The sequel to 'Words With Friends' allows you to play without friends
Words With Friends 2 is out now and it brings a few new features that set it apart from its Scrabble-inspired predecessor.
Words With Friends 2 takes the head-to-head, word-building competition of 2009's Words With Friends and adds a solo challenge mode, a team-based lightning round mode, strategy-improving boosts, and an updated social dictionary that adds 50,000 words.
The most exciting feature is probably the solo challenge mode, which allows people to build up their Words With Friends skills against AI opponents. It's designed to get progressively more difficult, so it requires you to play better and think smarter as you continue.
Another new mode coming with Words With Friends 2 is lightning round, which matches you up with four teammates to play against another team of five players. The matches are played with everyone on the same board, placing words in quick succession.
The new boosts that are in the game allow players to see possible tile placements before laying down a word, as well as get some insight into what the best possible word was that players could've put down (but only after the fact).
The updated social dictionary contains 50,000 new words suggested by players on top of the existing words that were in Words With Friends. Players could already use the social dictionary in Words With Friends, but now it comes with usage stats that let you see how your creativity in using the new words stacks up against other players'.
Words With Friends 2 releases today on iOS and Android for free.
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