Words With Friends – Word Game Game Reviews

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PC run amok.... I am finishing the current games, and then I will delete the app. I enjoyed the original version, as inadequate as it was. In 10 years they have not expanded the dictionary. Indeed, in the UK version, they claim that “a dictionary is not yet available for your language.” (!! None. Nada.) Zynga also removed the list of words played in the UK version, so it’s nearly useless. In addition they have involuntarily enrolled me in their “win prizes” schemes in support of the Susan Komen Foundation, supporter of Planned Parenthood and abortion. They offer for $sale “power up your game”, coins that allow and encourage cheating. In addition to the new bubblegum colors, the entire experience has been infantilized. They force games with fictional characters onto my screen, some of which there is no option to withdraw. I once played this game with intelligent people from all over the world. It was a stress-buster. Now it has been heavily and thoroughly monetized, politicized like everything else (there are many “forbidden” words based on political correctness.) I’m ready to cut it loose. I regret losing the many connections I’ve made, but I look forward to spending my time more productively.

Great game; terrible glitches!. The game itself is awesome and a fun way to stay connected to people you know around the country and the world. But, the technical problems with the game app are the worst I’ve ever encountered! Being locked out. Childish censorship within messages that violate free speech. Notification numbers always wrong, stuck and incorrect. Being temporarily suspended by the makers just because some scammer says you harassed them when you didn’t. The number of fake players who are really scammers is out of control, where they use the game and its message system to contact legitimate players and ask them for money or contact information. Not knowing the rules of how to advance on the Progress Maps. Past badges not accessible. Links within the game not working. The list goes on. Words With Friends is a fun game if you can tolerate all of its very numerous problems, especially the technical ones. The makers need better programmers to fix the bugs!

7+ years of depleting its Scrabble roots. WWF is probably my most frequented app w/ the displeasure of my wife. I remember 7-8 years ago downloading the app, purchasing the ad-free version & outsmarting opponents. I used to count tiles & block moves at the end of games so opponents would get stuck w/ Q's, Z's, J's, etc... Slowly the app has been becoming more amateur friendly with word strength, a remaining letters tab, etc. I was reluctant but adjusted, & became fine with it as it made my opponents more competitive. The new Swap+ feature is total BS, and basically the reason why I'm writing this review. Please, delete this immediately. This takes away the integrity and strategy of Scrabble. Btw, the new version totally deleted many of the features WWF has recently implemented with a few bugs others have complained about (I.e. the green lightning icon). Lastly, badges are totally unfair. I remember playing the game hours on end so I had a chance to win a T-shirt. I remember having to score 5000+ pts per week while some family members only had a goal of 2000+. If you do anything in future updates, please, for the love of nerds like me, get rid of Swap+.

Failed update!. I loved playing Scrabble with my friends in college so when we moved on and away from each other, we used this to continue playing against each other with. And it was so much fun! Lately, like I’ve read in other reviews, the “showing” of the rewards takes more time to watch through than laying my tile on the board. Ok that’s fine, I still love the game. But when I updated the WWF app last night, the app stopped working?! It looks stuck with the tile turning or saying “loading...” and I can’t access any of my games anymore, ARRGH!! Usually I read the reviews but this time I didn’t because I didn’t expect the WWF app to stop working on me! Please, please fix!!! I really want to continue to play with my friends and other challengers... I really don’t want to delete this app... * * Updated app two days later with new update and STILL HAVING PROBLEMS!! New update is still not loading??? What is wrong? I can no longer plays this game and am thinking I will need to delete this and find another word game. So disappointed that this new update does not work at all. * *UPDATE #2- folks having issues try deleting the app and downloading it again- it seems to have worked for me as all my games are still there along with my data, yay!

Need a basic option. I got this app only to informally keep in touch with my mother-in-law. Have you ever visited somebody and you arrive late in the day and you’re exhausted and you crave sleep…and the guest bed has like 20 dolls and pillows and cover spreads on it and it’s a project just to get into bed? That’s what this app is like. here’s a whole bunch of unnecessary junk everywhere — especially if you don’t get the ad free version. Ads across the top : ads after every move you make — which feels really excessive when you’re working through the final moves of a match with the low point words that nobody in their right mind uses in real life. When stuck in the throes of an ad, they made it quicker to tap an install button and the cancel out of it, and you know the heathens on the Words marketing team are probably tracking that and using it as a talking point to get even more advertisers. And the ads… omg the ads… they force you to ask ‘whose broken minds are these made for?!’. It’s all pretty depressing. Will probably figure out a better way to stay in touch with the mother in law. Can’t wait to uninstall

Disappointed. I have been playing again for a short while. (Had stopped playing for a couple years.) During this short period back, this game has disappointed me several times. I have tried to play a couple words, which are actual words, some of which the Words With Friends dictionary even defines, yet the game tells me that the word is not valid. The dictionary even shows that other people have played the words through their “highest scoring play” section. Seriously??!!!?? I reported the issue and the first rep said they would make note of it... uh, thanks, but that doesn’t help my game play... Guess it’s time to stop playing this game again. ***UPDATE: After a couple more plays with valid word rejections, and additional correspondence with the support team (who provided no beneficial information, solution or resolution), I decided to try other versions of Words With Friends. Low and behold, Words With Friends 2 seems to be allowing words that were rejected in other versions. So far I’ve confirmed one was accepted. If this older version of the app is not going to function properly or be updated, it should just be retired. Smh

Cool. This is a berry good app which teaches words. When you put some random letters that you think could make a word it will say I it is a valid word. The problem with it, is that there are way too many adds. I’m fine with watching lots of adds when an app gives you more coins or gold bars or whatever their type of games money’ is. But this app just has an add almost every time you make a word and play it. A cool thing about this app though, is that it has power ups. You can swap out your letters without loosing a turn, or you can see what word you could of made. You can also see all the areas you can put words in. And finally, you can have the app illuminate different boxes and the letter tiles that make a word if your stuck. This is an ok game, but please try and take out some of the adds. There are way too many.

WORDS. We have been playing Words with Friends for a long time now and we evidently enjoy the play or we wouldn’t waste quite so much time at the app. We do find that the WORDS DICTIONARY contains words that do not appear in the other dictionaries and that the WORD DICTIONARY doesn’t contain some actual words that do appear in the WEBSTER DICTIONARY, for example. Even if a word is recognized as a word, it should not be allowed in play if it has no meaning. Fact is, it shouldn’t be recognized as a word at all. It is only a group of letters that no one can pronounce and that fits into a space. Scrabble rules should be more of a guideline perhaps. Updates have cluttered the app with a bunch of meaningless activity and worthless prizes. I know, its all for fun but all the extra stuff just makes the app less convenient to navigate. Regardless, we engage the Solo Challenge and find it quick and challenging but the distribution of letters sometimes stinks and the computer persons we play against surely come up with a lot of trees and vines and bugs and stuff from millions of years ago. Maybe they are in the dictionary but, if they aren’t, even the WordMasters shouldn’t be allowed to play them.

Crazy words. I’m a newbie here and enjoying this game with my sister who lives in Canada. We text and play at the same time and it’s great fun. But I’m very disappointed with the Solo Challenge. I’m on the fourth level now with Archibald and his first three words were “vaw” and “bunn” and “Malkin” ... none of which are standard English words. Perhaps I’m just on the wrong page. I remember terrific “live” games with clever friends and our rules which so discouraged obscure or foreign words that if a standard dictionary didn’t cover the word, the player lost his turn. No proper names allowed and no foreign words ... which lost me many turns when I switched to French or Hindi. If these games are just an exercise in checking obscure medieval words or misspellings ... such as “bunn” ... then the game has lost its charm for me. I like testing wonderful vocabularies, reaping the benefits of a lifetime of voracious reading. Not just “tricking” opponents with words never used in today’s world by English speakers.

Love the game, hate the gimicks. This is the game I play the most, but every time they update they mess it up more. They give you pop up player suggestions, and screens that get In the way and freeze up your game. This just adds frustration to what is supposed to be a fun, relaxing game. In case the makers don’t realize it, the word “ game” implies that it is supposed to be fun, not frustrating. Now they have all of these points, which might be a fun addition, but you have to jump through stupid hoops to collect them, such as pushing a button that says “Great” after you push a button that says “Claim” and read a list of “rewards”. It makes the player feel like a rat being tested in a maze. It’s all hogwash. The buttons freeze and the stupid screen won’t go away because they want me to watch a 3 second video to show me adds that I paid to not have to watch when I bought the app. My husband, who already has enormous hands that don’t work well on little screens has completely given up. It was the only game we played together, so they just gimmicked their way right out of customers.

Words with Family and Friends. This is a great App on it's own merit. What I really love about words with friends is that it's a way to keep in touch with friends and family who are far away. It's a way of checking in with my nieces and nephew who otherwise I might only see on Holidays. I also like that you are able to send messages back and forth if you wish, during play "nice game!" A pat on the back is always appreciated! I like that you don't have to commit to an entire game at one sitting. I have 5-10 games going with different people at the same time. Some days I only play one word per game. And if I'm particularly busy I don't play at all. Know this, you will always have something to do when you have a moment and you will be making a connection with someone you care about at the same time. Win/win.

What Happened?. I’ve been playing this game forever. Nothing secret or magic about it, it’s essentially Scrabble. That part of the app works well and is worth 5 stars. So why the 1 star? Two reasons. First, you will NEVER find an app with as many annoying “pop-ups” in the middle of gameplay. The most frustrating part of that is that these popups aren’t even Ads. They are game announcements of new “gifts” and “rewards” that I’m willing to bet the overwhelming majority of users don’t care about. We want to play Scrabble. Period. I don’t care how many useless purple gems I’ve gotten for completing something I didn’t know I was playing and don’t really want to play. I want to play Scrabble. That’s why I downloaded the app. Second problem... FIX THE SOLO CHALLENGE. This entertaining portion of the game, which essentially pits you against AI of increasing difficulty, is fun. When it works. Which it doesn’t anymore. Ever. For weeks now. Just gets stuck and never clears, even after deleting and reinstalling the app. It’s Scrabble. How the hell did you manage to screw up the app so badly that you got a 1 star review from anyone? This app is like the doughnut shop that decides to start selling pizza too. Stay in your lane and do what you do well!!! Make doughnuts, not pizza and make a simple Scrabble app work!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is ridiculous.. I’m tired of losing games when I still have viable options. This happens with opponents and in practice games. Not only does it say game ended when it has not, it takes away the points from your last play. So if I had 376 points before it gave away the game to my opponent, it’s now saying I had 356 with 4 letters left still sitting in front of me showing me multiple plays. It’s ridiculous and it’s happened 4 times now. I even have screenshots of this. One of me putting in a word after it tells me the game has ended and having it amount to 38 points which would have allowed me to win the game. WHAT IS THIS GLITCH?! It messes up stats and all. Also what about when you try to play a word and it’s invalid but others can play that word? This is BS. I also agree with all the other crap I’ve read in reviews, words that aren’t valid in any dictionary but valid here yet says “definition not available yet” in your OWN dictionary? Obsolete words used back before any of us were born but words used today in current dictionaries unable to be played? All these crappy, childish ads? Who is this game for? Obviously our voices and opinions aren’t cared for, and it’s such a shame because these companies are built on our backs.

Love it. I enjoy this game and play everyday. I find It at time intruding into space set up for me to do other things. Takes some discipline in my part. I enjoy being able to exchange lettters without penalty one time. I didn’t think being able to see spaces available where I could play would benefit but find it does help especially on a challenging environment. I like being able to chat. And presentation after the play to see if I placed my words in the best place or utilized the highest points that turn is fun. The advertisement sometime get stuck and I have to stop playing and turn off the game. I love scrabble but didn’t always have company to play. So I played the board by myself. But words with friends is so much more fun than the physical board of scrabble. I enjoy solo play but gets frustrating when I make real words and the game won’t except. I miss being able to pass the phone back and forth when out with my little ones and engage in a game. Overall I love the game and highly recommend

Game going down hill. I love word games, and have played this one for years. Sadly, the quality of the game is going down hill, especially each time changes are made. No abbreviations are to be used, but they allow them. I mean, what is CWM? Had to look it up. But the most frustrating part is when an opponent played a word that when looked up, on the game’s dictionary, was listed as NOT a word, but yet allowed it to be played. This has happened several times. Daily bonus was 100 coins. I was out for a time due to illness, and found upon return that daily bonus is down to a coin or two a day, with every so many days offering a special item instead. My biggest problem with this, aside from the cheapness of giving a coin or two a day, is that half the time the bonus does not work when you click on it. A message will pop up saying it is not working right then please come back, but the item is checked off and there is no going back for that bonus. It is the 24th of the month, but my daily bonus dots are only on 12, and I click on this every day. This has been going on for some time. If you just want to do a crossword against others, or a computer, without all the bonuses and such, then this game will be great for you.

I'd like it better. I like the basic Words with Friends. I don't like the extra bells and whistles, and the annoying appeals to play various games with members. The ads are very annoying. I could tolerate the ads if there weren't so many glitches. Some ads won't go away no matter that I wait for the ad to run and no matter how many timed I click on the x it often will not go away. Too often the ad stays on the screen and I can not get back to the game I'm playing. Several friends I used to play with have stopped playing WWF altogether for the same reasons. You have made a good game too complicated and annoying with too many interruptions and glitches.I gave it four stars for the basic premise but I would have given it only one because of the annoyances. I need to add, your dictionary needs renovation. You accept too many very obscure words and foreign words and reject too many standard English ones that appear in most standard English and American dictionaries.

Horrible update. This would get ZERO stars if possible... I’ve been a dedicated fan of this game for a long time, but the update they did for ios12 is cluttered, rigged with all kinds of pay offers, and simply lousy... I’ve talked with the 8 people I play with regularly and they all agree this new version is awful. In response to the developer asking me to “take time and get used to the new look of the game”, I simply say, you are NOT listening to the criticism... badges won’t clear, you’re loading the game up with so many “paid feature” notifications and things that a user must clear each time they open the game... if you want revenue, why not offer the OLD game as a paid, crap-free app? I’d easily pay $10 for the old app and not have to worry about your money-grubbing, screen-clogging crap that is the main focus of this “update”!

