Parents' Guide to

Scramble With Friends

By Chris Morris, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 14+

Addictive word game safer to play with your own friends.

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad Puzzle Games
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this app.

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age 15+

Based on 2 parent reviews

tmarie197
tmarie197 Adult
April 12, 2012
age 17+

RIP OFF!!!

I love the game, but they rip you off. I paid for the ad free version, and it locked up on me so I removed it from my phone and when I went to put it back on, they tried to charge me again!! I refuse to pay for something I have already paid for and now I run out of coins constantly or have to pay for those!! They get you any way they can! They basically stole my money and are now trying to get more. I also emailed them and they are choosing to ignore this issue!
CSMContentDefault
CSMContentDefault Adult
February 3, 2012
age 13+

Quick and addictive

The rounds of this game are pretty quick, in the style of Bejeweled Blitz or Zuma Blitz. It is a fast way to play a game with your teens.
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What’s It About?

Taking turns with another player (online friends or random opponents), kids string together adjoining letters to create words on the Boggle-like board in Scramble With Friends. While kids might find a few words that are spelled out left to right, they'll also have to search diagonally and in a grid pattern, zigzagging across the screen to produce words. They can use word length and each letter's point value to maximize scores. Rounds are two minutes, and after three rounds the player with the higher score wins.

Is It Any Good?

Our review:
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Picking up SCRAMBLE WITH FRIENDS can be really bad for your productivity. And we say that in the nicest way possible. Taking a page from the classic board game Boggle and another from Words With Friends, this spelling game is addictive, entertaining, and wonderfully social. It can also be tricky if you have trouble making order out of chaos. The 16 letters on screen can taunt you as you search for words -- especially those that are more than three or four letters. Playing the game with friends from your Facebook or Twitter adds a degree of fun, since you're playing with friends, not strangers (it also adds a degree of safety). The free version is as fun as the paid version, but if you're planning to have several games going at once -- and you likely will before too long -- cough up the money for the paid version. It will save you money in the long run.

Talk to Your Kids About ...

  • Play the game with your kids, since it is, by design, a two-player title.

  • After playing rounds with your kid, look at the word lists. Did either of you learn new words? Encourage kids to look up words they spelled out but don't know the meaning of.

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