not enjoying it at all. Why must I subject myself to casino-like distractions? It’s all so immature. I’d like simple, clean boards, tiles, and scores.

Too many changes in the app.. Too confusing I have played since2011. There are frequent, and confusing changes with

Too Many Adverts!!!. Shoving advertising in our face is in POOR TASTE. 🤬🤬🤬

Too many pop ups. I miss the old words with friends when you could just play scrabble with your friends. Now the app is starting random games with strangers, trying to get my to get points to have levels, a million ads. So annoying I’ll just play scrabble in real life thanks.

Bots and Ads. I understand the use of ads, however there are some that you can’t even “x” out of. I have to tap the ad, get redirected to the App Store, go back to the ad, then finally an “x” pops up. I also don’t like all the bots requesting games, posing as real people. This game trying to trick people into thinking they are playing real people is wrong.

Ads for Moores. Every time the Moores ad comes on it will not quit. Have to restart game every time

I can handle the ads, the notifications are grating on my nerves. Give us an option to only be notified of chats and when your opponent has played. I don’t care about the word of the day or all the other notifications. There are entire Reddit forums about people asking for this from years back, apparently Zynga does not care.

getting worse every update. every time the thing gets updates the advertising is increased. now its full screen videos that run 3 to 5 seconds without being able to fast forward it. Similiar to youtube and their increased advertising. whats next for this app? two commercials in a row?

Soft Porn ads…why?. Kids are in that ap. What is with the almost naked woman gyrating in an ad that keeps coming up a lot. There are kids in that ap and it is hugely inappropriate.

Playing solo game. When you play solo game, when you play hard players the 7 tiles you get are either all vowels or all consonants. Pretty hard to play when the computer tiles are made to do 6 and 7 letter words. Pretty disappointing.

Horrible,clumsy and to many ads. So many ads, it’s not fun!

Words With Friends 4. I hate this new version...distracting things flipping all over the screen, silly-looking cartoon opponents (we are not seven years old). I loved the older version. This new version is definitely not an improved version! Zynga should have left it as it was, and added a second version, rather than replacing it. Very disappointing. Will look for a different word game...not by Zynga.

Love the ORIGINAL version of Words With Friends.. Really enjoy this game. BUT, I do wish they would return the chat feature where individual games can be commented on. When you have several games with an individual and you make a comment like “Wow, that was a great word!”. The person receiving that comment would have no idea to which word is being described. But aside from that one feature that was removed, the rest of the game is awesome!

How do I choose not to have coloured tiles and other garbage?. I can’t stand coloured tiles, solo games, boxes etc but the screen only offers “great” with no “x” to say “no thank you”. I had to quit.

Too many ads. While I enjoy playing words, I don’t enjoy watching ads that last at least 2 minutes between each game. Lots of the time it is impossible to close them and it is far too expensive to pay to block them.

Too many Illegal commercials🥹🤓😅. There are too many commercials that lock you in and do not end. There is no escape, regardless of how long the commercial is. So the player like me has no choice but to get out of the program and re-log. It is a waste of time, and I sure do not want to buy anything advertised by commercials that kidnap your iPad with no escape ! 🥹😅😂

Words Classic. I love the game and play it a lot but one of the adds is stuck and is blocking me from playing and from loading the game again. I always pay to get rid of ads when able to. HELP!!

All the extras are getting ridiculous.. I have the paid version, and when I find time to play a word with a friend or 2 it seems with all the crazy bonuses and rewards I have to wait 30 seconds just to let all the nonsense finish before I can move on to he next game. I really wish there was a way to turn it all off. I just want to literally play words with friends like when they first brought out the game. Please make a way to opt out of all the nonsense, including the constant urging to play all the computer challengers. It’s time to look for something way less annoying. Such a shame the take a brilliant product and ruin it like this.

Ads!. 3 ads for each play

Would be great but…. This game forces you to participate in every silly concept they have. You should be able to opt out and just play the game with friends. Still the easiest to use, it’s reliable.

Words. Well this used to be my favorite game and now it’s the last one I play. I paid for the ad free version but then they introduce so many changes I have to watch ads to play. You can’t beat solo without buying coins or watching videos. It’s completely set up to cost you. Very disappointed in the updates

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What’s goin fin with the ADs?. I’ve been playing this game since 2009, before Zynga bought them. I will watch the occasional video/AD to play a game against a Word Master before the 6-hour wait is up and to get coins. Lately I’ve *watched the video* and it: closes out with NO reward, gets stuck open with NO WAY to close it (have to shut down app), doesn’t play, and various other annoying things that don’t work. There’s no way to contact the developer either, so I’m writing this review to see if anything can be done. I have a feeling they’ll want me to upgrade to a newer game, but I am still happy with the version I play, and I do keep up with the updates. Please fix these bugs. Please.

