Word Games 24/7

1/14/17 - Our football-themed Words With Friends league enters the playoffs of its 3rd season. This post previews and recaps all the matchups leading up to the WWFL Championship.

8/27/17 - Zynga, the company behind Words With Friends, has the tough task of marketing an intelligent game to younger generations who have shorter attention spans and waning interest in challenging word games. In the effort to make the game easier or perhaps more appealing, they're experimenting with a new feature which drastically changes the dynamics of the game and potentially creates an unfair advantage.

10/10/15 – I was fortunate to reach the championship game of the Words With Football League, which gave me the opportunity to record my screen throughout the game and produce a full video of all the action. It was an intense experimentation with Camtasia software, which I was using on a trial basis. The audio and transitions are not perfect, but I’m nonetheless proud of this experimental video. It reignited my enthusiasm for the potential of making great videos. And of course I’m also happy that I won the game.

7/30/15 – A fun write-up for an exciting matchup in the Words With Football League. I participated in the league’s first ever tie game, which allowed me to elaborate on many fictitious details. It was merely one game of Words With Friends that was played, but I wrote it up like an actual NFL game to further promote the notion that each WWF player is representing a real NFL team.

7/28/15 – Shortly after becoming an administrator in a word-game community, I took on the task of confronting a confirmed cheater. In an effort to disclose these details to the community, I took it a step further in this post by reminding everyone about the kinds of players we love (challengers), the players we’ll tolerate (chumps) and the players we will ban (cheaters). It was the first popular post on our new word-game website, which is still being developed.

5/20/15 – The words we use in conversations and in writing should be clear and simple. In this post at Prime Instruction & Language, I make the case for avoiding fancy words so that listeners and readers can effectively receive our message, rather than being distracted by our words.

5/15/15 - Don't ask me how I made the connection of football and Words With Friends, my favorite word game. It was an idea in my mind for several years. Becoming the administrator for the most popular word game page on Facebook was my opportunity to make it a reality. I created a league of 32 WWF players who would each represent their favorite NFL football team, playing WWF matches against each other according to actual NFL schedules. The fun fiction of the league has led to numerous writing opportunities. The WWFL completed its 2nd season in February 2016.