My Words with Friends Addiction

Yep, I'm addicted...as addictions go it could be a whole lot worse.  At least I am exercising my mind.  In my daydreams I am swept away to a world where people gamble on the word and allow me to live in comfort while they gamble on my exploits.  Of course I get a take of the profits. 

I have my regular group of friends.  Some of us play just for the word.  We don't keep track of the score or the points.  It's just the challenge of making yet another word and if it is a high scoring word then so much the better.  I don't even bother to acknowledge words unless they are over 100 points anymore.

What my friends don't realize is that I'm not playing them.  I'm playing myself.  There is a leader board off to the side of the game. It keeps track of average score and points played per week.  The points played per week is completely irrelevant.  That just means you play a lot.  Now the average score.  That is what captivates me.  It is all about raising my average score.  I don't care who I play as long as my score improves week to week.

I think some of my opponents would be extremely insulted by that.  In my regular circle of friends I'm known to be deadly.  Some have even asked me to dumb down my game or they would quit playing with me.  I consider that an insult.  We don't play any longer.  They didn't have a problem playing when I was learning and kicking my "hind end" all over the board.  I was actually happy with their success.  But when I started winning things changed.  It seem others don't revel in my success.

 I've found some tournament players.  These guys make me look like an amateur.  It doesn't help my average to play them either!  But I don't care.  In this case I get better just by playing them. A couple of them cheat but most of them don't.  I don't mind cheaters too much - because I beat cheaters!

I do have a couple of friends who I play just because they are friends in real life.  I don't really want to play them because there is no challenge but, what the hey, sometimes you gotta do things because it is the nice thing to do.  It is also nice to know I can message them from the words game and get them faster than if I call them or facebook them.

So I dream and I play...every spare moment of every day - for over a year now.  I try to stop sometimes.  I keep going back.  It could be worse.