iOS turn based gaming

There are so many iOS turn based games you can play against friends & randoms. You are spoiled for choice from board games & word games to quiz & drawing.

Thus I have decided to say farewall to a few that I have been playing over the last couple of years.

Firstly Wordfeud, it was always the poor cousin to Words with Friends & just never get the recognition it deserved. Letting you play in various languages & also giving you the option of a random board layout.

Next we have a few Zynga with Friends games that people have just stopped playing Hanging with Friends & Scrabble with Friends. Hanging with Friends took the hangman game and gave it a Zynga paintbrush & Scrabble is basically the Boggle board game with a grid of letters you have to make words to get points.

Lastly I say goodbye to Jenga which is a shame but the notification system on it is just broken & the developers no longer seem interested in fixing the issue.

So what am I currently playing?

Carcassonne, Words with Friends, Hero Academy & Disc Drivin will always be on all my iOS devices because they are all excellent examples of turn based gaming.

Others that I am still playing are Draw Something (iPad only), Song Pop (Although I am quickly getting bored of this), Trivie (again annoying because it is tailored to the US market on the question bank) & Friendle (Backgammon only with random players because no-one seems to be playing this anymore).

I have a few others that I am testing with Abbas & trying to figure out how to play them like Bang, Ticket To Ride & Outwitters. Before I decide on keeping or deleting them.

Hanging with Friends - Slaughtered

I got slaughtered by William in a recent game, failing to guess even a single word. With so many turn based games to play I think on this failure I will now take a break from this game for a while.

Hanging with Friends - Hangmen

In a recent game I gave Kevin the word 'Hangmen' to guess. How Apt? I thought but alas he failed to guess the word.

DOH !!

Hanging With Friends - 4 Letter Words Challenge

A lot of players seem to have deserted Hanging with Friends, I currently only have 2 games being played. After a while the game can get a bit boring it does not have the staying power of games like Words with Friends or Carcassonne but I set myself a challenge by only playing 4 letter words & I managed to win against GuntherGloop

Next Challenge is to play only 8 letter words – this is going to be difficult because of the random letters you are given it might not always be possible.

Hanging with Friends - Balloons

I managed to win a game without any of my balloons going pop.

Compared to Words with Friends it is not that enjoyable & like Words with Friends it needs some sort of Leaderboard with an ELO scoring system or Stats screen.