Game Used to be Favorite. I’ve been playing this game since 2009 and it used to be amazing. I’d keep the maximum allowed ongoing games and thoroughly enjoyed the competition. It was simply Scrabble, one if the most popular board games ever, straightforward in design and challenging just like the beloved board game. So why mess with perfection. The direction the developers have taken over the years has practically ruined this game and I can see by the reviews I’m not the only one that feels this way. The play is slow and all the fluff graphics that’s been added over the years is annoying and slows down play. The expanding dictionary of allowable words that aren’t words interferes with truly competitive play. I now keep a max of 2-3 games going and those are with my significant other and a real friend. I NEVER choose a random player, it’s just not fun anymore. The Solo Challenge was a welcome addition at first but with the recent update, it’s no longer enjoyable. I’m giving 2 stars only because I have such fond memories for the original game. Message to the developers…….just because you can add all the unnecessary graphics and fluff it doesn’t mean you should. I paid for ad-free years ago and would gladly pay again to get the original version back.

Pastime pleasure.... I love this game... and have played it for years every morning with my morning cup of coffee…I play the old-fashioned way with none of the colorful play options perched above for the less astute player. I play with like-minded players (I think!) and play just for the sheer fun of building words! A wordsmith at heart I suppose. I enjoy the badges and find myself trying to achieve the set goal, however, I wish those weekly goals would scramble from high to low, low to high, and everywhere in between... not just demanding a higher target every week making it sometimes too difficult to achieve it in the time I allow myself to play. Even in the case of other players using the enticing bling aids, I still enjoy the simple pleasure of mixing letters with the use of my own brain and it matters not if other players do or do not. Somehow, with time, you find compatible playmates who keep the game challenging, yet stay true to the integrity of the basic game of Scrabble. Oh! And I occasionally like to look at my stats ... rather interesting! Thank you for this enjoyable game!

Truly ruined a good thing!. 1.) All of the in-app goals and achievements are new and give you NO WAY to opt out of these! They are a nuisance, they slow the game down, and I would venture a guess that these slow down the game so much they are part or all of the cause of the app frequently crashing! 2.) even with the app updated and the latest IOS, the game still frequently crashes. It’ll open for about 5 seconds and then close! This happens with regularity and NEEDS A FIX!!! Every couple of months this happens, and won’t stay open long enough to even contact their customer service to report the problem! 3.) There are all kinds of other annoying little glitches inside the game that I’ve reported many times and they have yet to be fixed! Chat feature is totally useless and messes up all the time! People who request a game and I deny them, they then show up in my friends list even though I never accepted their game! Red indicator numbers don’t disappear after whatever section is checked and scrolled through! And numerous other issues!!! ZYNGA, GET IT TOGETHER AND FIX ALL THE GLITCHES, COME UP WITH A PERMANENT SOLUTION FOR APP CRASHING ALL THE TIME, AND FOR GOD SAKE MAKE THE IN-GAME ACHIEVEMENTS AND GOALS OPTIONAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Word. Game review. I like the word game slot . I wish the pay amount was less when your striving to swap letter. There is one big problem. It seems that many of the men on here are scammers . I have encounters about 5 of them . This scam is on the Nigerian scam which these black men impersonate white men who look like business men and start off telling you how beautiful they are . Then it escalates to talking w u everyday morning and night ! They act like they like you but In Reality they want you to invest your money which I found out is the Nigerian scam . Also when I thought something was wrong I went to a physic and yes she said I was scammed by these men. Then I went to the local police and they agreed it’s the scam ,! So can you possibly prevent these men from coming on this site because they are ruining our lives? They have American names and have 3to 4 digits after their name . They also want u to hangout on ksngout w your email address and they plY very little on the game and talk a lot !! Help us women not to be scammed . Thank you

TONS of Ads and Pop-Ups. The number of ads and pop-up notifications this game wastes your time with is disgusting, the owner of this is like a slumlord but in the app industry. I’m just trying to spend some time with my Grandma playing scrabble. Each turn you have ads you have to try waiting and clicking through, but most of the time it hits a dead end with an inability to exit out of an ad, and you have to fully close the app in order to make it go away, HUGE time waste relative to any other app I’ve used. So now I usually just end up closing and swiping away the app the moment the ads start. Then in order to see pop-up notifications of your grandma having played her turn, you have to be subjected to about 6 other pop-up notifications per turn, and you can’t select which type of notification to allow. And then you wanna basically allow people to cheat if they pay you enough money (extra no-skip tile swaps, word hints, etc.)? Owners of this app a bunch of moneygrubber dirtbags. But what else am I gonna play with my grandma other than scrapple?

Great game but too much going on in the app.. I love this game and I’ve been playing for years but I’ve found the app gets more and more annoying. I just want to play the game. I don’t need all these added features like power ups and rewards. I just want to play a word game. I do like the solo challenges. They are a fun way to practice your skills when you’ve completed your games with actual people but other than that I’m not a fan of any of the new features. In the latest update the power ups are much more forced on you. I would rather lose a game than win with power ups though. The point of the game, in my mind, is to get better at making words with higher points. It’s a game of skill and the power ups kind of ruin that. In the new update, after I get through a few levels of the solo challenge it makes it so in the next game there’s a bunch of extra triple and double word squares. Again, I just want to play the regular game. You don’t need to improve on what is already a great game as it is. It was better when it was simple. It also asks if you want to send a sticker after every move which I don’t think is needed because you could send that through the chat if you wanted. I just think it would be better if it was kept simple. Also I find the app to be slow and glitchy but I don’t mind that as much as all the unnecessary extra stuff.

The reviews of cheating is right!. The AI cheats in solo challenges creating words that have no definition or isnt a word you can look up on the app , it says word does not exist. So how is it able to play some made up jumbled mess of words. All long creating 60+ points to gain a huge advantage over the player. Also takes up all the triple word spots leaving you nowhere decent to play while the AI takes credit for the huge amount of points over you. Same with all the player 2 player games the new hints and button to show where you can play gives most others a way to cheat or a way to just pay 2 win over everyone else. They can use as many as they want. I liked the original version of this app. I still enjoy it but the AI is weak and has to take cheat shots at you to win. I do not like or agree with the fact the AI can use fake made up false words racking up a large lump sum of points to give you a low/zero chance at winning or beatung them fairly same with using 3x triple point tiles leaving you with bad letters and no tiles for points. Fix your app maybe we would enjoy it a little more and make it fair. Shouldnt have to play AI 5+ times to win as a skilled player. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Not worth playing. And this isn’t review from some disgruntled “I never win” player. I win all the time. What totally makes this just a joke is playing the AI and three out of the 5 words they play are “This is a valid Words With Friends word, and we will have a definition soon”. Total BS. Like the word played - “Alfa”, and the definition was “for the letter A”, which would be Alpha. But if I try to play the same word, it is not recognized. And every word the AI plays is worth at least 35 points, and again, most of them are BS words. Secondly, throughout all the games in WWF, it is way to common that I get 7 vowels, or seven 1 to 2 point consonants, while the AI typically gets a great range of letters and plays 5 and 6 letter words most of the time. I literally got 13 straight vowels in one game, which is statistically almost impossible. And the pop-up ads. They used to make a version that you could buy that was ad free, but now you can purchase “1 month ad free” - a straight money grab. And the game seizes up on the ads at LEAST twice a day where I have to restart my iPad. You developers have taken all of the joy out of this game and I would not recommend it to anyone.

Help.. I bought a brand new phone and now the game won’t open. How do I get it to work without wiping out all of my existing games, that is, if it hasn’t caused me to time-out on all of them already? As for my opinion of the app, I give it 3 1/2 stars and I’m with everyone else about the annoying ads, especially the ones where I have to wait, what feels like a full minute, for the loud, crashing noises and obnoxious music (?) to shut up, before it finally decides to give me the exit button, when it gets good and ready, as if that will endear me to the game so much that I will succumb to its charm 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. I also don’t give a single care about all the, bonus points, awards and other fluff. Great for those who do, but I only care about my score against my opponent and for love of the game. Now can someone please tell me how to get back into it? I’d appreciate it. Thanks. 🙂

Not as trustworthy as I originally thought. I bought this as a premium app years ago. Everytime it gets updated because either the iOS or the app itself was updated, it starts showing advertisements again. I complained a few times and they fixed it until the next update. At which time they bounced me back to advertisers again. It also pleads with me once or twice a week to allow its advertisers to track me. I do not want your app tracking my phone stop asking. Stay out of my business. I do not want to keep asking you to honor the premium contract that you sold to me. I now play until you show a pop up add. So I shut this down like every other move now. You have allowed some advertisers to run during game play blocking the view of player scores which is a little bit of a buzz kill. I am very close to deleting this app that is otherwise enjoyable. If and when I do, I will make a mental note to add your organization to the disreputable list

Used to be more fun...... I’ve been playing WWF for years. I thought I paid not to get ads, but evidently ads have taken over and are obnoxious and childish. I don’t appreciate the interruptions. I would rather opt out of the juvenile ads. I have also noticed that sometimes when I win a game with Practice, it is listed that I lost. Even though I don’t check my stats that often, I now know why they’re incorrect. I could not remember losing over 300 games. All of a sudden word like: ee, oo, vu and several others have been added. New words should not be added without definitions. Especially when sometimes these new words aren’t in any dictionary. I probably won’t be playing much longer. I read the reviews and even though complaints and suggestions are made to improve the game, which would be to return it to how it was, the developer has done nothing. I hope improvements are made soon. Looking for a new fun game that doesn’t bombard me with ads directed at kids.

Gone downhill. I have played this game for years and HAD enjoyed it. Now, it has gotten unbearable to play. The ads are more and more frequent. You used to be able to X out of them. Not any more! You cannot get out of them. They lock up your screen and you have to close the app and reopen in order to continue. During play the screen will lock up suddenly and AGAIN you have to exit the app and start again. The updates have ruined the game. They are constantly trying to trick you into purchasing “upgrades” that help you cheat, otherwise you can’t compete with other players who have bought into it. What happened to the coins you used to win? Now all you get for bonuses is useless badges and frames! Lately I’ve been spending more time watching and trying to exit ads than playing the game! The only reason I didn’t give it a 1 is that there are actually other apps that have gotten even worse with the ads and money grubbing. I rated those a 1 (lowest rating possible) and deleted them. Update: One more ROYAL MATCH ad and I’m deleting this app too! This is ridiculous!

Ad Practices Should Be Illegal. I’m going to start by saying that the ONLY reason that I haven’t deleted this game is because I play back-and-forth with my senior mother. The ads that the developer runs are TERRIBLE. You as the user have ZERO ability to control volume or silence many of the ads j less you have your volume turned all the way down. Turning the sound off does not work; there are still ads that will blast sound. The only way around it is to manually turn your phone volume down. That is a huge safety concern, as I have forgotten to turn my volume back up again. Many of the ads don’t have an icon to tap to silence. This seems like something that the FCC should be notified of. I’m so tired of playing while I have a few moments, needing discretion with my activities, only tj havecan embarrassing blast of sound that I scramble to stop. Also, it’s harassing when you exit out of advertisement after waiting 25-30 seconds, only to be prompted back to the page to download the game/app again. Five times or more. Very deceptive, very unethical. Shame on you, Zynga.

Glitching & Scamming with $99 charges!. I have 9999+ because I accidentally hit a pop up costing $99 twice in the past 3 years. The very second I hit it (because picking up an iPhone8 is an easy way to touch the hone button) its done with no way out, I actually enjoy ‘earning coins’ & cant imagine why anyone would want 9999+ coins. I try to reverse/undo the tranaction immediately & report it to Apple & my Apple Pay credit card. My card company credits me the $110, and the following month its back on my card. I am a retired teacher on a fixed, no COLA pension. I have enjoyed playing daily since 2011. The pop ups are a sneaky way to charge us for crap we don't need or want & making it so hard to reverse is a scam! Its nefarious & a bad business model. Offer all the extras you want, but please make it a 2 step verification to purchase. Simply take back the coins!! The game is fun, but the pop up traps make it a pain. And in the last month its GLITCHING. Its stuck so I cant go back to replay solo challenges. In speed challenges, the screen moves around keeping us from moving tiles. Fix the bugs & quit stealing my $$$.

Word Game With Friends Review. Pluses: Fast moving Good board with reward squares in different places in each new game Easily addictive when not frustrating Opportunity to earn coins is recent and keeps players in the game Minuses: Opponents may have advantage in Swapping letters because he has a huge supply of Swap+ from purchasing and opponent has few and can’t swap..certain opponents always have just the right letters while other struggles with 5 i’s and 2 U’s, or a v q x c j v for example, several turns in a row...opponent with impossible letters fall behind fast as opponent surges ahead impossible for player to catch up. Throw of letters appears to not be random...all vowels or all consonants, or all consonants with no blends is frequent occurrence... Sometimes the promised 50 coins for completing challenge goal doesn’t register Sometimes Word Game presents a blank screen for a day or so...player can’t earn swap coins toward weekly goal. There might be too many U’s and V’s in the game because More often than not, I am left with them for the last few plays. The Dictionary of allowed words crack me up. So many words are Celtic, Old Scottish, Hebrew, meanings from an antiquities list I think, while many commonly used words today are not allowed. The best one yet is the one that states “ no meaning for this word at this time “ That’s it for now. Sheila

Desperate Need for iOS 13 Update. Ever since the latest major iOS update I have been experiencing problems with Words With Friends that I have never before experienced. So many bugs that need to be fixed! I have been waiting since September 22 for a Words With Friends update to hopefully fix these issues. At all times, my badge app icon says 4, like I have 4 games where it’s my turn to play even after I go into the app and refresh it the main page. I think there is a bug where all of my open games is listed under only one friend’s name: it looks like I’m only playing against 1 friend with 5 open games. I messaged my cousin whom I constantly play with everyday, asking where she’d been because on my end WWF said she hadn’t played a move in 3 days (now 7) and she said we had been playing the whole time! Its the same situation with another friend, my aunt, whom I play with multiple times daily. I just can’t tell who I’m playing against! I love this game and have been regularly playing for about 6 years, but these problems I’ve been having ever since updating to iOS 13 is very upsetting and very frustrating. Please get to work on an app update that addresses these types of issues and bugs!

