Congratulations to our February Daily Winners. We had a tie for players who played 25 or more games: JND65 with a 76% win ratio over 26 games and

m A R T y 2 with a 75% win ratio over 25 games. Our 20 game winner was edr12345 with a win ratio of 70%.

Congrats to you all.

It has been brought to my attention that edr12345 had actually entered into a 21rst game and had not reported the results. Therefore, edr12345 is disqualified from being our 20 game winner. I apologize for this error. We actually have a three way tie for the 20 game winner with a 65% win ratio. Congratulations to CCThomo, JonathanMKaye and Mgp41896,

Thank you all for participating on our site.

Howdy, my name is Sylvia and proud to say that I’m a retired school teacher from the great state of Texas. I’ve been married to my husband Bernie for 35 years. We have two sons and one daughter. We’ve also been blessed with 3 granddaughters and a grandson. Our oldest son is currently in Afghanistan and is due home in 36 days after an 18 month deployment.
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> My user name gamma112602 came from becoming a grandmother for the first time on 11/26/02 and our oldest granddaughter calling me “gamma.”  I’ve been playing WWF for fun with family and friends for about 4 years.  I just recently started playing in this tournament after my daughter introduced me to this site. I still prefer the occasional board game of Scrabble with the family. I also enjoy playing Scramble With Friends, probably my favorite.
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> The finals against steveswei were pretty intense. In game 2 I got a break in the end with WAILING which took us to the tiebreaker game.
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> Thanks to admin for providing this tournament and the time and effort spent.

Time for our Monthly Interim Round to narrow the players to 16.

Byes given to: Quirkie73, Danny Gluva, Jbeckham, gamma112602, jc.bronco, BumbleB79, Oath Keeper, OzGuff, Scrabblemond, Trueheartd, Swampdeller1 and jfmstern.

Interim match-ups are:

Moondog100 vs sugarkeys

janealmalu vs steveswie

Mom2boys3girls vs WascallyWabbit

NahumC vs Tacman2

Please play the best 2 of 3 and post your results under this Post. Deadline is three days, 1:00 am Pacific Time, Monday, February 17th. Good luck to all of you.

Just a reminder that the use of outside help in our tournaments is NOT allowed. We are starting to once again get a number of complaints about players in our tournaments. If you suspect a player of using outside help please send us an email, admin@wordswithfriends.net, so that we may have our Independent Review Board examine the information. Please send screenshots as well as explanations as to why you feel your opponent might have been using outside help. Admittedly, it is difficult to prove and we do not take it lightly when we have to ban a player from our site.

Rule 1 states:

1. OUTSIDE HELP – No outside help for words, such as word lists, word unscramblers, or dictionaries. It’s just you and the WWF application. You may, however, refer to the letter distribution (see sidebar)

If you are using outside help to play, then please discontinue playing in our tournaments! We want our players to be using their brains and not having to worry about whether they are playing against a computer. We appreciate your consideration in keeping our site an enjoyable one for all.

Congratulations to JND65 for winning our 25+ games in the Daily Challenges with an impressive 31 games with a 74.2% win ratio!  We had a tie for the 20 game winners between JonathanMKaye and Debbyoc with a 65% win ratio. Congratulations to our winners.

Congratulations to BumbleB79 for winning our January Monthly Tournament. Here is the long awaited bio from James. Screenshots to follow.

Time for our Interim Round to round out our remaining players to 16.

Byes: bbguard, BumbleB79, Carelistener, Danny Gluva, debbyoc, eva2u, Jadefish9, jc.bronco, m A R T y 2, OzGuff,  rhw7575, zzugszwangz

Match-ups for Interim Round:

TheEagles vs gorgette

Loganboy1 vs P_R_Allen

pacman294 vs mindyeve

Small Dingy vs Realigned13

Please play the best 2 of 3. Report your scores as a comment to this post. You have three days to complete these games. Deadline 2:00 am Pacific Time Friday, January 17. Good luck to you all.

Congratulations to bbguard for being our December Daily Winner of 25+ games with a win ratio of 79.3% over 29 games. Also, congrats to RMD1961 for being our 20 game winner with a win ratio of 75%. Thank you both for being part of our site.

Our December Monthly Winner, TheEagles, is a repeat winner! Congratulations to you Craig. He has asked me to repost his prior bio and adds that the only difference is that he is a year older! lol. Thanks Craig for being part of our group.

Hi, I’m Craig (TheEagles).  I chose my alias for WWF, and several other games over the years, as a fan of the band.  I’m 54 years old from Kansas City, Missouri; in the United States.

I love to play the WWF.net tournaments, as well as the occasional casual game, as it provides me with micro-breaks from work, and the chance to make new friends from around the globe…you each know who you are, and I thank you for the enjoyable banter, as well as the congrats that many of you have already passed along for this [luck-fueled] win.  I would also like to thank Debby and Don for providing this release for my competitive juices and focus for my obsessive nature.  I never cease to find it funny, that amid life’s real responsibilities, how excited I get at the tone from my phone, letting me know that it’s my turn to play another word…lol.

My passions include my faith, family, friends, scuba diving, flying, and a host of other activities.  I’ve been with the same wonderful woman for over 35 years and we have two children that are the most amazing people I have yet to meet.  They make me look good as a parent; the role of my life that I cherish high above everything else.

I work in finance, including consulting for interests on Wall Street.  Even though Wall Street and associations therewith are certainly out of favor, for good reason, trust me that I am one of the good guys…there are some of us there.

I plan on taking the month of May off (from this OCD-related activity, at least) in favor of family events.  I look forward to a return thereafter…to the intellectual stimulus, as well as the lessons in humility from getting my ass whooped that have come all too often.

Don and I would like to wish all of you a very Happy Holiday and a Happy New Year. Thank you, to all of you, for being part of our site. You make this site what it is today. We hope that you have made new friends from all over the world. I have had the pleasure to be part of a “meet-up” in San Francisco in September. What fun it was for strangers to meet as friends.

May the New Year bring you health and prosperity.