WWF Bonus Coins are now CORRUPT!. I used to LOVE playing this game. I have been playing since 2012. Up until recently I would have given them 5 Stars. However, in the past six months of 2020 I have felt cheated by their advertised Bonus Coins that can be earned by watching ads. Previously, one could earn 3 Bonus Coins for each ad that one watches for up to 30 Bonus Coins a day. Coins can be used to purchase Swaps that eliminate losing one’s turn. The letter swaps you get can be used immediately. It is a great feature. But now it is almost impossible to earn more than 6 Bonus Coins on ANY given day. Most of the time it will say “Sorry, took to long to load”. Even more infuriating is when you actually watch an ad for Bonus Coins and at the end a box pops up and says “Sorry, something went wrong and we could not credit your Bonus Coins”. WHY ??? But I can answer that question! Because you can BUY them! They cost around $2 for each swap, bought in increments of $5, $10, $20 and even $50. It is my belief of late, that the Zynga management of WWF has made a corporate decision that they want more profit from the players and have decided not fulfill their advertised offer to earn free Bonus Coins each day... SO THAT PLAYERS PURCHASE THEM. Naturally. I am to the point of dropping the App completely.

Fun....but. I enjoy playing WWF, especially now when we are all indoors. However, I have some complaints. There seems to be no rhyme or reason to the words the game accepts or does not. It accepts some proper nouns, some foreign words, some proper names, but not others..It also accepts words from Pluto, that are just ridiculous. Then it does not accept words that are used in a English everyday. There is no consistency, whatsoever. When you play the challenge games to earn treasure chests, the words the game comes up with are just ludicrous. And then it gives you all vowels or no vowels constantly while the game makes one 50 point word after another that nobody on earth ever heard of. Really? The game is fun, but how about a little consistency?

What happened to this great game?. I have played daily for years. Since the revamp, I find the game environment to be quite childish with its elves and other silly characters. I love the solo challenge but I have stop playing because I can’t stand the juvenile “solo challengers” with ridiculous names and childish cartoon faces. I would pay extra to have a game without all the babyish add on’s that have recently appeared. Next, like some other female players, I have also suddenly been barraged by creeps asking me personal questions and commenting on my appearance, even asking where I live. I don’t know how you started attracting this new crowd of inappropriate males, but I hope you figure out how to get rid of them.

GOD & I during my 💜miracle 2016.. Have been playing this enjoyable game for years.. at my age 67 w/ a loving family and grandchildren- inheriting my Mama’s multiple myeloma and my Daddy’s heart “widow maker “ where I was revived by a super heart team and was awake( my choice) they brought me back after passing 4. Five minutes- .. Being awake saved me I was talking to my fantastic surgeon …if this ole lady had been sedated I couldn’t have told him about the 4th elephant 🐘 sitting on my chest… He was able to save me …Besides my Daddy (8 heart attacks) ones 💜 is the most beautiful thing GOD ever made.. IT. SURE. IS. THANKS. GOD GOD still needed me to SHOW GODS. LOVE. TO YOU 💜🇺🇸🦋

Love the game: lost all my data. Hello, I’ve been playing words with friends for well over 10 years, or at least it seems that way! I love the game, have had no problems navigating the site. Years ago, I even upgrade/paid so that I didn’t have those interruptions of little ads/commercials. I had to switch to a new phone and my Apple 14 Pro does not seem to support transferring my data over from my Apple 11 phone. Now I have interruptions of ads where I should not. Can you help me? I had over 1700 gold coins saved, and all my status for my games were lost. I’m feeling sad and defeated.

Ridiculous ads do not download. paying 9.99 a month to remove ads is absolutely ridiculous you are charging the same price as Netflix for one game to be ad free I have played this game for years and years and my loyalty is rewarded by a slap in the face my biggest regret in playing this is not paying the $2.99 on this account for ad free that’s a reasonable price for an ad free experience I will pay for an ad blocker so you see no money not for a premium version not for ads nothing because you are a ridiculous company you are driving so many users away with this ad laden experience I hope your shareholders recognize the sheer incompetency in this active decision to have no regard for your profit base, your players. You should grandfather in players who have played since before this change to be able to pay the 2.99 price for no ads.