Why I hate this game now. All the new features are really annoying and detract from the fun of the game. Problems were not fixed with all the new bells and whistles, and new ones were introduced. Notifications. Sometimes you get notified that it’s your turn, mostly you don’t. The badge icon hardly works so you never know how many games are waiting. Opening the app. When you first go in, it seems to randomly choose one of your games and presents as your turn. But it’s just the one game. The “Next” button isn’t active even when you have several games waiting. I now immediately exit this game. Then I see my list of active games, and the “Next” button is presented as I take each turn. Finishing. When you complete a game, you’re given an opportunity to start a new one with that player. If you do, after you make your first play, you click “Next” and it takes you back into the game you just completed even if you have several others waiting. And they still haven’t fixed the problem of prompting both the winner and loser to start a new game, even after one of you already has! What’s up with that?! Often you end up with multiple games with the same player. So annoying. I want to like this. I love the challenge of Scrabble. But this is no longer fun.

WWF in now a piece of crap.. I have played this game for 10+ years. I paid for my original version, which Zynga no longer supports, thus effectively taking my money and not delivering. That is known as fraud. The original two versions of the game did not have all the crap this game now contains. I do not want to be rewarded for their arbitrary milestones, nor do I want to play games within games, nor do I want to see coins and party boxes flashing in my face. Additionally, the crap they have added now causes the games to move at a glacial pace, many times freezing when you are trying to place letters or not responding to a PLAY command. And the ultimate challenge, which occurs at least once a day, is that the game is so incapable of keeping up with the speed of play that it simply collapses. The screen blanks out to white, freezes and is not recoverable. The only way to get it back is to shut down your device and reboot. This is a clear indication that they have built a game without the industrial strength to handle all the crap they have built into it. I play with approximately 8-10 people. We ALL experience this BS. Some people I played with have quit WWF and gone to Word Chum out of frustration. Congratulations Zynga, you really have succeeded at turning a good, well-liked game into a piece of garbage.

New Bells and Rolling suggestion at bottom of screen!. I have been playing WWF for many years. Please, take this rolling suggestion of which game I should play next, away! It is so very annoying! I am capable of picking the next game to play since I prefer to pick my own order. Currently I have about 56 games going, so I believe I can make that decision myself. Also, this latest update slows down my rhythm, having to wait until the opponents words displays slowly, one letter at a time, and only then can I see my available letters. When I’m playing back and forth , live with my opponent, it’s distracting to have to wait. Please give us the option to do away with the suggested next player. Now you’ve added all the extra bells when forming a word Omg, the noise is distracting, slows the game down and is redundant, we already had the thing that acknowledged an acceptable word! Then all the extra steps to get to the dang rewards. We don’t need all the new flashy bells and whistles. With all the extra time it takes now, just waiting for the bells to stop, I’ll have to cut back on the number of games I play. Probably the majority of people playing this game are adults and don’t need the flashy stuff to encourage us to play anyway.

Can we just play the game?. Do you know how many times I’m trying to play a word in a game and accidentally click on a pop up announcement that another game is available, if I have a new gift, or a goal, or any other number of things? I don’t care about earning keys to unlock new colored tiles. Or stickers to play after my moves (literally have NEVER seen anyone use the stickers). And I’m definitely not paying you $13 to unlock all of the useless crap. This is so Zynga. You put games inside games inside games until what you have becomes unplayable. I stopped using this app a year ago because it was too much and I’ll stop again soon. I’d rather pay for the game then have to deal with all of the pop-ups and announcements and getting notifications for stuff no one wants. Some of the innovations are actually good. Like the quick challenges of seeing who can score the most points in 5 rounds. Or having to beat the “masters”. Those are fun and actually help to improve one’s word usage and gameplay. But the all the rest can go.

Words.. Love playing the game. The problem is most of the men are looking for more than a game. I feel like I’m always warding off guys who “ want to get to know me better.” Then when you tell them you just want to play words, they quit playing. That’s irritating. There are other sites that they can find “relationships”. Please be respectful. Say hello and move on and play words. Please. It’s making me want to sign off this game. I challenge you to put some females you know on this game and you will see. They are like wolves. If you don’t engage and give them your personal information and email they get mad and resign. COME ON. ITS A GAME. GO SOMEWHERE ELSE FOR LOVE AND RELATIONSHIPS. I love this game but I’m about to resign permanently. I played this game a few years ago and it wasn’t like this. I’m tired of feeling like I have to tell my life story to play a game. This is not a dating site. I think you need to put that in your description of the game. I had 4 guys resign this morning because I don’t give my personal information. PLEASE GUYS GO TO A HOOK UP SITE WHERE THE GIRLS ARE WANTING TO “GET TO KNOW YOU BETTER! PLEASE. I hope you check this out. It makes it very uncomfortable to play.

Why Doesn’t the Game Allow me to use all my Letters?. I like words with friends and it’s a great game. But on two different occasions, when different opponents and I were very close in points and down to our last couple of letters to finish the game, the opponent will play a move and then the game will automatically say game over making them the winner. But I still have one or two letters left which can be used to make words that will make me end up having more points than them. I don’t have an opportunity to play my last couple of letters. Is it a glitch? Are the opponents cheating? In most cases when I’m down to my last letter and there are no words to make then it makes me pass and it says there are no possible words. The opponent have a chance to play or pass and then it will say who the winner is. It’s just a little frustrating when you have words that will cause you to win and you end up losing because you were never given the chance. I have screen shots of the scrabble boards that shows the points before and after I place my last letters down to show that I would have won if given the chance....if it will help the developers.

Tons of Potential But Falls Short. This game could be so much more than what it is. But sadly, it is rife with technical issues. The Lightning Round challenge, for example, has begun to kick me out right in the middle of the game! I recently had an issue with Duels, as well. For three days, I fought to keep my 1st place status, and was successful. However, when I logged in after the challenge was over, I couldn’t view game results to collect my winnings. I contacted tech support on 11/20, but no one ever got back with me. At the very least, they could’ve credited me with what I should’ve won, but instead, they left me hanging. Oh, and the CRAZIEST thing happened today! I was in the middle of a duel when I got interrupted by an ad! I can’t make this stuff up! The game is quickly becoming more trouble than it’s worth, and players can’t even rely on Tech Support/the developers to address the issues. It is an excellent way to pass the time, especially when you’re a word geek. But I’m afraid the constant glitches might force me to uninstall.

Everything Is Overpriced + Bad Customer Service. You literally have to play the game all day just to get 100+ points. With their new algorithm, you really do need the points to be eligible for features such as swapping tiles (30 for 450 points) since the letters you get are terrible. Recently, they also increase the amount of coins you need to be able to get these features. It’s absolutely insane. And, if you don’t have enough coins, they want you to spend $100 for 5,600 coins! Whenever I email about an issue with my coins, I get an excuse about not being able to do that. I really feel like this app, although the game is fun, is really shady. I understand they want to make money, but make it fair. They know that by giving crappy letters, players need coins to purchase features such as swap tiles. When you need 75 coins just for 5 swap tiles and it takes half a day to get those coins, it’s not fair. Oh, and they want you to pay monthly for no ads. This app is a rip off and shady. One star for that and for VERY POOR customer service.

Brain stimulating game!. Years ago I went to nursing school and led the class in the Pre-board test out of my entire class. After working as an RN I suffered a brain injury from “lack of oxygen”. After having surgery on my painful varicose veins. It was caused by a series of events that began with pain leading to a dose of Morphine, which can suppress the drive to breath. It made me extremely nauseous , so my nurse gave me an anti-nausea medication in my IV, . The combination of drugs set up a situation that resulted in depressing the drive to breathe. Then the hospital was short of nurses and “floated a nurse from the psychiatric floor to the surgical floor. She would come into the room and look at me ,charting “patient sleeping soundly, not checking to see if I was getting enough oxygen. Meanwhile an aide had gotten me up to the bathroom, taken my oxygen off and failed to put it back on. My lack of oxygen caused the injury to my brain, so my memory is poor!

Words with Cheaters. The new version of the game features “power ups,” three options to give you an advantage over your opponent. “Hindsight” shows you the best move you could have played in a round, which may be available to you in the next round. “Word radar” shows you were you can play on the board for the current round. “Swap and play” enables you to swap letters without losing a turn. You can earn these advantages or buy them. Your use of these advantages is NOT transparent to your opponent. Moreover, may use these features repeatedly throughout the game. If you repeatedly use the swap and play feature, it is almost impossible for your opponent to get quality letters. You are no longer using your skills to compete against your opponent, you are using these advantages to win. The new features are enabling rampant cheating and sadly it now seems to be the norm. I can see maybe allowing use of one advantage during a game, but that should be transparent to your opponent. There is no opt-out to the new features and I simply do not want to play someone who is cheating. And why should my earned stats be given the same weight as someone who purchased a win? The new features of Words With Friends have driven me away from the game. Sadly, I doubt Zynga cares about enthusiasts like me, because they are certainly making a lot more money off of the new features.

STOP IT!. 2023 Review: Stop trying to trick us into paying for “passes” or whatever! You put these stupid pop-ups in the game where we can accidentally click on them. Almost happened again this morning; I promptly canceled out of “Pay Now”. Also, the waving key at the top drives me nuts! The WWF game itself is fun and enjoyable to play. STOP THE GREED!! Previous review: I used to love this word game; however, with each update it gets more bloated and annoying to play. Pure greed on the part of the developers, trying now to push a "points" subscription. I could care less about points, social stuff, or whether I win or lose. I only wish to play a fun word game! Please allow us to opt out of all the other juvenile fluff (exception being playing the AI character, which is cute and fun). Here is a major gripe: Lose the flashing "key" and all the rest of that junk! Some of us actually have a physical condition which makes it super-stressful to have to see this flashing nonsense. It's purely to get us to subscribe, I know. You've been losing stars for several years, Zynga. Next update it'll be down to one?

“WORDS WITH KIDS”, Is What This Is Now.. But it’s mostly adults that play! Add an OPT OUT function to turn off the time wasting, meaningless animations, forced “challenges” and “gifts” garbage. Latest revision has, “...New rewards and boosts”?? Has Zynga seen the recent low rated reviews at all? Why does Zynga think they shouldn’t allow an opt out? It could satisfy everyone. Or, put all that silly stuff into a “Words With Kids” game version and bring this mainstream game back to one without the silly stuff. Scrabble was/is always a game that older children, adults and seniors liked to play. Why in the world does Zynga think that in a paid game app they should FORCE everyone to waste time having to wait for these useless “challenges”, badges and other cutesy mindless distractions? Have the creators begun to think they are so clever that the thousands of reviewers expressing their HATE of this nonsense does not matter? Zynga, do you still have a marketing department who can advise on the barbarians at the gate like myself carrying torches? Hello? I shouldn’t say this, but I would rather see little ads at the bottom than this garbage. Be considerate and add an Opt Out feature in the controls section. Or don’t be considerate and charge yet another 99 cents for ad-free AND garbage-free game version.

Invalid Words being played. Within the last 2-3 weeks, it’s come to my attention that invalid words by “Words With Friends” own definition, are being played. It doesn’t matter the version of game, or operating system. Examples are: squit, tov, je , and so many others. I’m to the point I’m tired of playing. It was outrageous when an opponent played JE, and I then tired to play JE. Mine was not accepted, though hers was. I thought perhaps it was the older version(s) I was playing (I have several devices), so I updated one device to the latest version and nope. Same thing. Opponents playing invalid words, but I can’t do the same. So now not only am I losing because of this bug, but now that particular device is on the latest horrible version of a game that looks like it was written for a child. All the various annoying pop ups during the game, essentially cheat power ups, and invalid words is driving me from the game. I’m over it!

The Devil’s Advocate. Contrary to pretty much every recent review of this app, I like the new little features. I love collecting powerups. Me and my opponents openly use them and now see them as part of the game. I love collecting tile skins, and it’s fun to see me and my opponents mix and match the colors we’ve collected. I really don’t mind the event collectibles. Or the chests. Especially since they give me goals to strive toward as I play and reward me when I complete them. I’m a lot happier now that the company stopped trying to force us to switch to Words with Friends 2, which I avoid like the plague. If it isn’t broken, don’t try to fix it and force that fix on us. Also glad that the whole ad issue seemed to be resolved and I don’t have ads in my paid version. If I had any gripes, it would be that they are incredibly stingy with coins (you get 3 max in your daily gift while things in the store can cost like, 100). And that once you complete all solo challenges you have to wait for the next set. If I have a daily goal that needs me to win a solo challenge, I can’t get it since I can’t replay them. I’d like that to change. But anyway, I felt compelled to write this review after seeing nothing but hate for the new features. I know a lot of people that like the features, but I guess you’re more compelled to write a review if you have a complaint, right?

Great game but the dictionary is pretty weird and what’s with the flying boxes I don’t want?. Love the game and play it a lot but I do have a couple of beefs: 1. What’s with the dictionary? It accepts words it says are,valid words but it doesn’t have a definition for them. Some of these words are accepted on some games, not others. It also doesn’t accept perfectly good words that are in every English-language dictionary on the planet except, it seems, this one. Who writes this dictionary, anyway? And do they even speak English? There used to be a feature where you could suggest words and provide a definition. Not any more, or it’s so well hidden no one can ever find it. 2. Yeh, I know that some people don’t just want to challenge themselves to play word games, they want all kinds of gew gaws to play with, win the game for them, boxes flying around that give you the right to do whatever for extra jollies. Nice that you provide other stuff for them to do. But some of us find these annoying and distracting and would REALLY REALLY appreciate having a way to TURN THEM OFF.

Return to the old format. I agree with those who expressed their disappointment lately. After a long time of playing I’m about to give up. The game has lost a lot of its challenge with all the two letter words now allowed that are not legit words. They are abbreviations i.e. allowing the element table and other similar abbreviations. Stick to scrabble rules like you did when you started! Also solo puts a word in the game and then when you look in the dictionary it says definition not known and that they are working on a definition. The other day in solo play they put in the word MAGA. Why are they politicizing this game and it’s not even a word. That one really made me mad. Also I can’t delete old games which really slows down the play. Old games pop back up repeatedly and slow down play. I delete and close out and at least 10 are back up and are the same ones that I just tried to delete. Plus they say I lost (solo games) and when I go in and check it is clearly the other way and I won. I downloaded the new version at their suggestion and it is worse than ever so I went back to classic. Wish someone would pay attention to all of the other bad comments and put it back to a fun game.

