TFW You Can Play 'TFW' in Words With Friends
Why the popular mobile game is adding certain abbreviations to its lexicon—breaking with a rule held sacred by its forebear, Scrabble
This week, the game developer Zynga is rolling out a refreshed version of Words With Friends, billed as the world’s most popular mobile word game. The new-and-improved Words With Friends 2 boasts various bells and whistles, like the “Solo Challenge” where you square off against bots, and “Lightning Rounds” that pit teams against each other. But a more profound change is going on invisibly: a huge expansion in the number of playable words.
To celebrate the eighth anniversary of the game, Zynga in September that it was adding 50,000 new words to what it calls, , , , and , but also, more surprisingly, a handful of abbreviations like (best friends forever), (fear of missing out), and (that feeling when...).