Ads. Watching the ad videos for the game to be free is not a problem with me. Watching the ad videos for extra coins wouldn’t be a problem either but if it says watch a video for extra coins or watch a video to play 3 more wheel word games and you watch the video but don’t get the extra coins or get to play the 3 extra games then that’s a problem. It’s annoying. Don’t make the offer if it won’t happen. Watching videos is not my objective in playing this. Please fix your glitches or stop making the offers. I tried going to customer service or support but it says this page cannot be found. 🤷🏼‍♀️ So annoying!

Getting worse instead of better. I had never used any of the "add-ons" (i.e. Word Radar, Hindsight, et al) until several of my opponents (against whom I had a regular winning percentage) started getting too tough for me. I finally mentioned to one of those friends that I had given up starting new games because, "I don't know what happened but you just got too good; I can't win anymore." He laughingly told me about using these add-ons, and sure enough: as other reviews have pointed out, it's just made the game too easy. The add-O's haven't "leveled the playing field"; they've tilted it in favor of lazy people who are only interested in winning, not improving their vocabulary. They should give us the option to play/decline games based on whether an opponent utilizes these CHEATS, because that's what they are. The game is no longer fun, because it's no longer a challenge. It's a cheat.

OFFER A PAID OPTION!. I have had ongoing games with my daughter for years. When I upgraded my IPhone this time, I had to reload the app and lost the games we were playing. I could live with that. However, I had the paid version without advertising. Now, after every entry for the 4 games we have, I have to wait while you try to sell me another game that I am NOT going to download. This greatly diminishes the flow and enjoyment of the game. You have made enjoyment into a chore after each entry. I will gladly pay for an ad-free option. That, or we’ll delete the game and find another... making a point not to be one of your’s. Rating has gone from 4-5 stars to 2 stars and dropping!

Every Update Gets Slower and More Frustrating. I used to enjoy playing this app. But the developers have added so many gimmicks the program has to stop and think about that every time I submit a word that there is a pause of 10 to 20 sec. As of the last update the moves from the other players don’t show up immediately either. Even when I am trying to move letters to create a word there is often a pause of a few seconds before the letter will move. I enjoyed the app much more when it was a straight forward exercise of vocabulary and logic without “prizes” and gimmicks giving extra advantages to a player. If the performance and complexity of what was a very responsive and simple app gets any worse it will be unusable. I am about ready to remove it from my iPad.

Lots of fun. Been a big fan for years. Thought of a new power up you could do. A definition power up on last word played (or any word played if not too complicated a program). Much faster than pulling up a Webster’s online and typing in the word. Especially with how often people use outlandish words. I half hope this gets ignored because I’ve got a pile of coins and would use them all up quick buying more dictionary power ups if this were available. Side note: Clue power up is useless. Why would I want you to give me the location and letters for a mediocre word? Completely pointless. Other than those 2 things I really like the game. Finally broke down and started using tile styles. It’s fun!

Loved Words With Friends Much More than Boggle!. The older version of Words With Friends was much better than the new Boggle. The change in font in the results makes seeing the results very difficult for too many older people. The poor contrast in colors is terrible. Change it, please! Also, the immediate announcement of the winner is a big disappointment! In the older version. Then, you did not know who won until the final tally. This really takes excitement away from the game absolutely unnecessarily and sadly! Give us the opportunity to have the Original version or the new watered down one, which floods us with silly sounds and pointless points! I love the concept. The new version is a let down. Give us back what we loved better!!

Used to be good, but not so much now. For the past several weeks, my app has been notifying me of games and of people nudging me to play, and the badge icon will show several notifications. When I open the app, however, it doesn't list any games as my move for which I had been notified. Just today, it completely deleted a game I had going with someone—it doesn't show up anywhere on my app nor is there any history I ever had a game with that person or had been friends with them. They could still see the game on their end, though. This is so frustrating, as the app is resigning me from games because I haven't played in so many days, but the app itself will not show the games properly on my end and allow me to play. @ Zynga: FIX THIS.

Needlessly busy. This game should be easy to play, easy to navigate, and ad free if purchased. I paid for a version years ago, I can’t find it in the store now. So after each word play there are 2 twenty second ads. There’s no simple menu system to get to the games one is playing. I understand Zynga needs to profit. Zynga should understand that the WWF game is what I want to play without the barrage of other crap through which one needs to wade. I’ll delete this game. It’s a pity. In the beginning it was so good. Now there are little nuggets of fun as one actually plays the underlying game but the pantload of added crap makes this app far more irritating than fun.