Unfair. When consumers (like myself) paid for the ad-free on apps then we don't get it anymore. That's what has happened to WWF. Developers are given a new way/opportunity to gouge users out of money by altering the app, whether ever so slightly, or totally rebranding the same app then rip users off by forcing us to pay AGAIN for things we already had. Only this time at higher prices since the demand & popularity of their apps. All of which has been established due in large part to OUR (the consumers) commitment (use), feedback & help debugging (opt-in end-user licensing) their apps, in turn, growing their companies to enormous size & wealth. Requiring repurchasing is nothing short of online fraud. Re-selling the consumers a product/service they already had, but thanks to sneakily written end-user licensing agreements, which we’re FORCED to accept to use our devices, they can freely change the rules/game as they see fit. #FarFromFairMarket #VirtualThievery

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Problem!. This is an add on to a review written previously. Take away 2 stars!! I could no longer play Word with Friends on my old iPad due to the game not being supported on that device. I reopened in my newer iPad and now only get to play one game each time before it closes down! To keep playing I have to shut down the iPad and restart the device each time. Won’t be playing long if they don’t fix this problem! Up to now I have enjoyed the game. Previous review I've been playing Words with Friends for quite a while now, and one thing I have noticed in recent times, is that more and more words apparently Not Valid are being accepted in the game, but whenever I try to get a Not Valid word accepted the word is not accepted. It just seems so unfair that are players are able to do this. Makes it harder for those players who try to play the game fairly. I've still given the game 4 stars as I quite enjoy the game, even though it doesn't seem to be a level playing field anymore.

Formatting and lack of direct contact when problems occur. As above the formatting of the home page changes regularly and it’s then a case of navigating your way around again When there is a glitch or inability to enter a word - initially the program accepts the entry, however once submitted you’re back to square one, that is, it’s as if you hadn’t Entered a word. Very frustrating

Oops, something went wrong!. I use the practice option and have had 3 games now that this excuse comes up so the game can no longer be played, or deleted, so for 159 days this is the response I get when trying to play. The game just sits there with no solution. Can something please be done the fix this very annoying problem. I still enjoy playing with friends, so have given 3 stars.

Update to dictionary. I love playing words but the new update to the dictionary uses predictive text and I am forever re writing what I have put in. Get rid of the predictive text. Since you added adverts that have to run for the whole advert, it takes too long to play the games I like to play. I realise you have to get the advertising and I will watch them if I am interested in what they are saying but if it has nothing to do with what I need, I put the iPad down until it is finished and go and do something else until it is finished so you have achieved nothing. Very disappointing!

Bad update and scammers. Hi, I do really enjoy this game but find the challenges , rewards etc. an annoying intrusion. Also have to field off many game requests from what I assume are scammers. These people want to start a conversation which may on the odd occasion be a genuine request but mostly not. I hate that you can’t view someone’s profile until after you accept or decline the game.

Feedback. I have just discovered that a friend I have been playing for years is now able to play words that I can’t - vu, ee, ou, and goodness knows how many others! When I try to play them the dictionary says they are acceptable, but they are rejected when I press send. Please concentrate on fixing things like this rather than the ridiculous rewards and challenges that, according to the reviews, the vast majority of players hate. You will lose all those players as soon as another developer comes up with a version without all the nonsense, most of just want a basic scrabble type game, with a reasonable dictionary. More nonsense words is not better!

The solo challenge feels like, well, just like work.. I’ve been committed to my relationships I have built over the years against my fellow competitors, though sometimes I randomly play sone one else. All in all it’s a great set up. They did change the solo challenge that lasts 6 days. I have played this rather seldomly since the change ….it is less giving of prizes. This reward is probably statistically decided but on a human note it’s too much work to get the rewards. As such I take a star off. I should take two stars off but there are many other parts to the game that I like as well.

Good game but poor dictionary. Having played hundreds of games on this app now, with a big range of competitors, I can say that the app is good. But many words are allowed such as abbreviations and a host of totally out of date Scottish words that no one uses, while many Shakespearean words are forbidden. They also allow many fake words. The dictionary needs rewriting and the rules changed to omit fake and archaic words. In the challenges with their computer the computer often uses fake words to win and is always given plenty of vowels while the competitor gets few. Phillip Hamilton

oz Wordie Fan. Keeps me connected with friends all over. Not sure what your rules are for accepting some of the very questionable words played!!! When are you going to have a working dictionary for 'English English? Also there is now a VERY ANNOYING GLITCH which shows number of games, both ‘my move’ and ‘their move’ which when you are unable to play or delete - error message says “Oops. Game is out of sync.” Out of sync with what???? Please fix this or advise how to remove these games.

To much advertising. To much distraction.. I purchased this game. If you paid for it, supposedly there were less distractions. As it turns out these days it is just plain difficult to get through the advertising and money making bits and pieces to where I can play the game. With each new version there is more stuff in the way of playing the game. I am now looking around for an alternative app. I have enjoyed playing on this platform, but if I find something less distracting I will change. I hope someone there gets this message.

Words. The reason I am so addicted to Words With Friends that I enjoy the challenge of keeping my mind active at age 91 . Each day I check my words and have been doing so for many years and in turn gives me a quality of having an active interest with other players .Ann Mitchell.

Wrong layout for iPad.. Not sure if the developers of this game ever play the iPad version, but it really seems as though they don’t. I’m not here to comment on the useless updates that have incrementally made this game worse over the years, there are many reviews here to attest to that already. I’m writing this simply because the layout for the iPad version is incompatible with iPad’s user interface. Having the tile rack right at the bottom of the screen activates the App Switcher function almost every time I drag a tile onto the board. There’s at least a 3/4 inch of screen real estate at the top of the layout that has no functionality. This should be switched over. Take the Words banner from the top and put it on the bottom and stop the App Switcher from activating. Easy. Problem solved. Stop focusing on bells and whistles and attend to the basics please.

Not a level playing field. This used to be a great way of passing the time and increasing your vocabulary. Unfortunately the game now allows some players to play words that are, by the games own account, Not a Valid Word but when I try to play the same word it is rejected. The dictionary used should be universal and not, as it appears to be, selective. The basic game was a pleasure to play but not so now. Do we really need coloured tiles, treasure chests with little in them or continuous bombardment to reach a certain level? I think not. Could we not go back to simpler, more pleasurable version.

Spoiled by fluff and stuff but fun to play if you pay for it to avoid the insufferable adverts.. Almost totally worth it. As a LONG time pay to use - user, I play a lot of my friends regularly... but when I see the INCREDIBLE amount of ads you are bombarded with (if you don’t own it like me). If I didn’t already own it from when it was cheaper... I would not pay that much for it because even though I’m a paying user I STILL get provided an option to watch adverts to get currency. I hate the animations of stupid stuff and journeys and other meaningless achievements of “playing JXCQZ” I mean... who cares. Just let me destroy my opponent friends in a fair game of scrabble. Also. Get an option for switching off the optional extra coin power move things. They screw over the person without them. Without currency or without purchasing currency with real money. I see that you guys need to make money. But how many Ferrari’s do you guys need? You legally ripped off a classic without being sued.. no need to milk it. Unless you are paying 75c in the dollar of profit to them or something. Anyways. Well done. Simplify simplify simplify. Get rid of paying ads for greedy people and it’ll get you more paying users. 4.7 stars. Not 4.

Words are illegal for me but opponents can play them??. Generally love playing this game and I play daily. But some things really irk me. The store constantly has the red dot showing 2 unread notifications and I’ve clicked everything and they don’t go away. Either a bug or a nasty tactic. I’ll assume it’s a bug. When you play the solo challenge, the AI constantly plays words that are “legal” but not in the dictionary. And the worst is this thing now where it tells me a word is illegal but it’s in the dictionary and my opponent was able to play it. Awful and unfair way to lose a game!

Horrible. This is my first comment on WWF although I’ve been playing it for years. With each version upgrade it just gets worse and worse. I agree with everyone who has given it one star. I just want to play the game and not be harassed by the authors with bells and whistles. Even in “set-up” it asks me to enter my college from a drop-down but my college isn’t there and isn’t recognized. Note to authors: the United States of America isn’t the only country in the world that has Colleges Come on authors lift your game. Or at least allow us to pay to get rid of the annoying rubbish. Looking forward to the day when your competitors launch a better alternative product and destroys your business model!

Dreadful update. I think this is the first time I've reviewed an app, but that's how bad this latest update is. I could *almost* live with the colours, but the constant haranguing to add stupid nonsense to my games is unbearable. I just want to play the game with a couple of friends. I don't want coins or to play the train driver or whatever. And if that weren't bad enough, the badge notification is the most broken one I've ever encountered. Doesn't always tell me when I do have a move against my friends, often tells me I do when I don't. I've played almost every day for more years than I can remember, but I'm close to quitting it forever.

Horrible ‘update’. The new interface is truly terrible it is too bright there is an annoying plus button on top of the current games menu and so much flashy stuff I don’t want and should be able to remove pleasssse go back to old look or no more WWF. I have complained to WWF but they don’t listen they won’t give an option to turn off events rewards challenges etc. The stupid events pop up recently kept shoving the word ‘cancer’ onto my screen like I want to be reminded of a deadly disease when I’m trying to have fun playing a word game.

Words with friends classic. I am unable to receive rewards when playing the daily solo game. It keeps coming up with the message ‘ Still downloading , unable to complete this task at the moment. Try again later’. I am missing out on lots of points.

Ads that don't play. That's right your ads start but never finish and this is annoying to say the least especially when you have to leave the game and then try and get back on every time you play PLEASE fix this as it is starting to make me not want to play anymore. I've been playing this for years now but if you don't fix the you will be getting the flick I've had enough of it.

I love WWF. I have been playing for years and play every day, mostly against old friends but also other opponents, some of whom I chat with regularly. I use the American and English versions- but why is there no dictionary in the English version? The only dislike is that the game allows improper words, such as abbreviations. I think the dictionary should be a scrabble dictionary and not an ordinary dictionary. Also it should include more Australian words.

Contact game managers. I cannot find anywhere to contact whoever mangers the app, and recently my friend and I both fell for a new game (vs the computer) that appeared to give you "coins" when you played and won but actually cost a lot of coins to play - I lost 40 coins I didn't realise I was losing and my partner lost even more as he was playing quite a few in a row. No one to ask about it and no one to complain to!! Usually enjoy the app but this left a bad taste.

Senseless updates - again - March 2020. Homepage changes in this update - but new bugs with it. After sending me a congratulation for playing all of the letters of the word ‘CAKE’ (for example) I am returned to a game screen that is blank white. I have to relaunch the game to return the display to normal. ————————————————————————————Adding to the previous post below - Yet another update that sends an animated message across the screen ‘Lead Change’ - I don’t want this, but no way of stopping it. Typical. ————————————————————————————— This game has been around since before the iPad. I have not seen an update yet that was an improvement beyond the bug fixes. The last update forced upon me has given me a load of really annoying ‘rewards’ that are of no interest to me and I can’t turn them off. Zinga is well aware that a significant number of players don’t want rewards but, typically, Zinga does not care. Zinga wants to make more money (fair enough), but how does this help them? While I’m at it, Zinga took the very fine game ‘Draw Something’ and dumbed it down into an awful game requiring almost no drawing skill, all in the quest for more money. This developer is not a good host for this type of game. One could theorise that Zinga buys a popular game, tries to monetise it, can’t, then ruins it so as to get the players to play something else that does make money.

Annoying. The game itself is fun, but honestly, the amount of ads, rewards, events, notifications, etc etc etc makes me regret logging back into the game each time I have a break. It's just too much. I've also opted out of random matches and basically everything in settings but still get random people making games with me. I don't want to play random people. I just want to play with friends. Please make this stop.

Mostly runs well but like other people I agree the pop ups can be really annoying.. After around 6-7 years now I still play this game, I find it a fun little challenge to occupy me throughout my day. However there are some issues with the game in its current state, such as all the pop ups and reward features that quite a lot of people seem to dislike based on the other reviews I’ve seen. The reward stuff can be fun every now and again but overall it is mostly a re-occurring nuisance that continues to show up all the time without any choice in the matter. Another particular thing I’ve found quite ridiculous are the Solo Challenge, these are things I tend to play every so often and when I manage to do the work of completing them all the reward which you’d expect to be a rather large and generous one is so small that doing them seems completely pointless. Why should I or anyone bother to spend their time playing/completing them when we get almost nothing in return, if they want results with that they need to improve it. There’s not much more I need to say after my little rant, so yes I like the game but it has some important issues to improve upon.

Dead games. I don’t like the fact that other players can just stop playing and they do not have an expiration date apparently. There is a limit to how many games you can have going at one time but no way to get rid of dead heads other than retire from the game but that counts as a loss in your stats. Need to be able to delete them without penalty. Also I would like to see when an opponent was last active to see if they were just leaving you hanging to be nasty because you were beating them because more often than not the ones that leave you hanging are trailing in the game. And another thing I don’t like is that you pay for an ad free version only to find out that only lasts for 30 days. The cost is way too high for something that expires so quickly.

Fun but poorly run, pop up ads and $90 to remove them?!. Definitely a fun game but horrible pop up ads ruin this. I can deal with an ad between turns but a pop up for a free iPad leaves with no choice but to close the app when I just wanted to quickly play when I had a few minutes. And I never in my life seen such exorbitant rates to get rid of ads, are they joking?!? Also whenever I go to my profile I am forced to look at all the badges, there is a "see all" button but nothing to opt out and continue doing what I was originally trying to do. Incredibly frustrating.

Ads with friends. I purchased the paid version of the app 12 years ago and have been playing since. It started out great, but each update sees the app get worse and worse. So many ads to ‘unlock’ features, and many times the app freezes after you’ve played the app so have to watch again. They also added a nifty feature where your phone unmutes when the ads plays, so expect extreme agitation. Dictionary needs updating. Measly rewards for participating in challenges and constant requests to buy extra features. Dude, I just wanna play scrabble with my friends- should’ve stuck to what you did best.

