"Words With Friends" Cheater Wins National Girn Award

Fred Featherly, a father of two from Carpet Tack, Nevada, may need his twelve year old son to help him sort out the junk mail from the legitimate mail, but when it comes to "Words With Friends", the 45-year old transformer dipper is Hell On Wheels. After being whooped good five games in a row by brother-in-law Jerry Franklin, Featherly committed himself to reading a dictionary in order to remember "as many damn words as I could." That's when his son explained that you don't have to know what the words mean; you just cobble letters together to form "words" until the program stops rejecting the bad ones. The folks at Zynga who designed the Facebook phenomenon said they knew about the flaw halfway through development but decided to post the game anyway with the hope that players would rely on their own personal integrity when it came to posting words. That hope lasted a full five seconds before some scofflaw dropped "za" down to score 32 points.
But even as "Words" cheating goes, Fred Featherly is considered a master by his peers. His secret? "I test about every possible combination of letters that I can, and I use all those word web sites to help me out. There's plenty that'll do the work for you." Fred has posted such masterpieces as "stime", "wavey" (with an "e"), "fe", and "qi".
Although not technically an accomplishment, winning a "Words With Friends" match can be personally satisfying. At least the folks at Zynga think so, and have recognized Featherly as the winner of the first "Words With Friends" GIRN Award. They can't tell you what a "girn" is exactly, but they will say "it works".