I love Scrabble but hate the way the developers have dumbed down the game. This is one of the most popular apps and has been around forever but their dictionary has massive gaps—so many words that they claim are valid but they cannot define. Their competitor Lexulous has a much better dictionary and is less frustrating. Words accepts many two-letter words that are not valid Scrabble words. The developers are more concerned about monetizing the game so they are constantly trying to get you to cheat with things like Word Radar. And they annoy you with games within the game in which you accidentally spell words thar you cannot see. Who cares? I hate that the developers do not care about the integrity of the game. If they want to add something users care about they could add a lead change tracker for each game.

You’ve got to be kidding! Why can’t I give you 0 stars?. I was ready to enjoy this game. But what about all those points and “challenges”? Who finds them entertaining? And what do you tell me about those ridiculous ads for even more ridiculous games? Are you aiming at fourth graders maybe? Who likes to suffer witnessing that weird guy getting tortured by the players choices, or see and hear that poor fish crying for mercy? I find those ads very sadistic. Ah, but wait: you don’t want ads? Then pay $9.99 a month! That’s equal to some people’s phone bill. Im quitting this forsaken game. You should quit developing stuff like this. There, I give you that challenge

Deceptive UX. Here’s what you’ve done. If I’m not paying for a game, I get it…ads are a part of the game. But you’re now in the “give an inch take a zillion miles” category of apps and ads. The ads (used to be just one between games) are now multiple, longer, with kind of sketch people looking directly into the camera trying to be excited about some really horrible game, X is many layered-sometimes not at all but takes you directly to download, and just not fun anymore. I’m cutting you loose Words With Friends, I enjoyed it while it lasted but the folks that are running the show have really screwed the pooch. Instead of a reasonable ad-for-play for revenue game, the experience is excruciating like a mini-version of a timeshare presentation. So adios WwFs, it was fun until it wasn’t.

Garbage. I have started 3 games with my mom now. It shows we are both online. We both are starting games with each other and yet NEITHER of our apps show that we’ve been invited to a game. Just random people on the internet. Also, stop with the constant features bombardments and just let us play and look around ourselves if we’d like. I get ads for the free version but ONE AD should suffice not double & triple ads and for several minutes! The way you guys had this when it was popular years ago is how it should be now. Simple, streamlined and not like a Vegas slot machine app with thousands of interferences and adds and challenges jumping into the screen etc. we are going to find another game to play until y’all fix your site. Horrible.

Goodbye WWF. I’ve enjoyed playing WWF for several years. I had the original ad free version, which I was happy to pay for. I resisted upgrading time after time because I feared the ads would be awful. You stopped offering ad free versions, even with pay. Today I upgraded to IOS 11 which meant finally my old WWF app no longer worked. I downloaded the latest version of WWF, and things were just as I feared. Actually, they were WORSE than I feared. As much as I love WWF, it’s simply not worth having an ad play after every single move. It’s no longer relaxing but is in fact tortuous. And it’s. It just the ads. You’ve made the entire game obnoxiously busy busy busy. Sad day for me. I will miss WWF. And I’ve read enough of others’ reviews to know that you have had plenty of complaints, but do nothing. I have no expectations at this point.

LEAVE WELL ENOUGH ALONE!!!. SERIOUSLY, do you HAVE to RUIN EVERYTHING??? I DON’T want EDGAR ALLEN POE’S MUG HANGING AMONG THOSE whose turn it is to play!!! HE’S HAD HIS CHANCE, he should have played the game when he had the chance! We DO NOT; REPEAT, DO NOT WANT DECORATIONS, COLORS CHANGED, GAME MANIPULATED IN REGARD TO COLORS, FLOWERS, DECEASED ADULTS, or ANY FURTHER CHANGES MADE TO THE GAME THAT ATTRACTED US IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! You all are now so empty-headed from trying to entertain, that you are throwing the dregs of your brains SO FAR DOWN THE LINE THAT I ACTUALLY HAVE COME TO DESPISE your stupid, not funny(not even half-funny) desperation to out-do the OTHER IDIOTS TRYING TO OUTDO YOU!!! S-T-O-P!!! If you’re getting money for all these dumb decorated “CHRISTMAS/HALLOWEEN/EASTER GAMES, USE YOUR HEADS AND go get a job that you can really get into, because you’ve ruined more games than I care to count!!! You are about to lose players because you are SO EMPTY HEADED!!!” Signed, So worn out, so disgusted, I honestly think my brain is going to explode, and I HOPE Y’ALL HAVE USED ALL THE ghoulish, infantile accoutrements that reside in your tiny brains!