Questionable. I miss the 'number of games waiting to be played' that was shown on the app 'face'. Now when I look at my WWFRIENDS app, I do not know if I have any games waiting to be played. Also regarding the chatting with friends- I do not like the way it sits 'open' once you have written your chat. I find that annoying. I like all the stats about plays etc. New review: I don’t like the display of the latest update. The app is now hard to read because the display is too large & pale. Not happy. Will still play but not happy with the update.

Words with friends. Love playing Words with Friends. Can be a bit frustrating coping with occasional glitches where you have to turn your phone off to get it back on track. Also playing the challenges to earn mystery boxes etc can be annoying due to it being so contrived and not just random luck. But overall very enjoyable and good for the brain. Thanks

Classic Words with Friends. I have resisted upgrading to the latest WWF. I have been playing WWF for 5 years and I love the Classic game available on my IPad. The only disadvantage is playing with friends who are able to use ‘coins’ and not miss a go. The other disappointing factor is if I upgrade to the latest version, Zynga is requesting Facebook password. Why? I don’t want to sign up to the latest version with Facebook. When I first signed up , I did not have to use Facebook sign in. I am really disappointed. And with all the current news regarding Facebook and Facebook allowing 3rd parties to have access to data without Facebook’s members permission - it’s very frightening! I just enjoy playing the Classic Words with Friends. Regards

Ratings must be fake - read the reviews. Scrabble is a great word game. Words With Friends started off as a Scrabble copy. That was actually cool as the owners of Scrabble were way too late to online games and now that hysterically copy all the bad aspects of WWF, even though it’s all cheats, powerups and basically Pay to Win. All the current Words With Friends games have very little to do with skill. If you speak the language, use the built in power-ups (cheats/cheating pay paying Zynga cash) you are likely to win. Zynga has turned a great word game into trash. Play Wordle instead. There’s no cheating. Or Gin Rummy, Poker, Backgammon and a multitude of games that prevent cheating. Zynga are capitalist frauds who have taken a steamy hot big dump on Scrabble online. In a better world, they would be jailed. Well done Apple for greed over decency in pushing corrupt games like these to stuff their overly full pockets with children and other innocents funds they need for living

What is going on 😳. 1. I have to pay $20 AUD a month to get get rid of the Ads 2. I lost all my coins, stickers and awards, plus friends I’d been playing for years🤦🏼‍♀️ I reported it and was never compensated or received a message to advise me they would look into it😳I had to start all over again😡 3. Now the extra games to earn extra points and coins have disappeared😳 4. Is this the way you get people to use your new version? 5. After playing since 2011, it may be time to bid you farewell, not that it would worry you in the least😰

I’m fed up with this 😬. Why does my game keep freezing? Sometimes when I have played a word and press for the next game, nothing happens and I have to close it and start again. Restarting the device makes no difference. Anyway, thanks for paring back on the annoying rewards nonsense that was so getting in the way of a good game. You get a star back for that. It’s still not as good as it was, especially with all those jumbled letters that pass for words with no definition available. Aren’t there enough English words?

More like flash screens by yourself. ‘Words’ and ‘with friends’ are misnomers. Every so-called improvement introduces more flash screens you have to click away and so many ‘challenges’ which are a total joke (“Daily goal: play 2 letters!” Seriously??) that more time is spent waiting for the screens to finish than actually playing. Requests to developers to make these annoyances optional or opt-out-able have been futile. This game is a way of keeping in touch with family members overseas; I find it sad that the developers are more interested in getting in users’ way than in facilitating playing words with friends. Zero stars if possible.

Disgraceful App. I paid for the app so as to get rid of the advertising but as it turned out while the advertising is now gone it has subsequently been replaced with upsells for in app purchases. It’s so bad to the point where it’s worse than the advertising I paid to get rid of. It’s an absolute disgrace. The only reason I keep playing is to stay connected to friends and loved ones. If not for that I would have stopped ages ago. In any case stick with the free version because the paid version is just as bad (if not worse) with it’s constant notifications to upsell in-app purchases. Appalling!!

Game gets worse with every update. Every update claims to fix bugs but this game gets worse each time. It is more buggy than ever. Letters that will not move when you try to make a word, letters that 'hang' in mid air while you count down the time until they finally settle in place. The game keeps freezing. It used to be a relaxing game but now is frustrating. Too man 'new' features are ruining it. And don't get me started on the ridiculous words allowed to be played that you will not find in any dictionary.

Words with Friends, great fun.. Very much enjoy playing this game with family and friends. Keeps us in contact with one another on a daily basis regardless of distance and ensures that the mind is functioning. Even when the game allows strange letter combination, eg QI, still fun and we talk about the funny combinations, some strange words I have to google to find out what they mean, so learning new words too. Amazing it accepts words from Middle English period. 😊

Cheat's version of Words. After having to 'update' to the newer version of Words, I've come to the conclusion it's been devised by some young whizz kid who thinks we can't spell. This new version is just another form of CHEATING. You must be desperate if you need to use some of the words that are accepted. It allows words to be used that are 'unbuildable.' I think if a meaning can't be given for a word, it shouldn't be accepted. It's also time Words updated their Dictionary. Words which I know (and are in my dictionary) aren't accepted at times! It's lost the purpose of trying to find words in your vocabulary. I only play this because Scrabble is so 'user unfriendly' online, and this was the next best thing. Sadly, all the so called updates only serve to make it something with just lots of bells and whistles, which aren't required really.

I’ve had enough. You upgraded me automatically. I have to delete the app altogether because of the ads. So intrusive. So irritating. And some run for 30 seconds and you have to go through up to 3 processes to stop the ad. playing. How dare you. Not even the Adblock app could stop the barrage of ads...but it did show me how many ads they bombard you with. Well worth the $3. Well done zynga. Annoy your client base till they leave in droves.

New version. I liked the previous version much better. I don’t understand all the pop ups and gimmicks on this version which I now have. As I was unable to get the new version on my iPad I now have to use my iPhone which is smaller and the screen keeps changing big /small , which is so annoying! But apart from this I really enjoy Words with Friends and connect with Friends all over the World.

Paid for ad free, now plagued with boxes & candy canes. And it just gets worse. I am in the middle of playing a word and it takes me to another screen telling me what I have ‘won’. Random people I don’t know start games with me. I have my own friends - this isn’t a dating site. PLEASE PLEASE STOP. You are ruining my pleasure playing with my friends. I don’t want boxes, I don’t want prizes, I just want to be able to play the game in peace. I paid to get rid of the ads to be able to get on with my games. Now I am forced to respond to boxes, candy canes and meaningless letters I am supposed to play - why would I even want to - and I cannot proceed until I have responded. Why do you want to wreck my games? Can I pay to get rid of these interruptions as well? Today I earned a cheesecake badge. I cannot play my next move until I have looked at it. Even shutting the game down and reopening it doesn’t make it go away. I am a retired adult not a 10 year old. I renew my offer to pay to make this torture go away.

You stuffed up six years of playing this game!. I have had Words with Friends for 6 years. Over 40 games going against people all over the world. When I went to my FB friends list to try to play new people, I found that afterwards I was expected to log on through Facebook. I couldn’t do this. Lost every game I was playing. I had to delete the app and sign in again to find I was now playing WwF2 and had moved on “the journey” from 24 back to 4. I started getting ads which I didn’t before. An option came up to pay $15 to stop the ads but when I clicked on it nothing happened. So angry! Have you a solution?

WWF UPDATE IS GARBAGE ~ ditto. I opened this to write a review, only to find someone else’s review here. This review echoes everything I want to say except that it is now just a tad creepy. Notes to Zynga: stop advising me that previous players are back and suggesting (repeatedly) that I start a game with them. And please, this isn’t Tinder! Try to do something about the people that think it is. I’m now looking for another app along the lines of WWF or Scrabble because this latest ‘enforced’ update is atrocious. I don’t want to be pressured by bots to play 5 move games. I don’t want to know that another player scored over 600 points for a 3 letter word (which has to be bull dust btw). I don’t want rewards. This game has been changed to a point where it is now cheap and nasty and unless you (Zynga) do something to fix these issues, I’m out. This is a copy of a review I wrote several days ago, but failed to show..... I’m not sure why. I was just forced to reaccept WWF’s new terms and conditions in order to keep playing and in doing so I now have a new version of the game, which stinks. Is there a way to get your other version back please? I don’t want rewards! I don’t want bells and whistles! I don’t want computer generated 5 move games! I don’t want your new layout! I don’t want your sound effects. In short, what I do want is my old layout back. Thankyou.

Upwords. This game has become a regular part of my day as I play twenty people from all over the world three times a day. It keeps me relaxed and yet focussed and although I don’t know many I play I sometimes send messages that make me feel connected to people. I am addicted but I no longer get frustrated in queues on public transport or whenever forced to wait because I can fill in time exercising my brain with upwords.

Is it compatible??. After finding out there's a cap on points/coins and if you reach that and win a weekly challenge you don't get your points/coins. Where's the challenge then to try and get that weekly challenge?? Why a cap on points. Takes away any fun of trying to win..... lost some stars from me. It says compatible with IPad however on iPad you don't get the word radar, swap without losing a turn etc?? So not compatible with iPad or am I missing something?? All other games sync with their benefits. This doesn't yet. Also someone plays a word, and you look it up in the dictionary and it says "no definition for this word". So why is the person allowed to play it??? It's frustrating...

Ms. This game is seriously addictive, but also seriously annoying, at times, when some known words are unacceptable, and lots of unknowns go through. Some proper nouns go through, others don't. What dictionary do you use? I have put my languages as both English and American. I have intermittent problems with messaging when some messages don't show on my iPad, whereas they had previously. However, you can't stop me playing however many glitches I find😄

Keep it simple please. I paid for my Words with Friends when it was in it’s first release stage. I was thrilled with it until Zinga started adding features that have nothing to do with the game and disrupt it’s flow. I don’t want boxes and awards and to be told I have used a difficult letter. I just want to play!! How about releasing a version for those who don’t want the bling and just want to play. Call it Simply Words with Friends

Fun and friendly. I love this game but I have never come across a site that has so many scammers. They always claim they reside in USA and are either working offshore on an oil rig or serving in the army. I block between 3 to 4 per week. Widowed with children and within two messages ask for marital status. In saying that I now have a number of very nice people I have chats to.

Too many deceptive adds. There are adds after every move and ever since the removal of the add-free bonus for playing a recommended player this is unavoidable unless you pay $50. My major issue is with the adds themselves. There's a national australia bank add that doesn't close when you press the x and instead opens a page in internet browser. There's another add where you have to play a mini game similar to candy crush before being able to close the add. These sorts of disruptive adds make me not want to recommend this game to anybody. Please fix!!!

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Lame Daily Prizes & Ad Overload. The daily prize is so pathetic. Usually ONE coin. That’s it. The amount of ads in this game is unlike anything I’ve seen. There’s an ad after every single turn. Tip: Swipe the game out and relaunch it. Bypasses the ads.

So Annoying!. I can’t believe how chintzy you guys are now! Saying watch video for 3 coins and then only receiving 1 is just low!

Frustrating ads. Worst game bombarded with ads - i would be happy to pay and get rid of the ads

Too many adds that make you jump through hoops. Too many repetitive adds that force you to open install screens and don’t close when you click on the ‘X’. One or two like that I could live with, but it’s really poor form. The Skip the Dishes adds were so bad in that regard that I uninstalled it and won’t be supporting that company any longer. Several others like that. I don’t mind respectful advertisements, but this app has way too many that are downright annoying/disrespectful.

Where is the game?. This game is a bunch of flashing lights with no substance. Tried to play with my husband and it’s insufferable. Try something else.

Word2. I loved playing this game but I have an Apple 6 n you have increased the strength of the cel to .13 or plus! So I realize I have an old phone but cannot afford a new one... I’m 77 yrs old!!! Diane W

Too many ads. It used to be that ads would appear after a few moves were played, but now it’s after every move I make. There’s no longer just one, instead I have to go through 2 or 3 each time. Makes playing frustrating. Great game overall, just wish there was a way to tone down the ads.

Annoyed. I’m playing the game but since the last update it is getting annoying when the game offers you to play with people you don’t want to and you don’t even have the option to opt out that feature.. I really want to study the brain of the genius that gave the idea... you guys are loosing players... 😡😡😡

Used to be great but …. I’m happy to watch the ad to get further plays, etcetera, but it’s always the same stupid ads (Royal Match) AND it won’t let you X out of it after watching. What the heck??? Please fix this!!

Words with friends. Too much of the same “Scape ads” more time waiting on ads than playing the game. I only play with two relatives and a close friend, only because they won’t switch apps. I did in a heart beat I play 3 other similar games with far less agro.

I love words with friends, but how can I delete solo games. I love words with friends but can’t stand the other games eg solo games. Is there a way to delete them?

WHAT's UP ????. I love word games and had been enjoying word with friends a great deal !!! HOWEVER, on a several occasions now opponents have played a word, making more than one word with that play and the other word was not in any acceptable dictionary,( ie scrabble dictionary ), and they were credited with a good score !?!? On the flip side I have made a good word that I know was in the dictionary, and was told it was not a word,..... WHAT GIVES ?????? PLEASE RESPOND, as this issue needs to be addressed !

Really?! Fat-shaming ads constantly?. I’m surprised you can get away with constant fat-shaming ads, selling weight-reducing gummies 🙄 (eye roll)

Not good. Bad new feature! What’s the point of the game/challenge if you tell us what word to play!!??

Stuff. Point form - combining words is the ‘art form’ of the scrabble genre, yet no recognition is given in a point format - in solo challenges, the ‘soloist’ has a dictionary of often obscure words. enlightening as that may be, it can be and often is discouraging to the player - thank you for bringing the game to us 🤓

Breach, your personal info ends up on the dark web. Zynga is the developer. My info ended up on the dark web due to a breach relating to this company. Impossible to get my account info removed.

Duped. Pretty sure that I was just duped. While trying to pay for an ad free version of this game, I believe that, I was merely tricked in to purchasing a limited time “rewards pass”. Is it not possible to just buy an ad free version? If not, that was a ridiculous amount of money for some tacky costume jewelry.

