Opinion | Feb. 28 9:08 pm EST
RHIEL

Look, you guys, I’ve got some bad news

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I did not win my own Words With Friends tournament. Yep. You read that right.

I know you were pulling for me. I could feel it. And really, your support meant a lot. But it was not to be.

The winner of this past week’s very official Spectrum Words With Friends tournament was none other than Spec’s own Jason Bell, who’ll be taking home a Robicelli’s cupcake or the cash equivalent. That’s $3.25, people.

A recap, with lessons learned:

  1. There were 20 competitors. On the whole, a very lexically savvy bunch.
  2. Speaking of which: Feijoa. Fid. Ovoli. Gamin. Look ‘em up!
  3. Your friends hate Words With Friends. If you play it at dinner, they will grow annoyed and tell you to put your phone away.
  4. Qi. That’s 11 points right there.
  5. You can’t really think of Words With Friends moves in the shower. It’s hard to visualize the whole board. You can’t bring your phone in the shower.
  6. Don’t play Jason Bell in the second round of a Words With Friends tournament if you want to feel like you “did pretty well” in the tournament.

Thanks for playing, everyone! I hope you all had fun.

Thomas Rhiel is a Spectrum opinion blogger. Spec’s former managing editor, he’s currently looking for a job.

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COMMENTS (10)

  1. Dino • February 28, 2011 at 9:10 pm • Reply

    you shoulda just stopped showering

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    • Thomas Rhiel STAFF • February 28, 2011 at 9:28 pm • Reply

      That’s your answer to everything, Dino.

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  2. god that was a great shower • February 28, 2011 at 9:37 pm • Reply

    what a shower

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    • shower • February 28, 2011 at 9:38 pm • Reply

      thinking in the shower is bomb–if you can’t think about this, though, then clearly there are more important things in your life. that’s the indication right there.

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    • shower • February 28, 2011 at 9:38 pm • Reply

      what if you drew the whole board in erasable marker on the wall of the shower before you got in?

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      • Thomas Rhiel STAFF • February 28, 2011 at 9:43 pm •

        I had not considered this. This is why I lost.

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  3. Finn • February 28, 2011 at 10:22 pm • Reply

    You should have mentioned Raph’s reply-all trash-talking! That was a highlight of the tournament.

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  4. you all are prejudiced • March 1, 2011 at 12:57 am • Reply

    against people who don’t have iphones

    SCRABBLE TOURNAMENT!?!? that’d be forreal

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    • Anonymous • March 2, 2011 at 1:28 am • Reply

      Hell yes for scrabble. now that’s a real game.

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  5. Anonymous • March 2, 2011 at 1:30 am • Reply

    REMATCH? I was robbed.

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