Updates. Your last update keeps telling me someone has played. Also keeps telling me messages. No messages and when you look at messages it is empty. One sister shows 10 messages to be read, nothing reflects. Another sister reflects 2 messages waiting to be read, nothing shows up. Please fix ASAP. This was fixed now another bad update. My playing screen is smaller, why would you separate pass and swap bottoms to bottom on the screen. We would like to have the original classic game to play. I’ve turned off solo play but they still show up. Sometimes there is three solos, etc. a person can play. DON’T want them. They are also situated above the games I currently are playing. Your finger accidentally touches the side and it says you are playing. Then you have o resign. NUISANCE.

Not what it used to be. I purchased this game years ago. But after accidentally upgrading it and experiencing the incessant bombardment of congratulatory remarks, accomplishment notifications, rewards, etc., I’ve become completely annoyed by this game. This was not what I signed up for when I paid and installed this game. I simply wanted to play scrabble with friends and relatives online. If I want to be interrupted all the time, I’d watch commercials on TV. If I want to wait, I’d go to the DMV. If I want to repeatedly receive unsolicited messages, I’d sign up for spam. Unfortunately, Zynga gave us the three things that ruin a good game: interrupt, wait, and display gratuitous useless information. For this reason, I am giving it an F. However, I will consider upgrading my rating if an option to disable these irritating features is implemented. Thank you.

Buggy and frustrating. So, I never use the cheats playing other people because that just diminishes the challenges. I often practice solo games, though, and what’s been happening for a couple of month now is when a game against the “computer” finishes, it won’t allow a rematch and just bounces me back to the last move screen. In order to start another game, I have to close down the app and restart it. Add to that, even when I win against the computer, it tallies it as a “loss” on the board. Now, onto the Quick Play scheme…why are people entering games and then not playing? Why am I forced to resign and lose a turn because they won’t play just to get back to the standard playing board? Long-standing irritations have to do with the whole whiz bang add-ons, words allowed that don’t exist, and of course, I ended playing random matches because of skanky, aggressive messages from sketchy guys, a known issue for years for women that doesn’t seem to bother Zynga. Rant over. I’ll still play, but it’s becoming, in spite of all of its “enhancements”, an increasingly unwieldy and frustrating game. I know…first-world problems.

Lost it’s fun factor🤬. I agree with the Review that “teachinAK” left —I agree with everything they said -it’s no fun anymore I don’t care who had 489 points with the word that I just played!!!I don’t want to be asked a whole bunch of questions and I don’t care about winning prizes -I just want the old original game as it was -like Scrabble and fun -all you do is make me feel like crap when somebody else got 1000 points off a word I got maybe 20 points on. Stop asking me if I want to add the FB page!!! If I wanted to to that - I would have!!I put up with the other so-called better updates- but this last one makes me want to delete the game altogether. Why don’t you allow us choices on the app site to return to the one that showed what time of year it was -with Sunglasses & Beach starfish- that was cute- the newest one is not cute - just obnoxious!!

Bring back the original WWFs!. I've been playing WWF for years. Up until a couple of weeks ago, I was playing the original version. I accidentally upgraded the game a couple of weeks ago and am very disappointed with it. I still try to play like the original by not using any of the "upgrades". I feel like it's cheating. When I swap, I don't take a turn because that was how the original game did it. I don't care about using all the letters in the word of week or whatever, I don't care how many points someone else made off the same word I played - what is the sense in that?? I don't care about earning badges. I don't care about "hindsight". Enough already! I wish the developers of the game would give us the option to choose which version we want to play. I don't like all the new bells and whistles!! You've ruined a good game. ☹️

Slow and buggy in the past 6 months. I love this game and some of the game play features make it better then other in this category. But it now takes about 20 seconds to load a new game; if I switch apps and and come back I have to wait sone more. Or it just shuts down and I have to reload again. Also some ads take 30 seconds to load. WhY? Who would wait 30 seconds just for an ad? Who would buy an ad that took 30 seconds just to load? I have reviewed this before and gotten a nice note telling me to go to the Help features. It’s Zynga developers who need help saving this venerable game from decline. Btw I am on an iPhone 7 and have not had performance issues with other apps.

Crashes or freezes up ALL the time. I have played Words With Friends nearly every day for 8 years so I am a bit of an expert. I use the Classic WWF app because it is compatible with most of my friends. I am SO FRUSTRATED because it keeps freezing up and I have to delete the app and re-download it. This happens 2-3 times a week. Also, when I buy extra clues, it can take several hours for them to show up. A couple times I have lost the $9.99. There is NO TECH or CUSTOMER SUPPORT. They have a phone number but no one answers, due to Covid. I’m sick of this. I have literally spent several hundred dollars over the years and am getting less and less. There are more glitches in this app than is reasonable and it is no better with their other apps (WWF2). I’m just about ready to quit altogether and go to a Scrabble game. Come on Zinga, you can do better!