Misleading money grab. I am tired of the ads and a pop up said I could get a “seasons pass” good until the end of the year for 17.99. I bought it and enjoyed ad free for about a week. Then ads came back. I requested a refund from Apple and got my $$ back thanks to Apple but not pleased about the click bait and switch by the developers.

Rip off. I paid $17.99 to get rid of the ads and 2 days later, ads were back! Unbelievable! What a rip off!!

Overcharge. I absolutely love this game; however I ALWAYS get charged double for my purchases. When I dispute the payment I am ALWAYS denied! What’s going on Zuniga?

Review Words. I, too, have been playing this game for years...I don’t want an update...I see no bugs that need fixing. This game is fine as it is. Even though my opponents who have updated get to play “words” that I cant..I’m OK with that...have been putting up with annoying Ads for years. Please stop “improving” what is a great game as is! Thank you! Why has nothing been done about all of these complaints? I stopped playing some time age & recently returned. Not a thing has changed. Come on Zynga..give us back our game! The most annoying thing are the Ads between plays for “ games” that seem designed for five year olds. So silly! I am giving up playing as long as that distracting banner is flowing across the screen..it’s just too much! What is wrong with you people? The in house ads for “ Royal Match” are too silly for words. Obviously after seeing them 100 times I don’t want that app! Please no more, Why is the word AZON suddenly unacceptable? It’s been played by opponents and now I can’t play it! What’s going on? Now it seems to continue playing I MUST update!...but I don’t want to... Wouldn’t it be nice if developers, Seeing how players hate certain aspects of the game, would pay attention and make changes? Do you not pay any attention to all of the complaints. Now there is no X to move on from the ads to the next game! What’s with that? Really haven’t you done enough to RUIN this game?v Nope! Haven’t done enough just yet! September 2022 When are you going to stop ruining this game with interminable ads for other in-house games that nobody wants?

Keeps getting worse. I’ve had this for years and it was fun. Now the play keeps getting interrupted by ‘achievements’ and daily rewards and useless stuff like that. I just got a new iPad Pro and it no longer works at all. Bye ‘friends’

New version not great. Used to be a great app , rewards matched the work you put in ,now it’s just a money grab. You can play as much as possible you might get 3 coins as a reward. Every power up that advances your game costs coins now , and the ads get shown after every move , way too many.

Fun game if it weren’t for the ads. The game itself is fun, but the ads are too much. Some ads won’t even allow you to close them without restarting/rebooting the app. Also, the bots use words that are literally non-existent in the dictionary. Step it up. I’m deleting this app.

Constant repeated nagging, Unacceptable!. This app is creep stalker mode as heck. Reads your browsing history! Erm, why!! Capitalist crap, on the take the whole time wanting you to sign up to stuff. Avoid! Once was a classic but the money men moved in and destroyed it beyond belief. Constant nagging for signups and offers, anxiety triggering nonsense, just unacceptable and totally not necessary.

Not even a word game anymore. Too many badges, animations and extra challenges that are garbage. The word playing portion of the game is so small now and what’s the point if you just tell me where to play now?!? That’s not a game. It’s just an animation heavy app with 0 challenge for those who don’t want to think. Used to love the app, now I can’t even stand to open it.

Do you like ads? If so, this is the game for you!. This game is unplayable. I played for about 2 minutes and was continually spammed with ads and in-game pop ups. Are there any devs with integrity anymore?

Stupid badges and rewards. Is there a way to turn this crap off. The game used to be fine but then you added all this crap. I am paying for no ads, how about no crap!

word with friends. I like original Words with Friends better, I switched because it started to take a good 30seconds for game to come up on my Mini Ipad Screen. After playing new version a few weeks it is now freezing up, I send a word and screen goes black and small circle in middle spins continuously for a long time so cant play . So I am quitting game and playing a different word game. Taking to long for these issues to be fixed. 🐴I October 31 2023. I keep losing my Chat. Screen still freezes Tried different Words with Friends. What’s newest update ? I really like the game because I’m elderly and it makes me think. I’m on an Ipad.

Disgusting amount of ads. The ads make the game not worth it. So sooo annoying

Real words. In the past couple of days I have played several games with people who use words that say NOT A VALID WORD but they still allow them to use them and award them points. Then how come I can't? Several words I have used that I know are real words and they don't allow them. Not fair.

Some adverts have no way out. I generally enjoy Words with Friends, and the adverts are just on the right side of bearable. But some - notably the Rakuten one - have no way to get back to the game. The only option is to force-close the game and reopen it. Please fix so we can get back to playing the game. Incidentally, intrusive adverts only get me to pledge never to buy from that company!

Ads too intrusive to enjoy. The endless barrage of ads makes the game unplayable. Great concept but ruined by greed.

Too many cat fishers and scammers!. I love this game and have been playing for years. Lately the game as been overrun by cat fishers and “romance” scammers. Something seriously needs to be done about it. All of the accounts that have white, “American”, chatty men trying to “chat you up” and lure you to whatsapp or hangouts. Enough is enough. Please add a report button for harassment or luring. These accounts need to be shut down faster than what they have been.

New Version is So annoying!!. With the stupid colours and constant barrage of coin prizes which are worth nothing, I'm almost ready to throw this game out. Take out those stupid daily word challenges. Stupidly childish and annoying.

Weak. When WWF2 first launched, the developers said no one would be forced to switch. Now, the older version of WWF (which I paid for to get rid of ads) has "sunsetted" as of July 13, 2023. So now we're being forced to switch. Thanks for not living up to your word, Zynga! I'll probably have to watch ads now too.

Very Annoying. This game is a little buggy. Tried to play “bogarts” but it wouldn't accept the word. I checked the in-game dictionary and it contains the word and offers a definition. It even tells who played the word and got the most points playing it. Won't let me play it though! Not impressed.

Great Game but WAY TOO MANY ADDS. I’ve always loved this game. Now you can’t play it without having to pay $18.00 for no adds. Every time you make a move, you have to watch a 20 second add. Very frustrating. Will be deleting the game completely.

Too many ads and distractions. This is a game gone wrong.. I’m a scrabble lover and I just want to play this game with my friends. All the extras, power ups, challenges, etc. just turn it into a mindless rap fest. Can you make a version for adults who want a clean game truer to the original? I’ve seen so many games go this awful route - the original scrabble, Yahtzee, etc. Starts with power ups and then morphs into a bizarre daily grind of earning more coins, doing more daily challenges, gathering more pixelated junk. Enough. And the ads just make it 100 times worse. The ads, omg. I’m a great scrabble player. Moves typically take me 10 seconds. After every move I’m getting a 10 second ad? Please. This game and this entire studio aren’t worth your time.

Ads. You have to tap 4 times to get out of an ad you see after every word you play. Pure death.

Ads. Great game until you have an Ad pop up that you can't close. Only way around that is rebooting your mobile device, then restarting the game. Ggrrr!

Ok. I like the game but the ads are so freaking annoying so I quit playing it because of that. If they take the ads out, I will play again.

Used to be a great game. Used to be a great game. Now they block you from earning coins and you have to use all your power ups before you can replenish them. It’s all about purchasing from them. I’ve stop playing.

Double charging. I paid the “one time fee” to remove ads and less than a month later there are ads again and they are trying to charge me again!

Calm down on the ads. Love the game but it’s so annoying that there’s an ad after almost every move, it forces me to quit the game honestly. I get that there needs to be ads but do it after a match or something this is very frustrating

Help please. The notifications do not go away when you are finished playing, Any idea how to fix this? Thanks Love the game

Irritated. They have started with ads that you can't close & end up losing a turn because you have to close the app fully. I didn't mind the ads before but this is ridiculous.

Fed up. I love the game but am sick of the distractions and ads. I would be happy to pay to get rid of them

Rakuten ad. Rakuten ad screen will not delete...I can no longer play WWF

TikToc. Ads are becoming increasingly annoying and offensive. I especially don’t want to be subject to the stupid tik tok antics.

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Help.. I bought a brand new phone and now the game won’t open. How do I get it to work without wiping out all of my existing games, that is, if it hasn’t caused me to time-out on all of them already? As for my opinion of the app, I give it 3 1/2 stars and I’m with everyone else about the annoying ads, especially the ones where I have to wait, what feels like a full minute, for the loud, crashing noises and obnoxious music (?) to shut up, before it finally decides to give me the exit button, when it gets good and ready, as if that will endear me to the game so much that I will succumb to its charm 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮. I also don’t give a single care about all the, bonus points, awards and other fluff. Great for those who do, but I only care about my score against my opponent and for love of the game. Now can someone please tell me how to get back into it? I’d appreciate it. Thanks. 🙂

Twi versions really. I just saw in the app store a part two, what could be so different than to create another identical app as the first one i really am starting to understand developers and CEO’s are really delusional and sociopathic in their attempts to gain more money from consumers and to make everyone a gambler or addicted to non-sensical things. This behavior of loading a game with IAP as if i can win better what is my price zynga? There is no monetary reward so why. I know why you prey off of people inability to recognize your fraud, and many people get pleasure out of arbitrary things but you guys are social engineering the habits of people I really hope that the senate pass the bill that would legalize this practice of predatory gaming, meant for fun but is now a form of gambling with no reward but false elation.

Love the game - Hate the extra crap put with it!. Love playing Words With Friends. Wish we could get rid of the coins and mystery boxes and such. Just a simple game would be great. I like seeing my stats and the tile bag. I also hate all the advertisements. It’s a pain waiting through them to exit your play so your opponent can play their turn. I would rather have a choice of a free version with ads or a $5 version without ads. Not everyone who wants to play is an avid gamer, we don’t know what to do with those stupid coins and mystery boxes. Make a version with that stuff for those that like that sort of a thing and a version without for those of us that don’t. We love the game and want to play, but without the extras. That’s my two cents, thanks for listening.

Some changes are not improvements. Good things: it's fun! I like playing with new folks as well as my regulars. I learn new and more words. The chat feature is a good feature. I appreciate that profanity is generally not allowed. Not-so-good things: why do you insert those requests to start a new game when the person identified did NOT initiate that request? I hate that new tactic. The challenge awards seemed good at first, but the levels go far too high too fast. Many of my former game friends are just no longer willing to play. THE AWARDS PROGRAM HAS KILLED THE GAME FOR MANY OF US! I will delete the game if it continues! These "not-so-brilliant" innovations hurt the game instead of helping it!GIVE US AN OPT OUT CHOICE! If it wasn't for those last bad things, I would say it is a 5 star game. Can you fix those? If not, I can. I will delete and leave it in the dust of foolish “improvements.”

A Great Game No More!. I am a long time WWF fan .... but all the changes and additions that keep interrupting my games has nearly turned me off. Why don’t you offer the basic game to adults who bought the AP to play the game, not to engage in frustrating time wasters and interruptions. Or at least offer us an opt-out of those features you keep cluttering up the AP with. If this issue doesn’t addressed soon , many of us will quit and advise others of our dislike of the game we used to love. Also, I want to be able to turn the sound OFF without having to turn my iPhone sound off. I used to be able to do this in Notifications...not anymore. I can’t play this game anymore when others are present because of the obnoxious sounds. If you play board games, you don’t have noise like you are in a child’s gaming center or an adults gambling casino....this is a word game not a pinball or slot machine game!

Great App. Love the base version of WWF as well as the mini-games with lightning rounds and so forth. Keeps my brain active and is easy to use. Not a fan of the live games because the app used to glitch and crash a lot in them. There are also lots of weird scammers in the app. Haven’t figured them out yet but for some reason, I get a whole lot (1 per week or so) of men posing as someone else. So, don’t take anyone seriously or give anyone personal data. The app does let you report/ block these folks which is probably the most they can do to keep them off. So, yeah, if you keep it to real friends and/or take your opponents with a grain of salt, it’s good fun. It’s a well-designed app and doesn’t seem to be lacking anything I can think of. Only deducted a star for the live glitches and scammers. The base game is five stars for sure though.

Fun with Son. I really enjoy playing Words with Friends with my grown son. He is better than I am alot of the time. So, when I do win, I really have a sense of accomplishment! The only reason I didn't give them 5 stars is I have occasional disagreements with what are qualified words. Not a big problem but that is all. I play it everyday and it is a nice connection with my son. I also love playing the special solo events. Really love the point targets for a day games and I often play the themed series of solo games that span a week. I really recommend Words with Friends. You get to stretch and problem solve while it is challenging and entertaining all at the same time.

Word is great, but.... I’ve been playing Word on and off for several years. In the past few months I began to play again, and I couldn’t believe how many men were wanting to chat all the time, and they also wanted me to go to another chat room where I could post photos, etc. No, I don’t want to go beyond a friendly “Hi!” I am 73 yrs. old, married with 3 grown kids, and 4 grandkids. On top of that, I’m overweight and have 0 desire to meet guys on Words. It got to be something I dreaded, so I added “No chat” to my screen name. Also I don’t play anybody who is male so that screens out most of them. I wish there were ways that women could enjoy the game without being hit on. One guy asked me why I was on the site if I didn’t want to chat with men. Duh—to play the game!

No Customer Help & Frequent Ads. Played a game and had to use tickets to play an event game, error on their part then I had to use ticket again and middle of game they closed me off at mid-game. Out of tickets. Cant play. Also when you complete a word, constant pop up ads every-time. You will be spending 45 mins watching ads than playing if you played the game for an hour. Even if you did watch the ad, some ads only way to end it is to go to the ad’s source! The Secret is to close the game and re-open to save time but every time I create a word to do this it gets tedious. I would give this a 1 star but 2 stars because game itself is good, just the company sure knows how to ruin a good game with pop up ads. Now Im changing it back to 1 star realizing I cannot play this anymore, not worth it. Do not purchase anything, no customer service or help link. If there is one, they sure know how to hide!

Fed Up. I have played this game for several years. I used to enjoy it, but each update has resulted in a poorer playing environment. I am nearing 1500 coins and realize that I cannot use them for power ups when I want? Then what is the point of accumulating them? Why have you set a limit on how many can be stored and when they can be used? Another problem are that many of the ads are too stupid, cruel, or degrading to watch. Watching an animated figure being burned alive or a mother and child freezing and shivering???!! Really?? These ads are so dreadful that I just stopped looking at them and would rather forego any incentive for watching them. The last issue relates to the creepy guys who troll the site looking for women. A friendly chat is okay but for some reason there are way too many of these guys who don’t want to play. They just want to come onto unsuspecting women. So on top of the dreadful ads and constant changes to the game, I’m done with it.

