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.

Words with Friends - Changes

Version 4.10.1 updated the app to include a store

• Tile Pile shows you how many of each letter is left!
• Word-O-Meter tells you how strong your word is relative to all words your rack can create! 

Yes you read that correct after newtoy were bought out by Zynga it was only a matter of time that the app would get monetized & it took them a while but you can now buy credits to cheat in the game.

What a shame !! What a way to ruin a great game.
I hope the app gets updated so the opposing player knows that you used one of these skills against them.

Anyhow I will still keep the app because there are a few regular players I play who I trust to not buy into Zynga's money cow & cheat in the game.

But I must also welcome back Wordfued which has a nice shuffle board feature to vary the tiles on the board or you can play a standard board.

http://wordfeud.com/

My username on both games is gospvg, so send me an invite if you want a game (Although I seem to spending a lot of time in Skyrim at the moment)

Wordfeud is Dead

Wordfeud is dead, it keeps crashing on me when trying to load the app. I’ve deleted the app & reinstalled but nope still does not load the app.

So today I removed the app from my iPod touch & iPad, it had the coveted first screen but alas no more. It seems to me that the application works fine on Android devices but not on iOS vice versa with the Words with Friends app which works fine on iOS but crashes on Android.

Anyhow it’s words with friends only for me from now on. Username obviously is gospvg so send me an invite if you want a game.

11/10 Cancel this i've had a few invites to the game so I am playing this again.

Wordfeud - New Highest Score

New highest score on Wordfeud, 720 points :)

Fancy a game send me an invite my username is gospvg

So very close

2 recent games played in Wordfeud & Words with Friends both finished on the last tile placements. I lost by 1 point to thermalsatsuma but managed to beat pupilar by 2 points.

Wordfeud - Highest scoring word

New highest scoring word on a random board on Wordfeud. A simple word "Puja" but with the J on a TL tile getting 37 points for the word & then a DW to 74 followed by a TW tile to get 222 !!

So bow down & worship my skill at Wordfeud :)

Fancy a game send me an invite my username is gospvg & please select the language to be English

New Game - Wordfeud

What another words game?
I still enjoy Words with Friends but a lot of users on BETEO who are Android users have been raving about Wordfeud. So when it was released to the Appstore I thought it's only fair to try it.

The first option you get on starting a new game is to play a standard board or random, I selected random this juggles the TW & others tiles around before you start the game.

After that it plays the same as any Scrabble type game.

My first game against Neil (TrooperLooper) ended in me DESTROYING (in red & caps to emphasise the victory) him 566 to 272

On the iPod Touch it is a bit buggy at the moment it has crashed on me a few times but if you have the game send me a challenge.