Good fun but.... This is a great game to stay connected with family. BUT I have the free version and lately the ads are fake news ads, or they force you to go to the App Store even if you hit X. News Room app makes you go through it 3 times before it returns you to the game. So annoying!!!!!!!!! And I used to have the ad free version- I changed phones, tried to log in and it would recognize me, so now I have the ad version. Love it but hate it, I already paid for no ads once. UPDATE: June 16,2018. So this app updated itself and it’s never been worse! The ads play after they’ve been closed, or it never goes to an ad, just a white screen if nothing. The only way to get rid of it is to restart the phone, every time! If this isn’t fixed soon, there’s no point to play it.

What has happened to my favorite game 😩. This has been my favorite game for years BUT now you are changing to something I would rather not play anymore. I quit Scrabble because of their endless ads and convoluted rewards and prompted ppl to get this app but now, I don’t even know what you are doing. I don’t want to spend ‘tickets’ for solo challenge. I don’t want to upgrade for more rewards. I just want to play the excellent game you designed. Please go back to what you started. I got this game so long ago and believe I even paid a little later on. Then you tried to force me to connect with Facebook which does not interest me. Your support did help me access my old game but now it is getting way too cumbersome. Please simplify and make it fun again.

Extra features unneeded and annoying. I just want to play the barebones version of this game, but it’s no longer possible. The fact that there is not even an option to stop animations from playing every time I play all the letters in the word of the day, or whatever the hell it is, shows that the developers have no regard for longtime players. Multiple comments to this effect have been ignored, as I’m sure mine will be, or met with a response about disabling notifications (which is not the same thing and does not prevent me from losing fifteen seconds of my life when I happen to play all the letters in HEART close to Valentine’s Day or some other cutesy gimmick). My patience is growing thin. I always liked this game for whiling away spare moments or quick breaks from work, but the add-ons are unneeded bloat and make my blood boil. If some players want them, fine — but give us the option to turn them off if we don’t.

No Chat. The game itself is excellent but it should include algorithms that screen for scam artists. Be very careful chatting with people you don’t know. There are a huge amount of scam artists that play this game. Do not give out information in the chat or be lured into a chat app such as Google Hangouts. It is best to assume that the person in the profile is not who they say they are. Some things to look for: - Low level players ( such as level 1). - Profile says they have played many games but won very few - They are bad players. They tend to play short, simple, low scoring words and are not defensive players - They will initiate a chat soon after starting the game. Most serious Words with Friends players do not chat.

What’s Going On?. I recently read a review from a woman who is complaining that this game is becoming like sitting on a barstool. I agree totally with her. Lately the same thing has been happening to me and it is quite annoying. I enjoy playing this game and do not wish to be bombarded with questions about my personal life. I feel like it’s now become a dating service and it’s annoying and I was hoping that you could get to the bottom of it as soon as possible. When she told him that you are married they disappear. So maybe all of us married ladies should just write married in parentheses next to our names so they don’t bother us LOL

What used to be a great app... millennial takeover!. Used to be fun. I used to be able to just play words... with friends. I assume that millennials are in charge now of updates and such for this game. They think that everyone needs constant validation and trophies and awards. I just want to play the game. Even after you PAY for ad free, you’re still subjected to constant pop ups and annoyances of “daily goals” and “challenges” and treasure chests. Who actually likes or needs this? Seriously! It has nothing to do with anything. Most of the annoying options you can turn off, but the self validation ones you can’t. So... if you are a millennial... go for this! Get your trophies and awards and feel good about yourself! If you just want to play a game... GO ELSEWHERE! Well... decision made to quit! Last update for “bug fixes” and such killed the app. It will no longer open. Bye bye WWF!

Why has words with friends gone all “charge me for more activities”. I have been playing words with friends for many years, and enjoying it all of the time except recently when they begun having ads for every game you play beyond the basics! They want you to pay 999 for this game and 9.99 for that game and here’s an a charge for this thing. I also used to enjoy the weekly challenge, however every time I pay it it’s buy more tokens Etc it’sDiscouraging and I am losing interest. I have enjoyed playing Wordle recently because they’re not always hacking you to buy something else

Great EXCEPT for Solo Challenge Glitch. Overall the game is fun but when it glitches it’s a real pain. Regularly it will glitch in Solo Challenge giving message of ‘Oops. Something went wrong’ and there’s nothing you can do. We close the app. We restart phone. We’ve even deleted and reloaded app. All you can seem to do is wait for end of week when new solo challenge loads. This has happened multiple times to both my husband and me. Rarely write reviews. Only writing this one because I’ve been battling this issue and today’s daily challenge is to play a solo challenge game. Seemed like rubbing salt in the wound. Then App Store ‘give a review’ popped up and figured it was a chance to give feedback. There’s nowhere in the game to give feedback on issues so this seemed the only option besides having to just live with it. Otherwise- really enjoy the game. Play it every day.