Badge Display. I saw where one other player posted in their review about badges not being posted next to photo when earned. Even though in my settings I have that feature turned on, my badges never ever appear on my photo. I think it is very unfair o post for some and not all players. What gives? Update regarding scores Your scoring for each week is fraudulent or there is an issue with the app. For example, there are people I am playing with whose scores don’t even come close to the needed score for the week and they have already received their badge. This is evident on the “Leaderboard “ that is displayed when I click on it. It is apparent that you are not replying to the reviews where there are concerns about your app. I think you are only concerned about 5 stars . You have issues that needed responding to. How about it?

Don’t give out email. In past two weeks there has been an influx of men from outside the United States trying to pick up on women. I’m not sure what they are wanting from US, but they all have about the same stories. They tell you they are widowed and have a child. They then progress to wanting your email or chat with them on HangOuts App or Skype so they can build a relationship with you. Really, I didn’t pay for dating scam app. Don’t fall for the compliments or wanting to be your friends. It’s not normal!! Just think of all the people in the world and they pick you on Words With Friends. I wish we could report these people. If you don’t agree and provide your personal information they just block you!!! Oh...and I was completely devastated!!! Be safe!!!

Boooo. I have been playing for a Long time and while I don’t mind some of the changes what I don’t like is that you don’t give as many coins anymore when you finish things and all this other tile fancy stuff that you guys put in doesn’t matter to me but what I don’t like is the match of the day there’s some people I don’t want to play with that I know and then you accidentally hit it and have to resign and you took away the fast games? And then you put in the weekly challenges in the same place and I accidentally hit it and spent 50 coins to rematch them I don’t wanna do that it’s too much stuff and it’s very annoying with all the extra stuff you guys have on there now make it simple!!!! And in the fast games half the time the game would glitch and then you lose that game Just some observations

Can’t Afford WWF. I have been using this app happily for several years now. Early on I paid for a subscription so there would be no ads. Recently, I had to change my email address and the trouble started. For some reason, I could not just switch email addresses. I was forced to sign up with a new account and a new email address. Now, after each play, a lengthy intrusive ad appears and takes over my phone. Literally. Sometimes I have to shut my phone down to stop the ad so I can get back to the game! The only option for getting rid of the ads is to send Zynga $9.99 for a 30 day ad-free version. What?! ZYNGA, you’ve become allowed ad income to hijack your customer base. None of the brands that I regularly play with have encountered this issue. Nor have they been interrupted by Ed’s following each play. What is going on?! Am I being hijacked? Naturally I cannot afford a $10 a month word game addiction, and I am fast losing patience with your ads.

Non-requested games. I have loved Words With Friends over the past few years that I’ve had the game. At some point there was an update that pushes game requests from random people to me. Now, I play only with my friends, so I have every setting under my profile turned off. However, I continue to receive game requests every other time I log in (which I subsequently reject). Furthermore, every single game request sent to me so far (I’m guessing about 50 at this point) is from a female. So apparently WWF has some sort of algorithm that must look at my profile and see that I’m male so obviously only female game requests must be sent my way. Is there a way to turn off all of these random game requests entirely? I’ve tried to reach out to WWF but it was a pain to do so, so I gave up. If these random game requests don’t stop, I may be leaving WWF shortly.

Love this Game, but…. I’ve played this game for 12 years and I enjoy it very much. However, my biggest complaint is not being able to view the profiles of people who request a game. Why do I say this? 11 days is far too long to allow someone who has challenged you or vice versa to “time out”. I am convinced many play the “challenge of the day” - in two turns for the prize and then abandon the game. Who decided 11 days, almost 2 weeks, was the appropriate time to disappear from a game they requested to play? Before I except a challenge, I should be able to view the player profile to see if they actually complete games they start.

About to call it quits. I’ve been playing WWF for years, but I think it’s time to call it quits. This is not even due to the lecherous men and busty “women” that solicit games, but due to the fact that it’s way too full of bots and glitches and it’s way too cumbersome to contact help. My current complaints - watching ads for coins. I used to get 3 coins per ad but now only 2. Not only that, with some ads, I’m not able to “x” out and have to completely close the game, therefore, not getting my coins. Also, I have purchased coins so that I can play extra Rival games. Those games are really fun (in spite of playing bots and not real people), but when the game freezes, the only way out is to completely get out and again wasting coins and losing the game. I wish they would fix that!!

I’m so confused. Ads I can handle but what is the difference between the WWF classic and all the other versions? There are sooo many in the App Store. Why not have just one? I guess its all the side/mini/extra games? Can’t there just be one game with the settings that allow you to just play the classic version with the option to turn off the extra features? And another setting/option that allows you to turn on all the extra stuff? That way there aren’t a million different WWF apps taking up storage on my device AND we wouldn’t have to switch back and forth between the apps to see what the heck is going on in each one. I’m having major FOMO trying to figure out what I’m missing if I’m only playing one version. And most importantly- it’s seriously confusing. It shouldn’t be this complicated.

Words with Friends. Developers, you have totally destroyed a game that was fun, day after day. It is now ridiculous with gift boxes coins, etc and NOW. Color coded. SHUSH!! Disgusting. We are not kids! Can’t we have just a real, relaxing game for a change. Next you will have us shooting at letters, or getting 3 in a row. Bring back the original game for those of us who are past 8 or 9!! What a mess you have made 😫😢😭🤬Editors: Hey, How can you publish an ad for Progressive Ins. That portrays a mentally retarded young man slapping around on his computer and the airline seats of a plane while he is totally unaware of the normal people around him watching in astonishment...?.... I have to quit and go to a puzzle or Spider until that goes away. About half an hour. Dumb of your company and dumber of Progressive Ins Co. NOW, You have added ANOTHER Progressive Ins. Ad with this same poor retarded kid slapping around. I feel so sorry for his parents!! What is wrong with you people. It’s too hard to watch. I will just stop playing words and do my crosswords In the paper. That is ridiculous! Maybe I’ll check back in a month or so and see if you have discontinued that awful ad. Well you have really screwed up this game now. Forget it I’m Out of here. There are other developers. I have played words for years. So sorry to havetostop but it’s just toooo frustrating!!!

My Favorite Game. This has been my favorite game for as long as I can remember. Some of my opponents I have been playing 10 years and during this time, we would be discussing football, weather and trash talking the other when we are up in points. It is a fun way to engage your mind, expand your vocabulary and have fun during your day. My first version had very limited ads, which I understood was a necessity, but I had to switch phones and my account was connected to an old AOL account that I could not recover. So my last version was the newer ones, with ads after every play and I decided it was not worth paying $120 to play ad free, so I decided to stop playing. I will guaranty between my accounts I had close to 10,000 completed games, so clearly I was a fan. It is sad that having ads after every play ruined the game. Whoever invented the game was brilliant, whoever monetized it took it way too far.

Fun but annoying. I really like the game play. It is a fun game to play with others if you enjoy word puzzles. But actually using the app is very annoying. I have two main issues. First, they have crowded the app with nonsense extras. Rather than being able to open the app and play the game, you are faced with annoying pop ups, game suggestions, requests to collect rewards, etc. My second major issue is the app is very glitchy. It will often get stuck. For example, there is a feature in which to activate you have to watch an ad. Fine, but often the ad gets stuck loading, or the app crashes, or sometimes you will watch the ad but the game doesn’t recognize it and you are not granted the feature. I wish they would return the game to its simpler roots. I also hope the developers would fix the issues for a smoother running app.

App is great, layout is over stimulating. I love this app. It’s the first one in my games folder and I have, at times, maxed out the number of games I’m allowed to play. I’ve had it since it first came out and I would login multiple times a day to make my next word. Lately, though, they’re trying to focus on keeping people involved but it’s backfiring. The app is too cluttered, advertising for solo challenges, quick play and mini game events, wanting you to reconnect with old friends and to look at all your rewards. It’s all there in your face the moment you open the app. You have to look to find your active games because they’re buried. You can’t say no or silence it for any period of time, it’s just always there, in your face. I think others feel the same way - I’m down to three active games and I only check in every few days.

“Improvements shouldn’t be mandatory. I enjoy the core game very much. I’ve met some good people and learned some words. Great fun. However, the cheats and interruptions and assigned goals, not to mention the tile color changes that make it harder to visualize word opportunities, these ruin a lot of the pleasure of the actual game for me. Most of all, I want you to stop forcing us to say, “Great!” just to escape an unwanted interruption about an intrusive change or “opportunity.” Do you think if you force us to say “Great!” enough times, we’ll come to agree? I hate it. I just want to play the actual core game and chat a little with a few good people. That part is great. Please, please make a way for some of us to opt out of all the irrelevant stuff you add for the people who enjoy bells and whistles. They get bored. I get it. But I don’t. I like the actual game. Why can’t I have that?

A Couple Of Things…. I’ve played WWF for years; very enjoyable stress-relief for me, and it reminds me of family Scrabble games in my youth. Overall, a great app. A few things would make it even better. (1)Remove the ability to nudge; it’s annoying. If someone isn’t playing fast enough for you, complete (or forfeit) the game and move on. (2) The fictitious Solo Challenge Wordmaster opponents don’t need to make “witty” comments. They are distracting and make me not want to play the solo games. (3) PLEASE remove, or give a player the ability to remove the game play emojis sent after playing a word!! I’m about to block people who use them on me. They’re childish and obscure letters when you’re trying to figure out words to play!

Mostly good. I generally enjoy this game. It’s a good time-passer and the games are mostly different each time because the opponents change. My only real quarrel with this game is being given all consonants/vowels with plenty of letters left to play. Just today, I was playing two completely different people. I had all vowels in BOTH cases. I used my swap tile to replace four vowels in both cases and got four MORE vowels in one case and three vowels and ONE consonant in the other. The first game had 50 something letters left to play and the other had 70+. This is highly frustrating as it makes forming words of high value near impossible. And it happens more often than it should. I wish that this could be fixed. But this IS a good game. It just has that one terrible flaw.

Great game. I’ve been playing this game for years, and I love it. Much better than any other word game in the store. I just have 2 suggestions: 1) stop moving things around when you update. Long-time players get a feel for stuff like the “next” button being in a certain spot on the screen, and we don’t want it yanked off to a different spot. 2) get rid of the time-consuming, rinky-dink animations, or at least give us an option in settings to disable them. They add nothing whatsoever to the game, only serving to slow it down and irritate me in the process. I frequently find myself saying “come on come on come on GET ON WITH IT” when collecting rewards, viewing achievements, and the like, having to just sit there and wait to move on. Great game though, thanks for listening! If you fix these 2 issues, I’ll raise my rating to 5.

Update?. I love this game but I don’t care for most of the latest update. I have not found a way to get rid of the Challenge games that pop up uninvited or the suggested new people. The game is called Words with FRIENDS, not Words with Strangers or Words with Computers! If there are people who want and enjoy that, great, make it an option. But could it also be an option to play the game with my Friends without all the annoying stuff in my way please? And you still have one MAJOR bug you need to fix: the “no connection” I get after being away from the game for an hour or more that requires me to completely shut my phone off and restart it before I can play. The latest update only changed one thing on this problem: now I get a completely blank screen, it doesn’t even say “no connection”.

Bjok42. I love Scrabble. I really enjoyed Words(and still do)up to the point of earning coins, badges, solo challenges, mystery boxes etc.!! It’s becoming like a full time job just to keep up with it all! I am electronically handicapped and am sure overseeing such a popular game site that has attracted millions is no easy feat. The saying, “keep it simple stupid”, has merit. More efficiency in troubleshooting would be a plus. Since purchasing the Bundle, I can’t believe how bad the variety of my letters has declined. It’s been so consistent, i feel it’s just a ploy to get me to spend more! For example, getting 4 I’s, 2 u’s and a v, do a swap, get 2 I’s, 1 e, 1 u, 1 y, 2 T’s, no more swaps! I work very hard to “not” swap and make the most of my letters, but, with almost every new turn, I have only 1 vowel, (usually a u or i) consistently no vowels at all. Winning games difficult with low point letters and no vowels! When I made complaint, was told it’s all “chance”! So much I love about playing, having Word Lookup is wonderful, Bundle not too great, too many coins required, especially Hindsight, think it’s a rip. Enjoy lightning rounds, and practice games. Would like to chat more, no one seems to want to, after reading comments, see why 😞. I’m 👵🏻 and so harmless, just a little lonely I guess!

Paid for the update, still have to sit through the BS. First let me say, in general I really like WWF. A few years ago I paid the extra for no interruptions from solicitation and other unwanted information. HOWEVER, they’ve started these bogus challenges to play 3 letter words or words that have ZQX or words that are whatever! Who cares?! I hate having to sit through the stupid graphics and interruptions to my games to find out I’ve played any of the made-up contests with no one but the game that I’m not interested in and can’t opt out of. The new Lightning round is fun, but mainly because you can do it when you choose, unlike these other little obnoxious interruptions. I don’t want to know if I play a certain amount of ZQX words, I am not interested in any made-up challenges other than with other ‘friends’ and in don’t care what the next stupid little challenge is from WWF. Stop already!!

HATE what they’ve done to the game!. I resisted an update for so long and finally my app crashed and would NOT recover no matter what I did. Probably by design I’m sure. The only fix was to update it. The new version? It. Is. The. WORST. Every 5 seconds it’s popping up some annoying “great, you’ve just acquired 16 tropical drinks or whatever it is.” Who cussing CARES???!!! No one likes to hear their baby is ugly, but this one is frightful. I know people need to justify their jobs by continually changing things, but this takes it to another level. You can’t hardly play a letter without having to wait for the app to spend 10 seconds telling you what a great accomplishment you’ve just achieved. Hardly an exaggeration. “AMAZING, you just played an E, you only need 4 more letters to make the word of the day!” LAME!!! It’s too busy, too frequent, and too obnoxious! I’ve tried turning off notifications in the settings and it didn’t improve anything. I hate, hate, hate - double hate - LOATHE ENTIRELY!!!!

