Do any of you play Words with Friends? I am trying to figure out how they get the words. And of course you can't argue anything because you just can't press "play" if they don't think it's a word. But I have good evidence (dictionary entries) that it is a word (such as ok or cuz) so it's a little annoying. And I hate to lose.

What are you talking about? Is it a game show? Is it some on-line thing?

It is like online scrabble with friends, except you can only play those words they allow. I've just started playing so I haven't learned their allowed words yet, but my partner has and uses them. So I am losing!

I am learning a lot of what I consider to be bogus words in this game. For example, have you heard of aa? Or jin?

The problem with games like this is that you can spam the engine - play a bunch of random letters until the game accepts them as a word. It's not really about words at all.

Real life Scrabble is different because you can challenge the words your opponent plays, so you need to know what word you are playing and what it means.

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
I am learning a lot of what I consider to be bogus words in this game. For example, have you heard of aa? Or jin?

Yes. http://www.geo.cornell.edu/geo...osWWW/LavaTypes.html

And jin: https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/jin I think it's also a Chinese language.

Yes, I so see your point, Goofy. And I get mad that certain letters aren't a word. I was so wishing there were a word "quaser" as I'd have gotten 129 points! Unfortunately I didn't have 2 "a's."

As far as "jin," the words shouldn't be in other languages nor should they be proper nouns so I don't get it, and she got a lot of points with it. I did find "aa," though I wonder how many times it has been used - or how many people know it.

aa is a lower class treatment center --AA for the elite

As I thought about it, while I agree with Goofy that Words with Friends is different from Scrabble (the latter probably requiring more knowledge), I still learn from it. When my opponent posts words like aa, I look them up - and get mad because I don't think jin is legit.