Don’t like all the awards, etc.. I play WWF on a daily basis. This is how my sister and I stay in touch. However, we don’t like all the coins and awards and wish all the BS would go away. What happened to just the plain old game? I know that some people adore all the added competition but we just want a plain old game, like in the beginning. We have been playing for several years and get tired of all the new “stuff” added. We don’t think that it is improving the game at all! Also, the allowed words get more ridiculous each day. Please design the game as plain and simple WWF and use the English dictionary. Some of the words allowed are unbelievable and the sentences used in the definitions are preposterous! Thanks for allowing me to vent, just wish it would create some action!

Not fun anymore. I purchased the pro version of this app years ago. It was supposed to be a one time payment. To get around that, they stopped supporting the pro version so it no longer downloaded on updated devices. The classic version I am now using is maddening. It’s one thing to have ads between moves. But seeing the same ad over and over that takes at least 4 taps to close when tapping the x, and then when it does finally close it takes you to an install page to have to close again. That’s annoying enough, but that ever present stress inducing casino ad on the top with constant slot machine motion is maddening and distracting. It interferes with concentration to the point of inducing anger. As hard as I try to ignore it, I can’t. I assume it’s designed that way on purpose. It is no longer an enjoyable game. Instead of this game being something to look forward to and fun, I dread playing, and am deleting the app.

It WAS just the best. down below read my review of time past. the latest update has shredded this app. now there are pop ups, suggestions for rules changes, (changing letters but not losing a turn) hints...changes and distorts the game. for heavens sake, do not frack up this app any more. P.S. now it freezes the game after every move, cannot move to the next game. so dissapointing. dont make this into a horrible boggle type platform. pleased with words...it is not junked with pop ups, nonsense interruptions...it has nice communication aspect, i have made nice friends playing the game. very happy with it. can check on statistics, and i like that as well. good job guys. 👍🙂

Bad Ads oh nothing but ADS. Love the game. But since the last update the ads are getting very annoying. Locks up and I have to close the app and reopen it just to get another AD thrown in my face. What a way to push ADS at you. Just about done with this game even though I have been playing it for 10 years back when it was simple with no ADS. I don't need all these pop ups either oh your word gave you 30+ points; I knew that, that’s why I played the word. What is with the points? So I can see where I can play or for your computer to tell we what words I can play and where what fun is that. It’s like cheating if you always have a computer giving you the best words to play. Ok I can go on and on but I will stop with this, you folks have ruined a good game by trying to hard to make it better and adding sooooo many bells and whistles.

Ad complaint “state of survival”. I would like to make a complaint about thx advertisement for a game called “State of Survival” which keeps popping up on Words with Friends. This game looks to be promoting fear and the notion of self above community. It speaks to conspiracy theories, potentially breeds hate and encourages ideas of anarchy. All of this at a time when the world needs to come together with compassion - and as individuals we need to think about our actions to minimise negative impact on those around us for the ultimate good of each of our communities. I feel like the words with friends community is, by and large, an intelligent and thoughtful audience - meanwhile this ad seems to be promoting the opposite. It’s hard to believe that this game is not promoting some kind of politically right wing, violent, anarchist ideology.

MAJOR Quick Play Glitches. The quick play in game game has major glitches that I have literally stopped playing it! It either just hangs in the middle of the game (despite great internet connectivity) and lets the opponent win or both players all together are unable to play at all for several minutes while an "error" constantly pops up UNLESS one exits the game and restarts it a fresh then rejoins game!. Worse still, it often doesn't tally up a word score made or GIVES THE HARD EARNED WORD SCORE TO ONE'S OPPONENT!!! I SWEAR!!. VERY FRUSTRATING AND ANNOYING!!!. I had 78 and played an 86 score word yesterday which would have easily shot me to a 164 meaning a win in the duel but instead the 86 went straight to my opponent and they instead won! YOU CAN ONLY IMAGINE MY FRUSTRATION!. FIX IT!!!!!