No notifications. I have played this game for years. Over the last couple of years I rarely get a notification when someone has played. It would not even come up when I was still on the game screen. I felt like it had something to do with my phone. I just got a new tablet and it worked for a day and now I am back to the same thing. All notifications are turned on: sound, banners alerts...NOTHING works. So frustrated. I am sure I won’t get a response from the developers as to how to fix this seeing as how others have had this problem over the last couple of years and obviously the problem has not been fixed. Only redeeming feature is that I got this app years ago during a brief free download time and I have no ads. Maybe that is why I am having problems. They want me to upgrade to Friends2. Well that is NEVER going to happen. Get your act together and fix problems.

Sometimes frustrating. Normally very good with a few exceptions. When playing solo challenge games, words will be played that are valid but have no definition. These are words I’ve never heard of before. I seem to recall that in some games there have been three out of five such words played. How are these words submitted? Can I submit words that pop up as invalid for acceptance? How? There are huge numbers of words from different languages played in solo challenge games too. That’s good, but why are so many simple English words invalid? These are usually words that are easily found in dictionaries. Also, why are some proper names accepted and others not, for both people and places? Overall, very enjoyable, but these things need attention.

Not a dating site!. I used to love playing this game. It’s the only one that I still enjoy playing. But lately it’s turned into some creepy pick up site. EVERY DAY I get random creepy men asking me where I’m from, if I’m single, what are the ages of my kids, and other inappropriate stuff like that. It’s annoying. It bothers me, but I don’t want to let creeps run me off a game I still like to play, so I just ignore them. But what scares me is that there are young kids that play on there, and some naive women that will fall for their crap. It worries me that it could be being used for human trafficking. Does anyone monitor those chats in there? If not, they should, because it’s getting way out of hand! I’ve been doing my best to ignore them all, but some days I get over 4 weirdos trying to chat with me and get personal information. It’s getting to where the annoyance isn’t worth playing anymore.

New update is annoying. I have been playing WWF for over 10 years faithfully (paid version). Since this last update, I honestly don’t have the energy to play. There are too many gimmicks, too many annoying pop ups, too much fluff taking away from the game. When you added the levels and maps, that was annoying on its own, but I could avoid it if I wanted to. Now, I can’t avoid all of the stickers, styles, challenges, etc. They really detract from the original point of this game- to play a word game against friends. It’s not coicidence that the 6 friends I have played daily for the last 10 years have also taken a break. Please at least give us an option to have the traditional game without all the other distracting stuff added it. I’m almost ready to delete the game, which is really sad to me.

Please stop “improving”. I have been playing WWF longer than I can remember, and always enjoyed it, until someone decided to add a whole lot of distractions, like different colours for the words, making them more confusing to read, and useless information like how many points others got playing the same word - on a completely different board, as if one could duplicate it. Or useless “rewards” which interrupt the game, and playing letters found in ransom words. None of these things make the original game any better (unless maybe you’re still in Elementary School and need to get little gift boxes and notes that the daily goal is complete - What goal?) I know this “review” won’t make any difference, but I needed to get it off my chest. If you want to “improve” the game, please make all these useless additions at least a choice, so those of us who just want to play the original game can turn them all of. THAT would be an improvement.

Game lags, buggy and weekly points too much. I have been playing this game almost from its beginning. The last few updates I don't think are taking care of the real bug issues. My game continues to lag. Each opponent I bring up, I have to wait 5-10 seconds before being able to play a word. When I have over 10 games going on, this becomes too time consuming. The weekly point total goal is unrealistic. I know at one point I had purchased the ad free version yet for some reason I still keep seeing ads. And now the price has gone up wayyy to high to repurchase. Ads stick and app will crash. It should not take 30 seconds or more ads to load. I'm on the verge of deleting what used to be a fun game. I run the most current OS and update my app regularly. I also have no issues with it being my internet. It is this app. If you fix this stuff, I'd rate you higher.

Too Much Cuteness. I love this game, but I’m not happy with some of the recent features. Primarily: 1. I waste A LOT of time watching the little animations tell me I’ve achieved some goal (your goal, not mine) or won a daily prize, seeing the little gift box or treasure box open up, and claiming my prize. And I can’t just put it down and go get a cup of coffee while it runs, because I have to hit “Great” to get out of it and into the game. 2. When I finish playing, in order to clear the notification, I have to watch another animation of my progress toward some goal update. 3. I don’t know why I try to clear the notification anyway, because it doesn’t mean anything useful. It used to mean one of my opponents had played and it was my move. Now it might mean you’ve come up with a new daily goal, seasonal side game or something else I’m not interested in. Or maybe one of my opponents has played and it’s my move. There should be a setting that allows grumpy old men to let this all happen in the background, and not waste any of our remaining time on earth watching it. Thanks for reading.

Its okeh-ish. The game CAN be fun but a select few people (including me) can almost never get almost any good words because we have to hunt with like 1 or 2 letters making it even more difficult. Ik for some its not noticeable but I even played wordscapes which has the most weird spelled words and practically unheard of and I try to find things like that.. But even then the game is extremely difficult with what you get and even re-rolling doesn't give you a single tile useful but for those who dont have this kind of difficulty almost always have a good use of tiles (ones that actually make up a word), also for those who have this problem when it gives you something "good" to work with thats literally always less than 11 points! So in short its good but unfair to some people since it gives them the worst things to work with while others get the best.

Love the Game, Hate the Latest Update!. Reduced by one more star! This update, as I said below is TERRIBLE! To add a new game with someone I ALWAYS play against, instead of just choosing their name off of a list, I now have to search for the name. How in the world is this an improvement?!?! It’s not! It’s just annoying! Zynga doesn’t own this game anymore and PEOPLE FUN only know how to irritate not have fun! Ive played this game for years (although, I don’t see the version I have on here. It was a free upgrade from a couple of years ago, although it doesn’t really look any different. I noticed it updated last night. I HATE it. Changing things just for the sake of change isn’t the best decision. I don’t like the teeny tiny dots at the bottom that represent each game. I certainly don’t like the pop up after every turn that states it’s the other player’s turn. That’s just monotonous and completely unnecessary. I still will play, but I truly hate these silly changes!

Power up issues. Every time they ‘update’, Zynga removes something that I like! This time it seems that the ability to buy power ups in bulk is gone. The game points out that you can get them directly from the game now, but we could do that before. The only difference that I can tell is that we can’t ‘buy’ them in larger groups of 3 or 5 now. Which impacts the ability to continue to amass coins if, like me, you keep your coin count pretty high. One of the other times they ‘improved’ they took away the ability to earn rewards by playing the game and replaced it with this ridiculously complicated points system, which I still don’t understand. I think that they change things to try to force people to have to pay for things that they are used to getting as rewards during play.

The greedy money grab begins. It used to be that if you played a lot, you would get a lot of “coins” allowing you Power Ups in the Store. No longer. The rewards are now a stupid and gimmicky Treasure Chest with minimal rewards, BUT, you are encouraged to buy the coins throughout. Yet another example of a good thing spoiled. I bought the app, I use it a lot, so why you gotta be so crapitalist? There are new Solo Challenges, like “School Staff” which, while fun, is really just a ploy to get impatient, easily frustrated users to buy coins. Again, another sign of their avarice. The new UI is bad, too. Icons that have no clear meaning, large, distracting panels that get in the way of me selecting a new game, a ‘rewards’ feature that completely changes how I played the game and gets in the way. Oh, how much more can you get in the way of me enjoying the game? Oh, and the laggy response as I drag and drop letters? Why would you ever mess that up?! That’s game play, and the performance is compromised. In the past I had problems with the in game messaging with friends/opponents. This were long ago fixed, and I had been enjoying this game. Awesome, but then you go and mess with the UI for no clear benefit. These are not improvements. I can’t see one thing about this update that is better in any way.

Words. I am so frustrated cause I won the match of the day three times last week and today so every time they promised me 6 hrs free of third party and I didn't get any . This is not right and I'm asking for an answer for that. I've been playing hrs each day but I can stop right there if you keep doing that . The customer is a customer and has the right to be offered what you promised. I love this game but when I charge my iPad I lose the sound . So I have to turn off the iPad and then on so the sound come back and lately the game is playing on slow motion till I reboot the whole game , delete and launch , can anybody help me please. Again I'm loosing the sounds completely its mute and I tried all the setting and deleting the game and back but no use please help

Plagued with Ads and Unfair AI. I used to enjoy playing this game with my mom, and now it is the most disgusting app that I will end up deleting. this was an enjoyable word game before you implemented a shoddy pay to play system that doesn’t improve or enhance the gameplay. You implemented advertisements after every single play/move. You created a solo challenge mode that would be awesome if it wasn’t for overpowered AI that CONSTANTLY MAKES THE FIRST MOVE AND CONSTANTLY PLAYS RIDICULOUS SEVEN LETTER WORDS. If you’re going to force me to sit through several ads just to collect enough tickets/coins to play, then why would you deliberately give me four to five vowels, two consonants, and no playable moves? It’s not even “ai becomes more difficult as you progress”, it’s blatantly overpowered. If you’re going to force me to watch ads to collect tickets, then don’t give me the difference in the amount of tickets needed to play, give me the full fifteen tickets. Literally makes no sense — if you’re going to charge tickets to play, then don’t increase the required amount at each level, just make it a set amount to play. Instead, I just wasted thirty tickets to be outscored in two moves with no playable options. It would be a fun game if you weren’t ruining it with the barrage of advertisements and poor pay-to-play mechanics.

Beware of low life scammers!. I have played this game for years. I have enjoyed playing my friends on it. But now....it has become some kind of 3rd class low life dating site. They start a game and then immediately want as much personal info as you are dumb enough to give. They are all reading off the same script. Say they are in the us but working in some foreign country. They quickly try to get you to move over to a chat site like hangouts or something. They have a stolen photo, all are either widowed or divorced with one token child attending boarding school, and are sure you will be their soul mate. They want to know you “more better”. If you stick with them they will ask you for money. I have blocked and deleted till I’m sick of it. I’ve had as many as a dozen requests in one day. You know what, it is out and out sexual harassment and the developers better be doing something to put a stop to it.

Worst Upgrade Ever. I have been playing this game for almost 9 years and can honestly say this is the worst upgrade ever. The biggest complaint is the reduced size of the board. In the past I was able to multi-task while playing WWF-eg, watching tv, eating a meal, etc. I would casually look down while doing other things and see a good move which I would then make. As a retired engineer, I recognize the layout of this app as poorly designed. Why waste all the real estate on the screen with large empty borders which only make the playing area much smaller and the playing experience less enjoyable? Even the buttons are poorly designed. Why change the location of the play and next buttons when Zynga has invested over 10 years in building a loyal base of users? Why have 3 different buttons that can be used to make a swap? This latest upgrade has made WWF playing experience less enjoyable and will result in many users reducing their playing time.

WWF. Last evening I went to open WWF and I got a white screen! I reset my iPhone and tried top open it again. White screen! I let it set overnight hoping it would magically fix itself (that really does work in some cases!) but it didn’t! I’ll check it on my iPad when I get moving. If it’s doing it in my IPad also, I’ll know it’s something in my house system that’s messed up. Just in case, though, does anyone else have this ‘white screen problem’???? Well, I reinstalled it and it gave me a new icon and that seemed to work for awhile. But if I try to use my anagram program to help me find a word, when I try to go back to the game, I get a white screen again - on the newly installed game! Am I cursed, or being punished for seeking a little outside assistance??

Ads that freeze. I love the game. Have played for years and am even liking that ads are becoming more targeted to my preferences. I even click through occasionally (which is of course the point). I’m ok with ads because I play the free version. However it’s so incredibly annoying when an ad isn’t scaled correctly or worse yet completely freezes and requires closing the program. Which is exactly what I do. If it freezes or won’t load or ad takes forever I just swipe closed. Sales people guide your customers to better ads that actually have the potential for being opened as opposed to ads that are so annoying I would never consider checking out the product. And development create ads that don’t free or close. Otherwise fun game and everything else works great for me.

Get rid of the bots!. I’ve been playing WWF for about 10 years now, and I’ve always loved this game, which would merit five stars. However, in the last several months, every new challenge I have accepted has been from a bot. The way to recognize them is that they are never online but always play exactly five minutes after you make a move, they don’t have a location, they sometimes claim to play in multiple languages, their profile pictures look like stock photos, and they never reply to chats, even when directly asked if they are a bot, (which if they weren’t might be considered an offensive question.) I play this game to challenge myself against other players. If I wanted to play with a computer, I would just play the solo challenges. Please purge the bots from the game!

Please fix bug. I'm a longtime player and fan of WWF. It has developed a really annoying bug. Most of the time when I check the Dictionary and swipe the Dictionary screen back down, the game screen stays grayed out and the game is completely unresponsive until I reboot the phone. Another bug, more minor: I hit the Smart Match button weeks ago and it hasn't stopped since. The game is still searching for Smart Matches and comes up with one every few days. There seems to be no way to stop it. I enjoy the new power ups, even though they are overpriced. I used to get 10 or 6 coins for winning a game and now only get 4. Why? Can't find an explanation of the coin rules. You say you just added 50,000 words. Please list them or put them in the Word of the Day feature. And let people know if the new word they suggested has been accepted. The new GIF feature is annoying and unnecessary. My opponent played the word EROTICA and a GIF popped up showing extremely explicit pornography. Didn't bother me but I fear most folks would be offended. Finally, please bring back the confirmation button are hitting the PLAY button, or at least offer it as an option in Settings. It is so annoying to lose a potentially good word after accidentally hitting the PLAY button

Excessively loud adds. I am annoyed by the ads you can not silence! They are bad enough in a usual setting but when your hearing aids are Bluetoothrd they are pure torture! Now I have to turn off the phone volume! Now I must remember to turn my phone’s volume back on when I am finished playing my games! Then there are the minute arrows and exes. When tapped to exit they repeatedly bring you to the App Store to download whatever game being promoted! The white ex on the white spider web was the top annoyance. I am bot spending $10 or $12 dollars a month to go ad free and support you! Tv is bad enough, now my phone/ computer! You have managed to removed enjoyment from playing with all the speed bumps and road blocks. I will miss my games and gamers but not the irritable displeasure of annoying interruptions!