Worst advancements of all times.. I used to enjoy WWF. I paid for the no ad version for a reason. I don’t want intrusions while I’m conjuring up a move with very competitive friends. The game has evolved to the point of being a juvenile , in-your-face, game that screams,” look at me” every chance it gets. I don’t want to buy coins; I don’t want to be exempt from certain rules, via point accumulation; I don’t want to be asked to play other people. I especially don’t want to be interrupted after a move and told how wonderful I am. I don’t want to be forced to play for certain predetermined goals I. The insensitivity of developers to the extremely frustrating interruptions as I complete one move and am stalled from jumping to another WWF game when playing multiple games, is mind-boggling. You would think that when you turn the options off in settings that they would all go off but they do not. And some are not even options to turn off. This is not the game we bought years ago. My friends and I ought to be refunded. The rating is average, with the highest points for the essential game and the lowest for the extraneous baggage that the game brings along.

Full of distracting noisy ads.. The ads between every turn are SO annoying. And even the ad-free paid version is noisy. The developers found a great way to make people dump their game. It used to be fun. Now me and my family members can’t be bothered since the noise just too much! The games within games and additional challenges are excessively pushed. Developers: You took a simple amazing game and turned it into a loud obnoxious casino! Did you forget why you made games in the first place? Or are you just concerned with ad-revenue and getting people addicted to dopamine hit-inducing inanity. This shows that you just care about keeping your players addicted and making money off ads and stopped caring about creating games that connect people and allow them to enjoy an awesome game. Shame on you.

Swap Plus Scam!. I have been playing WWF for years and have always loved the game. Recently you introduced a new option called Swap + which allows you to swap letters without missing a turn. You initially offered this as a free trial and of course I, like others, used it to swap out letters that were not ideal as part of my strategic moves. Then, the trial ended and that’s when the shenanigans (on your part) began! After the end of the free trial, all of a sudden, all the letters I receive are equivalent to one point! I’m not talking one or two, but ALL SEVEN of them! This is mysteriously happening in each and every game I play! You are NOT fooling me! This is obviously built in as an algorithm for all of us who took advantage of your free trial to encourage us to now PAY to swap out our low tiles! What a SCAM move!! If it continues, I will be deleting the app because I refused to be manipulated by you!

Good game to leisurely play. I have been playing words with friends for numerous years......good to pass the time plus meet new players(I have played with most of the Ladies for years). Question on why now a player can only have 1500 coins in their Bank. It used to be Unlimited, so you could use Coins to purchase the different frames for your photo. Some players might not be able or willing to Buy the Styles of Frames plus all the extras. It would be a Cool Option again for players to use their Coins to purchase frames. Years ago I had a very Awesome frame for my photo. Thanks for looking into that. dpetunia29 😎

Great games. I like everything about classic words. I especially love all the challenges. I rate it high because of that. I do have 1 problem. Recently I updated it and my word of the day went away. The challenge to accomplish it is still there but all the challenges except the word of the day is now under solo. The banner at the top is gone. I have been in contact with WWF and have tried everything they have suggested, even deleting the app and reinstalling it. I have been asking someone else what the word is. I think you need a new update. I don’t want to download WWF2.

Used to be the perfect game. All the extras they put in the app in the form of challenges within the game, and the congratulating me for using a letter of a word of their challenge, inside the first challenge is utterly ridiculous. I don’t play the game nearly as often, because when that noise comes up and interrupts my game i just close the app. I used to play it all throughout the day with multiple players of my choice. Not anymore. If you think people like all the extra garbage, then create another words with friend app for it all. Those who appreciate the simple perfection of your original game design can stick with it. You will be surprised and how many stick with the original. Zynga has completely lost sight in their little design room of what the user actually uses and likes.

Angry and frustrated. I’ve been playing for five or more years. I loved playing with my family all over the country and would have given five stars... BUT now they keep raising the goal to win the weekly game. 4,000, then over 5,000. Now this week over 6,000 points. Same number of friends playing. I won’t even try, will just play the games with my sibs and forget trying to progress. Ruined for me!!! Now it’s over 7000. I only play with my siblings. I play with 4 people. Spending not another cent until the weekly goal is realistic. Come on people

Has lost it's charm - very annoying. I have been a player for many years and really enjoyed playing with my actual friends - however this year it added very annoying features such as constantly trying to get you to play with completely unknown people or computer bots??? Who knows? It also captures your screen from time to time while you are trying to complete your waiting games and announces that you have played a word in a game the app invented- the only solution to getting out of that I have found is to turn my device off and wait several hours or more before re-entering the app. Can not find any way to stop these problems - I hope a better program comes along - if a reviewer finds one please let us all know!